The GCR1 gene encodes a positive transcriptional regulator of the enolase and glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase gene families in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

AUTOR(ES)

Holland, M J

RESUMO

The intracellular concentrations of the polypeptides encoded by the two enolase (ENO1 and ENO2) and three glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (TDH1, TDH2, and TDH3) genes were coordinately reduced more than 20-fold in a Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain carrying the gcr1-1 mutation. The steady-state concentration of glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase mRNA was shown to be approximately 50-fold reduced in the mutant strain. Overexpression of enolase and glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase in strains carrying multiple copies of either ENO1 or TDH3 was reduced more than 50-fold in strains carrying the gcr1-1 mutation. These results demonstrated that the GCR1 gene encodes a trans-acting factor which is required for efficient and coordinate expression of these glycolytic gene families. The GCR1 gene and the gcr1-1 mutant allele were cloned and sequenced. GCR1 encodes a predicted 844-amino-acid polypeptide; the gcr1-1 allele contains a 1-base-pair insertion mutation at codon 304. A null mutant carrying a deletion of 90% of the GCR1 coding sequence and a URA3 gene insertion was constructed by gene replacement. The phenotype of a strain carrying this null mutation was identical to that of the gcr1-1 mutant strain.

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