期刊名称:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN:0027-8424
电子版ISSN:1091-6490
出版年度:1983
卷号:80
期号:3
页码:697-701
DOI:10.1073/pnas.80.3.697
语种:English
出版社:The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要:The gene for protein A from Staphylococcus aureus was cloned into pBR322 in Escherichia coli. An immunoassay was used to detect production of the protein. Protein A produced in E. coli was found in the periplasmic space and was purified and concentrated by IgG-Sepharose affinity chromatography. DNA sequence assay of the gene revealed a region with the general features of a prokaryotic signal peptide and a fifth structural region homologous to the four repetitive regions found earlier by amino acid sequence determination of the mature protein. Upstream from the structural gene there is a possible promoter region and a ribosomal binding sequence typical of gram-positive bacteria. The initiation codon is TTG.