Mutations activating the yeast eIF-2 alpha kinase GCN2: isolation of alleles altering the domain related to histidyl-tRNA synthetases
Mutations activating the yeast eIF-2 alpha kinase GCN2: isolation of alleles altering the domain related to histidyl-tRNA synthetases
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激活酵母 eIF-2 α 激酶 GCN2 的突变:改变组氨酰-tRNA 合成酶相关结构域的等位基因分离
DOI:
10.1128/mcb.12.12.5801-5815.1992
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发表时间:
1992
影响因子:
5.3
通讯作者:
A. Hinnebusch
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文献类型:
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作者:
M. Ramírez;R. Wek;C R Vazquez de Aldana;B. M. Jackson;B. Freeman;A. Hinnebusch
The protein kinase GCN2 stimulates expression of the yeast transcriptional activator GCN4 at the translational level by phosphorylating the alpha subunit of translation initiation factor 2 (eIF-2 alpha) in amino acid-starved cells. Phosphorylation of eIF-2 alpha reduces its activity, allowing ribosomes to bypass short open reading frames present in the GCN4 mRNA leader and initiate translation at the GCN4 start codon. We describe here 17 dominant GCN2 mutations that lead to derepression of GCN4 expression in the absence of amino acid starvation. Seven of these GCN2c alleles map in the protein kinase moiety, and two in this group alter the presumed ATP-binding domain, suggesting that ATP binding is a regulated aspect of GCN2 function. Six GCN2c alleles map in a region related to histidyl-tRNA synthetases, and two in this group alter a sequence motif conserved among class II aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases that directly interacts with the acceptor stem of tRNA. These results support the idea that GCN2 kinase function is activated under starvation conditions by binding uncharged tRNA to the domain related to histidyl-tRNA synthetase. The remaining GCN2c alleles map at the extreme C terminus, a domain required for ribosome association of the protein. Representative mutations in each domain were shown to depend on the phosphorylation site in eIF-2 alpha for their effects on GCN4 expression and to increase the level of eIF-2 alpha phosphorylation in the absence of amino acid starvation. Synthetic GCN2c double mutations show greater derepression of GCN4 expression than the parental single mutations, and they have a slow-growth phenotype that we attribute to inhibition of general translation initiation. The phenotypes of the GCN2c alleles are dependent on GCN1 and GCN3, indicating that these two positive regulators of GCN4 expression mediate the inhibitory effects on translation initiation associated with activation of the yeast eIF-2 alpha kinase GCN2.
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DOI:
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发表时间:
1985
期刊:
The Journal of biological chemistry
影响因子:
--
作者:
Bischoff,JR;Samuel,CE
通讯作者:
Samuel,CE
影响因子:
3.3
作者:
Castilho-Valavicius,B;Yoon,H;Donahue,TF
通讯作者:
Donahue,TF
DOI:
10.1073/pnas.88.17.7729
发表时间:
1991-09-01
影响因子:
11.1
作者:
CHEN, JJ;THROOP, MS;LONDON, IM
通讯作者:
LONDON, IM
DOI:
10.1073/pnas.86.19.7515
发表时间:
1989
影响因子:
11.1
作者:
Williams,NP;Hinnebusch,AG;Donahue,TF
通讯作者:
Donahue,TF
影响因子:
56.9
作者:
KNIGHTON, DR;ZHENG, JH;SOWADSKI, JM
通讯作者:
SOWADSKI, JM