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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1990-3-13
pubmed:abstractText
A 4.4-kb PstI restriction endonuclease fragment of Mucor circinelloides DNA has previously been shown to both complement a leuA- mutation, and to enable the autonomous replication of plasmids within this organism. The complete nucleotide (nt) sequence of this fragment has been determined and an open reading frame of 1935 bp with no introns has been identified, which exhibits significant similarity (75% at the nt level) with 114 bp of the 5' coding region of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae LEU1 gene. Based on this and on the fact that the fragment weakly complements a leu1 auxotroph of S. cerevisiae, we concluded that the Mucor leu gene encodes alpha-isopropylmalate (alpha-IPM) isomerase and designated it leuA+ accordingly. Primer extension analysis of leuA mRNA and Northern-blot hybridization, indicated the leuA transcript to be approx. 2.3 kb in size, with 5'- and 3'-untranslated regions of 16-20 nt and approx. 450 nt, respectively. Specific Mucor ARS sequence(s) were not identified, although the general location of ARS was indicated by subcloning experiments. Nucleotide sequences are present within this region, which show some similarity with the core consensus of the S. cerevisiae ARS; however, any functional homology is doubtful, since insertion of the 4.4-kb PstI fragment into YIp5 did not increase the transformation frequency of S. cerevisiae with such a vector.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0378-1119
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
14
pubmed:volume
84
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
335-43
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:2693214-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:2693214-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:2693214-Blotting, Northern, pubmed-meshheading:2693214-Cloning, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:2693214-DNA, Fungal, pubmed-meshheading:2693214-Escherichia coli, pubmed-meshheading:2693214-Genes, Fungal, pubmed-meshheading:2693214-Genetic Complementation Test, pubmed-meshheading:2693214-Hydro-Lyases, pubmed-meshheading:2693214-Leucine, pubmed-meshheading:2693214-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:2693214-Mucor, pubmed-meshheading:2693214-Plasmids, pubmed-meshheading:2693214-RNA, Fungal, pubmed-meshheading:2693214-RNA, Messenger, pubmed-meshheading:2693214-Replicon, pubmed-meshheading:2693214-Restriction Mapping, pubmed-meshheading:2693214-Saccharomyces cerevisiae, pubmed-meshheading:2693214-Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid, pubmed-meshheading:2693214-Transformation, Genetic
pubmed:year
1989
pubmed:articleTitle
Characterization of a leuA gene and an ARS element from Mucor circinelloides.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Physiology, Carlsberg Laboratory, Copenhagen, Denmark.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study