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Published online 26 August 2002. doi:10.1083/jcb.200203094
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The Journal of Cell Biology, Volume 158, Number 5, September 2, 2002 885-900


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The Saccharomyces cerevisiae Mob2p–Cbk1p kinase complex promotes polarized growth and acts with the mitotic exit network to facilitate daughter cell–specific localization of Ace2p transcription factor



Eric L. Weiss1, Cornelia Kurischko2, Chao Zhang3, Kevan Shokat3, David G. Drubin1 and Francis C. Luca2

1 Division of Genetics, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
2 Department of Animal Biology, University of Pennsylvania, School of Veterinary Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104
3 Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143

Address correspondence to Francis C. Luca, University of Pennsylvania, School of Veterinary Medicine, 3800 Spruce St., Philadelphia, PA 19104. Tel.: (215) 573-5664. Fax: (215) 573-5188. E-mail: fluca{at}vet.upenn.edu

The Saccharomyces cerevisiae mitotic exit network (MEN) is a conserved signaling network that coordinates events associated with the M to G1 transition. We investigated the function of two S. cerevisiae proteins related to the MEN proteins Mob1p and Dbf2p kinase. Previous work indicates that cells lacking the Dbf2p-related protein Cbk1p fail to sustain polarized growth during early bud morphogenesis and mating projection formation (Bidlingmaier, S., E.L. Weiss, C. Seidel, D.G. Drubin, and M. Snyder. 2001. Mol. Cell. Biol. 21:2449–2462). Cbk1p is also required for Ace2p-dependent transcription of genes involved in mother/daughter separation after cytokinesis. Here we show that the Mob1p-related protein Mob2p physically associates with Cbk1p kinase throughout the cell cycle and is required for full Cbk1p kinase activity, which is periodically activated during polarized growth and mitosis. Both Mob2p and Cbk1p localize interdependently to the bud cortex during polarized growth and to the bud neck and daughter cell nucleus during late mitosis. We found that Ace2p is restricted to daughter cell nuclei via a novel mechanism requiring Mob2p, Cbk1p, and a functional nuclear export pathway. Furthermore, nuclear localization of Mob2p and Ace2p does not occur in mob1–77 or cdc14–1 mutants, which are defective in MEN signaling, even when cell cycle arrest is bypassed. Collectively, these data indicate that Mob2p–Cbk1p functions to (a) maintain polarized cell growth, (b) prevent the nuclear export of Ace2p from the daughter cell nucleus after mitotic exit, and (c) coordinate Ace2p-dependent transcription with MEN activation. These findings may implicate related proteins in linking the regulation of cell morphology and cell cycle transitions with cell fate determination and development.

Key Words: cell cycle; polarized growth; cell separation; mitotic exit network; nuclear export


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