title: Sec3p is involved in secretion and morphogenesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
abstract: Two new temperature-sensitive alleles of SEC3, 1 of 10 late-acting SEC genes required for targeting or fusion of post-Golgi secretory vesicles to the plasma membrane in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, were isolated in a screen for temperature-sensitive secretory mutants that are synthetically lethal with sec4-8. The new sec3 alleles affect early as well as late stages of secretion. Cloning and sequencing of the SEC3 gene revealed that it is identical to profilin synthetic lethal 1 (PSL1). The SEC3 gene is not essential because cells depleted of Sec3p are viable although slow growing and temperature sensitive. All of the sec3 alleles genetically interact with a profilin mutation, pfy1-111. The SEC3 gene in high copy suppresses pfy1-111 and sec5-24 and causes synthetic growth defects with ypt1, sec8-9, sec10-2, and sec15-1. Actin structure is only perturbed in conditions of chronic loss of Sec3p function, implying that Sec3p does not directly regulate actin. All alleles of sec3 cause bud site selection defects in homozygous diploids, as do sec4-8 and sec9-4. This suggests that SEC gene products are involved in determining the bud site and is consistent with a role for Sec3p in determining the correct site of exocytosis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8002, USA.
authors.forename: F P
authors.initials: FP
authors.lastname: Finger
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Novick
mesh_terms: D000199:Actins / Q000378:metabolism; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001557:Benzenesulfonates / Q000737:chemistry; D001692:Biological Transport; D002268:Carboxypeptidases / Q000378:metabolism; D002352:Carrier Proteins; D043402:Cathepsin A; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004171:Diploidy; D004721:Endoplasmic Reticulum / Q000378:metabolism; D005089:Exocytosis / Q000235:genetics; D005656:Fungal Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000502:physiology*; D018628:Gene Dosage; D005804:Genes, Lethal; D006026:Glycoside Hydrolases / Q000378:metabolism; D006056:Golgi Apparatus / Q000378:metabolism; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009154:Mutation; D010641:Phenotype; D011506:Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; D014617:Vacuoles / Q000378:metabolism; D033921:Vesicular Transport Proteins; D043324:beta-Fructofuranosidase
chemical_list: D000199:Actins; D001557:Benzenesulfonates; D002352:Carrier Proteins; D005656:Fungal Proteins; D011506:Proteins; C103130:SEC3 protein, S cerevisiae; C489603:SEC8 protein, S cerevisiae; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; D033921:Vesicular Transport Proteins; C007061:C.I. Fluorescent Brightening Agent 28; D006026:Glycoside Hydrolases; D043324:beta-Fructofuranosidase; D002268:Carboxypeptidases; D043402:Cathepsin A