DNA and deduced amino acid sequences of
A. nidulans cpcA. (A) Nucleotide sequence of the
PstI DNA fragment containing the entire
cpcA gene. The transcriptional start site is indicated
by a solid triangle. The CPREs are underlined. PstI
restriction sites as well as the start and stop codons of uORF1, uORF2,
and the cpcA open reading frame are in bold. The
cpcA intron interrupting the open reading frame is
indicated by a broken line. The numbers of nucleotide and amino acid
sequences are shown on the left relative to the AUG start codon of
cpcA. (B) Alignment of the deduced amino acid sequences
of the bZIP motif from CPCA amino acid positions 189–245 at the C
terminus of the deduced protein (A. nidulans), CpcA
(A. niger), CPC1 (N. crassa), and Gcn4p
(S. cerevisiae). The basic DNA-binding domain and the
leucine-zipper region are indicated by a horizontal bar. Amino acid
residues at heptad positions (d) in the leucine-zipper region are shown
in bold. Amino acid residues at the e and g positions are supposed to
participate in dimer stabilization and electrostatic interactions (Durr
et al., 1999).