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Eukaryotic Cell, March 2008, p. 493-508, Vol. 7, No. 3
1535-9778/08/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/EC.00446-07
Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Key Function for the CCAAT-Binding Factor Php4 To Regulate Gene Expression in Response to Iron Deficiency in Fission Yeast{triangledown} ,{dagger}

Alexandre Mercier,1 Stephen Watt,2 Jürg Bähler,2 and Simon Labbé1*

Département de Biochimie, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec J1H 5N4, Canada,1 Fission Yeast Functional Genomics Group, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1HH, United Kingdom2

Received 8 December 2007/ Accepted 18 January 2008

The fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe responds to the deprivation of iron by inducing the expression of the php4+ gene, which encodes a negative regulatory subunit of the heteromeric CCAAT-binding factor. Once formed, the Php2/3/4/5 transcription complex is required to inactivate a subset of genes encoding iron-using proteins. Here, we used a pan-S. pombe microarray to study the transcriptional response to iron starvation and identified 86 genes that exhibit php4+-dependent changes on a genome-wide scale. One of these genes encodes the iron-responsive transcriptional repressor Fep1, whose mRNA levels were decreased after treatment with the permeant iron chelator 2,2'-dipyridyl. In addition, several genes encoding the components of iron-dependent biochemical pathways, including the tricarboxylic acid cycle, mitochondrial respiration, amino acid biosynthesis, and oxidative stress defense, were downregulated in response to iron deficiency. Furthermore, Php4 repressed transcription when brought to a promoter using a yeast DNA-binding domain, and iron deprivation was required for this repression. On the other hand, Php4 was constitutively active when glutathione levels were depleted within the cell. Based on these and previous results, we propose that iron-dependent inactivation of Php4 is regulated at two distinct levels: first, at the transcriptional level by the iron-responsive GATA factor Fep1 and second, at the posttranscriptional level by a mechanism yet to be identified, which inhibits Php4-mediated repressive function when iron is abundant.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Département de Biochimie, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Sherbrooke, 3001, 12e Ave. Nord, Sherbrooke, Quebec J1H 5N4, Canada. Phone: (819) 820-6868, ext. 15460. Fax: (819) 564-5340. E-mail: Simon.Labbe{at}USherbrooke.ca

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 25 January 2008.

{dagger} Supplemental material for this article may be found at http://ec.asm.org/.

Eukaryotic Cell, March 2008, p. 493-508, Vol. 7, No. 3
1535-9778/08/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/EC.00446-07
Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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