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SUBMITTER: Yang Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2927206 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
FEMS microbiology letters 20081118 2
In this study, a putative N-acetylmuramyl-l-alanine amidase gene (bb0666) was identified in the genome of the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi. This protein shares c. 30% identity with its counterparts from other bacteria. Reverse transcriptase-PCR analysis showed that bb0666 along with two other genes (bb0665 and bb0667) are cotranscribed with the motility and chemotaxis genes. This newly identified operon is termed as pami. Sequence and primer extension analyses showed that pami wa ...[more]