title: A family of genes required for maintenance of cell wall integrity and for the stress response in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
abstract: The PKC1-MPK1 pathway in yeast functions in the maintenance of cell wall integrity and in the stress response. We have identified a family of genes that are putative regulators of this pathway. WSC1, WSC2, and WSC3 encode predicted integral membrane proteins with a conserved cysteine motif and a WSC1-green fluorescence protein fusion protein localizes to the plasma membrane. Deletion of WSC results in phenotypes similar to mutants in the PKC1-MPK1 pathway and an increase in the activity of MPK1 upon a mild heat treatment is impaired in a wscDelta mutant. Genetic analysis places the function of WSC upstream of PKC1, suggesting that they play a role in its activation. We also find a genetic interaction between WSC and the RAS-cAMP pathway. The RAS-cAMP pathway is required for cell cycle progression and for the heat shock response. Overexpression of WSC suppresses the heat shock sensitivity of a strain in which RAS is hyperactivated and the heat shock sensitivity of a wscDelta strain is rescued by deletion of RAS2. The functional characteristics and cellular localization of WSC suggest that they may mediate intracellular responses to environmental stress in yeast.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Verna
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lodder
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Vagts
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ballester
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D002473:Cell Wall / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D000242:Cyclic AMP / Q000378:metabolism; D005656:Fungal Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D017353:Gene Deletion; D005800:Genes, Fungal; D011905:Genes, ras; D006358:Hot Temperature; D047908:Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D020928:Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D005810:Multigene Family; D009154:Mutation; D010641:Phenotype; D011493:Protein Kinase C; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D005656:Fungal Proteins; D047908:Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; C120218:WSC2 protein, S cerevisiae; C120219:WSC3 protein, S cerevisiae; D000242:Cyclic AMP; C097993:Pkc1 protein, Trichoderma reesei; D011493:Protein Kinase C; D020928:Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases; C072724:SLT2 protein, S cerevisiae