Characterization of a New Multigene Family Encoding Isomaltases in the Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae , the IMA Family - INSA Toulouse - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Toulouse
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Characterization of a New Multigene Family Encoding Isomaltases in the Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae , the IMA Family

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It has been known for a long time that the yeast Saccharo-myces cerevisiae can assimilate-methylglucopyranoside and isomaltose. We here report the identification of 5 genes (YGR287c, YIL172c, YJL216c, YJL221c and YOL157c), which, similar to the SUCx, MALx, or HXTx multigene families, are located in the subtelomeric regions of different chromosomes. They share high nucleotide sequence identities between themselves (66-100%) and with the MALx2 genes (63-74%). Comparison of their amino acid sequences underlined a substitution of threonine by valine in region II, one of the four highly conserved regions of the-glucosidase family. This change was previously shown to be sufficient to discriminate-1,4-to-1,6-glucosidase activity in YGR287c (Yamamoto, K., Nakayama, A., Yamamoto, Y., and Tabata, S. (2004) Eur. J. Biochem. 271, 3414-3420). We showed that each of these five genes encodes a protein with-glucosidase activity on isomaltose, and we therefore renamed these genes IMA1 to IMA5 for IsoMAltase. Our results also illustrated that sequence polymorphisms among this family led to interesting variability of gene expression patterns and of catalytic efficiencies on different substrates, which altogether should account for the absence of functional redundancy for growth on isomaltose. Indeed, deletion studies revealed that IMA1/YGR287c encodes the major isomaltase and that growth on isomaltose required the presence of AGT1, which encodes an-glucoside transporter. Expressions of IMA1 and IMA5/ YJL216c were strongly induced by maltose, isomaltose, and-methylglucopyranoside, in accordance with their regulation by the Malx3p-transcription system. The physiological relevance of this IMAx multigene family in S. cerevisiae is discussed.
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hal-01883064 , version 1 (27-05-2019)

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Marie-Ange Teste, Jean Marie François, Jean-Luc Parrou. Characterization of a New Multigene Family Encoding Isomaltases in the Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae , the IMA Family. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2010, 285 (35), pp.26815 - 26824. ⟨10.1074/jbc.M110.145946⟩. ⟨hal-01883064⟩
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