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doi:10.1534/genetics.104.032961


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Role of the unfolded protein response pathway in secretory stress and regulation of INO1 expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

1 Carnegie Mellon University
2 Cornell University

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: sah42{at}cornell.edu.

Submitted on June 29, 2004
Revised on August 11, 2004
Accepted on 3 September 2004


Abstract

ABSTRACT The Unfolded Protein Response (UPR) pathway enables the cell to cope with the buildup of unfolded proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). UPR loss-of-function mutants, hac1{Delta} and ire1{Delta}, are also inositol auxotrophs, a phenotype associated with defects in expression of INO1, the most highly regulated of a set of genes encoding enzymes of phospholipid metabolism. We now demonstrate that the UPR plays a functional role in membrane trafficking under conditions of secretory stress in yeast. Mutations conferring a wide range of membrane trafficking defects exhibited negative genetic interaction when combined with ire1{Delta} and hac1{Delta}. At semi-permissive temperatures, carboxypeptidase Y transit time to the vacuole was slower in Sec- cells containing an ire1{Delta} or hac1{Delta} mutation than in Sec- cells with an intact UPR. The UPR was induced in Sec- cells defective in subcellular membrane trafficking events ranging from ER vesicle trafficking to distal secretion, and in erg6{Delta} cells challenged with brefeldin A. However, the high levels of UPR induction observed under these conditions were not correlated with elevated INO1 expression. Indeed, many of the Sec- mutants that had elevated UPR expression at semi-permissive growth temperatures failed to achieve wild type levels of INO1 expression under these same conditions.

Key Words: inositol, secretory pathway, unfolded protein response




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