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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
16
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-8-29
pubmed:abstractText
The mechanisms whereby different external cues stimulate the same mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) cascade, yet trigger an appropriately distinct biological response, epitomize the conundrum of specificity in cell signaling. In yeast, shared upstream components of the mating pheromone and filamentous growth pathways activate two related MAPKs, Fus3 and Kss1, which in turn regulate programs of gene expression via the transcription factor Ste12. As fus3, but not kss1, strains are impaired for mating, Fus3 exhibits specificity for the pheromone response. To account for this specificity, it has been suggested that Fus3 physically occludes Kss1 from pheromone-activated signaling complexes, which are formed on the scaffold protein Ste5. However, we find that genome-wide expression profiles of pheromone-treated wild-type, fus3, and kss1 deletion strains are highly correlated for all induced genes and, further, that two catalytically inactive versions of Fus3 fail to abrogate the pheromone-induced transcriptional response. Consistently, Fus3 and Kss1 kinase activity is induced to an equivalent extent in pheromone-treated cells. In contrast, both in vivo and in an in vitro-reconstituted MAPK system, Fus3, but not Kss1, exhibits strong substrate selectivity toward Far1, a bifunctional protein required for polarization and G(1) arrest. This effect accounts for the failure to repress G(1)-S specific transcription in fus3 strains and, in part, explains the mating defect of such strains. MAPK specificity in the pheromone response evidently occurs primarily at the substrate level, as opposed to specific kinase activation by dedicated signaling complexes.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Cell Cycle Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor..., http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Enzyme Inhibitors, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/FAR1 protein, S cerevisiae, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/FUS3 protein, S cerevisiae, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Fungal Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/KSS1 protein, S cerevisiae, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Peptides, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Pheromones, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Recombinant Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Repressor Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
0960-9822
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
21
pubmed:volume
11
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1266-71
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:11525741-Cell Cycle Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:11525741-Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:11525741-Enzyme Inhibitors, pubmed-meshheading:11525741-Fungal Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:11525741-MAP Kinase Signaling System, pubmed-meshheading:11525741-Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases, pubmed-meshheading:11525741-Models, Biological, pubmed-meshheading:11525741-Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis, pubmed-meshheading:11525741-Peptides, pubmed-meshheading:11525741-Pheromones, pubmed-meshheading:11525741-Recombinant Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:11525741-Repressor Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:11525741-Saccharomyces cerevisiae, pubmed-meshheading:11525741-Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:11525741-Statistics as Topic, pubmed-meshheading:11525741-Transcriptional Activation
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
MAPK specificity in the yeast pheromone response independent of transcriptional activation.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Medical Genetics and Microbiology, University of Toronto, 1 Kings College Circle, Toronto M5S 1A8, Canada.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't