Cordycepin-hypersensitive growth links elevated polyphosphate levels to inhibition of poly(A) polymerase in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
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2008-02
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To identify genes involved in poly(A) metabolism, we screened the yeast gene deletion collection for growth defects in the presence of cordycepin (3′-deoxyadenosine), a precursor to the RNA chain terminating ATP analog cordycepin triphosphate. Δpho80 and Δpho85 strains, which have a constitutively active phosphate-response pathway, were identified as cordycepin hypersensitive. We show that inorganic polyphosphate (poly P) accumulated in these strains and that poly P is a potent inhibitor of poly(A) polymerase activity in vitro . Binding analyses of poly P and yeast Pap1p revealed an interaction with a kD in the low nanomolar range. Poly P also bound mammalian poly(A) polymerase, however, with a 10-fold higher kD compared to yeast Pap1p. Genetic tests with double mutants of Δpho80 and other genes involved in phosphate homeostasis and poly P accumulation suggest that poly P contributed to cordycepin hypersensitivity. Synergistic inhibition of mRNA synthesis through poly P-mediated inhibition of Pap1p and through cordycepin-mediated RNA chain termination may thus account for hypersensitive growth of Δpho80 and Δpho85 strains in the presence of the chain terminator. Consistent with this, a mutation in the 3′-end formation component rna14 was synthetic lethal in combination with Δpho80 . Based on these observations, we suggest that binding of poly P to poly(A) polymerase negatively regulates its activity.
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36 (2)
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353 - 363
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Oxford University Press
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03707 - Zeeman, Samuel C. / Zeeman, Samuel C.
03707 - Zeeman, Samuel C. / Zeeman, Samuel C.