Abstract:
UDP glucose dehydrogenase (
UDP-GlcDH) can catalyze UDP glucose to UDP glucuronic acid, which is an essential precursor for the formation of polysaccharide. The
UDP-GlcDH gene sequence of
Aspergillus flavus was used as the template, and the cDNA sequence of
UDP-GlcDH gene from
Ganoderma lucidum was obtained by searching the EST library of
Ganoderma lucidum through the electronic cloning method, and then verified by using the RT-PCR testing. The bioinformatics method was used to analyze the
UDP-GlcDH gene, showing that the cDNA sequence was 1 591 bp in length, which contained 471 amino acid sequences with the molecular weight of 51.8 kD and PI of 6.29. The
UDP-GlcDH gene was found in the endoplasmic reticulum, which was highly homologous to the amino acid sequence encoded by
UDP-GlcDH gene in the fungi such as
Dichomitus squalens and
Coriolus versicolor.