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Genetics, Vol. 165, 517-529, October 2003, Copyright © 2003

Yeast Nap1-Binding Protein Nbp2p Is Required for Mitotic Growth at High Temperatures and for Cell Wall Integrity

Kentaro Ohkunia, Asuko Okudaa, and Akihiko Kikuchia
a Laboratory of Medical Mycology, Research Institute for Disease Mechanism and Control, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya 466-8550, Japan

Corresponding author: Akihiko Kikuchi, Research Institute for Disease Mechanism and Control, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 65 Tsurumai, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8550, Japan., aki{at}med.nagoya-u.ac.jp (E-mail)

Communicating editor: M. ROSE

Nbp2p is a Nap1-binding protein in Saccharomyces cerevisiae identified by its interaction with Nap1 by a two-hybrid system. NBP2 encodes a novel protein consisting of 236 amino acids with a Src homology 3 (SH3) domain. We showed that NBP2 functions to promote mitotic cell growth at high temperatures and cell wall integrity. Loss of Nbp2 results in cell death at high temperatures and in sensitivity to calcofluor white. Cell death at high temperature is thought not to be due to a weakened cell wall. Additionally, we have isolated several type-2C serine threonine protein phosphatases (PTCs) as multicopy suppressors and MAP kinase-kinase (MAPKK), related to the yeast PKC MAPK pathway, as deletion suppressors of the nbp2{Delta} mutant. Screening for deletion suppressors is a new genetic approach to identify and characterize additional proteins in the Nbp2-dependent pathway. Genetic analyses suggested that Ptc1, which interacts with Nbp2 by the two-hybrid system, acts downstream of Nbp2 and that cells lacking the function of Nbp2 prefer to lose Mkk1, but the PKC MAPK pathway itself is indispensable when Nbp2 is deleted at high temperature.




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