title: The Yarrowia lipolytica gene PAY5 encodes a peroxisomal integral membrane protein homologous to the mammalian peroxisome assembly factor PAF-1.
abstract: Pay mutants of the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica fail to assemble functional peroxisomes. One mutant strain, pay5-1, lacks normal peroxisomes and instead contains irregular vesicular structures surrounded by multiple unit membranes. The pay5-1 mutant is not totally deficient in peroxisomal matrix protein targeting, as a subset of matrix proteins continues to localize to a subcellular fraction enriched for peroxisomes. The functionally complementing gene PAY5 encodes a protein, Pay5p, of 380 amino acids (41,720 Da). Pay5p is a peroxisomal integral membrane protein homologous to mammalian PAF-1 proteins, which are essential for peroxisome assembly and whose mutation in humans results in Zellweger syndrome. Pay5p is targeted to mammalian peroxisomes, demonstrating the evolutionary conservation of the targeting mechanism for peroxisomal membrane proteins. Our results suggest that in pay5 mutants, normal peroxisome assembly is blocked, which leads to the accumulation of the membranous vesicular structures observed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2H7, Canada.
authors.forename: G A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Eitzen
authors.forename: V I
authors.initials: VI
authors.lastname: Titorenko
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Veenhuis
authors.forename: R K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Szilard
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Rachubinski
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D002451:Cell Compartmentation; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D003600:Cytosol / Q000378:metabolism; D004271:DNA, Fungal / Q000235:genetics; D005656:Fungal Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D015966:Gene Expression Regulation, Fungal; D005800:Genes, Fungal; D007425:Intracellular Membranes / Q000737:chemistry; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D008830:Microbodies / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D000074428:Peroxisomal Biogenesis Factor 2; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000235:genetics; D015183:Restriction Mapping; D004718:Saccharomycetales / Q000235:genetics* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D015003:Yeasts / Q000235:genetics* / Q000648:ultrastructure
chemical_list: D004271:DNA, Fungal; D005656:Fungal Proteins; D008565:Membrane Proteins; C101129:PAY5 protein, Yarrowia lipolytica; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D000074428:Peroxisomal Biogenesis Factor 2