Nucleotide sequence of a gene cluster encoding NusG and the L11-L1-L10-L12 ribosomal proteins from the thermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus

• Published in: Biochimica et biophysica acta Vol. 1340; no. 2; pp. 170 - 177
• Main Authors: Geiger, Markus, Gröbner, Peter, Piendl, Wolfgang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands Elsevier B.V 18-07-1997
• Subjects: Amino Acid Sequence; Archaea; Bacterial Proteins - genetics; Base Sequence; Escherichia coli Proteins; Molecular Sequence Data; Multigene Family; NusG gene; Peptide Elongation Factors - genetics; Ribosomal protein gene cluster; Ribosomal protein L1; Ribosomal protein L10; Ribosomal protein L11; Ribosomal protein L12; Ribosomal Proteins - genetics; Sequence Alignment; Sulfolobus - genetics; Sulfolobus solfataricus; Transcription Factors - genetics; NusG gene; Ribosomal protein gene cluster; Archaea; Ribosomal protein L10; Ribosomal protein L11; Ribosomal protein L1; Ribosomal protein L12; Sulfolobus solfataricus
• ISSN: 0167-4838; 0006-3002; 1879-2588
• DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4838(97)00073-3

The complete nucleotide sequence of a gene cluster encoding the NusG and the L11-L1-L10-L12 ribosomal proteins from the thermophilic crenarchaeon
Sulfolobus solfataricus has been determined. The genes are arranged in the same order as the equivalent genes in the
rif region of
Escherichia coli. The ribosomal proteins exhibit between 66% (L10) and 80% (L12) identity with their respective equivalents from
Sulfolobus acidocaldarius. The short distance (5 nucleotides) between the
nusG stop codon and the L11 start codon suggests that
nusG and the genes for the ribosomal proteins are transcribed as a single unit.