Isolation of a Tobacco cDNA Encoding Sar1 GTPase and Analysis of Its Dominant Mutations in Vesicular Traffic Using a Yeast Complementation System |
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| Authors: | Takeuchi, Masaki Tada, Masahito Saito, Chieko Yashiroda, Hideki Nakano, Akihiko |
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| Affiliation: | 1 Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0033 Japan
2 Molecular Membrane Biology Laboratory, RIKEN (The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research) Wako, Saitama, 351-0198 Japan |
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| Abstract: | The cDNA clone of NtSARl, a gene encoding the small GTPase Sar1pwhich is essential for vesicle formation from the endoplasmicreticulum (ER) membrane in yeast, has been isolated from Nicotianatabacum BY-2 cells. NtSAR1 as well as AtSAR1 cDNA isolated fromArabidopsis thaliana [d'Enfert et al. (1992) EMBO J. 11: 4205]could complement the lethality of the disruption of SARI inyeast cells in a temperature-sensitive fashion. They also suppressedyeast sec12 and sec16 temperature-sensitive mutations as yeastSARI does. Using this complementation system, we analyzed thephenotypes of several mutations in plant SAR1 cDNAs in yeastcells. The expression of NtSAR1 H74L and AtSAR1 N129I showeddominant negative effect in growth over the wild-type SARI,which was accompanied by the arrest of ER-to-Golgi transport.Such dominant mutations will be useful to analyze the role ofmembrane trafficking in plant cells, if their expression canbe regulated conditionally. (Received October 29, 1997; Accepted March 17, 1998) |
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