title: In Schizosaccharomyces pombe the 14-3-3 protein Rad24p is involved in negative control of pho1 gene expression.
abstract: Expression of Schizosaccharomyces pombe pho1-encoded acid phosphatase is transcriptionally regulated by adenine and phosphate. Four genes, anr1-3 and anr5, encode negative regulators of pho1 expression. Apart from being designated as loci, the anr genes have not been further characterized. In this study we provide evidence that a strain carrying the deletion of rad24, a 14-3-3 protein-encoding gene, exhibits an anr mutant like the phenotype (higher phosphatase activity, higher transcript levels of pho1, lower sensitivity to adenine of pho1 expression) and that rad24 is closely linked, probably allelic, to anr5. By sequencing the two exons of the rad24 gene in a strain carrying the mutant allele anr5-13, we found a T/A-to-C/G transition in the 225th codon of its ORF, causing a leucine-to-serine substitution in a highly conserved region of all proteins of the 14-3-3 family. anr2 and anr3 are not allelic to rad24. The mutant alleles of anr2 and anr3 are recessive to their wild-type alleles and do not belong to the same epistasis group as rad24.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, University of Medicine and Pharmacy Iasi, Romania.
authors.forename: Pia-Manuela
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Voicu
authors.forename: Elena
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Petrescu-Danila
authors.forename: Marius
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Poitelea
authors.forename: Adam T
authors.initials: AT
authors.lastname: Watson
authors.forename: Mircea
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rusu
mesh_terms: D000135:Acid Phosphatase / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D000483:Alleles; D018797:Cell Cycle Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D004271:DNA, Fungal / Q000235:genetics; D015971:Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic; D015966:Gene Expression Regulation, Fungal; D047908:Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins / Q000172:deficiency / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D017354:Point Mutation; D012331:RNA, Fungal / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012568:Schizosaccharomyces / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D029702:Schizosaccharomyces pombe Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D014158:Transcription, Genetic / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D018797:Cell Cycle Proteins; D004271:DNA, Fungal; D047908:Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins; D012331:RNA, Fungal; D029702:Schizosaccharomyces pombe Proteins; C501114:rad24 protein, S pombe; D000135:Acid Phosphatase