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The sequence analysis of the cloned <jats:italic>secA<\/jats:italic> genes from <jats:italic>R. rickettsii<\/jats:italic> and <jats:italic>R. typhi<\/jats:italic> show ORFs of 2721 and 2718\u2005nt, respectively. Alignment of the deduced amino acid sequences reveals the presence of highly conserved amino acid residues and motifs considered to be essential for the ATPase activity of SecA in preprotein translocation. Transcription analysis indicates that <jats:italic>R. rickettsii secA<\/jats:italic> is expressed monocistronically from the canonical prokaryotic promoter, with a transcriptional start point located 32\u2005nt upstream of the <jats:italic>secA<\/jats:italic> initiation codon. Complementation analysis shows that the full-length SecA protein from <jats:italic>R. rickettsii<\/jats:italic> and <jats:italic>R. typhi<\/jats:italic> fails to restore growth of the temperature-sensitive <jats:italic>Escherichia coli<\/jats:italic> strain MM52 <jats:italic>secA51<\/jats:italic>(ts) at a non-permissive temperature (42\u200a\u00b0C), despite the detection of SecA protein expression by Western blotting. However, the chimeric SecA protein carrying the N-terminal 408\u2005aa of <jats:italic>R. rickettsii<\/jats:italic> SecA fused with the C-terminal 480\u2005aa of <jats:italic>E. coli<\/jats:italic> SecA restores the growth of <jats:italic>E. coli<\/jats:italic> strain MM52 <jats:italic>secA51<\/jats:italic>(ts) at the non-permissive temperature (42\u200a\u00b0C). 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