Cloning and Sequencing of a 27.8-kb Nucleotide Sequence of the 79{degrees}-81{degrees}. Region of the Bacillus subtilis Genome Containing the sspE Locus

The nucleotide sequence of a 27830-bp DNA segment in the 79°–81°.region of the Bacillus subtilis genome has been determined.This region contains 29 complete ORFs including the sspE gene,which encodes a small acid-soluble spore protein gamma and locateson the one side terminal of our assigned region. A homologysearch for the products deduced from the 29 ORFs revealed thatnine of them exhibit significant similarity to known proteins,e.g. proteins involved in an iron uptake system, a multidrugresistance protein, a chloramphenicol resistance protein, epoxidehydrolase, adenine glycosylase, and a glucose-1-dehydrogenasehomolog.