Identification and physical characterization of yeast maltase structural genes.
Identification and physical characterization of yeast maltase structural genes.
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酵母麦芽糖酶结构基因的鉴定和物理表征。
DOI:
10.1007/bf00425747
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发表时间:
1983
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Marmur,J
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作者:
Chow,T;Goldenthal,MJ;Cohen,JD;Hegde,M;Marmur,J
Each of at least five unlinkedMALloci (MAL1throughMAL4andMAL6) on the yeast genome controls the ability to synthesize an inducible α-D-glucosidase (maltase). A subcloned fragment of the coding sequence of theMAL6maltase structural gene was used as a hybridization probe to investigate the physical structure of the family ofMALstructural genes in the genomes of differentSaccharomycesstrains. Mal+strains, each carrying a genetically definedMALlocus, were crossed with a Mal-strain and the segregation behavior of the functional locus and of sequences complementary to the maltase structural gene at that locus analyzed. The maltase structural gene sequences of eachMALlocus were detected by Southern blot hybridization using BamH1 digests of genomic DNA of the meiotic products. This restriction enzyme was previously shown to cleave outside the confines of theMAL6locus.The results of such experiments indicate that each MAL locus encompasses at least one maltase structural gene sequence homologous to that ofMAL6, that yeast strains that lack functionalMALloci may or may not contain the corresponding maltase structural gene sequence, that theMAL1maltase structural gene sequence or one of its alleles can be detected in all laboratory yeast strains examined and that eachMALlocus can be identified as a characteristic BamH1 fragment of genomic DNA which includes a maltase structural gene.Yeast strains vary in the number of maltase structural gene sequences that they carry. By using the approach described in this report, the ones corresponding to the different functionalMALloci and residing within a BamH1 generated restriction fragment can be identified.