Regulated vacuole fusion and fission in Schizosaccharomyces pombe: an osmotic response dependent on MAP kinases

Current Biology : CB
N BoneJ Armstrong

Abstract

The budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae uses two mitogenactivated protein (MAP) kinase cascades, the Hog1p and the Mpk1p pathways, to signal responses to hypertonic and hypotonic stress, respectively. Mammalian cells and the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe have functional homologues of Hog1p - p38/RK/CSBP and Sty1 - which, unlike Hog1p, also mediate other responses. We have investigated the involvement of S. pombe MAP kinase pathways in signalling a newly described response to osmotic stress - that of vacuole fusion and fission. When S. pombe is placed into water, its vacuoles rapidly fuse into larger structures enclosing a greater proportion of the cell's volume. Under some conditions, its vacuoles can slowly fragment in response to salt. Fission requires the Sty1 pathway and also Pmk1, the homologue of S. cerevisiae Mpk1p. Fusion requires Pmk1, Ypt7 - the homologue of a protein involved in S. cerevisiae vacuole fusion - and part of the Sty1 pathway, although Sty1 phosphorylation is unaffected by hypotonic conditions. Vacuole fusion and fission appear to be homeostatic mechanisms that restore the concentration of the cytosol. Vacuole fusion, like stimulated secretion in higher eukaryotes, is a rapid and specific pro...Continue Reading

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