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Journal of Bacteriology, September 2000, p. 4868-4874, Vol. 182, No. 17
0021-9193/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Spy1, a Histidine-Containing Phosphotransfer Signaling Protein, Regulates the Fission Yeast Cell Cycle through the Mcs4 Response Regulator

Keisuke Aoyama, Yasunori Mitsubayashi, Hirofumi Aiba,* and Takeshi Mizuno

Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology, School of Agriculture, Nagoya University, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan

Received 3 April 2000/Accepted 14 June 2000

Common histidine-to-aspartate (His-to-Asp) phosphorelay signaling systems involve three types of signaling components: a sensor His kinase, a response regulator, and a histidine-containing phosphotransfer (HPt) protein. In the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, two response regulators, Mcs4 and Prr1, have been identified recently, and it was shown that they are involved in the signal transduction implicated in stress responses. Furthermore, Mcs4 appears to be involved in mitotic cell-cycle control. However, neither the HPt phosphotransmitter nor His kinase has been characterized in S. pombe. In this study, we identified a gene encoding an HPt phosphotransmitter, named Spy1 (S. pombe YPD1-like protein). The spy1+ gene showed an ability to complement a mutational lesion of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae YPD1 gene, which is involved in an osmosensing signal transduction. The result from yeast two-hybrid analysis indicated that Spy1 interacts with Mcs4. To gain insight into the function of Spy1, a series of genetic analyses were conducted. The results provided evidence that Spy1, together with Mcs4, plays a role in regulation of the G2/M cell cycle progression. Spy1-deficient cells appear to be precocious in the entry to M phase. In the proposed model, Spy1 modulates Mcs4 in a negative manner, presumably through a direct His-to-Asp phosphorelay, operating upstream of the Sty1 mitogen-activated protein kinase cascade.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology, School of Agriculture, Nagoya University, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan. Phone: (81)(52)789-4093. Fax: (81)(52)789-4091. E-mail: aiba{at}nuagr1.agr.nagoya-u.ac.jp.

Journal of Bacteriology, September 2000, p. 4868-4874, Vol. 182, No. 17
0021-9193/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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