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KMID : 0545120020120060943
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Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
2002 Volume.12 No. 6 p.943 ~ p.949
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Identification of a Domain in Yeast Chitin Synthase 3 Interacting with Chitin Synthase 4 by Two-Hybrid Analysis
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PARK, HYUN-SOOK
CHOI, SHIN-JUNG/PARK, NOK-HYUN/KIM, CHI-HWA/KIM, SUNG-UK/CHOI, WONJA
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Abstract
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It has been proposed that chitin synthase 3 (CHS3)-mediated chitin synthesis during the vegetative cell cycle is regulated by chitin synthase 4 (CHS4) of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. To investigate direct protein-protein interaction between the coding products of these two genes, a domain of Chs3p that is responsible for interaction with Chs4p was identified, using the yeast two-hybrid system. This domain of 54 amino acids, termed MIRC3-4(Maximum Interacting Region of Chs3p with Chs4p), is well conserved among CHS3 homologs of various fungi. Some mutations in MIRC3-4 resulted in a decrease in the enzymatic activity and chitin contents. Chs3p carrying those mutations exhibited weak interactions with Chs4p, when assayed by the yeast two-hybrid system. Surprisingly, all the mutants were sensitive to Calcofluor regardless of changes in enzymatic activities or chitin contents. This report deals with a core region in MIRC3-4 that affects the interaction with Chs4p.
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