title: A fission yeast gene encoding a protein that preferentially associates with curved DNA.
abstract: We searched for fission yeast (Schizosaccharomyces pombe) proteins that preferentially bind to a synthetic curved DNA sequence, by means of a DNA-binding gel shift assay in the presence of an excess amount of a non-curved DNA sequence as a competitor. We identified such a protein in S. pombe. The protein, thus purified, has an apparent molecular weight of 42,000, as estimated by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. It was suggested that this protein (42 K-protein) recognizes and binds to a curved DNA structure in a given nucleotide sequence, although it also binds to a non-curved DNA sequence with lower affinity. As its putative coding sequence, a 1.9-kilobase genomic DNA from S. pombe was cloned and sequenced. Sequencing of a cDNA clone also revealed the existence of an open reading frame, with no intron, encoding a 381-amino-acid protein with a calculated molecular mass, 41,597. This protein appears to be located in the nucleus. The predicted protein sequence revealed that the 42 K-protein exhibits no significant similarity to any other known proteins, except to a hypothetical protein of Caenorhabditis elegans.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology, School of Agriculture, Nagoya University, Japan.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yamada
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Mori
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Momoi
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nakagawa
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ueguchi
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mizuno
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D002458:Cell Fractionation; D002467:Cell Nucleus / Q000737:chemistry; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics; D005656:Fungal Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D005800:Genes, Fungal / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation; D016366:Open Reading Frames / Q000235:genetics; D011089:Polydeoxyribonucleotides / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins / Q000096:biosynthesis; D012568:Schizosaccharomyces / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D029702:Schizosaccharomyces pombe Proteins; D017421:Sequence Analysis; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: C090699:CDB4 protein, S pombe; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D005656:Fungal Proteins; D011089:Polydeoxyribonucleotides; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins; D029702:Schizosaccharomyces pombe Proteins