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Mercury resistance (HgR) has bee widely reported and the nucleotide sequences of at least 11 mercury resistance operons (mer) from different bacteria are known. HgR is therefore useful in studying horizontal gene transfer in the environment. The horizontal spread of distinct mer operon variants occurring in diverse Bacillus species, one encoding a mercuric reductase with a single N-terminal domain and the other encoding a reductase with a duplicated N-terminal domain, is reported. Strains with former mer operon types are sensitive to organomercurials, whilst those with the latter types are resistant to organomercurials.
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The sucrase, encoded by the surA gene of Bacillus stearothermophilus, shows a sequence similarity with sucrose hydrolising enzymes of B. subtilis, Klebsiella pneumoniae and Vibrio alginolyticus. The enzyme's sucrose box, a sequence of nine amino acids, is important in the catalysis of sucrose into glucose and fructose. SurA shows a high degree of stability at room temperature, with an optimum temperature of 55 degree celsius for sucrose hydrolysis. The active form of the enzyme is a dimer and it is unable to operate during sucrose phosphate cleavage.
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Genetics research using Pseudomonas alcaligenes NCIB 9867 (strain P25X) with plasmid RP4 crossed with Pseudomonas putida NCIB 9869 (strain RA713) without plasmid has isolated group II introns which are known to be directly responsible for genetic mobility. The consensus sequence of GUGYG nucleotides at the 5' end of the chain and RAY at the 3' end of the chain.
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