Point mutations implicate repeated sequences as essential elements of the CYC7 negative upstream site in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
AUTOR(ES)
Wright, C F
RESUMO
The transcription of the CYC7 gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, encoding the iso-2-cytochrome c protein, is controlled by two upstream regulatory elements, a positive element and a negative element. The nature of the DNA sequences in the negative element were investigated in a two-part approach. The first involved the construction of a CYC7-galK fusion gene which placed the coding sequence of the Escherichia coli galactokinase gene under the regulation of the CYC7 upstream sequences. This fusion allowed the quantitation by galactokinase enzyme assays of the effects on gene expression of a variety of previously isolated deletion mutations within the negative site. The results suggested that the negative site contained three related sequences. This hypothesis was tested in the second part of these studies, the selection of point mutations within the region of the negative site which led to increased CYC7 expression. Point mutations were introduced by a technique which induced mutations within a localized region at high efficiency. All but one of the mutations involved more than a single base-pair change. The mutations followed the pattern that multiple base-pair changes occurred in one repeat or single base-pair changes occurred in two repeats, with the exception of one mutant, which had a single base-pair change in one repeat. This pattern of mutations and the base pairs that were altered strongly supported the hypothesis that the repeats are integral elements of the negative site.
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