title: Sequence of a dihydrofolate reductase-encoding gene from Candida albicans.
abstract: The nucleotide (nt) sequence of the dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR)-encoding gene (DFR1) of Candida albicans was determined. The gene contains an open reading frame of 576 nt, coding for a protein of 192 amino acid (aa) residues (calculated M(r) 22,222), that is 38.5 and 31% similar to the Saccharomyces cerevisiae and human enzymes, respectively. The first 36 residues, at the N terminus, of the deduced aa sequence are identical to those determined by sequencing of the purified enzyme from C. albicans. Putative transcription start points were also determined. Restriction-fragment-length polymorphism analysis of the DFR1 chromosomal region suggests the presence of a single copy of the gene per haploid genome and shows a limited variability among the different C. albicans strains tested.
authors.affiliation: Department of Animal Biology and Genetics, University of Florence, Italy.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Daly
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Mastromei
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Yacoub
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lorenzetti
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D002176:Candida albicans / Q000235:genetics*; D004271:DNA, Fungal / Q000235:genetics; D005800:Genes, Fungal; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D012150:Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length; D015183:Restriction Mapping; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D013762:Tetrahydrofolate Dehydrogenase / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D004271:DNA, Fungal; D013762:Tetrahydrofolate Dehydrogenase