Characterization of HU-like protein from Bifidobacterium longum |
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| Authors: | N Goshima Y Kano F Imamoto |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Molecular Genetics, Kyoto Pharmaceutical University, Japan. |
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| Abstract: | A HU-like protein (HBl) of Bifidobacterium longum was purified and characterized. HBl is heat-stable and acid-resistant, and has a molecular weight of about 9.1 kDa as estimated by its mobility on electrophoresis. HBl is intermediate in basicity (pI 9.8) between the HU-1 and HU-2 proteins of Escherichia coli, and is dissociated from a calf thymus DNA-cellulose column at 300-400 mM NaCl. Its amino acid composition shows many similarities with that of E coli HU. The NH2-terminal amino acid sequence of HBl also shows significant similarities to the consensus sequence deduced from the sequences of eleven HU-like proteins from prokaryotic sources. Chemical crosslinking analysis indicated that the HBl protein predominantly forms a homotypic dimer. |
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