title: Cloning, purification, and properties of Candida albicans thymidylate synthase.
abstract: The thymidylate synthase (TS) gene was isolated from a genomic Candida albicans library by functional complementation of a Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain deficient in TS. The gene was localized on a 4-kilobase HindIII DNA fragment and was shown to be expressed in a Thy- strain of Escherichia coli. The nucleotide sequence of the TS gene predicted a protein of 315 amino acids with a molecular weight of 36,027. The gene was cloned into a T7 expression vector in E. coli, allowing purification of large amounts of C. albicans TS. It was also purified from a wild-type C. albicans strain. Comparison of several enzyme properties including analysis of amino-terminal amino acid sequences showed the native and cloned C. albicans TS to be the same.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Wellcome Research Laboratories, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709.
authors.forename: S C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Singer
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Richards
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ferone
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Benedict
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ray
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D002176:Candida albicans / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics*; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics; D005796:Genes; D005800:Genes, Fungal; D005838:Genotype; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism; D015183:Restriction Mapping; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000235:genetics; D013940:Thymidylate Synthase / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D013940:Thymidylate Synthase