Abstract:Based on the 5‘-end nucleotide sequence of cyp51, the upstream region of cyp51 was obtained by genome walking technique to investigate the regulatory mechanism of cyp51 gene expression. The upstream fragment of 490bp was successfully cloned and sequenced. The transcription initiation site of cyp51 predicted by the NNPP software is located at 134bp in front of ATG. Several cis-acting elements analyzed by TFSEARCH 1.3 software were in the upstream region of cyp51, including not only the core promoter sequences TATA-box (-30, -58, -318, -348bp) and CAAT-box (-150, -161, -191bp), but also several transcriptional element binding sites (AP-4, GATA-1, CdxA, Dfd, and Oct-1, etc). The current study was benefit to further investigating the regulation of cyp51 over-expression and molecular mechanism involved in fungicides resistance of Ustilago maydis in future. In addition, there are four consecutive high-purine heat shock elements (HSE) located from -222 to -195bp.