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  • Title: Phleomycin resistance encoded by the ble gene from transposon Tn 5 as a dominant selectable marker in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
    Author: Gatignol A, Baron M, Tiraby G.
    Journal: Mol Gen Genet; 1987 May; 207(2-3):342-8. PubMed ID: 2441230.
    Abstract:
    Phleomycin, a water-soluble antibiotic of the bleomycin family is as effective against Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells as against Escherichia coli cells. The ble gene of transposon Tn5, which confers resistance to phleomycin, was inserted in place of the iso-1-cytochrome C (CYC1) gene on an autonomously replicative multicopy E. coli-yeast shuttle plasmid. Higher resistance levels are obtained in S. cerevisiae when the region immediately upstream from the initiation codon conforms to the nucleotide sequence stringencies observed in almost every yeast gene. The expected regulation pattern of the whole CYC1 promoter confers different phleomycin resistance levels to the cell under varying physiological conditions. Partial deletions in the CYC1 promoter lead to changes in the resistance level of cells which are mostly accounted for by the removal of known positive and negative regulatory elements. Some of the vector constructions allow direct selection of phleomycin-resistant transformants on rich media.
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