酵母pac—1基因的克隆、序列分析和在大肠杆菌中的高效表达及活性测定

粟酒裂殖酵母菌 (Ｓｃｈｉｚｏｓａｃｃｈａｒｍｙｃｅｓｐｏｍｂｅ)的 ｐａｃ 1基因于 1991年Ｙｕｉｃｈｉｌｉｎｏ等首次报道。在温度敏感型的酵母突变体中 ,ｐａｃ 1基因是一个多拷贝阻遏子 ,它使酵母在限制温度培养条件下的减数分裂不受调控 ,对酵母的生长过程起着重要的调节作用。该基因有一个编码 36 4个氨基酸的开放阅读框 ,编码产物的羧基端与大肠杆菌核糖核酸酶Ⅲ有2 5 %的同源性。通过酶活性测定 ,已经确定它是一类依赖ｄｓＲＮＡ的核糖核酸酶 ,具有降解ｄｓＲＮＡ的功能1,2 ] 。由于大多数植物病毒为ＲＮＡ病毒 ,因此无论它的基…

Cloning,Sequence Analysis and High-level Expression in Escherichia coli and Activity Assay of pac-1 Gene from Schizosaccharmyces pombe

The Schizosaccharmyces pombe pac-1 gene product is a kind of dsRNA dependent ribonuclease, which has potential to degrade the dsRNA viral genome, the replication form of ssRNA viral genome and viroid genome. Therefore, to introduce the pac-1 gene into plants conferring them resistance to viruses is a new method of establishing the anti-virus transgenic plant. The pac-1 gene from the S. pmobe genome DNA isolated from China was cloned by means of PCR amplification. The pac-1 gene was inserted into the cloning vector pGEM-7Zf(+) by using restriction endonuclease Kpn I/BamHI. Sequencing analysis shows that it is a complete gene with 1095 necleotides. Compared to the reported pac-1 gene, its homology is significant, but with 5 nucleotides differences, leading to only one amino acid difference. Pac-1 gene was inserted into the prodaryotic expression vector pET-21(a) by using the restriction endonuclase Nde I/BamHI. It was induced by the IPTG in E. coli BL21 harbouring the recombinant vector pET-pac-1. The pac-1 gene product is analyzed by the SDS-PAGE. The result shows the product of pac-1 gene exists in the supernatant part as soluble form and in the precipitant part as inclusion bodies after the cells were lysed by ultrasonic wave. The supernatant was applied to detect the enzyme activity of pac-1 gene product. We concluded that pac-1 gene has the biological activity of degrading the CMV-dsRNA.