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Mol. Cell. Biol., 11 1995, 5879-5887, Vol 15, No. 11
R Egner, Y Mahe, R Pandjaitan and K Kuchler
Multidrug resistance (MDR) to different cytotoxic compounds in the yeast
Saccharomyces cerevisiae can arise from overexpression of the Pdr5 (Sts1,
Ydr1, or Lem1) ATP-binding cassette (ABC) multidrug transporter. We have
raised polyclonal antibodies recognizing the yeast Pdr5 ABC transporter to
study its biogenesis and to analyze the molecular mechanisms underlying MDR
development. Subcellular fractionation and indirect immunofluorescence
experiments showed that Pdr5 is localized in the plasma membrane. In
addition, pulse-chase radiolabeling of cells and immunoprecipitation
indicated that Pdr5 is a short-lived membrane protein with a half-life of
about 60 to 90 min. A dramatic metabolic stabilization of Pdr5 was observed
in delta pep4 mutant cells defective in vacuolar proteinases, and indirect
immunofluorescence showed that Pdr5 accumulates in vacuoles of
stationary-phase delta pep4 mutant cells, demonstrating that Pdr5 turnover
requires vacuolar proteolysis. However, Pdr5 turnover does not require a
functional proteasome, since the half-life of Pdr5 was unaffected in either
pre1-1 or pre1-1 pre2-1 mutants defective in the multicatalytic cytoplasmic
proteasome that is essential for cytoplasmic protein degradation.
Immunofluorescence analysis revealed that vacuolar delivery of Pdr5 is
blocked in conditional end4 endocytosis mutants at the restrictive
temperature, showing that endocytosis delivers Pdr5 from the plasma
membrane to the vacuole.
Copyright © 1995, American Society for Microbiology
Endocytosis and vacuolar degradation of the plasma membrane-localized Pdr5 ATP-binding cassette multidrug transporter in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Department of Molecular Genetics, University and Biocenter of Vienna, Austria.
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