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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
1999-8-6
pubmed:abstractText
To utilise maltose as a carbon source Saccharomyces cerevisiae needs one or more functional MAL loci that contain the MALx1 gene encoding maltose permease, MALx2 encoding maltase, and MALx3 encoding a transcriptional activator. Maltose causes a rapid MALx3-dependent induction of MAL gene transcription, and glucose represses this activation via Mig1p. A MALx3 gene conveying high MAL gene expression in the absence of maltose in a malx3 laboratory mutant strain has been isolated from baker's yeast. The construction of hybrid genes between the isolated gene and a highly regulated MALx3 gene showed that constitutivity was the result of multiple amino-acid alterations throughout the structural gene. The combined effect of these amino-acid alterations was shown to be stronger than the sum of their individual effects on constitutivity. Analysis in glucose-repressed conditions confirmed that increased MALx3 transcript levels increased the glucose insensitivity of MAL gene expression but did not affect constitutivity. Analysis of four mutations between aa 343 and 375, lying within a proposed negative regulatory domain, showed that the single mutation of Leu343Phe increased the glucose insensitivity of MAL gene expression by 30-fold. These results demonstrate that not only Mig1p modulation of MALx3 expression, but also the MALx3 protein structure, is involved in the glucose-insensitive expression of the MAL genes.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Fungal Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Glucose, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Leucine, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Membrane Transport Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Monosaccharide Transport Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Phenylalanine, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Recombinant Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Trans-Activators, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Transcription Factors, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/alpha-Glucosidases, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/maltose permease
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0172-8083
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
35
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
491-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2005-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:10369955-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:10369955-Amino Acid Substitution, pubmed-meshheading:10369955-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:10369955-Fungal Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:10369955-Gene Expression Regulation, Fungal, pubmed-meshheading:10369955-Glucose, pubmed-meshheading:10369955-Leucine, pubmed-meshheading:10369955-Membrane Transport Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:10369955-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:10369955-Monosaccharide Transport Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:10369955-Mutation, pubmed-meshheading:10369955-Phenylalanine, pubmed-meshheading:10369955-Recombinant Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:10369955-Saccharomyces cerevisiae, pubmed-meshheading:10369955-Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:10369955-Sequence Analysis, pubmed-meshheading:10369955-Trans-Activators, pubmed-meshheading:10369955-Transcription Factors, pubmed-meshheading:10369955-alpha-Glucosidases
pubmed:year
1999
pubmed:articleTitle
Leu343Phe substitution in the Malx3 protein of Saccharomyces cerevisiae increases the constitutivity and glucose insensitivity of MAL gene expression.
pubmed:affiliation
School of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics and Cooperative Research Centre for Food Industry Innovation, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, New South Wales, Australia. vhiggins@unsw.edu.au
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article