title: Yeast cyclophilin: isolation and characterization of the protein, cDNA and gene.
abstract: Cyclophilin (CPH) has been isolated from the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, purified to homogeneity and partially sequenced. Oligodeoxyribonucleotides deduced from this sequence were used to isolate the corresponding cDNA and gene. An open reading frame coding for a 162-amino acid (aa) protein with a calculated Mr of 17,392, was deduced from the nucleotide sequence. Comparison between yeast and human CPH shows a very high overall sequence conservation (65% aa homology). The binding of yeast CPH to cyclosporin A is identical to that of human and bovine CPH. Unlike in Neurospora crassa, a mitochondrial form of CPH could not be detected in yeast. Southern-blot analysis of yeast DNA shows that only one CPH-related sequence is present per haploid genome, whereas at least 20 genes or pseudogenes were detected in the human and rat genome. Purified yeast CPH exhibits peptidyl-prolyl cis-trans isomerase activity, albeit to a far lesser extent than the mammalian protein.
authors.affiliation: Preclinical Research, Sandoz Ltd., Basle, Switzerland.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Haendler
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Keller
authors.forename: P C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Hiestand
authors.forename: H P
authors.initials: HP
authors.lastname: Kocher
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Wegmann
authors.forename: N R
authors.initials: NR
authors.lastname: Movva
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D015152:Blotting, Northern; D015139:Blotting, Southern; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004247:DNA / Q000032:analysis*; D015698:Genomic Library; D006801:Humans; D007124:Immunoenzyme Techniques; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D019696:Peptidylprolyl Isomerase; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000235:genetics*; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
chemical_list: D002352:Carrier Proteins; D004247:DNA; D019696:Peptidylprolyl Isomerase