title: Molecular genetic analysis of Rts1p, a B' regulatory subunit of Saccharomyces cerevisiae protein phosphatase 2A.
abstract: The Saccharomyces cerevisiae gene RTS1 encodes a protein homologous to a variable B-type regulatory subunit of the mammalian heterotrimeric serine/threonine protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A). We present evidence showing that Rts1p assembles into similar heterotrimeric complexes in yeast. Strains in which RTS1 has been disrupted are temperature sensitive (ts) for growth, are hypersensitive to ethanol, are unable to grow with glycerol as their only carbon source, and accumulate at nonpermissive temperatures predominantly as large-budded cells with a 2N DNA content and a nondivided nucleus. This cell cycle arrest can be overcome and partial suppression of the ts phenotype of rts1-null cells occurs if the gene CLB2, encoding a Cdc28 kinase-associated B-type cyclin, is expressed on a high-copy-number plasmid. However, CLB2 overexpression has no suppressive effects on other aspects of the rts1-null phenotype. Expression of truncated forms of Rts1p can also partially suppress the ts phenotype and can fully suppress the inability of cells to grow on glycerol and the hypersensitivity of cells to ethanol. By contrast, the truncated forms do not suppress the accumulation of large-budded cells at high temperatures. Coexpression of truncated Rts1p and high levels of Clb2p fully suppresses the ts phenotype, indicating that the inhibition of growth of rts1-null cells at high temperatures is due to both stress-related and cell cycle-related defects. Genetic analyses show that the role played by Rts1p in PP2A regulation is distinctly different from that played by the other known variable B regulatory subunit, Cdc55p, a protein recently implicated in checkpoint control regulation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, Syracuse University, New York 13244, USA.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Shu
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Hallberg
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hallberg
mesh_terms: D051792:Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Proteins; D002453:Cell Cycle; D018797:Cell Cycle Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D019926:Cyclin B; D016213:Cyclins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D005656:Fungal Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D006360:Heat-Shock Proteins; D046911:Macromolecular Substances; D010641:Phenotype; D010749:Phosphoprotein Phosphatases / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D010766:Phosphorylation; D054648:Protein Phosphatase 2; D012097:Repressor Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D015183:Restriction Mapping; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; D013696:Temperature; D014157:Transcription Factors
chemical_list: D051792:Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Proteins; D018797:Cell Cycle Proteins; D019926:Cyclin B; D016213:Cyclins; D005656:Fungal Proteins; D006360:Heat-Shock Proteins; D046911:Macromolecular Substances; D010749:Phosphoprotein Phosphatases; D054648:Protein Phosphatase 2; D012097:Repressor Proteins; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; D014157:Transcription Factors; C071246:CDC55 protein, S cerevisiae; C093749:CLB2 protein, S cerevisiae; C095723:INO2 protein, S cerevisiae