title: The regulation of activity of main mevalonic acid pathway enzymes: farnesyl diphosphate synthase, 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA reductase, and squalene synthase in yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
abstract: The co-regulation of the main mevalonic acid pathway enzymes was investigated in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. It was found that a 6-fold increase in FPPS activity compared with that of the wild-type strain FL100 did not cause significant changes in HMG-CoA reductase activity, while the amounts of synthesized dolichols and ergosterol increased by 80 and 32%, respectively. The disruption of the SQS gene in the strain grown in the presence of ergosterol repressed the activities of both FPP synthase and HMG-CoA reductase to a comparable degree, whereas in the same strain starved for ergosterol the activity of FPPS was 10-fold higher and HMG-CoA reductase activity was practically unchanged. We show that FPPS is the enzyme that regulates the flow rate of synthesized mevalonic acid pathway products independent of HMG-CoA reductase and SQS.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biochemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Pawińskiego 5a, Warszawa, 02-106, Poland. babel@ibbrain.ibb.waw.pl
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Szkopińska
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Swiezewska
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Karst
mesh_terms: D019883:Alkyl and Aryl Transferases / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D004286:Dolichols / Q000378:metabolism; D004875:Ergosterol / Q000378:metabolism; D013186:Farnesyl-Diphosphate Farnesyltransferase / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D051228:Geranyltranstransferase; D006903:Hydroxymethylglutaryl CoA Reductases / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D008798:Mevalonic Acid / Q000378:metabolism*; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D004286:Dolichols; D006903:Hydroxymethylglutaryl CoA Reductases; D019883:Alkyl and Aryl Transferases; D051228:Geranyltranstransferase; D013186:Farnesyl-Diphosphate Farnesyltransferase; D008798:Mevalonic Acid; D004875:Ergosterol