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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL
Volume 21, Issue 4, Pages 674-685Publisher
AMER SOC CELL BIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E09-09-0810
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [20112008] Funding Source: KAKEN
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The highly conserved fission yeast Pmk1 MAPK pathway plays a key role in cell integrity by regulating Atf1, which belongs to the ATF/cAMP-responsive element-binding (CREB) protein family. We identified and characterized ecm33(+), which encodes a glycosyl-phosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored cell surface protein as a transcriptional target of Pmk1 and Atf1. We demonstrated that the gene expression of Ecm33 is regulated by two transcription factors Atf1 and a MADS-box-type transcription factor Mbx1. We identified a putative ATF/CREB-binding site and an RLM1-binding site in the ecm33(+) promoter region and monitored the transcriptional activity of Atf1 or Mbx1 in living cells using a destabilized luciferase reporter gene fused to three tandem repeats of the CRE and six tandem repeats of the Rlm1-binding sequence, respectively. These reporter genes reflect the activation of the Pmk1 pathway by various stimuli, thereby enabling the real-time monitoring of the Pmk1 cell integrity pathway. Notably, the Delta ecm33 cells displayed hyperactivation of the Pmk1 signaling together with hypersensitivity to Ca2+ and an abnormal morphology, which were almost abolished by simultaneous deletion of the components of the Rho2/Pck2/Pmk1 pathway. Our results suggest that Ecm33 is involved in the negative feedback regulation of Pmk1 cell integrity signaling and is linked to cellular Ca2+ signaling.
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