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SUBMITTER: Hoshino T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC182424 | biostudies-other | 1993 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Hoshino T T Fujii R R Nakahara T T
Applied and environmental microbiology 19930901 9
We have cloned and sequenced a 1.5-kb chromosomal fragment of Thermus thermophilus which promoted the overproduction of carotenoids in T. thermophilus. An open reading frame (ORF-A) coding for a polypeptide with 289 amino acids was responsible for carotenoid overproduction. The putative ORF-A protein showed significant homology with the amino acid sequences of crtB gene products (phytoene syntheses) of other microorganisms. The clone containing the ORF-A on a multicopy plasmid produced about thr ...[more]