title: Cloning and characterization of the KlDIM1 gene from Kluyveromyces lactis encoding the m2(6)A dimethylase of the 18S rRNA.
abstract: The KlDIM1 gene encoding the m2(6)A rRNA dimethylase was cloned from a Kluyveromyces lactis genomic library using a PCR amplicon from the Saccharomyces cerevisiae ScDIM1 gene as probe. The KlDIM1 gene encodes a 320-amino acid protein which shows 81% identity to ScDim1p from S. cerevisiae and 25% identity to ksgAp from Escherichia coli. Complementation of the kasugamycin-resistant ksgA-mutant of E. coli lacking dimethylase activity demonstrates that KlDim1p is the functional homologue of the bacterial enzyme. Multiple alignment of dimethylases from prokaryotes and yeasts shows that the two yeast enzymes display distinctive structural motives including a putative nuclear localization signal.
authors.affiliation: Unité de Recherches en Biologie Moléculaire, Facultés Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur, Belgium.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Housen
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Demonté
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lafontaine
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Vandenhaute
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D005800:Genes, Fungal; D007716:Kluyveromyces / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics*; D008780:Methyltransferases / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins
chemical_list: D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; C088929:DIM1 protein, S cerevisiae; D008780:Methyltransferases