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The yeast cell wall protein Pry3 inhibits mating through highly conserved residues within the CAP domain

Cottier, Stéphanie ; Darwiche, Rabih ; Meyenhofer, Felix ; Debelyy, Mykhaylo O. ; Schneiter, Roger

In: Biology Open, 2020, vol. 9, no. 6, p. bio053470

Members of the CAP/SCP/TAPS superfamily have been implicated in many different physiological processes, including pathogen defense, sperm maturation and fertilization. The mode of action of this class of proteins, however, remains poorly understood. The genome of Saccharomyces cerevisiae encodes three CAP superfamily members, Pry1-3. We have previously shown that Pry1 function is required...

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Ubiquitin release from eL40 is required for cytoplasmic maturation and function of 60S ribosomal subunits in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Martín‐Villanueva, Sara ; Fernández‐Pevida, Antonio ; Fernández‐Fernández, José ; Kressler, Dieter ; Cruz, Jesús de la

In: The FEBS Journal, 2019, vol. 0, no. 0, p. -

Ubiquitin is generated by proteolytic cleavage of precursor proteins in which it is fused either to itself, constituting a linear polyubiquitin protein of head‐to‐tail monomers, or as a single N‐terminal moiety to one of two ribosomal proteins, eL40 (Ubi1/2 precursors) and eS31 (Ubi3 precursor). It has been proposed that the ubiquitin moiety fused to these ribosomal proteins could act...

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The ubiquitin moiety of ubi1 is required for productive expression of ribosomal protein el40 in saccharomyces cerevisiae

Martín-Villanueva, Sara ; Fernández-Pevida, Antonio ; Kressler, Dieter ; Cruz, Jesús de la

In: Cells, 2019, vol. 8, no. 8, p. 850

Ubiquitin is a highly conserved small eukaryotic protein. It is generated by proteolytic cleavage of precursor proteins in which it is fused either to itself, constituting a polyubiquitin precursor of head-to-tail monomers, or as a single N-terminal moiety to ribosomal proteins. Understanding the role of the ubiquitin fused to ribosomal proteins becomes relevant, as these proteins are...

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The transcription factor Spt4-Spt5 complex regulates the expression of ATG8 and ATG41

Wen, Xin ; Gatica, Damián ; Yin, Zhangyuan ; Hu, Zehan ; Dengjel, Jörn ; Klionsky, Daniel J.

In: Autophagy, 2019, vol. 0, no. 0, p. 1–14

Macroautophagy/autophagy, a highly conserved dynamic process, is one of the major degradative pathways in cells. So far, over 40 autophagy-related (ATG) genes have been identified in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, most of which have homologs in more complex eukaryotes. Autophagy plays a crucial role in cell survival and maintenance, and its dysfunction is related to various diseases, indicating...

Università della Svizzera italiana

Sumoylation regulates the stability and nuclease activity of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Dna2

Ranjha, Lepakshi ; Levikova, Maryna ; Altmannova, Veronika ; Krejci, Lumir ; Cejka, Petr

In: Communications Biology, 2019, vol. 2, p. 174

Dna2 is an essential nuclease-helicase that acts in several distinct DNA metabolic pathways including DNA replication and recombination. To balance these functions and prevent unscheduled DNA degradation, Dna2 activities must be regulated. Here we show that Saccharomyces cerevisiae Dna2 function is controlled by sumoylation. We map the sumoylation sites to the N-terminal regulatory domain of...

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A spatially and functionally distinct pool of TORC1 defines signaling endosomes in yeast

Hatakeyama, Riko ; De Virgilio, Claudio

In: Autophagy, 2019, vol. 15, no. 5, p. 915–916

The evolutionarily conserved target of rapamycin complex 1 (TORC1) regulates cell growth in a homeostatic manner by tuning anabolic and catabolic processes in response to nutritional and hormonal cues. Interestingly, rather than being localized at the plasma membrane as perhaps expected for an integrator of extracellular signals, TORC1 mainly localizes at vacuolar (in yeast) and lysosomal (in...

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Removal of a subset of non-essential genes fully attenuates a highly virulent mycoplasma strain

Jores, Joerg ; Ma, Li ; Ssajjakambwe, Paul ; Schieck, Elise ; Liljander, Anne ; Chandran, Suchismita ; Stoffel, Michael H. ; Cippa, Valentina ; Arfi, Yonathan ; Assad-Garcia, Nacyra ; Falquet, Laurent ; Sirand-Pugnet, Pascal ; Blanchard, Alain ; Lartigue, Carole ; Posthaus, Horst ; Labroussaa, Fabien ; Vashee, Sanjay

In: Frontiers in Microbiology, 2019, vol. 10, p. -

Mycoplasmas are the smallest free-living organisms and cause a number of economically important diseases affecting humans, animals, insects, and plants. Here, we demonstrate that highly virulent Mycoplasma mycoides subspecies capri (Mmc) can be fully attenuated via targeted deletion of non-essential genes encoding, among others, potential virulence traits. Five genomic regions, representing...

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Conventional and emerging roles of the energy sensor Snf1/AMPK in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Coccetti, Paola ; Nicastro, Raffaele ; Tripodi, Farida

In: Microbial Cell, 2018, vol. 5, no. 11, p. 482–494

All proliferating cells need to match metabolism, growth and cell cycle progression with nutrient availability to guarantee cell viability in spite of a changing environment. In yeast, a signaling pathway centered on the effector kinase Snf1 is required to adapt to nutrient limitation and to utilize alternative carbon sources, such as sucrose and ethanol. Snf1 shares evolutionary conserved...