title: Isolation of the fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase gene of the yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Evidence for transcriptional regulation.
abstract: The fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase structural gene (FBP+) of Schizosaccharomyces pombe has been isolated by genetic complementation of a deficient mutant, which is characterized by the inability to grow on a nonfermentable carbon source such as glycerol. Growth on glycerol-containing medium was restored in a S. pombe fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase-deficient mutant (fbp-16) when it was transformed with a plasmid (pAVO4) carrying FBP+. The transformant displayed a 5-fold increase in enzymatic activity when compared to the parental S. pombe strain. Subcloning of DNA fragments from the 8.5-kilobase (kb) insert of pAVO4 defined a 4-kb DNA fragment which contained the functional FBP+ gene and its regulatory region. When this gene was placed under the control of the lac promoter-operator, functional expression in Escherichia coli was obtained, as deduced by complementation of bacterial fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase mutants. The FBP+ gene encodes a 1.9-kb glucose-repressible transcript whose appearance in S. pombe is correlated with fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase derepression in glycerol-containing medium. We suggest that the regulation of the S. pombe FBP+ gene is exerted at the transcriptional level. The S. pombe FBP+ gene gave rise to a 1.9-kb transcript in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, but not to measurable enzymatic activity.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Vassarotti
authors.forename: J D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Friesen
mesh_terms: D001203:Ascomycota / Q000235:genetics*; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics; D006597:Fructose-Bisphosphatase / Q000235:genetics*; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D005796:Genes; D005800:Genes, Fungal; D009154:Mutation; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000235:genetics; D012568:Schizosaccharomyces / Q000235:genetics*; D014158:Transcription, Genetic; D014170:Transformation, Genetic
chemical_list: D006597:Fructose-Bisphosphatase