Donnelly Center for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, Department of Medical Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
Research Core for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan.
Elife. 2020 Nov 4;9:e54080. doi: 10.7554/eLife.54080.
Overproduction (op) of proteins triggers cellular defects. One of the consequences of overproduction is the protein burden/cost, which is produced by an overloading of the protein synthesis process. However, the physiology of cells under a protein burden is not well characterized. We performed genetic profiling of protein burden by systematic analysis of genetic interactions between GFP-op, surveying both deletion and temperature-sensitive mutants in budding yeast. We also performed genetic profiling in cells with overproduction of triple-GFP (tGFP), and the nuclear export signal-containing tGFP (NES-tGFP). The mutants specifically interacted with GFP-op were suggestive of unexpected connections between actin-related processes like polarization and the protein burden, which was supported by morphological analysis. The tGFP-op interactions suggested that this protein probe overloads the proteasome, whereas those that interacted with NES-tGFP involved genes encoding components of the nuclear export process, providing a resource for further analysis of the protein burden and nuclear export overload.
蛋白质的过度生产会引发细胞缺陷。过度生产的后果之一是蛋白质负担/成本,这是由蛋白质合成过程的过载产生的。然而,在蛋白质负担下细胞的生理学特性还没有很好地描述。我们通过系统分析 GFP-op 之间的遗传相互作用,对蛋白质负担进行了遗传分析,同时检测了芽殖酵母中的缺失和温度敏感突变体。我们还在过度生产三倍 GFP(tGFP)和含有核输出信号的 tGFP(NES-tGFP)的细胞中进行了遗传分析。与 GFP-op 特异性相互作用的突变体表明,与肌动蛋白相关的过程(如极化)和蛋白质负担之间存在意想不到的联系,形态分析支持了这一观点。tGFP-op 的相互作用表明,这种蛋白质探针会使蛋白酶体过载,而与 NES-tGFP 相互作用的则涉及编码核输出过程组成部分的基因,为进一步分析蛋白质负担和核输出过载提供了资源。