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The hyperthermophilic bacterium Thermotoga maritima has two different classes of family C DNA polymerases: evolutionary implications.


ABSTRACT: Bacterial DNA polymerase III (family C DNA polymerase), the principal chromosomal replicative enzyme, is known to occur in at least three distinct forms which have provisionally been classified as class I ( Escherichia coli DNA pol C-type), class II ( Bacillus subtilis DNA pol C-type) and class III (cyanobacteria DNA pol C-type). We have identified two family C DNA polymerase sequences in the hyperthermophilic bacterium Thermotoga maritima. One DNA polymerase consisting of 842 amino acid residues and having a molecular weight of 97 213 belongs to class I. The other one, consisting of 1367 amino acid residues and having a molecular weight of 155 361, is a member of class II. Comparative sequence analyses suggest that the class II DNA polymerase is the principal DNA replicative enzyme of the microbe and that the class I DNA polymerase may be functionally inactive. A phylogenetic analysis using the class II enzyme indicates that T.maritima is closely related to the low G+C Gram-positive bacteria, in particular to Clostridium acetobutylicum, and mycoplasmas. These results are in conflict with 16S rRNA-based phylogenies, which placed T.maritima as one of the deepest branches of the bacterial tree.

SUBMITTER: Huang YP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC147983 | biostudies-other | 1998 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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The hyperthermophilic bacterium Thermotoga maritima has two different classes of family C DNA polymerases: evolutionary implications.

Huang Y P YP   Ito J J  

Nucleic acids research 19981201 23


Bacterial DNA polymerase III (family C DNA polymerase), the principal chromosomal replicative enzyme, is known to occur in at least three distinct forms which have provisionally been classified as class I ( Escherichia coli DNA pol C-type), class II ( Bacillus subtilis DNA pol C-type) and class III (cyanobacteria DNA pol C-type). We have identified two family C DNA polymerase sequences in the hyperthermophilic bacterium Thermotoga maritima. One DNA polymerase consisting of 842 amino acid residue  ...[more]

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