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Interacting Domain Between Yeast Chitin Synthase 3 and Chitin Synthase 4 is Involved in Biogenesis of Chitin Ring, but not for Cell Wall Chitin  

Choi, Shin-Jung (Department of Life Sciences, Ewha Womans University)
Park, Nok-Hyun (Department of Life Sciences, Ewha Womans University)
Park, Hyun-Sook (Department of Life Sciences, Ewha Womans University)
Park, Mee-Hyun (Department of Life Sciences, Ewha Womans University)
Woo, Jee-Eun (Department of Life Sciences, Ewha Womans University)
Choi, Won-Ja (Department of Life Sciences, Ewha Womans University)
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Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology / v.13, no.2, 2003 , pp. 263-268 More about this Journal
Abstract
Recently, we identified a domain, termed MIRC3-4, for the protein-protein interaction between yeast chitin synthase 3 (CHS3) and chitin synthase 4 (CHS4). In this study, the functional roles of MIRC3-4 were examined at the G1 phase and cytokinesis of the cell cycle by Calcofluor staining and FISH. Some mutations in MIRC3-4 resulted in disappearance of the chitin ring in the early G1 phase, but did not affect chitin synthesis in the cell wall at cytokinesis. The chitin distribution in chs4 mutant cells indicated that CHS4 was involved in the synthesis of chitinring in the G1 phase and in the synthesis of cell wall chitin after cytokinesis, suggesting that Chs4p regulates chitin synthase 3 activity differently in G1 and cytokinesis. Absence of the chitin ring could be caused either by delocalization of Chs3p to the bud-neck or by improper interaction with Chs4p. When mutant cells were immunostained with a Chs3p-specific antibody to discriminate between these two alternatives, the mutated Ch3p was found to localize to the neck in all MIRC3-4 mutants. These results strongly irdicate that Chs4p regulates Chs3p as an activator but not a recruiter.
Keywords
Chitin synthase 3; chitin ring; cell wall chitin; Saccharomyces cerevisiae, ScCHS4;
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