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ArticleNucleic acids research2001

Degeneration of a homing endonuclease and its target sequence in a wild yeast strain.

F S Gimble

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2001. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 19% of its field
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 31 citations in OpenAlex.

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1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

F S GimbleCenter for Genome Research, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A&M University System Health Science Center, 2121 West Holcombe Boulevard, Texas A&M University, Houston, TX 77030, USA. fgimble@ibt.tamu.edu
Texas A&M University System · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mobile introns and inteins self-propagate by 'homing', a gene conversion process initiated by site-specific homing endonucleases. The VMA intein, which encodes the PI-SceI endonuclease in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, is present in several different yeast strains. Surprisingly, a wild wine yeast (DH1-1A) contains not only the intein(+) allele, but also an inteinless allele that has not undergone gene conversion. To elucidate how these two alleles co-exist, we characterized the endonuclease encoded by the DH1-1A intein(+) allele and the target site in the intein(-) allele. Sequence analysis reveals seven mutations in the 31 bp recognition sequence, none of which occurs at positions that are individually critical for activity. However, binding and cleavage of the sequence by PI-SceI is reduced 10-fold compared to the S.cerevisiae target. The PI-SceI analog encoded by the DH1-1A intein(+) allele contains 11 mutations at residues in the endonuclease and protein splicing domains. None affects protein splicing, but one, a R417Q substitution, accounts for most of the decrease in DNA cleavage and DNA binding activity of the DH1-1A protein. Loss of activity in the DH1-1A endonuclease and target site provides one explanation for co-existence of the intein(+) and intein(-) alleles.

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Interspersed Repetitive SequencesProton-Translocating ATPasesSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsAllelesBase SequenceBinding SitesCandidaCloning, MolecularDNA-Binding ProteinsDNA, FungalEndodeoxyribonucleasesModels, MolecularMolecular Sequence DataMutationProtein SplicingStatic ElectricityDNA-Binding ProteinsDNA, FungalEndodeoxyribonucleasesProton-Translocating ATPasesSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsVMA1 protein, S cerevisiae

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PMID11600710
PMCPMC60219
OpenAlexW1987226094

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