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SUBMITTER: Maddock J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC179559 | biostudies-other | 1997 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Maddock J J Bhatt A A Koch M M Skidmore J J
Journal of bacteriology 19971001 20
We have identified an essential Caulobacter crescentus gene (cgtA) that encodes a member of a recently identified subfamily of GTPases (the Obg family) conserved from Bacteria to Archaea to humans. This evolutionary conservation between distantly related species suggests that this family of GTP-binding proteins possesses a fundamental, yet unknown, cellular role. In this report, we describe the isolation and sequence of the cgtA gene. The predicted CgtA protein displays striking similarity to th ...[more]