Repeated Family of Genes Controlling Maltose Fermentation in Saccharomyces carlsbergensis
AUTOR(ES)
Needleman, Richard B.
RESUMO
Maltose fermentation in Saccharomyces spp. requires the presence of any one of five unlinked genes: MAL1, MAL2, MAL3, MAL4, or MAL6. Although the genes are functionally equivalent, their natures and relationships to each other are not known. At least three proteins are necessary for maltose fermentation: maltase, maltose permease, and a regulatory protein. The MAL genes may code for one or more of these proteins. Recently a DNA fragment containing a maltase structural gene has been cloned from a MAL6 strain, CB11, to produce plasmid pMAL9-26. We have conducted genetic and physical analyses of strain CB11. The genetic analysis has demonstrated the presence of two cryptic MAL genes in CB11, MAL1g and MAL3g (linked to MAL1 and to MAL3, respectively), in addition to the MAL6 locus. The physical analysis, which used a subclone of plasmid pMAL9-26 as a probe, detected three HindIII genomic fragments with homology to the probe. Each fragment was shown to be linked to one of the MAL loci genetically demonstrated to be present in CB11. Our results indicate that the cloned maltase structural gene in plasmid pMAL9-26 is linked to MAL6. Since the MAL6 locus has previously been shown to contain a regulatory gene, the MAL6 locus must be a complex locus containing at least two of the factors needed for maltose fermentation: the structural gene for maltase and the maltase regulatory protein. The absence of other fragments which hybridize to the MAL6-derived probe shows that either MAL2 and MAL4 are not related to MAL6, or the DNA corresponding to these genes is absent from the MAL6 strain CB11.
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