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A more recent version of this article appeared on January 1, 2003
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Submitted on May 3, 2002
Revised on September 25, 2002
Accepted on October 3, 2002
1 Departments of Biochemistry and Surgery, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, 1-2-3, Kasumi, Minami-ku, Hiroshima 734-8551, Japan
2 Department of Biochemistry, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, 1-2-3, Kasumi, Minami-ku, Hiroshima 734-8551, Japan
3 Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, 1-2-3, Kasumi, Minami-ku, Hiroshima 734-8551, Japan
* Corresponding author. E-mail address: akikuchi{at}hiroshima-u.ac.jp.
The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae has four genes, MCK1, MDS1 (RIM11), MRK1, and YOL128c, that encode homologues of mammalian glycogen synthase kinase 3 (GSK-3). A gsk-3 null mutant, in which these four genes are disrupted, showed growth defects on galactose medium. We isolated several multicopy suppressors of this growth defect. Two of them encoded Msn2p and phosphoglucomutase (PGM). Msn2p is a transcription factor that binds to the stress response element (STRE). PGM is an enzyme that interconverts glucose-1 phosphate and glucose-6 phosphate and is regulated by Msn2p at the transcriptional level. Expression of the mRNAs of PGM2 and DDR2, whose promoter regions possess STRE sequences, upon induction by heat shock or salt stress was reduced not only in an msn2 msn4 (msn2 homolog) double mutant but also in the gsk-3 null mutant. STRE-dependent transcription was greatly inhibited in the gsk-3 null mutant or mck1 mds1 double mutant and this phenotype was suppressed by the expression of Mck1p but not of a kinase-inactive form of Mck1p. Although Msn2p accumulated in the nucleus of the gsk-3 null mutant as well as it did in the wild-type strain under various stress conditions, its STRE-binding activity was reduced in extracts prepared from the gsk-3 null mutant or mck1 mds1 double mutant. These results suggest that yeast GSK-3 promotes formation of a complex between Msn2p and DNA, which is required for the proper response to different forms of stress. Because neither Msn2p-GSK-3 complex formation nor GSK-3-dependent phosphorylation of Msn2p could be detected, the regulation of Msn2p by GSK-3 may be indirect.
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