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Eukaryotic Cell, June 2002, p. 481-490, Vol. 1, No. 3
1535-9778/02/$04.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/EC.1.3.481-490.2002
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Mga2p Processing by Hypoxia and Unsaturated Fatty Acids in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: Impact on LORE-Dependent Gene Expression

Hematology Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115,¹ The Nelson Biological Laboratory, Bureau of Biological Research, Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Busch Campus, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854²

Received 14 January 2002/ Accepted 25 March 2002

In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, OLE1 encodes a 9 fatty acid desaturase, an enzyme that plays a critical role in maintaining the correct ratio of saturated to monounsaturated fatty acids in the cell membrane. Previous studies have demonstrated that (i) OLE1 expression is repressed by unsaturated fatty acids (UFAs) and induced by low oxygen tension, (ii) a component of this regulation is mediated through the same low oxygen response element (LORE) in the OLE1 promoter, and (iii) Mga2p is involved in LORE-dependent hypoxic induction of OLE1. We now report that LORE-CYC1 basal promoter-lacZ fusion reporter assays demonstrate that UFAs repress the reporter expression under hypoxic conditions in a dose-dependent manner via LORE. Electrophoretic mobility shift assays show that UFAs repress the hypoxia-induced complex formation with LORE. Studies with a construct encoding a truncated form of Mga2p support the hypothesis that both hypoxia and UFA signals affect the processing of Mga2p and the UFA repression of OLE1 hypoxic induction is mediated through Mga2p. Data from Western blot assays provide evidence that under normoxic conditions, Mga2p processing produces approximately equimolar levels of the membrane-bound and processed forms and is unaffected by UFAs. Hypoxic induction of OLE1, however, is associated with increased processing of the protein, resulting in an approximately fivefold increase in the soluble active form that is counteracted by exposure of the cells to unsaturated fatty acids. Data from this study suggest that the Mga2p-LORE interaction plays an important role in OLE1 expression under both normoxic and hypoxic conditions.

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