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Lim CJ, Jo H, Kim K. Protective roles of osmotic stress-resistant Hos3 against oxidative, nitrosative and nutritional stresses in Schizosaccharomyces pombe. World J Microbiol Biotechnol 2014; 31:237-45. [PMID: 25342311 DOI: 10.1007/s11274-014-1762-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2014] [Accepted: 10/19/2014] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Hos3 is involved in cellular growth under osmotic stress in Schizosaccharomyces pombe. The recombinant plasmid pYFHos3 harboring the structural gene encoding Hos3 was constructed. The S. pombe cells harboring pYFHos3 contained the increased hos3 (+) mRNA content and exhibited an enhanced growth in high osmotic conditions, such as 1.5 M KCl and 2.5 M D-glucose, compared with the vector control cells. In the presence of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), superoxide anion-generating menadione (MD) and nitric oxide (NO)-generating sodium nitroprusside (SNP), they could grow better than the vector control cells. In the presence of H2O2, MD and SNP and in the absence of a nitrogen source, the S. pombe cells harboring pYFHos3 contained less elevated NO and reactive oxygen species (ROS) levels than the vector control cells. Collectively, the S. pombe Hos3 also participate in the cellular defense against oxidative, nitrosative and nutritional stresses through down-regulating ROS and NO levels.
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- Chang-Jin Lim
- Department of Biochemistry, College of Natural Sciences, Kangwon National University, 192-1 Hyoja-2-dong, Chuncheon, 200-701, Korea,
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Identification of Ecl family genes that extend chronological lifespan in fission yeast. Biosci Biotechnol Biochem 2009; 73:885-9. [PMID: 19352039 DOI: 10.1271/bbb.80804] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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In fission yeast, we identified two genes, named ecl2+ and ecl3+, that are paralogous to ecl1+, which extends the chronological lifespan. Both ecl2+ and ecl3+ extend the chronological lifespan when overexpressed as ecl1+. ecl2+ and ecl3+ encode 84- and 89-amino acid polypeptides respectively that are not annotated in the current database. The Ecl2 protein is localized mainly in the nucleus, as Ecl1. These results suggest that ecl1+, ecl2+, and ecl3+ have overlapping functions in the regulation of chronological lifespan.
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Ohtsuka H, Mita S, Ogawa Y, Azuma K, Ito H, Aiba H. A novel gene, ecl1(+), extends the chronological lifespan in fission yeast. FEMS Yeast Res 2008; 8:520-30. [PMID: 18422613 DOI: 10.1111/j.1567-1364.2008.00379.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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We have identified a novel gene from Schizosaccharomyces pombe that we have named ecl1(+) (extender of the chronological lifespan). When ecl1(+) is provided on a high-copy number plasmid, it extends the viability of both the Deltasty1 MAP kinase mutant and the wild-type cells after entry into the stationary phase. ecl1(+) encodes an 80-amino acid polypeptide that had not been annotated in the current database. The ecl1(+)-mRNA increases transiently when the growth phase is changed from the log phase to the stationary phase. The Ecl1 protein is localized in the nucleus. Calorie restriction extends the chronological lifespan of wild-type and Deltaecl1 cells but not ecl1(+)-overproducing cells. The Deltapka1 mutant shows little, if any, additional extension of viability when Ecl1 is overproduced. The ste11(+) gene that is negatively controlled by Pka1 is up regulated when Ecl1 is overproduced. From these results we propose that the effect of Ecl1 overproduction may be mainly linked to and negatively affects the Pka1-dependent pathway.
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- Hokuto Ohtsuka
- Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology, School of Agriculture, Nagoya University, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Japan
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Kobayashi Y, Saitoh S, Ogiyama Y, Soejima S, Takahashi K. The fission yeast DASH complex is essential for satisfying the spindle assembly checkpoint induced by defects in the inner-kinetochore proteins. Genes Cells 2007; 12:311-28. [PMID: 17352737 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2443.2007.01053.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Spindle assembly checkpoint (SAC) is an evolutionarily conserved surveillance system for chromosome missegregation. We isolated fission yeast Hos2, a component of the Dam1/DASH complex, as a multicopy suppressor of temperature-sensitive (ts) growth of nnf1-495 mutant that exhibits the minichromosome instability (mis) phenotype, producing lethal aneuploids without prominent mitotic delay. It remains elusive why SAC is satisfied in mis mutants despite the occurrence of missegregation. We found that Hos2 binds to the inner-kinetochore regions in both prometaphase and metaphase. Hos2 is essential for kinetochore localization of Dis1, a microtubule (MT) associated Dis1/XMAP215/TOG family protein that is required for proper MT dynamics. Cells lacking DASH exhibit cold-sensitive (cs) growth with the defective in sister-chromatid disjoining (dis) phenotype, which is characterized by hyper-condensed sister-chromatid pairs and elongated spindle MTs. Although DASH-deficient cells are viable at high temperatures, DASH-deletion transforms all the inner-kinetochore mis mutants so far tested into a constitutively active state of SAC, leading to the dis phenotype. We also discovered that Hos2 over-expression commonly suppresses growth retardation in a variety of inner-kinetochore mutants. These genetic interactions highlight the DASH-action(s) in satisfying SAC when aneuploids are formed during mitosis in the inner-kinetochore-defective mis mutants.
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- Yasuyo Kobayashi
- Division of Cell Biology, Institute of Life Science, Kurume University, Fukuoka, 839-0864, Japan
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Liu X, McLeod I, Anderson S, Yates JR, He X. Molecular analysis of kinetochore architecture in fission yeast. EMBO J 2005; 24:2919-30. [PMID: 16079914 PMCID: PMC1187945 DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7600762] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2004] [Accepted: 07/08/2005] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Kinetochore composition and structure are critical for understanding how kinetochores of different types perform similar functions in chromosome segregation. We used affinity purification to investigate the kinetochore composition and assembly in Schizosaccharomyces pombe. We identified a conserved DASH complex that functions to ensure precise chromosome segregation. Unlike DASH in budding yeast that is localized onto kinetochores throughout the cell cycle, SpDASH is localized onto kinetochores only in mitosis. We also identified two independent groups of kinetochore components, one of which, the Sim4 complex, contains several novel Fta proteins in addition to known kinetochore components. DASH is likely to be associated with the Sim4 complex via Dad1 protein. The other group, Ndc80-MIND-Spc7 complex, contains the conserved Ndc80 and MIND complexes and Spc7 protein. We propose that fission yeast kinetochore is comprised of at least two major structural motifs that are biochemically separable. Our results suggest a high degree of conservation between the kinetochores of budding yeast and fission yeast even though many individual protein subunits do not have a high degree of sequence similarity.
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- Xingkun Liu
- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA. Tel.: +1 713 798 2093; Fax: +1 713 798 8142; E-mail:
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Sanchez-Perez I, Renwick SJ, Crawley K, Karig I, Buck V, Meadows JC, Franco-Sanchez A, Fleig U, Toda T, Millar JBA. The DASH complex and Klp5/Klp6 kinesin coordinate bipolar chromosome attachment in fission yeast. EMBO J 2005; 24:2931-43. [PMID: 16079915 PMCID: PMC1187944 DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7600761] [Citation(s) in RCA: 115] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2004] [Accepted: 07/11/2005] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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We identified a truncated allele of dam1 as a multicopy suppressor of the sensitivity of cdc13-117 (cyclin B) and mal3-1 (EB-1) cells to thiabendazole, a microtubule poison. We find that Dam1 binds to the plus end of spindle microtubules and kinetochores as cells enter mitosis and this is dependent on other components of the fission yeast DASH complex, including Ask1, Duo1, Spc34 and Dad1. By contrast, Dad1 remains bound to kinetochores throughout the cell cycle and its association is dependent on the Mis6 and Mal2, but not Mis12, Nuf2 or Cnp1, kinetochore proteins. In cells lacking Dam1, or other components of the DASH complex, anaphase is delayed due to activation of the spindle assembly checkpoint and lagging sister chromatids are frequently observed and occasionally sister chromatid pairs segregate to the same spindle pole. We find that the mitotic centromere-associated Klp5/Klp6 kinesin complex is essential in cells lacking components of the DASH complex. Cells lacking both Dam1 and Klp5 undergo a first cell cycle arrest in mitosis due to a failure to establish bipolar chromosome attachment.
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- Division of Yeast Genetics, National Institute for Medical Research, London, UK
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- Laboratory of Cell Regulation, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, Lincoln's Inn Fields Laboratories, London, UK
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- Institut für Mikrobiologie, Heinrich-Heine-Universitat Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Division of Yeast Genetics, National Institute for Medical Research, London, UK
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- Division of Yeast Genetics, National Institute for Medical Research, London, UK
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- Institut für Mikrobiologie, Heinrich-Heine-Universitat Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Laboratory of Cell Regulation, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, Lincoln's Inn Fields Laboratories, London, UK
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- Division of Yeast Genetics, National Institute for Medical Research, London, UK
- Division of Yeast Genetics, National Institute for Medical Research, The Ridgeway, Mill Hill, London NW7 1AA, UK. Tel.: +44 208 816 2367; Fax: +44 208 816 2523; E-mail:
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Tanaka Y, Suzuki T, Yamashino T, Mizuno T. Comparative studies of the AHP histidine-containing phosphotransmitters implicated in His-to-Asp phosphorelay in Arabidopsis thaliana. Biosci Biotechnol Biochem 2004; 68:462-5. [PMID: 14981318 DOI: 10.1271/bbb.68.462] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The evolutionarily-conserved histidine to aspartate (His-to-Asp) phosphorelay signal transduction is common in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Such a phosphorelay system is generally made up of 'a histidine (His)-kinase', 'a histidine-containing phosphotransmitter (HPt)', and 'a phospho-accepting response regulator (RR)'. In general, an HPt factor acts as an intermediate in a given multistep His-to-Asp phosphorelay. In Arabidopsis thaliana, this model higher plant has five genes (named AHP1 to AHP5), each of which seems to encode an HPt factor. Recent studies suggested that the His-to-Asp phosphorelay involving the AHP factors is at least partly implicated in signal transduction in response to cytokinin (a plant hormone). Nevertheless, the properties of AHPs have not yet been fully clarified. Here we did comparative studies of all the AHP factors, in terms of (i) expression profiles in plants, (ii) intracellular localization, (iii) ability to acquire a phosphoryl group in vitro, and (iv) ability to interact with the downstream components, ARRs (Arabidopsis response regulators). The results of this study provided us with a comprehensive view at the molecular level for understanding the functions of the AHP phosphotransmitters in the His-to-Asp phosphorelay.
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- Yasushi Tanaka
- Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology, School of Agriculture, Nagoya University, Japan
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Imamura A, Yoshino Y, Mizuno T. Cellular localization of the signaling components of Arabidopsis His-to-Asp phosphorelay. Biosci Biotechnol Biochem 2001; 65:2113-7. [PMID: 11676033 DOI: 10.1271/bbb.65.2113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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In the higher plant, Arabidopsis thaliana, histidine-to-aspartate (His-to-Asp) phosphorelay signal transduction systems play crucial roles in propagation of environmental stimuli, including plant hormones. This plant has 11 sensor His-kinases, 5 histidine-containing phosphotransfer (HPt) factors (AHPs), and 20 response regulators (ARRs). To gain new insight into the functions of these phosphorelay components, their intracellular localization was examined with use of GFP-fusion proteins, constructed for certain representatives of HPt factors (AHP2) and type-A and type-B ARRs (ARR6/ARR7 and ARR10, respectively). The results showed that AHP2 is mainly located in the cytoplasmic space, while both the types of ARRs have an ability to enter preferentially into the nuclei, if not exclusively. Together with the results from an in vitro phosphorelay assay with AHP2 and ARRs, these results are discussed, in terms of a geneal framework of the Arabidopsis His-to-Asp phosphorelay network.
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- A Imamura
- Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology, School of Agriculture, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
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Current Awareness. Yeast 2001. [DOI: 10.1002/yea.683] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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