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Molecular and Cellular Biology, May 2007, p. 3441-3455, Vol. 27, No. 9
0270-7306/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/MCB.01643-06
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

mRNAs Encoding Polarity and Exocytosis Factors Are Cotransported with the Cortical Endoplasmic Reticulum to the Incipient Bud in Saccharomyces cerevisiae{triangledown} ,{dagger}

Stella Aronov,{ddagger} Rita Gelin-Licht,{ddagger} Gadi Zipor, Liora Haim, Einat Safran, and Jeffrey E. Gerst*

Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel

Received 3 September 2006/ Returned for modification 13 November 2006/ Accepted 9 February 2007

Polarized growth in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae depends upon the asymmetric localization and enrichment of polarity and secretion factors at the membrane prior to budding. We examined how these factors (i.e., Cdc42, Sec4, and Sro7) reach the bud site and found that their respective mRNAs localize to the tip of the incipient bud prior to nuclear division. Asymmetric mRNA localization depends upon factors that facilitate ASH1 mRNA localization (e.g., the 3' untranslated region, She proteins 1 to 5, Puf6, actin cytoskeleton, and a physical association with She2). mRNA placement precedes protein enrichment and subsequent bud emergence, implying that mRNA localization contributes to polarization. Correspondingly, mRNAs encoding proteins which are not asymmetrically distributed (i.e., Snc1, Mso1, Tub1, Pex3, and Oxa1) are not polarized. Finally, mutations which affect cortical endoplasmic reticulum (ER) entry and anchoring in the bud (myo4{Delta}, sec3{Delta}, and srp101) also affect asymmetric mRNA localization. Bud-localized mRNAs, including ASH1, were found to cofractionate with ER microsomes in a She2- and Sec3-dependent manner; thus, asymmetric mRNA transport and cortical ER inheritance are connected processes in yeast.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel. Fax: 972 8 9344108. Phone: 972 8 9342106. E-mail: jeffrey.gerst{at}weizmann.ac.il

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 5 March 2007.

{dagger} Supplemental material for this article may be found at http://mcb.asm.org/.

{ddagger} S.A. and R.G.-L. contributed equally to this study.

Molecular and Cellular Biology, May 2007, p. 3441-3455, Vol. 27, No. 9
0270-7306/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/MCB.01643-06
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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