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SUBMITTER: Tanimoto K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC204994 | biostudies-other | 1993 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Tanimoto K K An F Y FY Clewell D B DB
Journal of bacteriology 19930801 16
pAD1, a conjugative, 60-kb, hemolysin-bacteriocin plasmid in Enterococcus faecalis, encodes a mating response to a small peptide sex pheromone, cAD1, secreted by potential recipient bacteria. A gene, traC, encoding a 60.7-kDa protein with a typical amino terminal signal peptide, was identified within a region that appears to encode a product that binds to exogenous pheromone. A cloned segment of DNA containing traC resulted in specific binding of cells to synthetic cAD1. The putative traC produc ...[more]