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Published 22 December 2003. doi:10.1083/jcb.200304030
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© The Rockefeller University Press, 0021-9525/2003/12/1255 $8.00
The Journal of Cell Biology, Volume 163, Number 6, 1255-1266


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Myo4p and She3p are required for cortical ER inheritance in Saccharomyces cerevisiae



Paula Estrada1,2, Jiwon Kim1,2, Jeff Coleman2, Lee Walker1,2, Brian Dunn2, Peter Takizawa2, Peter Novick2 and Susan Ferro-Novick1,2

1 Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06519
2 Department of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06519

Address correspondence to Susan Ferro-Novick, Department of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine, Boyer Center for Molecular Medicine, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 295 Congress Ave., Room 254B, New Haven, CT 06519-1418. Tel.: (203) 737-5207. Fax: (203) 737-5746. email: susan.ferronovick{at}yale.edu

Myo4p is a nonessential type V myosin required for the bud tip localization of ASH1 and IST2 mRNA. These mRNAs associate with Myo4p via the She2p and She3p proteins. She3p is an adaptor protein that links Myo4p to its cargo. She2p binds to ASH1 and IST2 mRNA, while She3p binds to both She2p and Myo4p. Here we show that Myo4p and She3p, but not She2p, are required for the inheritance of cortical ER in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Consistent with this observation, we find that cortical ER inheritance is independent of mRNA transport. Cortical ER is a dynamic network that forms cytoplasmic tubular connections to the nuclear envelope. ER tubules failed to grow when actin polymerization was blocked with the drug latrunculin A (Lat-A). Additionally, a reduction in the number of cytoplasmic ER tubules was observed in Lat-A–treated and myo4{Delta} cells. Our results suggest that Myo4p and She3p facilitate the growth and orientation of ER tubules.

Key Words: cortical ER inheritance; Myo4p; She proteins; myosin; yeast


P. Estrada and J. Kim contributed equally to this paper.

The online version of this article includes supplemental material.

Abbreviations used in this paper: Lat-A, latrunculin A; SC, synthetic complete.


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