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Molecular and Cellular Biology, March 2001, p. 1603-1612, Vol. 21, No. 5
0270-7306/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/MCB.21.5.1603-1612.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

A Positive Regulator of Mitosis, Sok2, Functions as a Negative Regulator of Meiosis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Galit Shenhar and Yona Kassir*

Department of Biology, Technion, Technion City, Haifa 32000, Israel

Received 6 June 2000/Returned for modification 19 July 2000/Accepted 8 December 2000

The choice between meiosis and alternative developmental pathways in budding yeast depends on the expression and activity of transcriptional activator Ime1. The transcription of IME1 is repressed in the presence of glucose, and a low basal level of IME1 RNA is observed in vegetative cultures with acetate as the sole carbon source. IREu, a 32-bp element in the IME1 promoter, exhibits upstream activation sequence activity depending on Msn2 and -4 and the presence of acetate. We show that in the presence of glucose IREu functions as a negative element and that Sok2 mediates this repression activity. We show that Sok2 associates with Msn2. Sok2 functions as a general repressor whose availability and activity depend on glucose. The activity of Sok2 as a repressor depends on phosphorylation of T598 by protein kinase A (PKA). Relief of repression of Sok2 depends on both the N-terminal domain of Sok2 and Ime1. In the absence of glucose and the presence of Ime1 Sok2 is converted to a weak activator. Overexpression of Sok2 or mild expression of Sok2 with its N-terminal domain deleted leads to a decrease in sporulation. Previously it was reported that overexpression of Sok2 suppresses the growth defect resulting from a temperature-sensitive PKA; thus Sok2 has a positive role in mitosis. We show that Candida albicans Efg1, a homolog of Sok2, complements sok2Delta in repressing IREu. Our results demonstrate that Sok2, a positive regulator of mitosis, and Efg1, a positive regulator of filamentation, function as negative regulators of meiosis. We suggest that cells use the same regulators with opposing effects to ensure that meiosis will be an alternative to mitosis.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Biology, Technion, Technion City, Haifa 32000, Israel. Phone: 972-4-8294214. Fax: 972-4-8225153. E-mail: ykassir{at}tx.technion.ac.il.

Molecular and Cellular Biology, March 2001, p. 1603-1612, Vol. 21, No. 5
0270-7306/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/MCB.21.5.1603-1612.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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