PHYSICAL MAPPING OF A CENTROMERE-PROXIMAL REGION OF CHROMOSOME IV-L DEFINES THE PLACEMENT OF GENES USO1, MBP1, PSA1 AND SLC1

A physical map of a 14·5 kb region close to the centromere on the left arm of chromosome IV of Saccharomyces cerevisiae is presented. This map has been constructed by restriction analysis of a clone from a YCp50 genomic library and by use of pre-existing and new sequence data from this region. The map reveals the following gene order (reading from the most centromere-distal to the most centromere-proximal locus): USO1/INT1–MBP1–PSA1–SLC1–YLA1 and defines the size of the open reading frames and intergenic regions.