Abstract
We have determined both the nucleotide sequence of the MEL1 gene of Saccharomyces carlsbergensis and the N-terminal amino acid (aa) sequence of its extracellular gene product, α-galactosidase (melibiase) (α-Gal). The predicted translation product of MEL1 is a pre-α-Gal protein containing an 18 aa N-terminal signal sequence for secretion. The purified enzyme is a dimer consisting of two 50-kDal polypeptides, each of which is glycosylated with no more than eight side chains. The 5'-flank of the MEL1 gene contains a region (UASm) having certain areas of sequence homology to similar sites found upstream of the structural genes GAL1, GAL7 and GAL10, which are also regulated by the action of the products of genes GAL4 and GAL8O. There are three TATA boxes between UASm and the initiation codon of pre-α-Gal, as well as a typical yeast cleavage/poly- adenylation sequence in the 3'-flank of the gene.
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