Mechanisms of expression and translocation of major fission yeast glucose transporters regulated by CaMKK/phosphatases, nuclear shuttling, and TOR

Autor: Lisa Uehara, Ayaka Mori, Mitsuhiro Yanagida, Fumie Masuda, Shigeaki Saitoh, Saeko Soejima
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Molecular Biology of the Cell
ISSN: 1939-4586
1059-1524
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e14-11-1503
Popis: Glucose transporters play a pivotal role in glucose homeostasis. The fission yeast high-affinity glucose transporter Ght5 is regulated with regard to transcription and localization via CaMKK and TOR pathways. These results clarify the evolutionarily conserved mechanisms underlying glucose homeostasis that prevent hyperglycemia in humans.
Hexose transporters are required for cellular glucose uptake; thus they play a pivotal role in glucose homeostasis in multicellular organisms. Using fission yeast, we explored hexose transporter regulation in response to extracellular glucose concentrations. The high-affinity transporter Ght5 is regulated with regard to transcription and localization, much like the human GLUT transporters, which are implicated in diabetes. When restricted to a glucose concentration equivalent to that of human blood, the fission yeast transcriptional regulator Scr1, which represses Ght5 transcription in the presence of high glucose, is displaced from the nucleus. Its displacement is dependent on Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent kinase kinase, Ssp1, and Sds23 inhibition of PP2A/PP6-like protein phosphatases. Newly synthesized Ght5 locates preferentially at the cell tips with the aid of the target of rapamycin (TOR) complex 2 signaling. These results clarify the evolutionarily conserved molecular mechanisms underlying glucose homeostasis, which are essential for preventing hyperglycemia in humans.
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