title: Yeast arginine permease: nucleotide sequence of the CAN1 gene.
abstract: The yeast CAN1 gene, thought to encode arginine permease, has found use in genetics as a selectable locus. We have sequenced the cloned CAN1 gene, which contains an open reading frame of 1770 nucleotides, encoding a polypeptide of calculated molecular weight 65,766. Disruption of this open reading frame largely abolishes CAN1 gene expression, while subcloned fragments of the open reading frame hybridize strand-specifically to a 2.3 kb yeast RNA message. The encoded protein has no leader signal sequence, and is highly hydrophobic, with a possible twelve membrane-spanning domains, several of which have the high hydrophobic moments seen in channel-forming or permease proteins. This protein structure is consistent with the CAN1 product being the plasma membrane arginine permease.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ahmad
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Bussey
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D026905:Amino Acid Transport Systems; D026923:Amino Acid Transport Systems, Basic; D001483:Base Sequence; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D005796:Genes; D005800:Genes, Fungal; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D026901:Membrane Transport Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011487:Protein Conformation; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000235:genetics*; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; D012995:Solubility; D014158:Transcription, Genetic
chemical_list: D026905:Amino Acid Transport Systems; D026923:Amino Acid Transport Systems, Basic; C502212:CAN1 protein, S cerevisiae; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D026901:Membrane Transport Proteins; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; C043909:arginine permease