title: Dynamic localization of yeast Fus2p to an expanding ring at the cell fusion junction during mating.
abstract: Fus2p is a pheromone-induced protein associated with the amphiphysin homologue Rvs161p, which is required for cell fusion during mating in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. We constructed a functional Fus2p-green fluorescent protein (GFP), which exhibits highly dynamic localization patterns in pheromone-responding cells (shmoos): diffuse nuclear, mobile cytoplasmic dots and stable cortical patches concentrated at the shmoo tip. In mitotic cells, Fus2p-GFP is nuclear but becomes cytoplasmic as cells form shmoos, dependent on the Fus3p protein kinase and high levels of pheromone signaling. The rapid cytoplasmic movement of Fus2p-GFP dots requires Rvs161p and polymerized actin and is aberrant in mutants with compromised actin organization, which suggests that the Fus2p dots are transported along actin cables, possibly in association with vesicles. Maintenance of Fus2p-GFP patches at the shmoo tip cortex is jointly dependent on actin and a membrane protein, Fus1p, which suggests that Fus1p is an anchor for Fus2p. In zygotes, Fus2p-GFP forms a dilating ring at the cell junction, returning to the nucleus at the completion of cell fusion.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.
authors.forename: Joanna Mathis
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Paterson
authors.forename: Casey A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Ydenberg
authors.forename: Mark D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Rose
mesh_terms: D000199:Actins / Q000378:metabolism; D019086:Bridged Bicyclo Compounds, Heterocyclic / Q000494:pharmacology; D002467:Cell Nucleus / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism; D016764:Cell Polarity / Q000187:drug effects; D003598:Cytoskeletal Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D049452:Green Fluorescent Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D007365:Intercellular Junctions / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D008870:Microtubules / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism; D008954:Models, Biological; D009154:Mutation / Q000235:genetics; D021381:Protein Transport / Q000187:drug effects; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D012098:Reproduction / Q000187:drug effects; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000166:cytology* / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D053778:Thiazolidines / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D000199:Actins; D019086:Bridged Bicyclo Compounds, Heterocyclic; D003598:Cytoskeletal Proteins; C095898:FUS2 protein, S cerevisiae; D008565:Membrane Proteins; C089181:RVS161 protein, S cerevisiae; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; D053778:Thiazolidines; D049452:Green Fluorescent Proteins; C037067:latrunculin A