title: The yeast SLY gene products, suppressors of defects in the essential GTP-binding Ypt1 protein, may act in endoplasmic reticulum-to-Golgi transport.
abstract: It has been shown previously that defects in the essential GTP-binding protein, Ypt1p, lead to a block in protein transport from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) to the Golgi apparatus in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Here we report that four newly discovered suppressors of YPT1 deletion (SLY1-20, SLY2, SLY12, and SLY41) to a varying degree restore ER-to-Golgi transport defects in cells lacking Ypt1p. These suppressors also partially complement the sec21-1 and sec22-3 mutants which lead to a defect early in the secretory pathway. Sly1p-depleted cells, as well as a conditional lethal sly2 null mutant at nonpermissive temperatures, accumulate ER membranes and core-glycosylated invertase and carboxypeptidase Y. The sly2 null mutant under restrictive conditions (37 degrees C) can be rescued by the multicopy suppressor SLY12 and the single-copy suppressor SLY1-20, indicating that these three SLY genes functionally interact. Sly2p is shown to be an integral membrane protein.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Genetics, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Federal Republic of Germany.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ossig
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Dascher
authors.forename: H H
authors.initials: HH
authors.lastname: Trepte
authors.forename: H D
authors.initials: HD
authors.lastname: Schmitt
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gallwitz
mesh_terms: D004171:Diploidy; D004721:Endoplasmic Reticulum / Q000378:metabolism*; D005656:Fungal Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D019204:GTP-Binding Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D005800:Genes, Fungal; D016153:Genes, Suppressor; D005838:Genotype; D006026:Glycoside Hydrolases / Q000378:metabolism; D006056:Golgi Apparatus / Q000378:metabolism*; D006238:Haploidy; D007700:Kinetics; D010957:Plasmids; D011506:Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism; D015183:Restriction Mapping; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000235:genetics* / Q000502:physiology / Q000648:ultrastructure; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; D043324:beta-Fructofuranosidase; D020691:rab GTP-Binding Proteins
chemical_list: D005656:Fungal Proteins; D011506:Proteins; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; D006026:Glycoside Hydrolases; D043324:beta-Fructofuranosidase; D019204:GTP-Binding Proteins; C060755:YPT1 protein, S cerevisiae; D020691:rab GTP-Binding Proteins