Molecular-Cloning of a Gene Involved in Glucose Sensing in the Yeast Saccharomyces-Cerevisiae

Van Aelst, L., Hohmann, S., Bulaya, B., Dekoning, W., Sierkstr, L., Neves, M. J., Luyten, K., Alijo, R., Ramos, J., Coccetti, P., Martegani, E., Demagalhaesrocha, N. M., Brandao, R. L., Vandijck, P., Vanhalewyn, M., Durnez, P., Jans, A. W. H., Thevelein, J. M. (May 1993) Molecular-Cloning of a Gene Involved in Glucose Sensing in the Yeast Saccharomyces-Cerevisiae. Molecular Microbiology, 8 (5). pp. 927-943. ISSN 0950-382X

URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8355617
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1993.tb01638.x

Abstract

Cells of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae display a wide range of glucose-induced regulatory phenomena, including glucose-induced activation of the RAS-adenylate cyclase pathway and phosphatidylinositol turnover, rapid post-translational effects on the activity of different enzymes as well as long-term effects at the transcriptional level. A gene called GGS1 (for General Glucose Sensor) that is apparently required for the glucose-induced regulatory effects and several ggs1 alleles (fdp1, byp1 and cif1) has been cloned and characterized. A GGS1 homologue is present in Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum. Yeast ggs1 mutants are unable to grow on glucose or related readily fermentable sugars, apparently owing to unrestricted influx of sugar into glycolysis, resulting in its rapid deregulation. Levels of intracellular free glucose and metabolites measured over a period of a few minutes after addition of glucose to cells of a ggs1DELTA strain are consistent with our previous suggestion of a functional interaction between a sugar transporter, a sugar kinase and the GGS1 gene product. Such a glucose-sensing system might both restrict the influx of glucose and activate several signal transduction pathways, leading to the wide range of glucose-induced regulatory phenomena. Deregulation of these pathways in ggs1 mutants might explain phenotypic defects observed in the absence of glucose, e.g. the inability of ggs1 diploids to sporulate.

Item Type: Paper
Uncontrolled Keywords: DEPENDENT PROTEIN-KINASE HEAT-SHOCK GENE CYCLIC-AMP ADENYLATE-CYCLASE INTRACELLULAR ACIDIFICATION PYRUVATE DECARBOXYLASE CATABOLITE REPRESSION GLYCOLYTIC PATHWAY FERMENTABLE SUGARS REGULATORY MUTANT
Subjects: bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > genes, structure and function > gene expression
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > genes, structure and function > gene regulation
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > genes, structure and function > gene regulation
organs, tissues, organelles, cell types and functions > tissues types and functions > signal transduction
organism description > yeast
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Communities: CSHL labs > Van Aelst lab
Depositing User: Matt Covey
Date: May 1993
Date Deposited: 08 Apr 2016 20:25
Last Modified: 08 Apr 2016 20:25
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URI: https://repository.cshl.edu/id/eprint/32569

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