Bipolar localization of putative photoreceptor protein for phototaxis in thermophilic cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus.

نویسندگان

  • Youichi Kondou
  • Norifumi Mogami
  • Fumiko Hoshi
  • Shinsuke Kutsuna
  • Miki Nakazawa
  • Tetsuya Sakurai
  • Minami Matsui
  • Takakazu Kaneko
  • Satoshi Tabata
  • Ichiro Tanaka
  • Katsushi Manabe
چکیده

We identified an open reading frame from a database of the entire genome of Synechococcus elongatus, the product of which was very similar to pixJ1, which was proposed as photoreceptor gene for phototaxis in Synechocystis sp. PCC6803 [Yoshihara et al. (2000) Plant Cell Physiol. 41: 1299]. The mRNA of S. elongatus pixJ (SepixJ) was expressed in vivo as a part of the product of an operon. SePixJ was detected exclusively in the membrane fraction after cell fractionation. Immunogold labeling of SePixJ in ultra-thin sections indicated that it existed only in both ends of the rod-shaped cell; probably bound with the cytoplasmic membrane.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Plant & cell physiology

دوره 43 12  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2002