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Molecular structure of the SWA2 gene encoding an AMY1-related alpha-amylase from Schwanniomyces occidentalis
M G Claros1, D Abarca, M Fernández-Lobato
1Centro de Biología Molecular (U.A.M./C.S.I.C.), Universidad Autónoma, Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain.
Current Genetics
|July 1, 1993
Abstract:
A 2.1-kb DNA fragment containing the SWA2 gene determining an alpha-amylase from Schwanniomyces occidentalis has been sequenced. It contains an open reading frame of 1521 bp which has the potential to encode a 507 amino-acid protein of M(r) 55966. Its deduced amino-acid sequence shows significant similarities to the sequence of other studied alpha-amylases. These similarities identify a consensus sequence, F(LIV)(ED)NHD, which is shared in addition by most maltases, invertases and glucoamylases.