CLONING OF THE CANDIDA-GLABRATA TRP1 AND HIS3 GENES, AND CONSTRUCTION OF THEIR DISRUPTANT STRAINS BY SEQUENTIAL INTEGRATIVE TRANSFORMATION

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作者
KITADA, K
YAMAGUCHI, E
ARISAWA, M
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[1] Department of Mycology, Nippon Roche Research Center, Kamakura, Kanagawa
关键词
PATHOGENIC FUNGUS; PLASMID VECTOR; HOST STRAIN; YEAST; SELECTION MARKER;
D O I
10.1016/0378-1119(95)00552-H
中图分类号
Q3 [遗传学];
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071007 ; 090102 ;
摘要
The Candida glabrata (Cg) TRP1 and HIS3 genes have been isolated by complementation of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Sc) trp1 and his3 mutants, respectively. Cg TRP1 encodes a polypeptide of 217 amino acids (aa), whose aa sequence is 58% identical to that of Sc TRP1. Cg HIS3 encodes a polypeptide of 210 aa, whose aa sequence is 73% identical to that of the Sc HIS3. Both Cg TRP1 and HIS3 were disrupted by sequential integrative transformation where the Sc URA3 was used as a selection marker for transformation. The resulting auxotrophic strain of his3(-) and trp1(-) was used to examine the ability of the Sc genes to complement the Cg mutations; Sc HIS3 and TRP1 complemented the Cg his3(-) and trp1(-) mutations, respectively.
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