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. 1994 Sep 27;91(20):9317–9321. doi: 10.1073/pnas.91.20.9317

Conditional lethality of a yeast strain expressing human RHOA in place of RHO1.

H Qadota 1, Y Anraku 1, D Botstein 1, Y Ohya 1
PMCID: PMC44803  PMID: 7937763

Abstract

The yeast RHO1 GTPase, which has 72% amino acid sequence identity with its human counterpart, RHOA, is essential for growth, although the reason has not been investigated. We report here that yeast strains that rely solely on expression of human RHOA in place of RHO1 are able to grow at 23 degrees C but grow neither at 37 degrees C nor in the presence of 300 mM CaCl2 even at 23 degrees C. Measurements of steady-state protein levels indicate that inability to grow at the restrictive temperature is not due to instability of the protein. Homolog scanning with the two GTPases identified a small, 27-residue region of RHO1 which, when substituted into RHOA, confers full function in yeast. This region corresponds to the alpha 3-helix loop 7 region of RAS; the same region was reported to determine specificity of function between GTPases of the RAB family, Sec4p and Ypt1p. By examining the phenotype of RHOA substitution strains at nonpermissive temperature, we found evidence suggesting that the normal function of RHO1 is to maintain osmotic integrity.

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