... componentsand protein binding. Removal of MalK by application of washingbuffer revealed an RU-increase of the baseline (dotted line) indicatingsolely the binding of MalK to immobilized IIA protein (arrows). The ... in uenzae,andinsome mycoplasma species [8,29]. In contrast, many othermicroorganisms including the actinomycetes Corynebacte-rium diphtheriae and Mycobacterium smegmatis,somemycoplasmae, and low-GC Gram-positive ... DNA databank and proteindatabank searches were performed using the BLASTserver of the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD, USA (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)....