title: Nucleotide sequence and analysis of the centromeric region of yeast chromosome IX.
abstract: We have determined the nucleotide sequence of a cosmid (pIX338) containing the centromere region of yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) chromosome IX. The complete nucleotide sequence of 33.8 kb was obtained by using an efficient directed sequencing strategy in combination with automated DNA sequencing on the A.L.F. DNA sequencer. Sequence analysis revealed the presence of 17 open reading frames (ORFs), four of them previously known yeast genes (sly12, pan1, sts1 and prl1), a tRNA gene and the centromere motif. Exhaustive database searches detected sequence homologues of known function for as many as 14 of the 17 ORFs. These include a mammalian tyrosine kinase substrate; the Escherichia coli cell cycle protein MinD; the human inositol polyphosphate-5-phosphatase (gene OCRL) involved in Lowe's syndrome, a developmental disorder; and helicases, for which the new yeast member defines a distinct DEAD/H-box subfamily. A surprisingly large fraction of the ORFs (at least six out of 17) in the centromeric region are apparently involved in RNA or DNA binding.
authors.affiliation: Biological Structures and Biocomputing Programmes, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Voss
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tamames
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Teodoru
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Valencia
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sensen
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wiemann
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Schwager
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zimmermann
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sander
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Ansorge
mesh_terms: D000251:Adenosine Triphosphatases / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D002503:Centromere / Q000235:genetics*; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D015825:Chromosomes, Fungal / Q000235:genetics*; D004271:DNA, Fungal / Q000235:genetics*; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; D005656:Fungal Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016366:Open Reading Frames / Q000235:genetics; D010802:Phylogeny; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D004271:DNA, Fungal; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; D005656:Fungal Proteins; D000251:Adenosine Triphosphatases; C072069:MinD protein, E coli