|
||
J. Cell Biol.,
Volume 145, Number 6, June 14, 1999 1177-1188


* Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143-0448; and Cells of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae
choose bud sites in a manner that is dependent upon
cell type: a and
Lehrstuhl für
Zellbiologie und Pflanzenphysiologie, Universität Regensburg, D-93053 Regensburg, Germany
cells select axial sites; a/
cells utilize
bipolar sites. Mutants specifically defective in axial budding were isolated from an
strain using pseudohyphal
growth as an assay. We found that a and
mutants defective in the previously identified PMT4 gene exhibit
unipolar, rather than axial budding: mother cells
choose axial bud sites, but daughter cells do not. PMT4 encodes a protein mannosyl transferase (pmt) required
for O-linked glycosylation of some secretory and cell
surface proteins (Immervoll, T., M. Gentzsch, and W. Tanner. 1995. Yeast. 11:1345-1351). We demonstrate
that Axl2/Bud10p, which is required for the axial budding pattern, is an O-linked glycoprotein and is incompletely glycosylated, unstable, and mislocalized in cells
lacking PMT4. Overexpression of AXL2 can partially
restore proper bud-site selection to pmt4 mutants.
These data indicate that Axl2/Bud10p is glycosylated by
Pmt4p and that O-linked glycosylation increases Axl2/
Bud10p activity in daughter cells, apparently by enhancing its stability and promoting its localization to
the plasma membrane.
This article has been cited by other articles:
|
|