Arthrobacter luteus
Arthrobacter luteus (ALU) is a gram stain positive bacteria (not to be confused based on its abbreviation with the ALU retrotransposon element).
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A. luteus is a species of facultatively anaerobic, pleomorphic, branching, non-motile, non-sporulating, non-acid-fast, and catalase-positive bacterial rods (0.6-1.0 x 0.8-10.0 μm x μm).[1] All members of the Arthrobacter family are obligate aerobes. A restriction endonuclease enzyme is extracted from Alu that acts at the centre of a palindromic tetranucleotide sequence to give even-ended duplex DNA fragments phosphorylated at the 5'-end.
The restriction site Alu-I itself is a 4-base cutter: AGCT.[2]
References
- Kaneko, Tatsuhiko (1969). "Arthrobacter Luteus Nov. Sp. Isolated From Brewery Sewage". Journal of General and Applied Microbiology. 15: 317–326.
- http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/9/305
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