title: Fission yeast genes that confer resistance to staurosporine encode an AP-1-like transcription factor and a protein kinase related to the mammalian ERK1/MAP2 and budding yeast FUS3 and KSS1 kinases.
abstract: Staurosporine, a potent inhibitor of protein kinase C, arrests fission yeast cell elongation specifically at a stage immediately after cell division. We isolated two genes, which, when carried on multicopy plasmids, confer drug resistance in fission yeast. One, spk1+, encodes a protein kinase highly similar (54% identity) to those encoded by the mammalian ERK1/MAP2 kinase and the budding yeast KSS1 and FUS3 genes. It is not essential for vegetative growth of Schizosaccharomyces pombe cells but is required for conjugation. The spk1+ gene product is a 45-kD protein enriched in the nucleus, and its level increases 10-fold after addition of staurosporine. The other gene pap1+ encodes an AP-1-like transcription factor that contains a region rich in basic amino acids followed by a "leucine zipper" motif. The pap1+ gene is required for spk1(+)-conferred staurosporine resistance. These two genes appear to function as a part of the fission yeast growth control pathway.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Science, Kyoto University, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Toda
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shimanuki
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yanagida
mesh_terms: D000470:Alkaloids / Q000494:pharmacology*; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D050976:Basic-Leucine Zipper Transcription Factors; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D004352:Drug Resistance, Microbial / Q000235:genetics*; D005656:Fungal Proteins; D005800:Genes, Fungal; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009154:Mutation; D000073718:Pancreatitis-Associated Proteins; D010641:Phenotype; D010957:Plasmids; D011494:Protein Kinases / Q000235:genetics*; D016755:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-jun; D012568:Schizosaccharomyces / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics*; D029702:Schizosaccharomyces pombe Proteins; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D019311:Staurosporine; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000235:genetics*; D014158:Transcription, Genetic
chemical_list: D000470:Alkaloids; D050976:Basic-Leucine Zipper Transcription Factors; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D005656:Fungal Proteins; D000073718:Pancreatitis-Associated Proteins; C105096:Pap1 protein, S pombe; D016755:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-jun; C000612141:REG3A protein, human; D029702:Schizosaccharomyces pombe Proteins; D014157:Transcription Factors; D011494:Protein Kinases; D019311:Staurosporine