title: Saccharomyces cerevisiae CWH43 is involved in the remodeling of the lipid moiety of GPI anchors to ceramides.
abstract: The glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored proteins are subjected to lipid remodeling during their biosynthesis. In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the mature GPI-anchored proteins contain mainly ceramide or diacylglycerol with a saturated long-fatty acid, whereas conventional phosphatidylinositol (PI) used for GPI biosynthesis contains an unsaturated fatty acid. Here, we report that S. cerevisiae Cwh43p, whose N-terminal region contains a sequence homologous to mammalian PGAP2, is involved in the remodeling of the lipid moiety of GPI anchors to ceramides. In cwh43 disruptant cells, the PI moiety of the GPI-anchored protein contains a saturated long fatty acid and lyso-PI but not inositolphosphorylceramides, which are the main lipid moieties of GPI-anchored proteins from wild-type cells. Moreover, the C-terminal region of Cwh43p (Cwh43-C), which is not present in PGAP2, is essential for the ability to remodel GPI lipids to ceramides. The N-terminal region of Cwh43p (Cwh43-N) is associated with Cwh43-C, and it enhanced the lipid remodeling to ceramides by Cwh43-C. Our results also indicate that mouse FRAG1 and C130090K23, which are homologous to Cwh43-N and -C, respectively, share these activities.
authors.affiliation: Research Institute for Cell Engineering, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Ibaraki 305-8566, Japan.
authors.forename: Mariko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Umemura
authors.forename: Morihisa
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fujita
authors.forename: Takehiko
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yoko-O
authors.forename: Akiyoshi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fukamizu
authors.forename: Yoshifumi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Jigami
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D002518:Ceramides / Q000378:metabolism*; D017124:Conserved Sequence; D004721:Endoplasmic Reticulum / Q000378:metabolism; D017261:Glycosylphosphatidylinositols / Q000378:metabolism*; D050356:Lipid Metabolism; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009687:Nuclear Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000172:deficiency / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D010641:Phenotype; D011485:Protein Binding; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D016415:Sequence Alignment
chemical_list: C524676:CWH43 protein, S cerevisiae; D002518:Ceramides; C503454:FRAG1 protein, mouse; D017261:Glycosylphosphatidylinositols; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D009687:Nuclear Proteins; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins