A Mycobacterium tuberculosis operon encoding ESAT=6 and a novel low-molecular-mass culture filtrate protein (CFP-10)
| Autor: | Ida Rosenkrands, Brigitte Gicquel, Peter Henrik Andersen, Peter Birk Rasmussen, Fransois-Xavier Berthet |
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| Rok vydání: | 1998 |
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Genetic Operon Recombinant Fusion Proteins Molecular Sequence Data complex mixtures Microbiology Mycobacterium tuberculosis Bacterial Proteins Amino Acid Sequence Cloning Molecular Promoter Regions Genetic Antigens Bacterial Mycobacterium bovis CFP-10 Base Sequence biology Mycobacterium smegmatis Chromosome Mapping Promoter bacterial infections and mycoses biology.organism_classification Molecular biology Lac Operon Multigene Family ESAT-6 Tuberculosis vaccines |
| Zdroj: | Microbiology. 144:3195-3203 |
| ISSN: | 1465-2080 1350-0872 |
| Popis: | SUMMARY: The early secreted antigenic target 6 kDa protein (ESAT-6) is a potent T-cell protein antigen synthesized by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Its corresponding gene (esat-6) is located in RD1, a 10 kb DNA region deleted in the attenuated tuberculosis vaccine strain Mycobacterium bowis BCG. The promoter region of M. tuberculosis esat-6 was cloned and characterized. A new gene, designated lhp and cotranscribed with esat-6, was identified. Moreover, computer searches in the M. tuberculosis genome identified 13 genes related to the lhplesat-6 operon, defining a novel gene family. The transcription initiation sites of the lhplesat-6 operon were mapped using M. tuberculosis RNA. The corresponding promoter signals were not recognized in Mycobacterium smegmatis, in whichtranscription of lhplesat-6 is initiated at different locations. The M. tuberculosis lhp gene product was identified as CFP-10, a low- molecular-mass protein found in the short-term culture filtrate. These results show that the genes encoding CFP-10 and ESAT-6 are transcribed together in M. tuberculosis and that both code for small exported proteins. |
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