title: Fission yeast sts1+ gene encodes a protein similar to the chicken lamin B receptor and is implicated in pleiotropic drug-sensitivity, divalent cation-sensitivity, and osmoregulation.
abstract: The Schizosaccharomyces pombe sts1+ gene, identified by supersensitive mutations to a protein kinase inhibitor, staurosporine, was isolated by complementation by the use of a fission yeast genomic library. Nucleotide sequencing shows that the sts1+ gene encodes a 453 amino acid putative membrane-associated protein that is significantly similar (26% identity) to the chicken lamin B receptor. It is also highly related (53% identity) to a budding yeast ORF, YGL022. These three proteins contain a similar hydrophobicity pattern consisting of eight or nine putative transmembrane domains. By gene disruption we demonstrate that the sts1+ gene is not essential for viability. These disruptants exhibit pleiotropic defects, such as cold-sensitivity for growth and at the permissive temperature, a supersensitivity to divalent cations and several unrelated drugs including staurosporine, caffeine, chloramphenicol, sorbitol, and SDS. Disruption of the sts1+ gene does not lead to a sensitivity to thiabendazole or hydroxyurea.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Science, Kyoto University, Japan.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shimanuki
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Goebl
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yanagida
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Toda
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002413:Cations, Divalent / Q000494:pharmacology; D002645:Chickens; D005800:Genes, Fungal / Q000235:genetics*; D008826:Microbial Sensitivity Tests; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011956:Receptors, Cell Surface / Q000235:genetics*; D018160:Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear; D012568:Schizosaccharomyces / Q000235:genetics*; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D014170:Transformation, Genetic / Q000235:genetics; D014882:Water-Electrolyte Balance / Q000502:physiology; D000097682:Lamin B Receptor
chemical_list: D002413:Cations, Divalent; D011956:Receptors, Cell Surface; D018160:Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear; D000097682:Lamin B Receptor