Two yeast forkhead genes regulate the cell cycle and pseudohyphal growth

Gefeng Zhu, Paul T. Spellman, Tom Volpe, Patrick O. Brown, David Botstein, Trisha N. Davis and Bruce Futcher ()
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Gefeng Zhu: University of Washington
Paul T. Spellman: Stanford University Medical Centre
Tom Volpe: Graduate Program in Genetics, State University of New York
Patrick O. Brown: Stanford University Medical Centre
David Botstein: Stanford University Medical Centre
Trisha N. Davis: University of Washington
Bruce Futcher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Nature, 2000, vol. 406, issue 6791, 90-94

Abstract: Abstract There are about 800 genes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae whose transcription is cell-cycle regulated1,2. Some of these form clusters of co-regulated genes1. The ‘CLB2’ cluster contains 33 genes whose transcription peaks early in mitosis, including CLB1, CLB2, SWI5, ACE2, CDC5, CDC20 and other genes important for mitosis1. Here we find that the genes in this cluster lose their cell cycle regulation in a mutant that lacks two forkhead transcription factors, Fkh1 and Fkh2. Fkh2 protein is associated with the promoters of CLB2, SWI5 and other genes of the cluster. These results indicate that Fkh proteins are transcription factors for the CLB2 cluster. The fkh1 fkh2 mutant also displays aberrant regulation of the ‘SIC1’ cluster1, whose member genes are expressed in the M–G1 interval and are involved in mitotic exit. This aberrant regulation may be due to aberrant expression of the transcription factors Swi5 and Ace2, which are members of the CLB2 cluster and controllers of the SIC1 cluster. Thus, a cascade of transcription factors operates late in the cell cycle. Finally, the fkh1 fkh2 mutant displays a constitutive pseudohyphal morphology, indicating that Fkh1 and Fkh2 may help control the switch to this mode of growth.

Date: 2000
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