Journal article
Yapsins Are a Family of Aspartyl Proteases Required for Cell Wall Integrity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Eukaryotic cell, Vol.4(8), pp.1364-1374
08/2005
DOI: 10.1128/EC.4.8.1364-1374.2005
PMCID: PMC1214537
PMID: 16087741
Abstract
ABSTRACT The yeast cell wall is a crucial extracellular organelle that protects the cell from lysis during environmental stress and morphogenesis. Here, we demonstrate that the yapsin family of five glycosylphosphatidylinositol-linked aspartyl proteases is required for cell wall integrity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae . Yapsin null mutants show hypersensitivity to cell wall perturbation, and both the yps1 Δ 2 Δ mutant and the quintuple yapsin mutant (5 yps Δ) undergo osmoremedial cell lysis at 37°C. The cell walls of both 5 yps Δ and yps1 Δ 2 Δ mutants have decreased amounts of 1,3- and 1,6-β-glucan. Although there is decreased incorporation of both 1,3- and 1,6-β-glucan in the 5 yps Δ mutant in vivo, in vitro specific activity of both 1,3- and 1,6-β-glucan synthesis is similar to wild type, indicating that the yapsins affect processes downstream of glucan synthesis and that the yapsins may be involved in the incorporation or retention of cell wall glucan. Presumably as a response to the significant alterations in cell wall composition, the cell wall integrity mitogen-activated kinase signaling cascade ( PKC1-MPK pathway) is basally active in 5 yps Δ. YPS1 expression is induced during cell wall stress and remodeling in a PKC1-MPK1 -dependent manner, indicating that Yps1p is a direct, and important, output of the cell wall integrity response. The Candida albicans ( SAP9 ) and Candida glabrata ( CgYPS1 ) homologues of YPS1 complement the phenotypes of the yps1 Δ mutant. Taken together, these data indicate that the yapsins play an important role in glucan homeostasis in S. cerevisiae and that yapsin homologues may play a similar role in the pathogenic yeasts C. albicans and C. glabrata .
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- Title: Subtitle
- Yapsins Are a Family of Aspartyl Proteases Required for Cell Wall Integrity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
- Creators
- Damian J Krysan - Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, Division of Pediatric Infectious Disease, University of Michigan HospitalsElizabeth L Ting - Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Goldman School of Dental Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02118Claudia Abeijon - Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Goldman School of Dental Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02118Lee Kroos - Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824Robert S Fuller - Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Eukaryotic cell, Vol.4(8), pp.1364-1374
- DOI
- 10.1128/EC.4.8.1364-1374.2005
- PMID
- 16087741
- PMCID
- PMC1214537
- NLM abbreviation
- Eukaryot Cell
- ISSN
- 1535-9778
- eISSN
- 1535-9786
- Publisher
- American Society for Microbiology
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 08/2005
- Academic Unit
- Microbiology and Immunology; Stead Family Department of Pediatrics; Infectious Disease (Pediatrics)
- Record Identifier
- 9984093335902771
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