title: Phosphoribosylpyrophosphate synthetase (PRS): a new gene family in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
abstract: Saccharomyces cerevisiae contains at least four PRS genes, all of which have been cloned and sequenced. Each of the four derived amino acid sequences have more than 60% similarity to the corresponding polypeptides of man, rat, Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhimurium. The PRS1 gene maps on chromosome XI, PRS2 on chromosome V, PRS3 on chromosome VIII and PRS4 on chromosome II. One member of this gene family, PRS1, contains a region of non-homology (NHR) shown by cDNA cloning and sequencing not to be an intron. The results presented here suggest that the presence of this NHR is not detrimental to the function of the gene. To date the possibility of protein splicing can be neither proven nor disputed.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Food Research, Genetics & Microbiology Department, Colney, Norwich, UK.
authors.forename: A T
authors.initials: AT
authors.lastname: Carter
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Narbad
authors.forename: B M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Pearson
authors.forename: K F
authors.initials: KF
authors.lastname: Beck
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Logghe
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Contreras
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Schweizer
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D005800:Genes, Fungal / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D005810:Multigene Family / Q000235:genetics*; D012268:Ribose-Phosphate Pyrophosphokinase / Q000235:genetics*; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics*; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D013045:Species Specificity
chemical_list: D012268:Ribose-Phosphate Pyrophosphokinase