Sequence Analysis of a Near-subtelomeric 35·4 kb DNA Segment on the Right Arm of Chromosome VII fromSaccharomyces cerevisiae Carrying theMAL1 Locus Reveals 15 Complete Open Reading Frames, IncludingZUO1,BGL2 andBIO2 Genes and an ABC Transporter Gene
✍ Scribed by VOLCKAERT, GUIDO; VOET, MARLEEN; ROBBEN, JOHAN
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 385 KB
- Volume
- 13
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0749-503X
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✦ Synopsis
The nucleotide sequence of 35 400 bp at approximately 10 kb from the right telomere of chromosome VII was determined. The segment contains the MAL1 locus, one of the five unlinked loci sufficient for maltose utilization. Until now, each of these loci was considered to contain three genes (for regulator, permease and -glucosidase), but a fourth gene, presumably an extra -glucosidase gene, was found at MAL1 adjacent to the usual cluster of three genes. The two glucosidase genes are present in opposite orientation, forming an inverted repeat structure. In addition to the four genes at MAL1, there are 11 complete, non-overlapping open reading frames (ORFs) longer than 300 bp in the sequence presented here. A new ABC transporter gene (YGR281w), required for oligomycin resistance was found (YOR1; Katzman et al., 1995), and the previously sequenced BGL2 (YGR282c), ZUO1 (YGR285c) and BIO2 (YGR286c) genes were located. The sequence of BIO2, a biotin synthetase gene, required substantial correction and the size of Bio2p is 375, rather than 356, amino acids. Two ORFs show rather weak similarities to animal genes: YGR278w to an unknown ORF of Caenorhabditis elegans and YGR284c to the murine Surf-4, a member of a cluster of at least four housekeeping genes. The remaining five ORFs do not encode known functions, but three of these show weak to high similarities to other ORFs in the Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome and one (YGR280c) codes for a particularly lysine-rich protein. The nucleotide sequence has been deposited in the