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. 1983 Feb;153(2):644–651. doi: 10.1128/jb.153.2.644-651.1983

Regulation of yeast trehalase by a monocyclic, cyclic AMP-dependent phosphorylation-dephosphorylation cascade system.

C H Ortiz, J C Maia, M N Tenan, G R Braz-Padrão, J R Mattoon, A D Panek
PMCID: PMC221680  PMID: 6296049

Abstract

Mutation at the GLC1 locus in Saccharomyces cerevisiae resulted in simultaneous deficiencies in glycogen and trehalose accumulation. Extracts of yeast cells containing the glc1 mutation exhibited an abnormally high trehalase activity. This elevated activity was associated with a defective cyclic AMP (cAMP)-dependent monocyclic cascade which, in normal cells, regulates trehalase activity by means of protein phosphorylation and dephosphorylation. Trehalase in extracts of normal cells was largely in a cryptic form which could be activated in vitro by ATP . Mg in the presence of cAMP. Normal extracts also exhibited a correlated cAMP-dependent protein kinase which catalyzed incorporation of label from [gamma-32P]ATP into protamine. In contrast, cAMP had little or no additional activating effect on trehalase or on protamine phosphorylation in extracts of glc1 cells. Similar, unregulated activation of cryptic trehalase was also found in glycogen-deficient strains bearing a second, independently isolated mutant allele, glc1-2. Since trehalase activity was not directly affected by cAMP, the results indicate that the glc1 mutation results in an abnormally active protein kinase which has lost its normal dependence on cAMP. Trehalase in extracts of either normal or mutant cells underwent conversion to a cryptic form in an Mg2+-dependent, fluoride-sensitive reaction. Rates of this reversible reduction of activity were similar in extracts of mutant and normal cells. This same, unregulated protein kinase would act on glycogen synthase, maintaining it in the phosphorylated low-activity D-form. The glc1 mutants provide a novel model system for investigating the in vivo metabolic functions of a specific, cAMP-dependent protein kinase.

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