RESUMO
In eukaryotes, Dom34 upregulates translation by securing levels of activatable ribosomal subunits. We found that in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and the human fungal pathogen Candida albicans, Dom34 interacts genetically with Pmt1, a major isoform of protein O-mannosyltransferase. In C. albicans, lack of Dom34 exacerbated defective phenotypes of pmt1 mutants, while they were ameliorated by Dom34 overproduction that enhanced Pmt1 protein but not PMT1 transcript levels. Translational effects of Dom34 required the 5'-UTR of the PMT1 transcript, which bound recombinant Dom34 directly at a CA/AC-rich sequence and regulated in vitro translation. Polysomal profiling revealed that Dom34 stimulates general translation moderately, but that it is especially required for translation of transcripts encoding Pmt isoforms 1, 4 and 6. Because defective protein N- or O-glycosylation upregulates transcription of PMT genes, it appears that Dom34-mediated specific translational upregulation of the PMT transcripts optimizes cellular responses to glycostress. Its translational function as an RNA binding protein acting at the 5'-UTR of specific transcripts adds another facet to the known ribosome-releasing functions of Dom34 at the 3'-UTR of transcripts.
Assuntos
Candida albicans/genética , Proteínas de Ciclo Celular/genética , Endorribonucleases/genética , Manosiltransferases/genética , Biossíntese de Proteínas/genética , Proteínas de Saccharomyces cerevisiae/genética , Saccharomyces cerevisiae/genética , Candida albicans/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Proteínas de Ciclo Celular/biossíntese , Endorribonucleases/biossíntese , Glicosilação , Humanos , Oligonucleotídeos/genética , Fenótipo , Isoformas de Proteínas/biossíntese , Isoformas de Proteínas/genética , Ribossomos/genética , Ribossomos/metabolismo , Proteínas de Saccharomyces cerevisiae/biossínteseRESUMO
Synthetic genes encoding functional luciferases of the click beetle (CB) Pyrophorus plagiophthalamus have been expressed in the human fungal pathogen Candida albicans. Both green- and red-emitting CB luciferases (CaCBGluc and CaCBRluc) were produced with high efficiency in transformants under transcriptional control of the growth-dependent ACT1 promoter, as well as by the HWP1 and UME6 promoters, which are upregulated during hyphal morphogenesis, as well as by the YWP1 and EFG1 promoters, which are downregulated. For all hyphally regulated genes, relative bioluminescence values derived from promoter fusions approximated relative transcript levels of native genes, although downregulation of YWP1 promoter activity required correction for the stability of CB luciferases (approximate half-lives 30 min for CaCBRluc and 80 min for CaCBGluc, as determined by immunoblotting). Importantly, the activity of both luciferases could be separately monitored in a single strain, in intact cells, in lysed cells or in cell extracts using luciferin as single substrate and inhibition of hypha formation by farnesol could be easily detected by the HWP1p-CaCBRluc fusion. The results suggest that CB luciferases are convenient tools to measure gene expression in C. albicans and may facilitate screenings for antifungal compounds.
