title: Identification of Schizosaccharomyces pombe genes that encode putative homologues of Saccharomyces cerevisiae mediator complex subunits.
abstract: The mediator complexes transduce regulatory information from upstream regulatory elements to the transcription machinery in organisms ranging from yeasts to humans. By a genome-wide search we identified 14 ORFs and genes in the genome of the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe that encode putative homologues of Saccharomyces cerevisiae mediator subunits. The Sch. pombe proteins are smaller and appear to form a mediator of lower complexity, which is consistent with the hypothesized ancient origin of fission yeasts.
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetics and Molecular Biology, University of Debrecen, Research Group for Microbial Developmental Genetics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Debrecen, P.O. Box 56, H-4010 Debrecen, Hungary.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sipiczki
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D005656:Fungal Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D005800:Genes, Fungal; D016681:Genome, Fungal; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016366:Open Reading Frames; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000235:genetics*; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D012568:Schizosaccharomyces / Q000235:genetics*; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D013045:Species Specificity; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D005656:Fungal Proteins; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; D014157:Transcription Factors