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. 1980 May;142(2):547–555. doi: 10.1128/jb.142.2.547-555.1980

Physical location of the ilvO determinant in Escherichia coli K-12 deoxyribonucleic acid.

C S Subrahmanyam, G M McCorkle, H E Umbarger
PMCID: PMC294022  PMID: 6155372

Abstract

A plasmid carrying the 4,6-kilobase (kb) HindIII-derived fragment from an ilvO mutant derivative of lambda h80dilv imparted a valine-resistant phenotype on strains it carried. This fragment carries a small amount of the promoter-proximal end of ilvE, the ilvO determinant, and apparently the entire ilvG gene, which specifies the valine-insensitive acetohydroxy acid synthase. Comparable deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) from the original lambda h80dilv did not carry the valine resistance marker. The valine-resistant phenotype was always correlated with the formation of the resistant enzymes. The ilvO determinant was shown to be carried within an approximately 600-based-pair region lying between the SalI and KpnI sites on the HindIII fragment and perhaps within the ilvG gene itself. Ribonucleic acid that hybridizes with the DNA corresponding to the ilvG gene is formed in wild-type K-12 cells. This fact, coupled with the fact that ilvG is transcribed from the same DNA strand as the ilvE, D, and A genes, led to the idea that transcription is normally initiated upstream from ilvG in both wild-type and ilvO strains. In wild-type strains either the formation or the translation of the transcript would be terminated with the ilvG gene, thus preventing expression of that gene.

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