• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제24권9호
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• pp.1207-1215
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• 2014

Candida albicans, the major human fungal pathogen, undergoes morphological transition from the budding yeast form to filamentous growth in response to nitrogen starvation. In this study, we identified a new function of GST2, whose expression was required for filamentous growth of C. albicans under nitrogen-limiting conditions. The Gst2p showed Gst activity and required response to oxidative stress. The ${\Delta}gst2$ mutant displayed predominantly yeast phase growth in low ammonium media. Such morphological defect of ${\Delta}gst2$ mutants was not rescued by overexpression of Mep2p, Cph1p, or Efg1p, but was rescued by either overexpression of a hyperactive $RAS1^{G13V}$ allele or through exogenous addition of cyclic AMP. In addition, the ${\Delta}gst2$ mutants had lower levels of RAS1 transcripts than wild-type cells under conditions of nitrogen starvation. These results were consistent with the Ras1-cAMP pathway as a possible downstream target of Gst2p. These findings suggest that Gst2p is a significant component of nitrogen starvation-induced filamentation in C. albicans.

• 한국미생물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국미생물학회 2002년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.135-139
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• 2002

Yeast cells respond to condition of amino acid starvation by synthesizing GCN4, a typical eukaryotic transcriptional activator, which regulates the expression of many amino acids biosynthetic genes. By introducing point mutations in the DNA binding domain of GCN4, mutants with normal DNA binding activity but defective in transcriptional activity were isolated to identify unknown proteins that could suppress the mutant phenotype under an amino acid depletion condition. As a result, SSB(Stress-Seventy B) subfamily proteins were identified as suppressors of mutant GCN4. SSB proteins were known as a member of yeast hsp70 family that probably aids passage of nascent chain through ribosomes. Among them, the mechanism of suppression by SSB2 on the defective GCN4 mutant strains is under investigation. Gcn4p directly interacts with Ssb2p through the basic DNA binding domain of GCN4. It suggests the possibility that physical interaction might induce the transcriptional activation of Gcn4p.

• Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering:BBE
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.15-18
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• 1998

The entanol productivity of superoxide dismutase (SOD)-deficient mutants of Saccharo-Myces cerevisiae was examined under the oxidative stress by Paraquat. It was observed that MnSOD-deficient mutant of S. cerevisiae had higher ethanol productivity than wild type or CuZnSOD-deficient yeast both in aerobic and in anaerobic culture condition. Pyruvated dehydrogenase activity decreased by 35% and alcohol dehydrogenase activity increased by 32% were observed in MnSOD-deficient yeast grown aerobically. When generating oxygen radicals by Paraquat, the ehanol productivity was increased by 40% in CuZnSOD-deficient or wild strain, resulting from increased activity of alcohol dehydrogenase and decreased a activity of pyruvate dehydrogenase. However, the addition of ascorbic acid with Paraquat returned the enzyme activities at the level of control. These results imply that SOD-deficiency in yeast strains may cause the metabolic flux to shift into anaerobic ethanol fermentation in order to avoid their oxidative damages by Paraquat.

• BMB Reports
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.139-143
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• 2001

Thioredoxin (Trx) is a redox protein possessing conserved sequence Cys-Gly-Pro-Cys in ail organisms. Trx acts as an electron donor of many proteins including thioredoxin peroxidase (TPx). Yeast Trx 2 has two redox active cysteine residues at positions 31 and 34. To investigate the redox activity of each cysteine, we generated mutants C31S, C34S, and C31S/C34S using site directed mutagenesis and examined the redox activity of Trx variants as an electron donor for yeast TPx enzymes. None of the three Cysmutated Trx proteins was active as a redox protein in the 5', 5'-dithiobis-(2-dinitrobenzoic acid) reduction under the condition of the presence of NADPH and thioredoxin reductase, and in the thioredoxin dependent peroxidase activity of yeast TPx II. C34S enhanced the glutamine synthetase protection activity of yeast TPx I, even though 100 times more protein was needed to exhibit the same activity to WT. The formation of a mixed disulfide intermediate between Trx and TPx II subunits was analyzed by SDS-PAGE. The mixed dieter form of TPx II was found only for C34S. These results suggest that Cys-31 more effectively acts as an electron donor for TPx enzymes.

• 미생물학회지
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• 제44권1호
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• pp.80-84
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• 2008

mRNA의 핵에서 세포질로의 이동에 중요한 역할을 하는 발아효모 Saccharomyces cerevisiae의 DEAD-box RNA helicase인 DBP5 유전자와 유사한 분열효모 Schizosaccharomyces pombe의 유전자(spDbp5로 명명)의 결실돌연변이주(knockout mutant)를 제조하여 그 특성을 조사하였다. 이배체인 S. pombe 균주에 하나의 spDbp5 유전자만을 결실시킨 후 4분체분석(tetrad analysis)을 수행한 결과, 이 유전자가 결실된 반수체 균주는 생장하지 못했다. mRNA의 핵에서 세포질로의 이동에 있어서 spDbp5의 역할을 알아보기 위해, spDbp5의 발현이 티아민(thiamin)에 의해 억제되는 균주를 제작하여 in situ hybridization을 통해 세포 내의 $poly(A)^+$ RNA 분포를 살펴보았다. spDbp5 유전자의 발현이 억제되면, $poly(A)^+$ RNA가 핵 안에 축적되고세포질에서는 줄어들었다. 이와 같은 결과들은 spDbp5 유전자 역시 mRNA의 핵에서 세포질로의 이동에 매우 중요한 역할을 담당하고 있음을 시사한다.

• 미생물학회지
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• 제44권2호
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• pp.98-104
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• 2008

mRNA의 핵에서 세포질로의 이동(mRNA export)에 관여하는 것으로 여겨지는 분열효모 Schizosaccharomyces pombe의 rsm1 유전자의 역할을 알아보기 위해 $kan^{r}$ 유전자를 이용하여 결실돌연변이주(deletion mutant)를 제조하였다. rsm1 유전자는 생장에 필수 유전자는 아니지만, rsm1 결실돌연변이주는 야생형에 비해 생장이 조금 늦고 mRNA export도 약간의 결함을 보였다. rsm1 유전자와 mRNA export의 중요 유전자와의 연관관계를 알아보기 위해, 이중돌연변이주(double mutants)를 제작하여 생장결함 정도와 mRNA export 결함 정도를 조사하였다. 조사한 유전자들 중에서 mex67 또는 npp106 돌연변이 유전자는 rsm1 결실돌연변이 유전자와 함께 존재하면 생장과mRNA export가 더욱 악화되었다. 반면, thp1 돌연변이 유전자는 rsm1 결실돌연변이 유전자와 함께 존재하면 오히려 생장과 mRNA export 정도를 야생형과 유사한 정도로 호전시켰다. 이와 같은 결과들은 rsm1 유전자가 mRNA의 핵에서 세포질로의 이동에 중요한 역할을 담당하고 있음을 시사한다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제28권9호
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• pp.1573-1579
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• 2018

Transcriptional gene silencing is regulated by the chromatin structure, which is by various factors including histones. Saccharomyces cerevisiae contains transcriptionally silenced regions such as telomeric regions and hidden mating (HM) loci. The positively-charged amino acids on the histone H4 tail were reported to be critical for the telomeric silencing in yeast, by interacting with Dot1, a specific methyltransferase for the $79^{th}$ lysine on histone H3. However, Dot1 did not affect gene silencing within HM loci, but whether the positively-charged amino acids on the H4 tail affect HM silencing has not been defined. To elucidate the function of the H4 tail on HM silencing, we created several MATa-type yeast strains bearing the substitution of arginine with alanine or lysine on the histone H4 tail and checked the sensitivity of MATa-type yeast to alpha pheromone. The arginine point mutants substituted by alanine (R17A, R19A, and R23A) did not show sensitivity to alpha pheromone, but only two arginine mutants substituted by lysine (R17K and R19K) restored the sensitivity to alpha pheromone-like wild type. These data suggested that the basic property of arginine at $17^{th}$ and $19^{th}$ positions in the histone H4 tail is critical for maintaining HM silencing, but that of the $23^{rd}$ arginine is not. Our data implicated that the positive charge of two arginine residues on the histone H4 tail is required for HM silencing in a manner independent of Dot1.

• Journal of Microbiology
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• 제39권4호
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• pp.286-292
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• 2001

During mitosis. the proper segregation of duplicated chromosomes is corrdinated by a spindle check-point. The bifurcated spindle checkpoint blocks cell cycle progression at metaphase by monitoring unattached kinetochores and inhibits mitotic exit in response to the misorientation of the mitotic spin- dle Ibd1p/Bfa1p is a spindle checkpoint regulator of budding yeast in the Bub2p checkpoint pathway for mitotic exit and its disruption abolishes mitotic arrest when proper organization of the mitotic spin-dls inhibited. Ibd1p/Bfa1p localizes to the spindle pole body, a microtublue-organizing center in yeast, and its overexpression arrests the cell cycle in 80% of cells with an enlarged budy at mitosis and in 20 % of cells with multiple buds. In this study, we found that the C-terminus of Ibd1p/Bfa1p phys-ically interacts with Skp1p, a key component of SCF (Skp1/cullin/F-box) complex for ubiquition-medi-ated proteolysis of cel cycle regulatores as well as an evolutionally conserved kinetochore protein for cell cycle progression. A putative F-box motif was found in the C-terminus of Ibd1p/Bfa1p and its function was investigated by making mutants of conserved residues in the motif. These Ibd1p/Bfa1p mutants of a putative F-box interacted with SKp1p in vitro by two-hybrid assays as wild type Ibd1p/Bfa1p. Also these Ibd1p/Bfa1p utants displayed the overexpression phenotypes of wild type Ibd1p, when over-expressed under inducible promoters . These results suggest that a putative F-box motif of Ibd1p/Bfa1p is not essential for the interaction with SKp1p and its function in mitotic exit and cytokinesis.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제45권1호
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• pp.81-86
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• 2017

퍼옥시레독신은 티오레독신, 티오레독신 환원효소, NADPH로 이루어진 티오레독신 시스템의 환원력을 이용하여 과산화물을 제거하는 티오레독신 과산화효소 활성과 다른 단백질의 열변성에 의한 응집을 막아주는 샤페론 활성을 갖는 효소이다. 정형 2-Cys Prx군에 속하는 퍼옥시레독신 참고서열 1,024개 중 부분적인 서열 등을 제외한 967개 서열을 정렬하였을 때 75번과 103번 아스파트산 잔기는 99% 보존되었고, 73번 세린 잔기는 97% 보존되었음에도 불구하고 잘 보존된 아스파트산 잔기와 세린 잔기에 대해 알려지지 않았다. 이 잔기가 TSA1의 두가지 효소 활성에 미치는 영향을 알아보기 위해 재조합 단백질을 이용하여 활성도를 알아보았다. in vitro 실험을 통하여 잘 보존된 잔기인 103번 아스파트산은 75번 아스파트산보다 티오레독신 퍼옥시레독신 활성 및 분자 샤페론 활성에 더 영향을 미치고, 103번의 음전하는 분자 샤페론 활성에 중요한 역할을 하며 과산화효소활성에는 75번과 103번의 음전하가 관여함을 알 수 있었다. 또한 73의 세린 잔기 역시 과산화효소에 영향을 미치는 잔기임을 알 수 있었다. 최근 출아 효모 퍼옥시레독신인 TSA2의 79번과 109번의 세린 잔기를 시스테인 잔기로 변이시킨 경우 두 변이 단백질 모두 과산화효소 활성과 샤페론 활성이 증가되었는데 이는 ${\beta}$-sheet 구조의 증가와 관련되는 것으로 보고하였다[28]. 이들 두 세린 잔기는 TSA1 구조에 의하면 모두 ${\alpha}$-나선 구조에 위치하였다. 반면에 73번의 세린 잔기는 ${\beta}$-sheet의 C-말단에 위치하는 잔기로 과산화효소 활성에 대한 영향이 다르게 나타나는 것으로 추정된다. 추후 생체 내 실험을 통하여 아스파트산 잔기의 변이가 과산화물 저항성이 미치는 영향 및 열 저항성(thermal stress)에 미치는 역할을 살펴볼 필요가 있다. 또한 아스파트산 잔기와 과산화물과의 반응 및 분자 샤페론과의 반응에 장애가 되는 요인이 무엇인지에 대한 추가 연구가 필요할 것이다.

• Journal of Microbiology
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• 제41권2호
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• pp.121-128
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• 2003

The identification of genes involved in true hypha formation is important in the study of mechanisms underlying the morphogenetic switch in yeast. We isolated a gene responsible for the morphogenetic switch in Yarrowia lipolytica, which forms true hyphae in response to serum or N-acetylglucosamine. The isolated gene, encoding 847 amino acids, had sequence identities of 27% and 25% with the Bud6 (Aip3) proteins of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Schizosaccharomyces pombe, respectively. Disruption of this gene, designated YIBUD6, in haploid and diploid strains significantly reduced the ability of Y. lipolytica to switch from the yeast form to the hyphal form in hypha-inducing media. It was also found that YIBud6$\Delta$ mutants were rounder than the wild type when grown in the yeast form. These results indicate that the YIBud6 protein is necessary for hyphal growth and cell polarity in both haploid and diploid Y. lipolytica cells.