| Literature DB >> 9489675 |
T Didion1, B Regenberg, M U Jørgensen, M C Kielland-Brandt, H A Andersen.
Abstract
Amino acid transporters of the yeast plasma membrane (permeases) belong to a family of integral membrane proteins with pronounced structural similarity. We present evidence that a member of this family, encoded by the open reading frame (ORF) YDR160w (SSY1), is required for the expression of a set of transporter genes. Thus, deletion of the SSY1 gene causes loss of leucine-inducible transcription of the amino acid permease genes BAP2, TAT1 and BAP3 (ORF YDR046c) and the peptide transporter, PTR2. D-leucine can generate the signal without entering the cell. We propose that Ssy1p is situated in the plasma membrane and is involved in sensing leucine in the medium.Entities:
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Year: 1998 PMID: 9489675 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00714.x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Mol Microbiol ISSN: 0950-382X Impact factor: 3.501