THE 2 GENES ENCODING YEAST RIBOSOMAL-PROTEIN S8 RESIDE ON DIFFERENT CHROMOSOMES, AND ARE CLOSELY LINKED TO THE HSP70 STRESS PROTEIN GENE-SSA3 AND GENE-SSA4
M. Logghe et al., THE 2 GENES ENCODING YEAST RIBOSOMAL-PROTEIN S8 RESIDE ON DIFFERENT CHROMOSOMES, AND ARE CLOSELY LINKED TO THE HSP70 STRESS PROTEIN GENE-SSA3 AND GENE-SSA4, Yeast, 10(8), 1994, pp. 1093-1100
A 7.4 kb segment of chromosome II was sequenced and analysed. This seg
ment is part of the 25 kb insert of cosmid clone alpha 1004.10 which i
s located on the left arm of chromosome II. Sequence analysis revealed
four open reading frames (ORFs), of which two had been characterized
previously (SSA3, AAR2) and one was not identified. The other ORF was
precisely 600 bp long and the deduced protein sequence predicted a ver
y basic protein (pI=11.1; molecular weight=22.5 kDa). Evidence was fou
nd that the ORF is the S40 ribosomal protein gene (RPG) S8. Consensus
splice signals were found in the 5' leader sequence and also potential
RPG-specific sequences. Chromoblot analysis revealed a second copy of
the S8 RPG on chromosome IV or VIII. This copy is also closely linked
to an hsp70 protein gene, SSA4. The sequence has been deposited in th
e EMBL data library under accession number Z26879.