Cyclic AMP can decrease expression of genes subject to catabolite repression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

J Bacteriol. 1999 Apr;181(8):2640-2. doi: 10.1128/JB.181.8.2640-2642.1999.

Abstract

External cyclic AMP (cAMP) hindered the derepression of gluconeogenic enzymes in a pde2 mutant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, but it did not prevent invertase derepression. cAMP reduced nearly 20-fold the transcription driven by upstream activation sequence (UAS1FBP1) from FBP1, encoding fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase; it decreased 2-fold the activation of transcription by UAS2FBP1. Nuclear extracts from cells derepressed in the presence of cAMP were impaired in the formation of specific UASFBP1-protein complexes in band shift experiments. cAMP does not appear to act through the repressing protein Mig1. Control of FBP1 transcription through cAMP is redundant with other regulatory mechanisms.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Carboxy-Lyases / biosynthesis
  • Carboxy-Lyases / genetics
  • Cyclic AMP / pharmacology*
  • Enzyme Repression
  • Exonucleases / deficiency
  • Fructose-Bisphosphatase / biosynthesis
  • Fructose-Bisphosphatase / genetics
  • Gene Expression Regulation, Fungal / drug effects*
  • Gluconeogenesis / drug effects
  • Glutamate Dehydrogenase / biosynthesis
  • Glutamate Dehydrogenase / genetics
  • Protein Binding
  • Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid
  • Saccharomyces cerevisiae / drug effects*
  • Saccharomyces cerevisiae / enzymology
  • Transcription Factors / metabolism

Substances

  • Transcription Factors
  • Cyclic AMP
  • Glutamate Dehydrogenase
  • Exonucleases
  • spleen exonuclease
  • Fructose-Bisphosphatase
  • Carboxy-Lyases