Glucose Monitoring in Fission Yeast via the gpa2 Ga, the git5 Gb and the git3 Putative Glucose Receptor
Glucose Monitoring in Fission Yeast via the gpa2 Ga, the git5 Gb and the git3 Putative Glucose Receptor
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通过 gpa2 Ga、git5 Gb 和 git3 假定葡萄糖受体监测裂殖酵母中的葡萄糖
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2000
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C. S. Hoffman
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R. Welton;C. S. Hoffman
The fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe responds to environmental glucose by activating adenylate cyclase. The resulting cAMP signal activates protein kinase A (PKA). PKA inhibits glucose starvationinduced processes, such as conjugation and meiosis, and the transcription of the fbp1 gene that encodes the gluconeogenic enzyme fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase. We previously identified a collection of git genes required for glucose repression of fbp1 transcription, including pka1/git6, encoding the PKA catalytic subunit, git2/cyr1, encoding adenylate cyclase, and six “upstream” genes required for adenylate cyclase activation. The git8 gene, identical to gpa2, encodes the alpha subunit of a heterotrimeric guaninenucleotide binding protein (Ga) while git5 encodes a Gb subunit. Multicopy suppression studies with gpa2 previously indicated that S. pombe adenylate cyclase activation may resemble that of the mammalian type II enzyme with sequential activation by Ga followed by Gbg. We show here that an activated allele of gpa2 (gpa2 , carrying a mutation in the coding region for the GTPase domain) fully suppresses mutations in git3 and git5, leading to a refinement in our model. We describe the cloning of git3 and show that it encodes a putative seven-transmembrane G protein-coupled receptor. A git3 deletion confers the same phenotypes as deletions of other components of the PKA pathway, including a germination delay, constitutive fbp1 transcription, and starvation-independent conjugation. Since the git3 deletion is fully suppressed by the gpa2 R176H allele with respect to fbp1 transcription, git3 appears to encode a G proteincoupled glucose receptor responsible for adenylate cyclase activation in S. pombe. ENVIRONMENTAL glucose is an important regulaGlucose detection in S. cerevisiae occurs through multiple mechanisms that are still actively under examinator of gene expression and other biological processes in both unicellular organisms and mammalian tion. One type of glucose sensor, encoded by RGT2 and SNF3, resembles a 12-transmembrane hexose transcells. As such, considerable research has been devoted porter (reviewed by Ozcan and Johnston 1999). A to the study of glucose detection and the associated second glucose detection system is responsible for adesignal transduction pathways in a variety of model organnylate cyclase activation. The GPR1 and GPA2 genes, isms. These studies have revealed surprising differences encoding a putative seven-transmembrane protein and with respect to how two key model systems, the bactea heterotrimeric G protein alpha subunit (Ga), respecrium Escherichia coli and the budding yeast Saccharomyces tively, are key components in this glucose-detection cerevisiae, detect and respond to glucose. pathway (Colombo et al. 1998; Xue et al. 1998; Yun et E. coli employs a phosphoenolpyruvate-dependent phosal. 1998; Kraakman et al. 1999; Lorenz et al. 2000). photransferase system (PTS) that is responsible for both While the Gpa2 Ga does not appear to interact with a the sensing of glucose and its translocation and phosclassical Gbg dimer, it is unclear whether it functions phorylation to glucose-6-phosphate (reviewed by Postma as a monomer or within some other protein complex. et al. 1993). Therefore, glucose detection in E. coli is Gpr1 and Gpa2 have also been implicated in the control intrinsically linked to its uptake. The glucose PTS system of pseudohyphal growth (Lorenz and Heitman 1997; regulates alternative carbon source utilization by inhibAnsari et al. 1999; Pan and Heitman 1999), with key iting the transport of other carbon sources (inducer roles postulated for both the Mep2 permease as an amexclusion) and by reducing adenylate cyclase activity, monium sensor and Gpr1 as a carbon source sensor thus lowering intracellular cAMP levels. The reduced (Lorenz and Heitman 1998; Lorenz et al. 2000). cAMP level causes a reduction in DNA binding by the The fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe monitors cAMP receptor protein, a positive regulator of transcripglucose to regulate a wide range of biological processes. tion of operons subject to glucose repression. Our studies focus on the transcriptional regulation of the glucose-repressed fbp1 gene that encodes the gluconeogenic enzyme fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase (VassarCorresponding author: Charles S. Hoffman, Department of Biology, otti and Friesen 1985). Previously, we identified mutaBoston College, Higgins Hall 401B, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467. E-mail: hoffmacs@bc.edu tions in genes that confer constitutive fbp1 transcription Genetics 156: 513–521 (October 2000) 514 R. M. Welton and C. S. Hoffman (Hoffman and Winston 1990). These git (glucose inacterization of git3 and provide genetic evidence that it encodes the G protein-coupled receptor responsible for sensitive transcription) genes act in a PKA pathway (Hoffman and Winston 1991; Byrne and Hoffman the activation of adenylate cyclase through gpa2. 1993). The git2 gene, identical to cyr1 (YamawakiKataoka et al. 1989; Young et al. 1989; Maeda et al. MATERIALS AND METHODS 1990), encodes adenylate cyclase (Hoffman and Winston 1991); the git6 gene, identical to pka1 (Maeda et Yeast strains and growth media: S. pombe strains used in this study are listed in Table 1. The fbp1::ura4 allele is a disruption al. 1994), encodes the catalytic subunit of PKA (Jin et of the fbp1 gene by the coding region of the ura4 gene, creating al. 1995). The remaining six genes, git1, git3, git5, git7, a translational fusion that is under the transcriptional control git8, and git10, are required for glucose-triggered adeof the fbp1 promoter. The ura4::fbp1-lacZ allele is a disruption nylate cyclase activation. Mutations in these “upstream” of the ura4 gene by an fbp1-lacZ translational fusion (Hoffman and Winston 1990). git genes are suppressed by multicopy git2 or by exogeStandard rich media YEA and YEL (Gutz et al. 1974) were nous cAMP (Hoffman and Winston 1991), and strains supplemented with 2% casamino acids. PM media (Watanabe carrying mutations in any of these genes fail to elevate et al. 1988) were supplemented with required nutrients at 75 intracellular cAMP levels in response to glucose (Byrne mg/liter, except for leucine which was at 150 mg/liter. Gluand Hoffman 1993). The git8 gene, identical to gpa2, cose was present at a concentration of 3%, unless otherwise specified. Sensitivity to 5-fluoro-orotic acid (5-FOA) was deterencodes a Ga subunit (Isshiki et al. 1992; Nocero et mined on SC solid medium containing 0.4 g/liter 5-FOA and al. 1994). Multicopy gpa2 partially suppresses muta8% glucose as previously described (Hoffman and Winston tions in git3 and git5 but not in the other upstream git 1990). Strains were grown at 308. Crosses were performed on genes (Nocero et al. 1994; Landry et al. 2000). The SPA (Gutz et al. 1974) following pregrowth on PM medium. git5 gene encodes a Gb subunit that acts as a positive Epistasis testing: Epistasis tests were conducted by examining progeny from tetrad dissections of crosses of RWP4 regulator of the gpa2 Ga (Landry et al. 2000). (gpa2 ) with strains carrying mutations in git1, git2, git3, In this article, we further characterize the genetic ingit5, pka1/git6, git7, and git10. Following germination and colteractions between gpa2 and the other upstream git ony formation, progeny were transferred to a fresh YEA plate, genes through the use of an “activated” allele of gpa2 grown 1 day, and then replica plated to 5-FOA-containing whose product is defective in its autoinhibitory GTPase medium. 5-FOA resistance was determined 2–3 days after replica plating. activity. Furthermore, we describe the cloning and char-
DOI:
10.1101/sqb.1992.057.01.017
发表时间:
1992
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Cold Spring Harbor symposia on quantitative biology
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作者:
Tang,WJ;Iñiguez-Lluhi,JA;Mumby,S;Gilman,AG
通讯作者:
Gilman,AG