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. 1999 Dec;63(4):923–967. doi: 10.1128/mmbr.63.4.923-967.1999

TABLE 15.

A sample of archaeal hsp60 (chaperonin) genesa

Organism Chaperonin (accession no.) Size (bp) Promoter
Archaeoglobus fulgidus thsA/Cpn-α (AE000950) 1,635 tatata (−49)b, tgcaa (−19)
thsB/Cpn-β (AF035826) 1,635 cttata (−49), tgcaa (−19)
Desulforococcus strain SY HHSP (S79557) 1,635 aggagg (−15)
Haloferax volcanii cct1 (AF010470) 1,683 tttata (−26), cgaa (−34)
cct2 (AF010469) 1,674 tttata (−26), cgaa (−34)
cct3 (AF029873) Partial seq. tttata (−26), cgaa (−36)
Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum ΔH Chaperonin (α-subunit) (MT0794) 1,617 NR
Chaperonin (MT0218) 1,659 NR
Methanococcus jannaschii Chaperonin (U67542) 1,626 NR
Methanococcus thermolithotrophicus MTTS (AB015435) 1,632 tttatata (−75)
Methanopyrus kandleri Thermosome (Z50745) 1,635 tttaaata (−60), atgc (−42)
Pyrobaculum aerophilum TF55 (PA306e) NR NR
TF56 (PA307e) NR NR
TF55 (PA27e) NR NR
Pyrococcus kodakaraensis KOD1 cpkA (AB018432) 1,647 NR
cpkB (D29672) 1,641 NR
Pyrococcus abyssi α-Subunit-thsA (PAB2410) 1,650 NR
Sulfolobus shibatae TF55-β (X63834) 1,659 tttata (−40)
TF56-α (L34691) 1,680 tttata (−40)
Sulfolobus sp. strain 7 α-Subunit (AB001085) 1,680 ttttatata (−37) and tgc (−18)
β-Subunit (AB001086) 1,659 ttttatata (−37) and tgc (−18)
Thermococcus strain KS-1 α-Subunit (AB001080) 1,638 NR
β-Subunit (AB001081) 1,647 NR
Thermoplasma acidophilum α-Subunit (Z46649) 1,638 tttata (−40)
β-Subunit (Z46650) 1,632 ttatata (−33), tttatttttta (−21)
Aeropyrum pernix K1 Thermosome subunit (AEP0907) 1,671 NR
Thermosome subunit (AEP2072) 1,665 NR
Terminator RBS Remarks Reference(s)
NRc aggtg (−9) Enhanced Box A elementd 74, 151
NR aggtg (−9) Enhanced Box A element
tttga–t-rich-9–tcaaa (+18) NR 140
NR NR Induced by heat and hypotonic shocks; enhanced Box A element 163, 277
NR NR Induced by heat and hypotonic shocks; enhanced Box A element
NR NR Induced by heat shock
NR NR 263
NR NR
NR NR 31
t-rich region (+20) NR Recombinant 84
c-rich region aggtgat (+18) 3
NR NR 79
NR NR
NR NR
NR NR 137, 305
NR NR
NR NR P. abyssi website
ttttttt (+7) aggtg (−8) Enhanced Box A element 141, 281
ttttttt (+6) tgaggt (−4), ggtg (−12) Enhanced Box A element
NR ggtg (−6) 207
NR ggtg (−9)
NR NR Recombinant 308
NR NR Recombinant
t-rich region (+6 to +38) atgcg (−22), aggtgat (−10), caggttcc (+16), tccat (−12) 288
ttttt and aaaaa (+14), attta-9-taaat (+35) tccat (−12)
NR NR 143
NR NR
a

See also Fig. 14 and 15

b

(−) and (+) refer to position of center of sequence upstream from translation start codon or downstream from translation stop codon, respectively. 

c

NR, not reported. 

d

Conserved sequences as an extension of Box A and between Box A and Box B. 

e

Identification number used in genome project.