Abstract
The Streptomyces coelicolor dagA gene that codes for an extracellular agarase was cloned in the closely related bacterium S. lividans and transferred to the distantly related low G+C Gram-positive bacterium Bacillus subtilis and to the far more distantly related Gram-negative bacterium Escherichia coli. S1 nuclease mapping experiments identified a putative fifth promoter from which transcription of the dagA gene can take place, and accurately mapped the transcription termination site. The transcription terminator was specific for the Streptomyces strains and could terminate transcription initiated by promoters other than those of dagA. The agarase gene is efficiently transcribed in B. subtilis and E. coli, although pulse-chase experiments failed to detect the synthesis of agarase in these two bacteria.
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