title: Cytoplasmic extension peptide of Pichia pastoris glucose sensor Gss1 is not compulsory for glucose signalling.
abstract: In the methylotrophic yeast, Pichia pastoris, Gss1 protein is a glucose sensor involved in pexophagy, glucose utilization and glucose catabolite repression. This study identifies that deletion of 150 residues of Gss1 affects slightly glucose catabolite repression and pexophagy, while maintaining signalling function of Gss1. Substitution of one conserved amino acid R180K of Gss1 protein has no visible phenotype, in contrast to corresponding changes in glucose sensors from other yeast species. We suggest that C-terminal cytoplasmic extension of PpGss1plays different role to that of its homologs in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Hansenula polymorpha.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology, Institute of Cell Biology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 79005, Lviv, Ukraine; Key State Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Lviv, Ukraine.
authors.forename: Andriy S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Polupanov
authors.forename: Andriy A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Sibirny
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D019943:Amino Acid Substitution; D005656:Fungal Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D017353:Gene Deletion; D005947:Glucose / Q000378:metabolism*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010843:Pichia / Q000737:chemistry / Q000166:cytology / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D015398:Signal Transduction
chemical_list: D005656:Fungal Proteins; D005947:Glucose
keywords: catabolite repression; glucose sensor; methylotrophic yeast; peroxisomes; pexophagy