title: Molecular and functional analysis of a MIG1 homologue from the yeast Schwanniomyces occidentalis.
abstract: A putative glucose repressor MIG1-homologue (SoMIG1) was isolated from the amylolytic yeast Schwanniomyces occidentalis. Degenerate primers were designed from the conserved zinc finger regions of Mig1 and CreA proteins from different organisms. PCR using these primers and S. occidentalis genomic DNA as template yielded a single 128 bp product. This fragment was used as a DNA probe to screen a S. occidentalis genomic library. Analysis of the positive clones led to the isolation by PCR of a DNA fragment, which contained an open reading frame (ORF) that would encode a 458 amino acid polypeptide. The DNA binding and effector domains of this putative protein showed an identity of 71% and 15%, respectively, to those of the Mig1 protein from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The SoMIG1 gene complemented a mig1 mutant of this yeast, which suggests that in S. occidentalis SoMIG1 is a glucose repressor. The Accession No. is AJ417892.
authors.affiliation: Centro de Biología Molecular 'Severo Ochoa', Departamento de Biología Molecular (CSIC-UAM), Universidad Autónoma Madrid, Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Teresa A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Carmona
authors.forename: Patricia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Barrado
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jiménez
authors.forename: María
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fernández Lobato
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D004271:DNA, Fungal / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D005656:Fungal Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D005816:Genetic Complementation Test; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012097:Repressor Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; D004718:Saccharomycetales / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D004271:DNA, Fungal; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D005656:Fungal Proteins; C085976:MIG1 protein, S cerevisiae; D012097:Repressor Proteins; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins