title: Structural features of a polygalacturonase gene cloned from Aspergillus oryzae KBN616.
abstract: A genomic gene encoding a polygalacturonase from Aspergillus oryzae, used in soy sauce production, was cloned and sequenced. The structural gene comprises 1227 bp coding for 363 amino acids with a putative prepropeptide of 28 amino acids and the open reading frame is disrupted by two short introns of 57 bp and 81 bp. The deduced amino acid sequence of the mature protein showed 63, 63, 63 and 64% homology with those of Aspergillus niger polygalacturonase I, Aspergillus niger polygalacturonase II, Aspergillus tubingensis polygalacturonase II and Cochliobolus carbonum polygalacturonase, respectively. There is, however, little homology among fungal, plant and bacterial polygalacturonases.
authors.affiliation: Food Research Institute, Aichi Prefectural Government, Nagoya, Japan.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kitamoto
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kimura
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kito
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ohmiya
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Tsukagoshi
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001230:Aspergillus / Q000235:genetics; D001236:Aspergillus oryzae / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics*; D001483:Base Sequence; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004271:DNA, Fungal / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D005800:Genes, Fungal; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009838:Oligodeoxyribonucleotides; D010944:Plants / Q000235:genetics; D011096:Polygalacturonase / Q000235:genetics*; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D015183:Restriction Mapping; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D004271:DNA, Fungal; D009838:Oligodeoxyribonucleotides; D011096:Polygalacturonase