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. 1991 May;173(10):3261–3264. doi: 10.1128/jb.173.10.3261-3264.1991

Mutations affecting the Shine-Dalgarno sequences of the untranslated region of the Escherichia coli gltBDF operon.

L Velázquez 1, L Camarena 1, J L Reyes 1, F Bastarrachea 1
PMCID: PMC207927  PMID: 1673677

Abstract

Individual mutations which affected each of the two Shine-Dalgarno sequences at the 5' untranslated region of the gltB gene of Escherichia coli were characterized. They were isolated in plasmids carrying a gltB'-'lacZ protein fusion preceded by the regulatory region of the gltBDF operon. Subcloning and nucleotide sequencing of approximately 1,206 bp of DNA encompassing the gltBDF regulatory region showed that the mutations affected the first base at each of the two identical Shine-Dalgarno sequences, SD1 and SD2, located 40 and 8 bases, respectively, upstream from the putative gltB open reading frame. Only mutation gltB2r227, an adenine in place of a guanine, affecting the first base of SD2, lowered beta-galactosidase expression significantly, i.e., about fivefold. The results suggest that SD2 is the preferred functional site at which ribosomes initiate gltB mRNA translation.

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