The essential function of Rrs1 in ribosome biogenesis is conserved in budding and fission yeasts. Issue 9 (20th July 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Wan, Kun; Kawara, Haruka; Yamamoto, Tomoyuki; Kume, Kazunori; Yabuki, Yukari; Goshima, Tetsuya; Kitamura, Kenji; Ueno, Masaru; Kanai, Muneyoshi; Hirata, Dai; Funato, Kouichi; Mizuta, Keiko
• Is Part Of: Yeast. Volume 32:Issue 9(2015:Sep.)
• Page Start: 607
• Page End: 614
• Publication Date: 2015-07-20
• Subjects: Yeast -- Periodicals; Yeasts -- Periodicals; Yeasts -- genetics -- Periodicals; Electronic journals; 547
• DOI: 10.1002/yea.3083
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0749-503X

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="main"> <title>Abstract</title> <p>The Rrs1 protein plays an essential role in the biogenesis of 60S ribosomal subunits in budding yeast (<italic>Saccharomyces cerevisiae</italic>). Here, we examined whether the fission yeast (<italic>Schizosaccharomyces pombe</italic>) homologue of Rrs1 also plays a role in ribosome biogenesis. To this end, we constructed two temperature‐sensitive fission yeast strains, <italic>rrs1‐D14/22G</italic> and <italic>rrs1‐L51P</italic>, which had amino acid substitutions corresponding to those of the previously characterized budding yeast <italic>rrs1‐84</italic> (D22/30G) and <italic>rrs1‐124</italic> (L61P) strains, respectively. The fission yeast mutants exhibited severe defects in growth and 60S ribosomal subunit biogenesis at high temperatures. In addition, expression of the Rrs1 protein of fission yeast suppressed the growth defects of the budding yeast <italic>rrs1</italic> mutants at high temperatures. Yeast two‐hybrid analyses revealed that the interactions of Rrs1 with the Rfp2 and Ebp2 proteins were conserved in budding and fission yeasts. These results suggest that the essential function of Rrs1 in ribosome biogenesis may be conserved in budding and fission yeasts. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley &amp; Sons, Ltd.</p> </abstract>