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Identification of four alcohol oxidases from methylotrophic yeasts.

Szamecz B, Urbán G, Rubiera R, Kucsera J, Dorgai L

Department of Molecular Biotechnology, Bay Zoltán Institute for Biotechnology, Derkovits Fasor 2, H-6726 Szeged, Hungary.

Three yeast strains capable of utilizing methanol as sole carbon and energy source were isolated. Two were classified as Candida boidinii, while the third belonged in the genus Pichia. From these three strains, four alcohol oxidases genes were identified and the sequences of the coding regions were determined: one from each Candida boidinii (aox0673 and aox0680) and two from Pichia sp. 159 (aoxA and aoxB). Methanol induces both alcohol oxidases in Pichia sp. 159: the levels of aoxA and aoxB mRNA reach about 100% and 300%, respectively, of that of his4 mRNA. aoxA, but not aoxB, is expressed at a low level in the presence of glucose. The newly described alcohol oxidases have proper dinucleotide binding sites and PTS1-like C-terminal tripeptides, identified as important elements for peroxisomal localization.

Published 28 July 2005 in Yeast, 22(8): 669-76.
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