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Pheromone Guidance of Polarity Site Movement in Yeast. Biomolecules 2022; 12:biom12040502. [PMID: 35454091 PMCID: PMC9027094 DOI: 10.3390/biom12040502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2022] [Revised: 03/21/2022] [Accepted: 03/25/2022] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Cells’ ability to track chemical gradients is integral to many biological phenomena, including fertilization, development, accessing nutrients, and combating infection. Mating of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae provides a tractable model to understand how cells interpret the spatial information in chemical gradients. Mating yeast of the two different mating types secrete distinct peptide pheromones, called a-factor and α-factor, to communicate with potential partners. Spatial gradients of pheromones are decoded to guide mobile polarity sites so that polarity sites in mating partners align towards each other, as a prerequisite for cell-cell fusion and zygote formation. In ascomycetes including S. cerevisiae, one pheromone is prenylated (a-factor) while the other is not (α-factor). The difference in physical properties between the pheromones, combined with associated differences in mechanisms of secretion and extracellular pheromone metabolism, suggested that the pheromones might differ in the spatial information that they convey to potential mating partners. However, as mating appears to be isogamous in this species, it is not clear why any such signaling difference would be advantageous. Here we report assays that directly track movement of the polarity site in each partner as a way to understand the spatial information conveyed by each pheromone. Our findings suggest that both pheromones convey very similar information. We speculate that the different pheromones were advantageous in ancestral species with asymmetric mating systems and may represent an evolutionary vestige in yeasts that mate isogamously.
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Robertson CG, Clark-Cotton MR, Lew DJ. Mechanisms that ensure monogamous mating in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mol Biol Cell 2021; 32:638-644. [PMID: 33596113 PMCID: PMC8108519 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e20-12-0757] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Haploid cells of the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae communicate using secreted pheromones and mate to form diploid zygotes. Mating is monogamous, resulting in the fusion of precisely one cell of each mating type. Monogamous mating in crowded conditions, where cells have access to more than one potential partner, raises the question of how multiple-mating outcomes are prevented. Here we identify mutants capable of mating with multiple partners, revealing the mechanisms that ensure monogamous mating. Before fusion, cells develop polarity foci oriented toward potential partners. Competition between these polarity foci within each cell leads to disassembly of all but one focus, thus favoring a single fusion event. Fusion promotes the formation of heterodimeric complexes between subunits that are uniquely expressed in each mating type. One complex shuts off haploid-specific gene expression, and the other shuts off the ability to respond to pheromone. Zygotes able to form either complex remain monogamous, but zygotes lacking both can re-mate.
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- Corrina G Robertson
- Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710
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- Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710
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- Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710
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Barelle CJ, Richard ML, Gaillardin C, Gow NAR, Brown AJP. Candida albicans VAC8 is required for vacuolar inheritance and normal hyphal branching. EUKARYOTIC CELL 2006; 5:359-67. [PMID: 16467476 PMCID: PMC1405888 DOI: 10.1128/ec.5.2.359-367.2006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Hyphal growth is prevalent during most Candida albicans infections. Current cell division models, which are based on cytological analyses of C. albicans, predict that hyphal branching is intimately linked with vacuolar inheritance in this fungus. Here we report the molecular validation of this model, showing that a specific mutation that disrupts vacuolar inheritance also affects hyphal division. The armadillo repeat-containing protein Vac8p plays an important role in vacuolar inheritance in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The VAC8 gene was identified in the C. albicans genome sequence and was resequenced. Homozygous C. albicans vac8Delta deletion mutants were generated, and their phenotypes were examined. Mutant vac8Delta cells contained fragmented vacuoles, and minimal vacuolar material was inherited by daughter cells in hyphal or budding forms. Normal rates of growth and hyphal extension were observed for the mutant hyphae on solid serum-containing medium. However, branching frequencies were significantly increased in the mutant hyphae. These observations are consistent with a causal relationship between vacuolar inheritance and the cell division cycle in the subapical compartments of C. albicans hyphae. The data support the hypothesis that cytoplasmic volume, rather than cell size, is critical for progression through G1.
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- Caroline J Barelle
- School of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Institute of Medical Sciences, Foresterhill, Aberdeen AB25 2ZD, United Kingdom
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Soellick TR, Uhrig JF. Development of an optimized interaction-mating protocol for large-scale yeast two-hybrid analyses. Genome Biol 2001; 2:RESEARCH0052. [PMID: 11790255 PMCID: PMC64837 DOI: 10.1186/gb-2001-2-12-research0052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2001] [Revised: 10/05/2001] [Accepted: 10/12/2001] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Protein-protein interactions have decisive roles in almost all aspects of the structural and functional organization of cells. But in spite of the increasing amount of complete genome sequence data, the ability to predict protein function from sequences alone is limited. Therefore comprehensive analysis of protein-protein interactions, as derived from the yeast two-hybrid mating system, will yield valuable information for functional biology on a proteomic scale. RESULTS We have developed an optimized interaction mating protocol for the yeast two-hybrid system, which gives increased mating efficiencies. This significantly reduces the effort and cost of cDNA library screening and allows multiple parallel approaches. Improved preincubation conditions before mating, and optimal cell densities and cell ratios enable almost quantitative mating of the yeast cells carrying the cDNA library. We have proved the applicability of this technology using 20 bait proteins to screen an Arabidopsis thaliana cDNA library, in spite of bait-dependent variations in mating efficiency. CONCLUSIONS The improved yeast two-hybrid interaction-mating protocol presented here allows the multiple parallel screening of cDNA libraries. It can be carried out without specialized equipment and has the potential to be standardized and automated.
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- T R Soellick
- Max-Planck-Institut für Züchtungsforschung, Carl-von-Linné-Weg, D-50829 Köln, Germany.
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Wang YX, Zhao H, Harding TM, Gomes de Mesquita DS, Woldringh CL, Klionsky DJ, Munn AL, Weisman LS. Multiple classes of yeast mutants are defective in vacuole partitioning yet target vacuole proteins correctly. Mol Biol Cell 1996; 7:1375-89. [PMID: 8885233 PMCID: PMC275988 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.7.9.1375] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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In Saccharomyces cerevisiae the vacuoles are partitioned from mother cells to daughter cells in a cell-cycle-coordinated process. The molecular basis of this event remains obscure. To date, few yeast mutants had been identified that are defective in vacuole partitioning (vac), and most such mutants are also defective in vacuole protein sorting (vps) from the Golgi to the vacuole. Both the vps mutants and previously identified non-vps vac mutants display an altered vacuolar morphology. Here, we report a new method to monitor vacuole inheritance and the isolation of six new non-vps vac mutants. They define five complementation groups (VAC8-VAC12). Unlike mutants identified previously, three of the complementation groups exhibit normal vacuolar morphology. Zygote studies revealed that these vac mutants are also defective in intervacuole communication. Although at least four pathways of protein delivery to the vacuole are known, only the Vps pathway seems to significantly overlap with vacuole partitioning. Mutants defective in both vacuole partitioning and endocytosis or vacuole partitioning and autophagy were not observed. However, one of the new vac mutants was additionally defective in direct protein transport from the cytoplasm to the vacuole.
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- Y X Wang
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242, USA
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The vacuole of Saccharomyces cerevisiae projects a stream of tubules a and vesicles (a "segregation structure") into the bud in early S phase. We have described an in vitro reaction, requiring physiological temperature, ATP, and cytosol, in which isolated vacuoles form segregation structures and fuse. This in vitro reaction is defective when reaction components are prepared from vac mutants that are defective in this process in vivo, Fractionation of the cytosol reveals at least three components, each of which can support the vacuole fusion reaction, and two stimulatory fractions. Purification of one "low molecular weight activity" (LMA1) yields a heterodimeric protein with a thioredoxin subunit. Most of the thioredoxin of yeast is in this complex rather than the well-studied monomer. A deletion of both S. cerevisiae thioredoxin genes causes a striking vacuole inheritance defect in vivo, establishing a role for thioredoxin as a novel factor in this trafficking reaction.
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- Z Xu
- Department of Biochemistry, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, 03755-3844, USA
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- R Azpiroz
- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson 85721, USA
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Mulero JJ, Fox TD. Reduced but accurate translation from a mutant AUA initiation codon in the mitochondrial COX2 mRNA of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. MOLECULAR & GENERAL GENETICS : MGG 1994; 242:383-90. [PMID: 7510017 DOI: 10.1007/bf00281787] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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We have changed the translation initiation codon of the COX2 mRNA of Saccharomyces cerevisiae from AUG to AUA, generating a mutation termed cox2-10. This mutation reduced translation of the COX2 mRNA at least five-fold without affecting the steady-state level of the mRNA, and produced a leaky nonrespiratory growth phenotype. To address the question of whether residual translation of the cox2-10 mRNA was initiating at the altered initiation codon or at the next AUG codon downstream (at position 14), we took advantage of the fact that the mature coxII protein is generated from the electrophoretically distinguishable coxII precursor by removal of the amino-terminal 15 residues, and that this processing can be blocked by a mutation in the nuclear gene PET2858. We constructed a pet2858, cox2-10 double mutant strain using a pet2858 allele from our mutant collection. The double mutant accumulated low levels of a polypeptide which comigrated with the coxII precursor protein, not the mature species, providing strong evidence that residual initiation was occurring at the mutant AUA codon. Residual translation of the mutant mRNA required the COX2 mRNA-specific activator PET111. Furthermore, growth of cox2-10 mutant strains was sensitive to alterations in PET111 gene dosage: the respiratory-defective growth phenotype was partially suppressed in haploid strains containing PET111 on a high-copy-number vector, but became more severe in diploid strains containing only one functional copy of PET111.
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- J J Mulero
- Section of Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-2703
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Mulero JJ, Fox TD. Alteration of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae COX2 mRNA 5'-untranslated leader by mitochondrial gene replacement and functional interaction with the translational activator protein PET111. Mol Biol Cell 1993; 4:1327-35. [PMID: 8167413 PMCID: PMC275768 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.4.12.1327] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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The ability to replace wild-type mitochondrial DNA sequences in yeast with in vitro-generated mutations has been exploited to study the mechanism by which the nuclearly encoded PET111 protein specifically activates translation of the mitochondrially coded COX2 mRNA. We have generated three mutations in vitro that alter the COX2 mRNA 5'-untranslated leader (UTL) and introduced them into the mitochondrial genome, replacing the wild-type sequence. None of the mutations significantly affected the steady-state level of COX2 mRNA. Deletion of a single base at position -24 (relative to the translation initiation codon) in the 5'-UTL (cox2-11) reduced COX2 mRNA translation and respiratory growth, whereas insertion of four bases in place of the deleted base (cox2-12) and deletion of bases -30 to -2 (cox2-13) completely blocked both. Six spontaneous nuclear mutations were selected as suppressors of the single-base 5'-UTL deletion, cox2-11. One of these mapped to PET111 and was shown to be a missense mutation that changed residue 652 from Ala to Thr. This suppressor, PET111-20, failed to suppress the 29-base deletion, cox2-13, but very weakly suppressed the insertion mutation, cox2-12. PET111-20 also enhanced translation of a partially functional COX2 mRNA with a wild-type 5'-UTL but a mutant initiation codon. Although overexpression of the wild-type PET111 protein caused weak suppression of the single-base deletion, cox2-11, the PET111-20 suppressor mutation did not function simply by increasing the level of the protein. These results demonstrate an intimate functional interaction between the translational activator protein and the mRNA 5'-UTL and suggest that they may interact directly.
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- J J Mulero
- Sections of Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853-2703
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Copeland CS, Snyder M. Nuclear pore complex antigens delineate nuclear envelope dynamics in vegetative and conjugating Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Yeast 1993; 9:235-49. [PMID: 8488725 DOI: 10.1002/yea.320090304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the nucleus undergoes dramatic shape changes during mitosis and mating. We have studied nuclear envelope dynamics during the processes of mitosis and conjugation using nuclear pore complexes as a marker for the nuclear envelope in wild-type cells and several cell-division-cycle (cdc) mutants. Three monoclonal antibodies are described that recognize nuclear pore complex-related antigens in S. cerevisiae. One of these antibodies, RL1, has been extensively characterized by Gerace and colleagues and recognizes nuclear pore complexes in mammalian and amphibian cells. By indirect immunofluorescence of yeast cells, all three antibodies yield a discontinuous nuclear rim stain. All three react with multiple nuclear-enriched proteins in immunoblots, including the nucleoporin protein encoded by the NSP1 gene. When the antibodies were used in immunofluorescence experiments on mating cells, the nuclear pore complex staining pattern proved to be a sensitive indicator of nuclear fusion. Nuclei with closely apposed spindle pole bodies and unfused nuclear envelopes could be readily distinguished. Marked shape changes were observed in nuclei during fusion and segregation of the diploid nucleus into the zygotic bud. In cdc14 and cdc15 mutants that arrest late in mitosis, the elongated nuclear envelope extension that stretches between daughter nuclei during telophase was preserved. In cytokinesis-defective mutants (cdc3, cdc10, cdc11 and cdc12), the elongated nuclear envelope was usually resolved into two daughter nuclei in the absence of cytokinesis. These results indicate that nuclear envelope division is mechanically distinguishable from chromosome segregation, nucleolar segregation and cytokinesis.
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- C S Copeland
- Department of Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511-8112
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Inheritance of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in Saccharomyces cerevisiae is usually biparental. Pedigree studies of zygotic first buds indicate limited mixing of wild-type (p+) parental mtDNAs: end buds are frequently homoplasmic for one parental mtDNA, while heteroplasmic and recombinant progeny usually arise from medial buds. In crosses involving certain petites, however, mitochondrial inheritance can be uniparental. In this study we show that mitochondrial sorting can be influenced by the parental mtDNAs and have identified intermediates in the process. In crosses where mtDNA mixing is limited and one parent is prelabeled with the matrix enzyme citrate synthase 1 (CS1), the protein freely equilibrates throughout the zygote before the first bud has matured. Furthermore, if one parent is p0 (lacking mtDNA), mtDNA from the p+ parent can also equilibrate; intracellular movement of mtDNA is unhindered in this case. Surprisingly, in zygotes from a p0 CS1+ x p+ CS1- cross, CS1 is quantitatively translocated to the p+ end of the zygote before mtDNA movement; subsequently, both components equilibrate throughout the cell. This initial vectorial transfer does not require respiratory function in the p+ parent, although it does not occur if that parent is p-. Mouse dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) present in the mitochondrial matrix can also be vectorially translocated, indicating that the process is general. Our data suggest that in zygotes mtDNA movement may be separately controlled from the movement of bulk matrix constituents.
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- R Azpiroz
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas 75235
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Conradt B, Shaw J, Vida T, Emr S, Wickner W. In vitro reactions of vacuole inheritance in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. J Cell Biol 1992; 119:1469-79. [PMID: 1334958 PMCID: PMC2289757 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.119.6.1469] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Vacuole inheritance is temporally coordinated with the cell cycle and is restricted spatially to an axis between the maternal vacuole and the bud. The new bud vacuole is founded by a stream of vacuole-derived membranous vesicles and tubules which are transported from the mother cell into the bud to form the daughter organelle. We now report in vitro formation of vacuole-derived tubules and vesicles. In semi-intact cells, formation of tubulovesicular structures requires ATP and the proteins encoded by VAC1 and VAC2, two genes which are required for vacuole inheritance in vivo. Isolation of vacuoles from cell lysates before in vitro incubation reveals that formation of tubulovesicular structures requires cytosol as well as ATP. After forming tubulovesicular structures, isolated vacuoles subsequently increase in size. Biochemical assays reveal that this increase results from vacuole to vacuole fusion, leading to mixing of organellar contents. Intervacuolar fusion is sensitive to the phosphatase inhibitors microcystin-LR and okadaic acid, suggesting that protein phosphorylation/dephosphorylation reactions play a role in this event.
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- B Conradt
- Molecular Biology Institute, University of California, Los Angeles 90024-1570
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During conjugation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, two cells of opposite mating type (MATa and MAT alpha) fuse to form a diploid zygote. Conjugation requires that each cell locate an appropriate mating partner. To investigate how yeast cells select a mating partner, we developed a competition mating assay in which wild-type MAT alpha cells have a choice of two MATa cell mating partners. We first demonstrated that sterile MAT alpha 1 cells (expressing no a- or alpha-specific gene products) do not compete with fertile MATa cells in the assay; hence, wild-type MATa and MAT alpha cells can efficiently locate an appropriate mating partner. Second, we showed that a MATa strain need not be fertile to compete with a fertile MATa strain in the assay. This result defines an early step in conjugation, which we term courtship. We showed that the ability to agglutinate is not necessary in MATa cells for courtship but that production of a-pheromone and response to alpha-pheromone are necessary. Thus, MATa cells must not only transmit but must also receive and then respond to information for effective courtship; hence, there is a "conversation" between the courting cells. We showed that the only alpha-pheromone-induced response necessary in MATa cells for courtship is production of a-pheromone. In all cases tested, a strain producing a higher level of a-pheromone was more proficient in courtship than one producing a lower level. We propose that during courtship, a MAT alpha cell selects the adjacent MATa cell producing the highest level of a-pheromone.
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Jackson CL, Hartwell LH. Courtship in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: an early cell-cell interaction during mating. Mol Cell Biol 1990; 10:2202-13. [PMID: 2183023 PMCID: PMC360568 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.10.5.2202-2213.1990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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During conjugation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, two cells of opposite mating type (MATa and MAT alpha) fuse to form a diploid zygote. Conjugation requires that each cell locate an appropriate mating partner. To investigate how yeast cells select a mating partner, we developed a competition mating assay in which wild-type MAT alpha cells have a choice of two MATa cell mating partners. We first demonstrated that sterile MAT alpha 1 cells (expressing no a- or alpha-specific gene products) do not compete with fertile MATa cells in the assay; hence, wild-type MATa and MAT alpha cells can efficiently locate an appropriate mating partner. Second, we showed that a MATa strain need not be fertile to compete with a fertile MATa strain in the assay. This result defines an early step in conjugation, which we term courtship. We showed that the ability to agglutinate is not necessary in MATa cells for courtship but that production of a-pheromone and response to alpha-pheromone are necessary. Thus, MATa cells must not only transmit but must also receive and then respond to information for effective courtship; hence, there is a "conversation" between the courting cells. We showed that the only alpha-pheromone-induced response necessary in MATa cells for courtship is production of a-pheromone. In all cases tested, a strain producing a higher level of a-pheromone was more proficient in courtship than one producing a lower level. We propose that during courtship, a MAT alpha cell selects the adjacent MATa cell producing the highest level of a-pheromone.
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- C L Jackson
- Department of Genetics, University of Washington, Seattle 98195
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Weisman LS, Emr SD, Wickner WT. Mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae that block intervacuole vesicular traffic and vacuole division and segregation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1990; 87:1076-80. [PMID: 1689059 PMCID: PMC53413 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.87.3.1076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Intervacuole vesicular exchange and the segregation of parental vacuole material into the bud are strikingly impaired in a temperature-sensitive yeast mutant, vac1-1. At the nonpermissive temperature, haploid vac1-1 cells show a pronounced delay in separation of mature buds from the mother cell and accumulate cells with multiple buds. At both the permissive and restrictive temperatures, daughter cells are produced that lack a detectable vacuole or contain a very small vacuole. In zygotes, vacuoles from a vac1-1 strain are defective as donors, or recipients, of the vesicles of intervacuole vesicular traffic. These defects are specific for the vacuole in that the segregation of nuclear DNA and of mitochondria into the bud appears normal. The isolation of the vac1-1 mutation is a first step in the genetic characterization of vacuole division and segregation.
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- L S Weisman
- Molecular Biology Institute, University of California, Los Angeles 90024-1570
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To identify whether microtubules are involved in the maintenance of vacuolar morphology, we treated Saccharomyces cerevisiae with nocodazole and methyl benzimidazole-2-yl-carbamate, drugs which inhibit the polymerization of microtubules. Treated cells arrest with a single large bud in the G2/prophase portion of the cell cycle. Labeling the vacuole with either quinacrine or FITC-dextran revealed vacuole fragmentation that was not found in untreated cells or in cells arrested in G2 by unrelated means. A drug-resistant mutant in beta tubulin does not show vacuolar fragmentation when treated with drug. We propose that microtubules are involved in the regulation of vacuole morphology.
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- B A Guthrie
- Molecular Biology Institute, University of California, Los Angeles 90024
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Characterization of the gene for fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase from Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Sequence, protein homology, and expression during growth on glucose. J Biol Chem 1988. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)68747-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Costanzo MC, Fox TD. Specific translational activation by nuclear gene products occurs in the 5' untranslated leader of a yeast mitochondrial mRNA. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1988; 85:2677-81. [PMID: 2833749 PMCID: PMC280061 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.85.8.2677] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Translation of the yeast mitochondrial mRNA encoding cytochrome c oxidase subunit III (coxIII) is specifically activated by the products of at least three nuclear genes, PET494, PET54, and PET122. To investigate whether the target site for translational activation is within the 5' untranslated leader of the coxIII mRNA, we asked whether translation of another mitochondrial protein, apo-cytochrome b, from a chimeric mRNA bearing the coxIII mRNA leader required PET494, PET54, or PET122. Mutations in any of these three genes abolished translation of cytochrome b from an mRNA bearing the 5' two-thirds of the coxIII mRNA 5' untranslated leader, showing that all three gene products are required for translation of the chimeric mRNA and must act within the 5' two-thirds of the coxIII mRNA leader. Our data suggest that in wild-type cells, the specific activation of coxIII translation by PET494, PET54, and PET122 occurs by the action of these three gene products at a site or sites in a region of the 5' untranslated leader at least 172 nucleotides upstream of the initiation codon.
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- M C Costanzo
- Section of Genetics and Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
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Two genes required for cell fusion during yeast conjugation: evidence for a pheromone-induced surface protein. Mol Cell Biol 1987. [PMID: 3302672 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.7.7.2316] [Citation(s) in RCA: 216] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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We characterized two genes, FUS1 and FUS2, which are required for fusion of Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells during conjugation. Mutations in these genes lead to an interruption of the mating process at a point just before cytoplasmic fusion; the partition dividing the mating pair remains undissolved several hours after the cells have initially formed a stable "prezygote." Fusion is only moderately impaired when the two parents together harbor one or two mutant fus genes, and it is severely compromised only when three or all four fus genes are inactivated. Cloning of FUS1 and FUS2 revealed that they share some functional homology; FUS1 on a high-copy number plasmid can partially suppress a fus2 mutant, and vice versa. FUS1 remains essentially unexpressed in vegetative cells, but is strongly induced by incubation of haploid cells with the appropriate mating pheromone. Immunofluorescence microscopy of alpha factor-induced a cells harboring a fus1-LACZ fusion showed the fusion protein to be localized at the cell surface, concentrated at one end of the cell (the shmoo tip). FUS1 maps near HIS4, and the intervening region (including BIK1, a gene required for nuclear fusion) was sequenced along with FUS1. The sequence of FUS1 revealed the presence of three copies of a hexamer (TGAAAC) conserved in the 5' noncoding regions of other pheromone-inducible genes. The deduced FUS1 protein sequence exhibits a striking concentration of serines and threonines at the amino terminus (46%; 33 of 71), followed by a 25-amino acid hydrophobic stretch and a predominantly hydrophilic carboxy terminus, which contains several potential N-glycosylation sites (Asn-X-Ser/Thr). This sequence suggests that FUS1 encodes a membrane-anchored glycoprotein with both N- and O-linked sugars.
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Trueheart J, Boeke JD, Fink GR. Two genes required for cell fusion during yeast conjugation: evidence for a pheromone-induced surface protein. Mol Cell Biol 1987; 7:2316-28. [PMID: 3302672 PMCID: PMC365362 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.7.7.2316-2328.1987] [Citation(s) in RCA: 238] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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We characterized two genes, FUS1 and FUS2, which are required for fusion of Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells during conjugation. Mutations in these genes lead to an interruption of the mating process at a point just before cytoplasmic fusion; the partition dividing the mating pair remains undissolved several hours after the cells have initially formed a stable "prezygote." Fusion is only moderately impaired when the two parents together harbor one or two mutant fus genes, and it is severely compromised only when three or all four fus genes are inactivated. Cloning of FUS1 and FUS2 revealed that they share some functional homology; FUS1 on a high-copy number plasmid can partially suppress a fus2 mutant, and vice versa. FUS1 remains essentially unexpressed in vegetative cells, but is strongly induced by incubation of haploid cells with the appropriate mating pheromone. Immunofluorescence microscopy of alpha factor-induced a cells harboring a fus1-LACZ fusion showed the fusion protein to be localized at the cell surface, concentrated at one end of the cell (the shmoo tip). FUS1 maps near HIS4, and the intervening region (including BIK1, a gene required for nuclear fusion) was sequenced along with FUS1. The sequence of FUS1 revealed the presence of three copies of a hexamer (TGAAAC) conserved in the 5' noncoding regions of other pheromone-inducible genes. The deduced FUS1 protein sequence exhibits a striking concentration of serines and threonines at the amino terminus (46%; 33 of 71), followed by a 25-amino acid hydrophobic stretch and a predominantly hydrophilic carboxy terminus, which contains several potential N-glycosylation sites (Asn-X-Ser/Thr). This sequence suggests that FUS1 encodes a membrane-anchored glycoprotein with both N- and O-linked sugars.
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We have developed a protocol for efficient fusion of spheroplasts of the same mating type. Nuclear fusion in this whole-cell system is also efficient and closely parallels nuclear fusion in heterosexual mating of intact cells. In the spheroplast fusion system, nuclear fusion is dependent on both the KAR1 gene and prior exposure to alpha factor. The major products of nuclear fusion in the spheroplast fusion assay were true diploids that were homozygous at the mating-type locus. An additional 10% of the products were cells of ploidy greater than diploid. The dependence of nuclear fusion on alpha factor treatment could not be replaced by synchronization in G1 by mutations in CDC28 and CDC35 or by prior arrest in stationary phase. These data suggest that nuclear fusion is not a constitutive function of the nucleus, but rather is specifically induced by mating hormone.
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Rose MD, Price BR, Fink GR. Saccharomyces cerevisiae nuclear fusion requires prior activation by alpha factor. Mol Cell Biol 1986; 6:3490-7. [PMID: 3540592 PMCID: PMC367097 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.6.10.3490-3497.1986] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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We have developed a protocol for efficient fusion of spheroplasts of the same mating type. Nuclear fusion in this whole-cell system is also efficient and closely parallels nuclear fusion in heterosexual mating of intact cells. In the spheroplast fusion system, nuclear fusion is dependent on both the KAR1 gene and prior exposure to alpha factor. The major products of nuclear fusion in the spheroplast fusion assay were true diploids that were homozygous at the mating-type locus. An additional 10% of the products were cells of ploidy greater than diploid. The dependence of nuclear fusion on alpha factor treatment could not be replaced by synchronization in G1 by mutations in CDC28 and CDC35 or by prior arrest in stationary phase. These data suggest that nuclear fusion is not a constitutive function of the nucleus, but rather is specifically induced by mating hormone.
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Backer JS, Birky CW. The origin of mutant cells: mechanisms by which Saccharomyces cerevisiae produces cells homoplasmic for new mitochondrial mutations. Curr Genet 1985; 9:627-40. [PMID: 3916732 DOI: 10.1007/bf00449815] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Haploid yeast cells have about 50 copies of the mitochondrial genome, and a mutational event is unlikely to affect more than one of these at a time. This raises the question of how such cells, or their progeny, become fixed (homoplasmic) for the mutant alele. We have tested the roles of six hypothetical mechanisms in producing erythromycin-resistant mutant cells: (i) random partitioning of mitochondrial genomes at cell division; (ii) intracellular selection for mtDNA molecules of one genotype; (iii) intracellular random drift of mitochondrial allele frequencies; (iv) intercellular selection for cells of a particular mitochondrial genotype; (v) induction of mitochondrial gene mutations by the antibiotic used to select mutants; and (vi) reduction in the number of mitochondrial genomes per cell by the antibiotic. Our experiments indicate that intracellular selection plays the major role in producing erythromycin-resistant mutant cells in the presence of the antibiotic. In the absence of the antibiotic, the combined effects of random drift and random partitioning are most important in determining the fate of new mutations, most of which are lost rather than fixed. Our experiments provide no evidence for mutation induction or ploidy reduction by erythromycin.
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- J S Backer
- Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, IL 60637
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Underbrink-Lyon K, Miller DL, Ross NA, Fukuhara H, Martin NC. Characterization of a yeast mitochondrial locus necessary for tRNA biosynthesis. Deletion mapping and restriction mapping studies. MOLECULAR & GENERAL GENETICS : MGG 1983; 191:512-8. [PMID: 6355772 DOI: 10.1007/bf00425771] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Yeast mitochondrial DNA codes for a complete set of tRNAs. Although most components necessary for the biosynthesis of mitochondrial tRNA are coded by nuclear genes, there is one genetic locus on mitochondrial DNA necessary for the synthesis of mitochondrial tRNAs other than the mitochondrial tRNA genes themselves. Characterization of mutants by deletion mapping and restriction enzyme mapping studies has provided a precise location of this yeast mitochondrial tRNA synthesis locus. Deletion mutants retaining various segments of mitochondrial DNA were examined for their ability to synthesize tRNAs from the genes they retain. A subset of these strains was also tested for the ability to provide the tRNA synthesis function in complementation tests with deletion mutants unable to synthesize mature mitochondrial tRNAs. By correlating the tRNA synthetic ability with the presence or absence of certain wild-type restriction fragments, we have confined the locus to within 780 base pairs of DNA located between the tRNAMetf gene and tRNAPro gene, at 29 units on the wild-type map. Heretofore, no genetic function or gene product had been localized in this area of the yeast mitochondrial genome.
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A and alpha supernatant pretreatment of Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells affects both the kinetics and efficiency of mating. Mol Cell Biol 1982. [PMID: 6752693 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.2.8.897] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The effects of culture supernatant treatment on subsequent matings between pretreated a and alpha Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells were studied. For each experiment, pairs of a and alpha [rho+] or [rho- rho0] cells in the logarithmic growth phase in defined minimal medium were pretreated for a total of 15 min (by exchanging their cell-free supernatants or by mixing samples of a and alpha cell cultures) and then mated in defined minimal (YNB) or enriched (YEP) liquid medium. All pretreated cells, regardless of treatment procedure, initiated cell fusion 15 to 35 min faster than did their nontreated counterparts. In all cases, pretreated cells mated 8 to 20% more efficiently than did nonpretreated ones. Regardless of the strains, the hierarchy of mating efficiency was always treated YEP greater than untreated YEP greater than treated YNB greater than untreated YNB. The cell fusion kinetics in alpha [rho+] X a [rho-] crosses were most affected by pretreatment (delta 30 to 35 min), whereas [rho+] X [rho+] crosses were least affected (delta 15 min). These results are discussed in relation to the functions known for a and alpha pheromones. The successful pretreatment regimes were used to design new rapid and efficient techniques for mating YNB-grown log-phase cells in either YNB or YEP liquid media. These techniques can be used for small- or large-scale mating, and because of their inherent media flexibility, they have many potential applications to future studies on mating-specific or intrazygotic phenomena.
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Sena EP. A and alpha supernatant pretreatment of Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells affects both the kinetics and efficiency of mating. Mol Cell Biol 1982; 2:897-903. [PMID: 6752693 PMCID: PMC369877 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.2.8.897-903.1982] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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The effects of culture supernatant treatment on subsequent matings between pretreated a and alpha Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells were studied. For each experiment, pairs of a and alpha [rho+] or [rho- rho0] cells in the logarithmic growth phase in defined minimal medium were pretreated for a total of 15 min (by exchanging their cell-free supernatants or by mixing samples of a and alpha cell cultures) and then mated in defined minimal (YNB) or enriched (YEP) liquid medium. All pretreated cells, regardless of treatment procedure, initiated cell fusion 15 to 35 min faster than did their nontreated counterparts. In all cases, pretreated cells mated 8 to 20% more efficiently than did nonpretreated ones. Regardless of the strains, the hierarchy of mating efficiency was always treated YEP greater than untreated YEP greater than treated YNB greater than untreated YNB. The cell fusion kinetics in alpha [rho+] X a [rho-] crosses were most affected by pretreatment (delta 30 to 35 min), whereas [rho+] X [rho+] crosses were least affected (delta 15 min). These results are discussed in relation to the functions known for a and alpha pheromones. The successful pretreatment regimes were used to design new rapid and efficient techniques for mating YNB-grown log-phase cells in either YNB or YEP liquid media. These techniques can be used for small- or large-scale mating, and because of their inherent media flexibility, they have many potential applications to future studies on mating-specific or intrazygotic phenomena.
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Martin NC, Underbrink-Lyon K. A mitochondrial locus is necessary for the synthesis of mitochondrial tRNA in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1981; 78:4743-7. [PMID: 6795621 PMCID: PMC320239 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.78.8.4743] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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We have used a cloned yeast mitochondrial tRNAUCNSer gene as a probe to detect RNA species that are transcripts from this gene in wild-type Saccharomyces cerevisiae and in petite deletion mutants. In RNA from wild-type cells, the tRNA is the most prominent transcript of the gene. In RNA from deletion mutants that retain this gene but have lost other regions of mtDNA, high molecular weight transcripts containing the tRNAUCNSer sequences accumulate but tRNAUCNSer is not made. tRNAUCNSer synthesis can be restored in these mutants when they are mated to other deletion mutants that retain a different portion of the mitochondrial genome. Protein synthesis is not necessary for the restoration, and the restoration is not due to a nuclear effect or to an effect of mating alone, because strains without mtDNA are not able to restore tRNA synthesis. These results definitively demonstrate the existence of a yeast mitochondrial locus that is necessary for tRNA synthesis and, because the restoration of tRNAUCNSer synthesis appears to result from intergenic complementation, not recombination, indicate that this locus acts in trans.
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Lopez I, Farrelly F, Butow R. Trans action and the var1 determinant region on yeast mitochondrial DNA. Specific labeling of mitochondrial translation products in zygotes. J Biol Chem 1981. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)69193-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Hartwell LH. Mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae unresponsive to cell division control by polypeptide mating hormone. J Cell Biol 1980; 85:811-22. [PMID: 6993497 PMCID: PMC2111434 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.85.3.811] [Citation(s) in RCA: 326] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Temperature-sensitive mutations that produce insensitivity to division arrest by alpha-factor, a mating pheromone, were isolated in an MATa strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and shown by complementation studies to difine eight genes. All of these mutations (designated ste) produce sterility at the restrictive temperature in MATa cells, and mutations in seven of the genes produce sterility in MAT alpha cells. In no case was the sterility associated with these mutations coorectible by including wild-type cells of the same mating type in the mating test nor did nay of the mutants inhibit mating of the wild-type cells; the defect appears to be intrinsic to the cell for mutations in each of the genes. Apparently, none of the mutants is defective exclusively in division arrest by alpha-factor, as the sterility of none is suppressed by a temperature-sensitive cdc 28 mutation (the latter imposes division arrest at the correct cell cycle stage for mating). The mutants were examined for features that are inducible in MATa cells by alpha-factor (agglutinin synthesis as well as division arrest) and for the characteristics that constitutively distinguish MATa from MAT alpha cells (a-factor production, alpha-factor destruction). ste2 Mutants are defective specifically in the two inducible properties, whereas ste4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, and 12 mutants are defective, to varying degrees, in constitutive as well as inducible aspects. Mutations in ste8 and 9 assume a polar budding pattern unlike either MATa or MAT alpha cells but characteristic of MATa/alpha cells. This study defines seven genes that function in two cell types (MATa and alpha) to control the differentiation of cell type and one gene, ste2, that functions exclusively in MATa cells to mediate responsiveness to polypeptide hormone.
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