Reference: Reiser J, et al. (1994) Molecular analysis of the Trichosporon cutaneum DSM 70698 argA gene and its use for DNA-mediated transformations. J Bacteriol 176(10):3021-32

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Genomic clones capable of complementing a previously isolated arginine auxotrophic mutant strain of the filamentous yeast Trichosporon cutaneum DSM 70698 have been identified by DNA-mediated transformation, and a complementing 4,082-bp subfragment was sequenced. This analysis revealed an intact gene (arg4) showing a high degree of homology with the Saccharomyces cerevisiae CPA2 gene encoding the large subunit of carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase (CPS-A). The inferred amino acid sequence of the T. cutaneum argA-encoded protein contains 1,168 residues showing 62% identity with the sequence of the S. cerevisiae CPA2 protein, and the comparison of the two sequences uncovered a putative intron sequence of 81 nucleotides close to the 5' end of the coding region of the T. cutaneum argA gene. The presence of this intron was confirmed by nuclease protection studies and by direct DNA sequence analysis of a cDNA fragment which had been obtained by PCR amplification. The T. cutaneum intron shares the general characteristics of introns found in yeasts and filamentous fungi. A major transcript of around 4 kb was found in Northern (RNA) blots. The T. cutaneum argA coding region was expressed in Escherichia coli under the control of the regulatable tac promoter. A roughly 130-kDa protein which was found to cross-react with an anti-rat CPS antibody in Western blots (immunoblots) was observed. Two putative ATP-binding domains were identified, one in the amino-terminal half of the argA-encoded protein and the other in the carboxy-terminal half. These domains are highly conserved among the known CPS-A sequences from S. cerevisiae, E. coli, and the rat. From these results we conclude that the T. cutaneum argA gene encodes the large subunit of CPS. This is the first gene to be identified and analyzed in the T. cutaneum DSM 70698 strain.

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Reiser J, Glumoff V, Ochsner UA, Fiechter A
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