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Mol. Biol. Cell 10.1091/mbc.E05-11-1039

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Submitted on November 14, 2005
Revised on December 13, 2005
Accepted on December 20, 2005

Sphingoid Base Is Required for Translation Initiation during Heat Stress in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Karsten D. Meier,* Olivier Deloche,{dagger} Kentaro Kajiwara,{ddagger} Kouichi Funato,{ddagger} and Howard Riezman{sect}

{sect}Department of Biochemistry, University of Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland; *Department of Biochemistry, Biozentrum of the University of Basel, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland; {dagger}Department of Microbiology and Molecular Medicine, CMU, University of Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland; {ddagger}Graduate School of Biosphere Science, Faculty of Applied Biological Science, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8528, Japan

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Sphingolipids are required for many cellular functions including response to heat shock. We analyzed the yeast lcb1-100 mutant which is conditionally impaired in the first step of sphingolipid biosynthesis and shows a strong decrease in heat shock protein synthesis and viability. Transcription and nuclear export of heat shock protein mRNAs is not affected. However, lcb1-100 cells exhibited a strong decrease in protein synthesis caused by a defect in translation initiation under heat stress conditions. The essential lipid is sphingoid base, not ceramide or sphingoid base phosphates. Deletion of the eIF4E binding protein Eap1p in lcb-100 cells restored translation of heat shock proteins and increased viability. The translation defect during heat stress in lcb1-100 was due at least partially to a reduced function of the sphingoid base activated PKH1/2 protein kinases. In addition, depletion of the translation initiation factor eIF4G was observed in lcb1-100 cells and ubiquitin overexpression allowed partial recovery of translation after heat stress. Taken together, we have shown a requirement for sphingoid bases during the recovery from heat shock, and suggest that this reflects a direct lipid-dependent signal to the cap-dependent translation initiation apparatus.

Address correspondence to: Howard Riezman (howard.riezman{at}biochem.unige.ch)




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