title: The nuclear gene and cDNAs encoding cytosolic glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase from the marine red alga Gracilaria verrucosa: cloning, characterization and phylogenetic analysis.
abstract: We have cloned and sequenced the single-copy nuclear gene (GapC) encoding the complete 335-amino acid cytosolic glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPC) from the red alga Gracilaria verrucosa. The proline residue which contributes to the specificity of NAD+ binding in other GAPC-like proteins is present. Putative regulatory regions, including GC-rich regions, a GATA element, and 11-base T- and T/G-clusters, but excluding TATA- and CCAAT-boxes, were identified upstream. Two types of GapC cDNAs differing in polyadenylation site were characterized. An 80-bp phase-two spliceosomal intron was identified in a novel position interrupting the highly conserved cofactor-coding region I. The G. verrucosa GAPC was easily aligned with other known GAPC-type sequences. Inferred phylogenetic trees place red algae among the eukaryote crown taxa, although with modest bootstrap support and without stable resolution among related GAPC lineages.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Marine Biosciences, National Research Council of Canada, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
authors.forename: Y H
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Ragan
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D015139:Blotting, Southern; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D018076:DNA, Complementary; D005091:Exons / Q000235:genetics; D018628:Gene Dosage; D005987:Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Dehydrogenases / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D007438:Introns / Q000235:genetics; D007527:Isoenzymes / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D015183:Restriction Mapping; D000461:Rhodophyta / Q000145:classification / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics*; D016415:Sequence Alignment
chemical_list: D018076:DNA, Complementary; D007527:Isoenzymes; D005987:Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Dehydrogenases