Chitin synthase III: synthetic lethal mutants and 'stress related' chitin synthesis that bypasses the CSD3/CHS6 localization pathway

Autor: Barbara C. Osmond, Charles A. Specht, Phillips W. Robbins
Rok vydání: 1999
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Zdroj: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 96(20)
ISSN: 0027-8424
Popis: We screened Saccharomyces strains for mutants that are synthetically lethal with deletion of the major chitin synthase gene CHS3 . In addition to finding, not surprisingly, that mutations in major cell wall-related genes such as FKS1 (glucan synthase) and mutations in any of the Golgi glycosylation complex genes ( MNN9 family) are lethal in combination with chs3 Δ, we found that a mutation in Srv2p, a bifunctional regulatory gene, is notably lethal in the chs3 deletion. In extending studies of fks1 -chitin synthase 3 interactions, we made the surprising discovery that deletion of CSD3/CHS6 , a gene normally required for Chs3p delivery and activity in vivo , was not lethal with fks1 and, in fact, that lack of Csd3p/Chs6p did not decrease the high level of stress-related chitin made in the fks1 mutant. This finding suggests that “stress response” chitin synthesis proceeds through an alternate Chs3p targeting pathway.
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