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. 1994 Sep;176(18):5814–5819. doi: 10.1128/jb.176.18.5814-5819.1994

An unusual gene containing a dnaJ N-terminal box flanks the putative origin of replication of Mycoplasma genitalium.

C C Bailey 1, K F Bott 1
PMCID: PMC196786  PMID: 8083173

Abstract

Origins of replication are known to be highly conserved among widely divergent microbial species, with the gene order in those regions being dnaA-dnaN-recF-gyrB. On the basis of sequence identities to entries in GenBank, the gene order of a 6-kb fragment of Mycoplasma genitalium DNA was determined to be dnaN-orf311-gyrB-gyrA-serS, which is structurally similar to the ancestral origin of replication. We have directly linked the dnaN gene to the M. genitalium dnaA gene by PCR amplification. However, we found a novel open reading frame, designated orf311, in place of an expected sequence encoding recF. Orf311 contains a DnaJ box motif at its N terminus, but it has no overall homology to any other protein or sequence in the database. We are unable to detect any recF homolog in M. genitalium by hybridization or during a random sequencing survey of the genome.

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