title: The Hypocrea jecorina gal10 (uridine 5'-diphosphate-glucose 4-epimerase-encoding) gene differs from yeast homologues in structure, genomic organization and expression.
abstract: As part of a comprehensive study on lactose metabolism in Hypocrea jecorina (anamorph: Trichoderma reesei), a genomic clone of the gal10 gene encoding H. jecorina uridine 5'-diphosphate (UDP)-glucose 4-epimerase has been cloned and sequenced. It contains an open reading frame of 1548-base pair, interrupted by three introns, and encoding a 370-amino acids protein with similarity to pro- and eukaryotic UDP-glucose-4-epimerases. H. jecorina Gal10 does not contain the C-terminal mutarotase domain which is present in yeast Gal10 proteins but is able to functionally complement a corresponding Saccharomyces cerevisiae gal10 mutant. gal10 is not clustered with other H. jecorina gal genes (gal7, gene encoding galactose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase and gal1, gene encoding galactokinase). The genomic location of H. jecorina gal10 and gal7 was syntenic with that in Neurospora crassa and colinear over an area of 6 and 3.5-kilobase. gal10 is constitutively expressed, and--unlike H. jecorina gal7--not further stimulated by D-galactose or L-arabinose or its corresponding polyols.
authors.affiliation: Mikrobielle Biochemie und Gentechnik, Institut für Verfahrenstechnik, Umwelttechnik und Technische Biowissenschaften, TU Wien, Getreidemarkt 9, A-1060 Vienna, Austria. bseiboth@mail.zserv.tuwien.ac.at
authors.forename: Bernhard
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Seiboth
authors.forename: Levente
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Karaffa
authors.forename: Erzsébet
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Sándor
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kubicek
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D002241:Carbohydrates / Q000494:pharmacology; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004271:DNA, Fungal / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D015971:Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic / Q000187:drug effects; D015966:Gene Expression Regulation, Fungal / Q000187:drug effects; D005816:Genetic Complementation Test; D035901:Hypocrea / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009154:Mutation; D010802:Phylogeny; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D014534:UDPglucose 4-Epimerase / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D002241:Carbohydrates; D004271:DNA, Fungal; D014534:UDPglucose 4-Epimerase