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. 2017 Mar 31;6:e24126. doi: 10.7554/eLife.24126

Figure 1. Selection of yeast mutants resistant to calcofluor white.

(A) Schematic diagram of post-Golgi trafficking pathways. In wild-type cells, Chs3 is retained at the Golgi-endosome interface via AP-1 dependent retrieval from the endosome, and is delivered to the plasma membrane via Golgi-derived exomer coated vesicles (gray arrows). In cells used for the genetic selection in this study, chitin synthase 3 (Chs3) is diverted into the constitutive secretory pathway due to deletions of the Chs6 exomer subunit and the Apl2 AP-1 subunit (chs6Δapl2Δ). Endocytosis of Chs3 and other plasma membrane proteins, which is attenuated by the end4 mutation, delivers the internalized proteins to the endosome, where some are sorted by retromer into a recycling pathway, while others are retained in the endosome and delivered to the lysosome-like vacuole and degraded. (B) Strategy to identify novel mutations affecting Chs3 trafficking. The flowchart lists the number of mutants remaining after each step of selection. (C) Representative calcofluor white (CFW) resistant strains. Serial dilutions (1:10; indicated by the black triangle above the photograph) of the indicated strains were spotted onto YPD medium with or without 100 μg/ml CFW. The plates were incubated for three days at 30°C and then photographed. (D) Mutations in MIH1 alter sensitivity of growth to CFW. Serial dilutions (indicated by a triangle above the photograph) of control cells of the indicated genotypes were spotted onto rich medium with or without 50 μg/ml CFW for three days at 30°C. The genotype of the control strain is: chs6Δapl2Δ. The chs6Δapl2Δmih1-1 strain was constructed by introducing the mih1-1 lesion de novo in the original chs6Δapl2Δ parent strain. The mih1Δ designation indicates that the wild-type MIH1 locus was deleted in the original parent strain (chs6Δapl2Δmih1Δ). The mih1-1/mih1Δ designation indicates that the mih1-1 allele was deleted in the original mih1-1 mutant strain. (E) Mih1 phosphatase activity is required for CFW resistance conferred by the mih1-1 mutation. Serial dilutions of chs6Δapl2Δmih1Δ cells containing plasmids expressing the mih1-1 allele (‘S162R’), a double mutant protein (S162R C320S) in which a second mutation was introduced that ablates catalytic activity, or empty vector (‘Vec’), were spotted onto complete synthetic medium with or without 50 μg/ml CFW for three days at 30°C. The host strain is the chs6Δapl2Δmih1Δ strain background.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.24126.002

Figure 1.

Figure 1—figure supplement 1. Regulation of membrane trafficking by Mih1 is not dependent on activated Cdc28.

Figure 1—figure supplement 1.

(A) Quantitation of phospho-Cdc28 levels. Cell lysates of the indicated strains were probed by immunoblot with an anti-phospho-cdc2 (Tyr15) antiserum (one example is shown in the inset, top). The intensity of the signal corresponding to Cdc28 (the S. cerevisiae homolog of Cdc2) was normalized for loading. The graph shows the mean intensities (+ s.e.m.) for three independent experiments, relative to the mean intensity measured for wild-type cells. The parent genotype of all strains (except wild-type) is chs6Δapl2Δ; additional mutations are indicated. (B) Deletion of SWE1 does not affect growth in the presence of calcofluor white. Serial dilutions of control (chs6Δapl2Δ), mih1-1 (chs6Δapl2Δmih1-1), mih1Δ (chs6Δapl2Δmih1Δ), mih1-1/mih1Δ (chs6Δapl2Δmih1-1mih1Δ), swe1Δ (chs6Δapl2Δswe1Δ), and mih1-1/swe1Δ (chs6Δapl2Δmih1-1swe1Δ) cells were grown on YPD medium with or without 100 μg/ml CFW for three days at 30°C. This is the uncropped image of Figure 1D. (C) Localization of Chs3-GFP in control (chs6Δapl2Δ), mih1-1 (chs6Δapl2Δmih1-1), mih1Δ (chs6Δapl2Δ mih1Δ) and swe1Δ (chs6Δapl2Δswe1Δ) cells. A representative medial optical plane of a z-series is shown. Scale bar, 5 µm.