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Possible gene interchange between plasmid and chromosome in yeast
Author(s) -
Utatsu Ikuyo,
Imura Toshiaki,
TohE Akio
Publication year - 1988
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.320040303
Subject(s) - plasmid , biology , gene , chromosome , yeast , genetics , microbiology and biotechnology , open reading frame , nucleic acid sequence , pbr322 , dna , peptide sequence
Genomic DNAs isolated from 420 yeast strains stocked in the Department of Fermentation Technology, Hiroshima university (HUT) were screened fro the presence of a plasmid sequence both as plasmid or in the chromosome. Five DNA samples gave rise to a positive hybridization signal wht 32 P‐labelled Zygosaccharomyces plasmid pSR1 was used as a probe. Two among these contain hybridzing sequences as plasmids while the other three apparently were chromosomal. Two chromosomal DNA segments of HUT 7195 ( Zygosaccharomyces spp .) which hybridized with pSR1 probe were cloned and sequenced. Both DNAs hybridized with a plasmid sequence covering the P gene of pSR1. One of hte tow segments contains a large open reading frame which can encode 410 amino acid residues. The deduced amino acid sequence is closely related with that of the P gene of pSR1. The present finding suggests that there was an interchange(s) of a gene between yeast plasmid(s) and chromosomes.