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J Bacteriol, April 1998, p. 2079-2086, Vol. 180, No. 8
0021-9193/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Isolation and Characterization of EPD1, an Essential Gene for Pseudohyphal Growth of a Dimorphic Yeast, Candida maltosa

Takanobu Nakazawa, Hiroyuki Horiuchi, Akinori Ohta, and Masamichi Takagi*

Department of Biotechnology, The University of Tokyo, Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan

Received 21 August 1997/Accepted 17 February 1998

Additional copies of the centromeric DNA (CEN) region induce pseudohyphal growth in a dimorphic yeast, Candida maltosa (T. Nakazawa, T. Motoyama, H. Horiuchi, A. Ohta, and M. Takagi, J. Bacteriol. 179:5030-5036, 1997). To understand the mechanism of this transition, we screened the gene library of C. maltosa for sequences which could suppress this morphological change. As a result, we isolated the 5' end of a new gene, EPD1 (for essential for pseudohyphal development), and then cloned the entire gene. The predicted amino acid sequence of Epd1p was highly homologous to those of Ggp1/Gas1/Cwh52p, a glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored protein of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and Phr1p and Phr2p of Candida albicans. The expression of EPD1 was moderately regulated by environmental pH. A homozygous EPD1 null mutant showed some morphological defects and reduction in growth rate and reduced levels of both alkali-soluble and alkali-insoluble beta -glucans. Moreover, the mutant could not undergo the transition from yeast form to pseudohyphal form induced by additional copies of the CEN sequence at pH 4 or by n-hexadecane at pH 4 or pH 7, suggesting that EPD1 is not essential for yeast form growth but is essential for transition to the pseudohyphal form. Overexpression of the amino-terminal part of Epd1p under the control of the GAL promoter suppressed the pseudohyphal development induced by additional copies of the CEN sequence, whereas overexpression of the full-length EPD1 did not. This result and the initial isolation of the 5' end of EPD1 as a suppressor of the pseudohyphal growth induced by the CEN sequence suggest that the amino-terminal part of Epd1p may have a dominant-negative effect on the functions of Epd1p in the pseudohyphal growth induced by the CEN sequence.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Biotechnology, The University of Tokyo, Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan. Phone: 81-3-3812-2111, ext. 5169. Fax: 81-3-3812-9246. E-mail: amtakag{at}hongo.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp.




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