Isolation and structure of an acetolactate synthase gene from Schizosaccharomyces pombe and complementation of the ilv2 mutation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1993

Publication Title

Current Genetics

Volume

24

Issue

6

First Page

544

Last Page

547

Abstract

A gene encoding a functional acetolactate synthase (ALS) subunit has been isolated from the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, and has been structurally and genetically characterized. The approximate 5-kbp cloned DNA segment was found to contain a 2007-bp open reading frame capable of encoding a 669 aminoacid polypeptide which exhibited 57.1% similarity to the corresponding ALS subunit from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The putative ilv1 isolated from S. pombe was shown to encode a functional subunit of acetolactate synthase by complementation of an S. cerevisiae strain deleted for the ILV2 locus.

DOI

10.1007/BF00351720

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