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KMID : 0613820030130040522
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Journal of Life Science
2003 Volume.13 No. 4 p.522 ~ p.528
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Characterization of RAD4 Homologous Gene from Coprinus cinereus
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Choi In-Soon
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Abstract
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The RAD4 gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae is essential for the incision step of UV-induced excision repair. A yeast RAD4 gene has been previously isolated by functional complementation. In order to identify the RAD4 homologous gene from fungus Coprinus cinereus, we have constructed cosmid libraries from electrophoretically separated chromosomes of the C. cinereus. The 13 C. cinereus chromosomes were resolved by pulse-field gel electrophoresis, hybridized with S. cerevisiae RAD4 DNA, and then isolated homologous C. cinereus chromosome. The insert DNA of the RAD4 homolog was contained 3.2 kb. Here, we report the characterization of fungus C. cinereus homolog of yeast RAD4 gene. Southern blot analysis confirmed that C. cinereus contains the RAD4 homolog gene and this gene exists as a single copy in C. cinereus genome. When total RNA isolated from C. cinereus cells was hybridized with the 1.2 kb PvuII DNA fragment of the S. cerevisiae RAD4 gene, a 2.5 kb of transcript was detected. In order to investigation whether the increase of transcripts by DNA damaging agent, transcripts levels were examined after treating the cells. The level of transcript did not increase by untraviolet light (UV). This result indicated that the RAD4 homologous gene is not UV inducible gene. Gene deletion experiments indicate that the RAD4 homologous gene is essential for cell viability.
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KEYWORD
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RAD4 homolog.C, cinereus, cell viability, DNA repair, essential gene
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