Genetics, Vol 121, 675-683, Copyright © 1989

INVESTIGATIONS

Dominant Suppressors of Yeast Actin Mutations That Are Reciprocally Suppressed

AEM. Adams and D. Botstein
Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

A gene whose product is likely to interact with yeast actin was identified by the isolation of pseudorevertants carrying dominant suppressors of the temperature-sensitive (Ts) act1-1 mutation. Of 30 independent revertants analyzed, 29 were found to carry extragenic suppressor mutations and of these, 24/24 tested were found to be linked to each other. This linkage group identifies a new gene SAC6, whose product, by several genetic criteria, is likely to interact intimately with actin. First, although act1-1 sac6 strains are temperature-independent (Ts(+)), 4/17 sac6 mutant alleles tested are Ts in an ACT1(+) background. Moreover, four Ts(+) pseudorevertants of these ACT1(+) sac6 mutants carry suppressor mutations in ACT1; significantly, three of these are again Ts in a SAC6(+) background, and are most likely new act1 mutant alleles. Thus, mutations in ACT1 and SAC6 can suppress each other's defects. Second, sac6 mutations can suppress the Ts defects of the act1-1 and act1-2, but not act1-4, mutations. This allele specificity indicates the sac6 mutations do not suppress by simply bypassing the function of actin at high temperature. Third, act1-4 sac6 strains have a growth defect greater than that due to either of the single mutations alone, again suggesting an interaction between the two proteins. The mutant sac6 gene was cloned on the basis of dominant suppression from an act1-1 sac6 mutant library, and was then mapped to chromosome IV, less than 2 cM from ARO1.

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