Stringent control during carbon starvation of marine Vibrio sp. strain S14 : Molecular cloning, nucleotide sequence, and deletion of the relA gene
In order to evaluate the role of the stringent response in starvation adaptations of the marine Vibrio sp. strain S14, we have cloned the relA gene and generated relaxed mutants of this organism. The Vibrio relA gene was selected from a chromosomal DNA library by complementation of an Escherichia coli ΔrelA strain. The nucleotide sequence contains a 743-codon open reading frame that encodes a poly
