scholarly journals Cdc55p, the B-type regulatory subunit of protein phosphatase 2A, has multiple functions in mitosis and is required for the kinetochore/spindle checkpoint in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

1997 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 620-626 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y Wang ◽  
D J Burke
Keyword(s):  
Saccharomyces Cerevisiae ◽  
Protein Phosphatase ◽  
Elevated Temperatures ◽  
Protein Phosphatase 2A ◽  
Spindle Checkpoint ◽  
Mitotic Checkpoint ◽  
Regulatory Subunit ◽  
Phosphatase 2A ◽  
A Subunit ◽  
Normal Sensitivity

Saccharomyces cerevisiae, like most eucaryotic cells, can prevent the onset of anaphase until chromosomes are properly aligned on the mitotic spindle. We determined that Cdc55p (regulatory B subunit of protein phosphatase 2A [PP2A]) is required for the kinetochore/spindle checkpoint regulatory pathway in yeast. ctf13 cdc55 double mutants could not maintain a ctf13-induced mitotic delay, as determined by antitubulin staining and levels of histone H1 kinase activity. In addition, cdc55::LEU2 mutants and tpd3::LEU2 mutants (regulatory A subunit of PP2A) were nocodazole sensitive and exhibited the phenotypes of previously identified kinetochore/spindle checkpoint mutants. Inactivating CDC55 did not simply bypass the arrest that results from inhibiting ubiquitin-dependent proteolysis because cdc16-1 cdc55::LEU2 and cdc23-1 cdc55::LEU2 double mutants arrested normally at elevated temperatures. CDC55 is specific for the kinetochore/spindle checkpoint because cdc55 mutants showed normal sensitivity to gamma radiation and hydroxyurea. The conditional lethality and the abnormal cellular morphogenesis of cdc55::LEU2 were suppressed by cdc28F19, suggesting that the cdc55 phenotypes are dependent on the phosphorylation state of Cdc28p. In contrast, the nocodazole sensitivity of cdc55::LEU2 was not suppressed by cdc28F19. Therefore, the mitotic checkpoint activity of CDC55 (and TPD3) is independent of regulated phosphorylation of Cdc28p. Finally, cdc55::LEU2 suppresses the temperature sensitivity of cdc20-1, suggesting additional roles for CDC55 in mitosis.

scholarly journals Cdc55p-Mediated E4orf4 Growth Inhibition in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Is Mediated Only in Part via the Catalytic Subunit of Protein Phosphatase 2A

2008 ◽  
Vol 82 (7) ◽  
pp. 3612-3623 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yikun Li ◽  
Huijun Wei ◽  
Tung-Chin Hsieh ◽  
David C. Pallas
Keyword(s):  
Saccharomyces Cerevisiae ◽  
Growth Inhibition ◽  
Protein Phosphatase ◽  
Protein Phosphatase 2A ◽  
Point Mutations ◽  
Regulatory Subunit ◽  
Stable Complex ◽  
B Subunit ◽  
C Subunit ◽  
Phosphatase 2A

ABSTRACT The adenovirus early region 4 open reading frame 4 (E4orf4) protein specifically induces p53-independent cell death of transformed but not normal human cells, suggesting that elucidation of its mechanism may provide important new avenues for cancer therapy. Wild-type E4orf4 and mutants that retain cancer cell toxicity also induce growth inhibition in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which provides a genetically tractable system for studying E4orf4 function. Interaction with the protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A) B regulatory subunit is required for E4orf4's effects, suggesting that E4orf4 may function by regulating B subunit-containing heterotrimeric PP2A holoenzymes (PP2ABAC), which consist of a B subunit complexed with the PP2A structural (A) and catalytic (C) subunits. However, it is not known whether E4orf4-induced growth inhibition requires interaction with the PP2A C subunit or whether E4orf4 might have PP2A B subunit-dependent effects that are independent of PP2ABAC holoenzyme formation. To test these possibilities in S. cerevisiae, we disrupted the stable formation of PP2ABAC heterotrimers and thus E4orf4/C subunit association by PP2A C subunit point mutations or by deletion of the gene for the PP2A methyltransferase, Ppm1p, and assayed for effects on E4orf4-induced growth inhibition. Our results support a model in which E4orf4 mediates growth inhibition and cell killing both through PP2ABAC heterotrimers and through a B regulatory subunit-dependent pathway(s) that is independent of stable complex formation with the PP2A C subunit. They also indicate that Ppm1p has a function other than regulating the assembly of PP2A heterotrimers and suggest that selective PP2A trimer inhibitors and PP6 inhibitors may be useful as adjuvant anticancer therapies.

scholarly journals Molecular genetic analysis of Rts1p, a B' regulatory subunit of Saccharomyces cerevisiae protein phosphatase 2A.

1997 ◽  
Vol 17 (6) ◽  
pp. 3242-3253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y Shu ◽  
H Yang ◽  
E Hallberg ◽  
R Hallberg
Keyword(s):  
Saccharomyces Cerevisiae ◽  
Cell Cycle ◽  
High Temperatures ◽  
Protein Phosphatase ◽  
Protein Phosphatase 2A ◽  
Molecular Genetic Analysis ◽  
Regulatory Subunit ◽  
Temperature Sensitive ◽  
Checkpoint Control ◽  
Phosphatase 2A

The Saccharomyces cerevisiae gene RTS1 encodes a protein homologous to a variable B-type regulatory subunit of the mammalian heterotrimeric serine/threonine protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A). We present evidence showing that Rts1p assembles into similar heterotrimeric complexes in yeast. Strains in which RTS1 has been disrupted are temperature sensitive (ts) for growth, are hypersensitive to ethanol, are unable to grow with glycerol as their only carbon source, and accumulate at nonpermissive temperatures predominantly as large-budded cells with a 2N DNA content and a nondivided nucleus. This cell cycle arrest can be overcome and partial suppression of the ts phenotype of rts1-null cells occurs if the gene CLB2, encoding a Cdc28 kinase-associated B-type cyclin, is expressed on a high-copy-number plasmid. However, CLB2 overexpression has no suppressive effects on other aspects of the rts1-null phenotype. Expression of truncated forms of Rts1p can also partially suppress the ts phenotype and can fully suppress the inability of cells to grow on glycerol and the hypersensitivity of cells to ethanol. By contrast, the truncated forms do not suppress the accumulation of large-budded cells at high temperatures. Coexpression of truncated Rts1p and high levels of Clb2p fully suppresses the ts phenotype, indicating that the inhibition of growth of rts1-null cells at high temperatures is due to both stress-related and cell cycle-related defects. Genetic analyses show that the role played by Rts1p in PP2A regulation is distinctly different from that played by the other known variable B regulatory subunit, Cdc55p, a protein recently implicated in checkpoint control regulation.

scholarly journals Inactivation of the protein phosphatase 2A regulatory subunit A results in morphological and transcriptional defects in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

1992 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 4946-4959
Author(s):  
W van Zyl ◽  
W Huang ◽  
A A Sneddon ◽  
M Stark ◽  
S Camier ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Saccharomyces Cerevisiae ◽  
Rna Polymerase ◽  
Protein Phosphatase ◽  
Protein Phosphatase 2A ◽  
Rna Polymerase Iii ◽  
Regulatory Subunit ◽  
Predicted Amino Acid Sequence ◽  
Major Protein ◽  
Polymerase Iii ◽  
Phosphatase 2A

We have determined that TPD3, a gene previously identified in a screen for mutants defective in tRNA biosynthesis, most likely encodes the A regulatory subunit of the major protein phosphatase 2A species in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The predicted amino acid sequence of the product of TPD3 is highly homologous to the sequence of the mammalian A subunit of protein phosphatase 2A. In addition, antibodies raised against Tpd3p specifically precipitate a significant fraction of the protein phosphatase 2A activity in the cell, and extracts of tpd3 strains yield a different chromatographic profile of protein phosphatase 2A than do extracts of isogenic TPD3 strains. tpd3 deletion strains generally grow poorly and have at least two distinct phenotypes. At reduced temperatures, tpd3 strains appear to be defective in cytokinesis, since most cells become multibudded and multinucleate following a shift to 13 degrees C. This is similar to the phenotype obtained by overexpression of the protein phosphatase 2A catalytic subunit or by loss of CDC55, a gene that encodes a protein with homology to a second regulatory subunit of protein phosphatase 2A. At elevated temperatures, tpd3 strains are defective in transcription by RNA polymerase III. Consistent with this in vivo phenotype, extracts of tpd3 strains fail to support in vitro transcription of tRNA genes, a defect that can be reversed by addition of either purified RNA polymerase III or TFIIIB. These results reinforce the notion that protein phosphatase 2A affects a variety of biological processes in the cell and provide an initial identification of critical substrates for this phosphatase.

scholarly journals Inactivation of the protein phosphatase 2A regulatory subunit A results in morphological and transcriptional defects in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

1992 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 4946-4959 ◽  
Author(s):  
W van Zyl ◽  
W Huang ◽  
A A Sneddon ◽  
M Stark ◽  
S Camier ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Saccharomyces Cerevisiae ◽  
Rna Polymerase ◽  
Protein Phosphatase ◽  
Protein Phosphatase 2A ◽  
Rna Polymerase Iii ◽  
Regulatory Subunit ◽  
Predicted Amino Acid Sequence ◽  
Major Protein ◽  
Polymerase Iii ◽  
Phosphatase 2A

We have determined that TPD3, a gene previously identified in a screen for mutants defective in tRNA biosynthesis, most likely encodes the A regulatory subunit of the major protein phosphatase 2A species in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The predicted amino acid sequence of the product of TPD3 is highly homologous to the sequence of the mammalian A subunit of protein phosphatase 2A. In addition, antibodies raised against Tpd3p specifically precipitate a significant fraction of the protein phosphatase 2A activity in the cell, and extracts of tpd3 strains yield a different chromatographic profile of protein phosphatase 2A than do extracts of isogenic TPD3 strains. tpd3 deletion strains generally grow poorly and have at least two distinct phenotypes. At reduced temperatures, tpd3 strains appear to be defective in cytokinesis, since most cells become multibudded and multinucleate following a shift to 13 degrees C. This is similar to the phenotype obtained by overexpression of the protein phosphatase 2A catalytic subunit or by loss of CDC55, a gene that encodes a protein with homology to a second regulatory subunit of protein phosphatase 2A. At elevated temperatures, tpd3 strains are defective in transcription by RNA polymerase III. Consistent with this in vivo phenotype, extracts of tpd3 strains fail to support in vitro transcription of tRNA genes, a defect that can be reversed by addition of either purified RNA polymerase III or TFIIIB. These results reinforce the notion that protein phosphatase 2A affects a variety of biological processes in the cell and provide an initial identification of critical substrates for this phosphatase.

scholarly journals Localization of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Protein Phosphatase 2A Subunits throughout Mitotic Cell Cycle

2002 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 3477-3492 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew S. Gentry ◽  
Richard L. Hallberg
Keyword(s):  
Saccharomyces Cerevisiae ◽  
Cell Cycle ◽  
Protein Phosphatase ◽  
Fluorescent Protein ◽  
Protein Phosphatase 2A ◽  
Mitotic Cell ◽  
Regulatory Subunit ◽  
Regulatory Subunits ◽  
C Subunit ◽  
Phosphatase 2A

Protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A) regulates a broad spectrum of cellular processes. This enzyme is a collection of varied heterotrimeric complexes, each composed of a catalytic (C) and regulatory (B) subunit bound together by a structural (A) subunit. To understand the cell cycle dynamics of this enzyme population, we carried out quantitative and qualitative analyses of the PP2A subunits of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. We found the following: the level of each subunit remained constant throughout the cell cycle; there is at least 10 times more of one of the regulatory subunits (Rts1p) than the other (Cdc55p); Tpd3p, the structural subunit, is limiting for both catalytic and regulatory subunit binding. Using green fluorescent protein-tagged forms of each subunit, we monitored the sites of significant accumulation of each protein throughout the cell cycle. The two regulatory subunits displayed distinctly different dynamic localization patterns that overlap with the A and C subunits at the bud tip, kinetochore, bud neck, and nucleus. Using strains null for single subunit genes, we confirmed the hypothesis that regulatory subunits determine sites of PP2A accumulation. Although Rts1p and Tpd3p required heterotrimer formation to achieve normal localization, Cdc55p achieved its normal localization in the absence of either an A or C subunit.

scholarly journals Adenovirus Protein E4orf4 Induces Premature APCCdc20 Activation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by a Protein Phosphatase 2A-Dependent Mechanism

2010 ◽  
Vol 84 (9) ◽  
pp. 4798-4809 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa Z. Mui ◽  
Diana E. Roopchand ◽  
Matthew S. Gentry ◽  
Richard L. Hallberg ◽  
Jackie Vogel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Saccharomyces Cerevisiae ◽  
Protein Phosphatase ◽  
Protein Phosphatase 2A ◽  
Functional Characterization ◽  
Specific Inhibitor ◽  
Human Adenovirus ◽  
Yeast Cells ◽  
Regulatory Subunit ◽  
Phosphatase 2A

ABSTRACT Protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A) has been implicated in cell cycle progression and mitosis; however, the complexity of PP2A regulation via multiple B subunits makes its functional characterization a significant challenge. The human adenovirus protein E4orf4 has been found to induce both high Cdk1 activity and the accumulation of cells in G2/M in both mammalian and yeast cells, effects which are largely dependent on the B55/Cdc55 regulatory subunit of PP2A. Thus, E4orf4 represents a unique means by which the function of a specific form of PP2A can be delineated in vivo. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, only two PP2A regulatory subunits exist, Cdc55 and Rts1. Here, we show that E4orf4-induced toxicity depends on a functional interaction with Cdc55. E4orf4 expression correlates with the inappropriate reduction of Pds1 and Scc1 in S-phase-arrested cells. The unscheduled loss of these proteins suggests the involvement of PP2ACdc55 in the regulation of the Cdc20 form of the anaphase-promoting complex (APC). Contrastingly, activity of the Hct1 form of the APC is not induced by E4orf4, as demonstrated by the observed stability of its substrates. We propose that E4orf4, being a Cdc55-specific inhibitor of PP2A, demonstrates the role of PP2ACdc55 in regulating APCCdc20 activity.

scholarly journals Regulatory Subunit B′γ of Protein Phosphatase 2A Prevents Unnecessary Defense Reactions under Low Light in Arabidopsis

2011 ◽  
Vol 156 (3) ◽  
pp. 1464-1480 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Trotta ◽  
Michael Wrzaczek ◽  
Judith Scharte ◽  
Mikko Tikkanen ◽  
Grzegorz Konert ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Protein Phosphatase ◽  
Protein Phosphatase 2A ◽  
Regulatory Subunit ◽  
Low Light ◽  
Defense Reactions ◽  
Phosphatase 2A ◽  
Subunit B
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