title: Sequencing of a 4.3 kbp region of chromosome 2 of Candida albicans reveals the presence of homologues of SHE9 from Saccharomyces cerevisiae and of bacterial phosphatidylinositol-phospholipase C.
abstract: The nucleotide sequence of a 4.3 kb fragment downstream of the LIG4 gene of Candida albicans has been determined. This fragment contains two entire ORFs (ORF1 and ORF2) and a truncated one (ORF3). ORF1 (1029 bp; EMBL databank, Accession No. AJ277539) encodes a putative protein of 343 amino acids with a high degree of similarity to phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipases C (PI-PLC) of bacterial origin and, to a lesser degree, to similar proteins from trypanosome, fly and human. Isolated ORF1 confers PI-PLC activity to Escherichia coli transformants. ORF2 (1572 bp; EMBL databank, Accession No. AJ277538) predicts a protein of 524 amino acids with high similarity along most of the entire length to Ydr393w from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. This protein carries a domain with significant similarity to several cytoskeleton proteins of different origins. YDR393w (SHE9) is an orphan gene whose overexpression compromises cell growth. ORF3 appears to encode the homologue of the well-conserved proteasomal 26S regulatory subunit.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Microbiología, Universidad de Extremadura, Avda. de Elvas s/n, 06071 Badajoz, Spain.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Andaluz
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Coque
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Cueva
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Larriba
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D002176:Candida albicans / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics*; D015825:Chromosomes, Fungal / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D003546:Cysteine Endopeptidases / Q000235:genetics*; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics; D005656:Fungal Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D005800:Genes, Fungal; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009097:Multienzyme Complexes / Q000235:genetics*; D016366:Open Reading Frames / Q000235:genetics; D043265:Phosphatidylinositol Diacylglycerol-Lyase; D054801:Phosphoinositide Phospholipase C; D046988:Proteasome Endopeptidase Complex; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000235:genetics; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017385:Sequence Homology; D014169:Transformation, Bacterial; D010738:Type C Phospholipases / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D005656:Fungal Proteins; D009097:Multienzyme Complexes; C431625:SHE9 protein, Candida albicans; D010738:Type C Phospholipases; D054801:Phosphoinositide Phospholipase C; D003546:Cysteine Endopeptidases; D046988:Proteasome Endopeptidase Complex; D043265:Phosphatidylinositol Diacylglycerol-Lyase