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Mol. Cell. Biol., Jul 1995, 3777-3785, Vol 15, No. 7
SH MacKelvie, PD Andrews and MJ Stark
In higher eukaryotes, the activity and specificity of the type 1 protein
serine-threonine phosphatase (PP1) catalytic subunit is thought to be
controlled by its association with a number of regulatory or targeting
subunits. Here we describe the characterization of a gene encoding one such
potential polypeptide in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The gene which
we have isolated (termed SDS22) encodes a product with a high degree of
sequence identity to the fission yeast sds22 protein, a known regulator of
the mitotic function of PP1 in Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Using two
different criteria, we have demonstrated that Sds22p and the catalytic
subunit of PP1 (Glc7p) interact in yeast cells. We have also generated a
temperature-sensitive allele of GLC7 (glc7-12) which causes a block to the
completion of mitosis at the restrictive temperature. Additional copies of
SDS22 lead to allele-specific suppression of the glc7-12 mutant, strongly
suggesting that the interaction between the two proteins is of functional
significance. Sds22p is therefore likely to be the second example of a PP1
regulatory subunit identified in S. cerevisiae.
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The Saccharomyces cerevisiae gene SDS22 encodes a potential regulator of the mitotic function of yeast type 1 protein phosphatase
Department of Biochemistry, University of Dundee, United Kingdom.
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