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. 1982 Nov;79(22):6847–6851. doi: 10.1073/pnas.79.22.6847

Cloning of developmentally regulated flagellin genes from Caulobacter crescentus via immunoprecipitation of polyribosomes.

M Milhausen, P R Gill, G Parker, N Agabian
PMCID: PMC347230  PMID: 6294658

Abstract

Immunoprecipitation of Caulobacter crescentus polyribosomes with antiflagellin antibody provided RNA for the synthesis of cDNA probes that were used to identify three specific EcoRI restriction fragments (6.8, 10, and 22 kilobases) in genomic digests of Caulobacter DNA. The RNA was present only in polyribosomes isolated from a time interval in the Caulobacter cell cycle that was coincident with flagellin polypeptide synthesis. The structural gene for Mr 27,500 flagellin polypeptide was assigned to a region of the 10-kilobase EcoRI restriction fragment by DNA sequence analysis. Analysis of mutants defective in motility further established a correlation between the Mr 27,500 flagellin gene and the flaE gene locus [Johnson, R. C. & Ely, B. (1979) J. Bacteriol. 137, 627-634]. The other EcoRI fragments that hybridize with the immunoprecipitated polyribosome-derived cDNA probe are also temporally regulated and have features that suggest they encode other polypeptides associated with the flagellum. Modifications were required to adapt the procedure of immunoprecipitation of polyribosomes for use with Caulobacter and should be applicable to the production of specific structural gene probes from other prokaryotic systems.

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