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Volume 271, Number 43, Issue of October 25, 1996 pp. 26596-26601
©1996 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.

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Carbon Source Regulation of PIS1 Gene Expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Involves the MCM1 Gene and the Two-component Regulatory Gene, SLN1

(Received for publication, February 29, 1996, and in revised form, July 23, 1996)

Melanie S. Anderson and John M. Lopes ^¶

From the  Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry and the ^¶ Program in Molecular Biology, Loyola University of Chicago, Maywood, Illinois 60153

The Saccharomyces cerevisiae PIS1 gene encodes phosphatidylinositol synthase. The amount of phosphatidylinositol synthase is not affected by the presence of inositol and choline in the growth medium. This is unusual because the amounts and/or activities of other phospholipid biosynthetic enzymes are affected by these precursors, and the promoter of the PIS1 gene contains a sequence resembling the regulatory element that coordinates the inositol-mediated regulation (UAS_INO). We found that transcription of the PIS1 gene was insensitive to inositol and choline and did not require the putative UAS_INO regulatory sequence or the cognate regulatory genes (INO2 and OPI1).

The PIS1 promoter includes sequences (MCEs) that bind the Mcm1 protein. Because the Mcm1 protein interacts with both the Sln1 and the Gal11 regulatory proteins, we examined the effect of mutant alleles of the MCM1 and SLN1 genes and carbon source on expression of the PIS1 gene. We found that expression of the PIS1 gene was reduced when cells were grown in a medium containing glycerol and increased when grown in a medium containing galactose relative to cells grown in a glucose medium. The glycerol-mediated repression of PIS1 gene expression required both the MCM1 gene and the MCEs, whereas the SLN1 gene was required for full galactose-mediated induction of a PIS1-lacZ reporter gene.

Thus, PIS1 gene expression is unique among the phospholipid biosynthetic structural genes because it is uncoupled from the inositol response and regulated in response to the carbon source. This is the first example in yeast of a complete circuit linking a stimulus (carbon source) to gene regulation (PIS1) using a two-component regulator (SLN1).

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