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Eukaryotic Cell, November 2005, p. 1863-1871, Vol. 4, No. 11
1535-9778/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/EC.4.11.1863-1871.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Independent Metalloregulation of Ace1 and Mac1 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Greg Keller, Amanda Bird, and Dennis R. Winge*

University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, Utah 84132

Received 22 June 2005/ Accepted 31 August 2005

Ace1 and Mac1 undergo reciprocal copper metalloregulation in yeast cells. Mac1 is functional as a transcriptional activator in copper-deficient cells, whereas Ace1 is a transcriptional activator in copper-replete cells. Cells undergoing a transition from copper-deficient to copper-sufficient conditions through a switch in the growth medium show a rapid inactivation of Mac1 and a corresponding rise in Ace1 activation. Cells analyzed after the transition show a massive accumulation of cellular copper. Under these copper shock conditions we show, using two epitope-tagged variants of Mac1, that copper-mediated inhibition of Mac function is independent of induced protein turnover. The transcription activity of Mac1 is rapidly inhibited in the copper-replete cells, whereas chromatin immunoprecipitation studies showed only partial copper-induced loss of DNA binding. Thus, the initial event in copper inhibition of Mac1 function is likely copper inhibition of the transactivation activity. Copper inhibition of Mac1 in transition experiments is largely unaffected in cells overexpressing copper-binding proteins within the nucleus. Likewise, high expression of a copper-binding, non-DNA-binding Mac1 mutant is without effect on the copper activation of Ace1. Thus, metalloregulation of Ace1 and Mac1 occurs independently.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, UT 84132. Phone: (801) 585-5103. Fax: (801) 585-5469. E-mail: dennis.winge{at}hsc.utah.edu.

Eukaryotic Cell, November 2005, p. 1863-1871, Vol. 4, No. 11
1535-9778/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/EC.4.11.1863-1871.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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