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  • Title: Molecular cloning of the cyanobacterial adenylate cyclase gene from the filamentous cyanobacterium Anabaena cylindrica.
    Author: Katayama M, Wada Y, Ohmori M.
    Journal: J Bacteriol; 1995 Jul; 177(13):3873-8. PubMed ID: 7601856.
    Abstract:
    Molecular cloning of the structural gene for adenylate cyclase (cya) of the cyanobacterium Anabaena cylindrica was carried out by complementation of an Escherichia coli strain defective in the cya gene. The cya-defective strain produced significant amounts of cyclic AMP when it was transformed with the cya gene isolated from A. cylindrica. This gene encodes a polypeptide consisting of 502 amino acid residues (molecular weight, 55,300). The deduced primary protein structure showed that the carboxyl-terminal region of the adenylate cyclase of A. cylindrica shows strong structural similarity to the conserved regions of the adenylate cyclases of various eukaryotes. No similarity was found between the amino acid sequences of the cya gene of A. cylindrica and that of E. coli. A hydropathy plot suggests that this protein has two hydrophobic regions, a transmembrane span and a signal peptide. An antiserum specific to this adenylate cyclase was prepared by immunizing a rabbit with a glutathione S-transferase-adenylate cyclase fusion protein expressed in E. coli. This antiserum recognized a 55-kDa protein in Anabaena cell lysates. Subcellular fractionation analysis showed that A. cylindrica adenylate cyclase localized in the thylakoid membrane.
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