We report the sequences of two genomic regions from the pathogenic yeast Candida glabrata and their comparison to Saccharomyces cerevisiae. A 3 kb region from C. glabrata was sequenced that contains homologues of the S. cerevisiae genes TFB3, MRPL28 and STP1. The equivalent region in S. cerevisiae includes a fourth gene, MFA1, coding for mating factor a. The absence of MFA1 is consistent with C. glabrata's asexual life cycle, although we cannot exclude the possibility that a-factor gene(s) are located somewhere else in its genome. We also report the sequence of a 16 kb region from C. glabrata that contains a five-gene cluster similar to S. cerevisiae chromosome XI (including GCN3) followed by a four-gene cluster similar to chromosome XV (including HIS3). A small-scale rearrangement of gene order has occurred in the chromosome XI-like section.
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