title: Cloning and sequencing of a cDNA encoding a copper-zinc superoxide dismutase enzyme from the marine yeast Debaryomyces hansenii.
abstract: Cu-Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD-1) is a ubiquitously occurring eukaryotic enzyme with a variety of important effects on respiring organisms. A gene (dhsod-1) encoding a Cu-Zn superoxide dismutase of the marine yeast Debaryomyces hansenii was cloned using mRNA by the RT-PCR technique. The deduced amino-acid sequence shows approximately 70% homology with that of cytosolic superoxide dismutase from Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Neurospora crassa, as well as lower homologies (between 55 and 65%) with the corresponding enzyme of other eukaryotic organisms, including human. The gene sequence encodes a protein of 153 amino acids with a calculated molecular mass of 15-92 kDa, in agreement with the observed characteristics of the purified protein from D. hansenii.
authors.affiliation: Center for Biological Research of the Northwest, Laboratory of Marine Yeast, La Paz, BCS, México.
authors.forename: N Y
authors.initials: NY
authors.lastname: Hernández-Saavedra
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Egly
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Ochoa
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D008386:Marine Biology; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D004718:Saccharomycetales / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000235:genetics*; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D013482:Superoxide Dismutase / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D013482:Superoxide Dismutase