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Identification and characterization of amidase‐ homologous AMI1 genes of bottom‐fermenting yeast
Author(s) -
Yoshida Satoshi,
Hashimoto Kaori,
TanakaKanai Keiko,
Yoshimoto Hiroyuki,
Kobayashi Osamu
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
yeast
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.923
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1097-0061
pISSN - 0749-503X
DOI - 10.1002/yea.1551
Subject(s) - biology , genetics , schizosaccharomyces pombe , saccharomyces cerevisiae , genbank , homology (biology) , gene , nucleic acid sequence , sequence analysis
It has been proposed that a bottom‐fermenting yeast strain of Saccharomyces pastorianus is a natural hybrid between S. cerevisiae and S. bayanus and possesses at least two types of genome. In the process of conducting expressed sequence tag (EST) analysis, we isolated b ottom‐ f ermenting y east‐specific ( BFY ) genes that have no significant homology with sequences in the S288C database. One of the BFY genes, AMI1 , encodes a protein with homology to an amidase conserved among plants, Bacillus subtilis, Neurospora crassa, Schizosaccharomyces pombe and Saccharomyces species, with the exception of S. cerevisiae S288C. In the bottom‐fermenting yeast, three alleles of AMI1 (one AMI1‐A and two AMI1‐B alleles) were found on different chromosomes. AMI1‐A on chromosome XIII is most homologous to the S. bayanus AMI1 gene, while AMI1‐B on chromosome X is most homologous to the Saccharomyces paradoxus AMI1 gene. Overproduction of AMI1 in S. cerevisiae resulted in a slow‐growth phenotype. Although a hydropathy plot shows that Ami1p has a putative signal sequence, it was located in the cell, not secreted into the medium. By metabolome analysis of intracellular compounds, the amount of histidine and arginine is increased, and the amount of threonine, lysine and nicotinic acid is decreased in the Ami1p‐overproducing strain as compared with the control, suggesting that Ami1p may hydrolyse some amides related to amino acid and niacin metabolism in the cell. The nucleotide sequence data reported in this paper appear in the DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank nucleotide database under Accession Nos AB195821 and AB195822. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.