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. 1984 Oct;4(10):2136–2141. doi: 10.1128/mcb.4.10.2136

High-level expression and molecular cloning of genes encoding Candida tropicalis peroxisomal proteins.

T Kamiryo, K Okazaki
PMCID: PMC369032  PMID: 6504042

Abstract

The development of peroxisomes in the cells of Candida tropicalis grown on oleic acid was accompanied by a markedly high expression of peroxisomal proteins. On the basis of this finding, the nuclear DNA library of this yeast was screened by differential hybridization, and 102 clones of oleic acid-inducible sequences were isolated. Seven coding regions were found to form clusters in three stretches of the genomic DNA. Five of the regions were identified as genes for peroxisomal polypeptides (PXPs). The coding sequence for PXP-2 hybrid selected an additional mRNA for PXP-4, the subunit of long-chain acyl coenzyme A oxidase, which was the most abundant PXP. PXP-2 and PXP-4 were close in apparent molecular weight and generated similar peptides when digested with a protease. The gene for PXP-4 was adjacent to that for PXP-2 on the genome and also hybridized to the mRNA coding for PXP-5. These and other similar results suggest that the genes for the peroxisomal proteins of this organism arose by duplication of a few ancestral genes.

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