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. 1997 Mar;179(5):1469–1474. doi: 10.1128/jb.179.5.1469-1474.1997

Regulation of the proteinase B structural gene PRB1 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

R R Naik 1, V Nebes 1, E W Jones 1
PMCID: PMC178854  PMID: 9045801

Abstract

The expression of PRB1, the gene that encodes the precursor to the soluble vacuolar proteinase B (PrB) in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, is regulated by carbon and nitrogen sources and by growth phase. Little or no PRB1 mRNA is detectable during exponential growth on glucose as the carbon source; it begins to accumulate as cells exhaust the glucose. Previous work has shown that glucose repression of PRB1 transcription is not mediated by HXK2 or by the SNF1, SNF4, and SNF6 genes (C. M. Moehle and E. W. Jones, Genetics 124:39-55, 1990). We analyzed the effects of mutations in the MIG1, TUP1, and GRR1 genes on glucose repression of PRB1 and found that mutations in each partially alleviate glucose repression. tup1 and mig1 mutants fail to translocate all of the Prb1p into the lumen of the endoplasmic reticulum. A screen for new mutants revealed mutations in MIG1 and REG1, genes already known to regulate glucose repression, as well as in three new genes that we have named PBD1 to PBD3; all cause derepressed expression. Mutations that result in failure to completely derepress PRB1 were also identified in two new genes, named PND1 and PND2. Good nitrogen sources, like ammonia, repress PRB1 transcription; mutations in URE2 do not affect this response. Derepression upon transfer to a poor nitrogen source is dependent upon GLN3.

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