Open AccessCharacterization of the promoter region of a cell‐adhesion protein gene derived from the basidiomycete Lentinus edodes
Author(s) -
Kondoh Osamu,
Shishido Kazuo
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
fems microbiology letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.899
H-Index - 151
eISSN - 1574-6968
pISSN - 0378-1097
DOI - 10.1111/j.1574-6968.1995.tb07718.x
Subject(s) - tata box , caat box , biology , gene , promoter , microbiology and biotechnology , nucleic acid sequence , gene expression , genetics
An analysis of the 2 kb nucleotide sequence including the 5′‐flanking region of a cell‐adhesion protein‐encoding gene ( mfbA ) isolated from the basidiomycete Lentinus edodes revealed that the promoter region contains a TATA box, a GC box, a CAAT box, a CT‐rich sequence element, a TATA box, two CT‐rich sequences, and a CAAT box, in that order, from upstream to downstream. Three major and three alternative transcriptional initiation sites were located 127, 129 and 131 nucleotides and 96, 193 and 197 nucleotides downstream from the downstream TATA box, and all the three major sites are positioned just in the most downstream CT‐rich sequence. Three 16 bp unique sequences similar to the binding sites of Neurospora crassa transcriptional activator protein qa‐1F (Baum et al. (1987) Expression of qa‐1F activator protein: Identification of upstream binding sites in the qa gene cluster and localization of the DNA‐binding domain. Mol. Cell. Biol. 7, 1256–1266) were present between the upstream TATA box and upstream CAAT box.