title: A trans-activation domain in yeast heat shock transcription factor is essential for cell cycle progression during stress.
abstract: Gene expression in response to heat shock is mediated by the heat shock transcription factor (HSF), which in yeast harbors both amino- and carboxyl-terminal transcriptional activation domains. Yeast cells bearing a truncated form of HSF in which the carboxyl-terminal transcriptional activation domain has been deleted [HSF(1-583)] are temperature sensitive for growth at 37 degreesC, demonstrating a requirement for this domain for sustained viability during thermal stress. Here we demonstrate that HSF(1-583) cells undergo reversible cell cycle arrest at 37 degreesC in the G2/M phase of the cell cycle and exhibit marked reduction in levels of the molecular chaperone Hsp90. As in higher eukaryotes, yeast possesses two nearly identical isoforms of Hsp90: one constitutively expressed and one highly heat inducible. When expressed at physiological levels in HSF(1-583) cells, the inducible Hsp90 isoform encoded by HSP82 more efficiently suppressed the temperature sensitivity of this strain than the constitutively expressed gene HSC82, suggesting that different functional roles may exist for these chaperones. Consistent with a defect in Hsp90 production, HSF(1-583) cells also exhibited hypersensitivity to the Hsp90-binding ansamycin antibiotic geldanamycin. Depletion of Hsp90 from yeast cells wild type for HSF results in cell cycle arrest in both G1/S and G2/M phases, suggesting a complex requirement for chaperone function in mitotic division during stress.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-0606, USA.
authors.forename: K A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Morano
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Santoro
authors.forename: K A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Koch
authors.forename: D J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Thiele
mesh_terms: D000903:Antibiotics, Antineoplastic / Q000494:pharmacology; D016227:Benzoquinones; D002453:Cell Cycle; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000502:physiology; D005656:Fungal Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D005800:Genes, Fungal; D018841:HSP90 Heat-Shock Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D006360:Heat-Shock Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D018869:Heat-Shock Response; D047029:Lactams, Macrocyclic; D011809:Quinones / Q000494:pharmacology; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000187:drug effects / Q000235:genetics* / Q000254:growth & development; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; D013329:Structure-Activity Relationship; D013696:Temperature; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000235:genetics* / Q000502:physiology; D015533:Transcriptional Activation
chemical_list: D000903:Antibiotics, Antineoplastic; D016227:Benzoquinones; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D005656:Fungal Proteins; C067168:HSF1 protein, S cerevisiae; C074510:HSP82 protein, S cerevisiae; D018841:HSP90 Heat-Shock Proteins; D006360:Heat-Shock Proteins; D047029:Lactams, Macrocyclic; D011809:Quinones; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; D014157:Transcription Factors; C001277:geldanamycin