Affiliation:
1. Department of Bioscience, Fukui Prefectural University, Matsuoka-cho, Fukui 910-1195, Japan
Abstract
ABSTRACT
We discovered on the chromosome of
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Σ1278b novel genes involved in
l
-proline analogue
l
-azetidine-2-carboxylic acid resistance which are not present in the standard laboratory strains. The 5.4 kb-DNA fragment was cloned from the genomic library of the
l
-azetidine-2-carboxylic acid-resistant mutant derived from a cross between
S. cerevisiae
strains S288C and Σ1278b. The nucleotide sequence of a 4.5-kb segment exhibited no identity with the sequence in the genome project involving strain S288C. Deletion analysis indicated that one open reading frame encoding a predicted protein of 229 amino acids is indispensable for
l
-azetidine-2-carboxylic acid resistance. The protein sequence was found to be a member of the
N
-acetyltransferase superfamily. Genomic Southern analysis and gene disruption showed that two copies of the novel gene with one amino acid change at position 85 required for
l
-azetidine-2-carboxylic acid resistance were present on chromosomes X and XIV of Σ1278b background strains. When this novel
MPR1
or
MPR2
gene (sigma 1278b gene for
l
-proline analogue resistance) was introduced into the other
S. cerevisiae
strains, all of the recombinants were resistant to
l
-azetidine-2-carboxylic acid, indicating that both
MPR1
and
MPR2
are expressed and have a global function in
S. cerevisiae
.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Molecular Biology,Microbiology
Cited by
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