Mv. Nurminskaya et al., OCCURRENCE OF FRAGMENTS HOMOLOGOUS TO CDNA OF CHICK PRO-ALPHA-1(1) COLLAGEN IN GENOMES OF MICROORGANISMS, Microbiology, 63(1), 1994, pp. 49-51
Southern analysis of the DNA of 13 yeast strains (belonging to Ascomyc
etes and Basidiomycetes), which used as the probe cDNA of the pro-alph
a 1(1) chain of chick collagen, showed the presence of fragments homol
ogous to the collagen gene to be characteristic of yeast genomes. In b
acterial genomes, such fragments were encountered less frequently. Com
puter analysis of available yeast protein sequences failed to reveal c
ollagen-like fragments.