Mutations in GCR1 affect SUC2 gene expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Turkel S., Turgut T., Lopez M., Uemura H., Baker H.

MOLECULAR GENETICS AND GENOMICS, vol.268, no.6, pp.825-831, 2003 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 268 Issue: 6
  • Publication Date: 2003
  • Doi Number: 10.1007/s00438-003-0808-4
  • Journal Name: MOLECULAR GENETICS AND GENOMICS
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.825-831
  • Keywords: Saccharomyces cerevisiae, SUC2, invertase, GCR1, glucose repression, REPRESSOR-ACTIVATOR PROTEIN-1, GLUCOSE REPRESSION, TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION, CHROMATIN-STRUCTURE, MESSENGER-RNAS, YEAST, PROMOTER, BINDING, SEQUENCE, SNF
  • Bursa Uludag University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

Transcription of SUC2, the gene that encodes the cytoplasmic and secreted forms of the enzyme invertase, is controlled by glucose repression and derepression mechanisms in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Several regulatory factors such as the Mig1p-Tup1p-Ssn6p repressor complex and the Snf1p kinase complex have been identified previously as regulators of SUC2 expression. We show that, in addition to these factors, expression of SUC2 is affected by mutations in the gene GCR1 that encodes the glycolysis regulatory protein Gcr1p. Expression of Suc2-LacZ was not repressed by glucose in gcr1 mutant yeast cells exposed to glucose. Furthermore, secreted invertase activity was constitutively expressed under glucose-repressed and derepressed conditions in gcr1 mutants. DNA gel mobility shift assays and in-vitro DNase I protection experiments mapped a DNA binding site for Ger1p in the transcriptional control region of the SUC2 gene, next to a previously mapped Mig1p binding site. However, the mechanism by which gcr1 mutations relieve glucose repression remains obscure.