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Vol. 273, Issue 3, 1277-1280, January 16, 1998

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Copper Differentially Regulates the Activity and Degradation of Yeast Mac1 Transcription Factor

From the Department of Biological Chemistry, The University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-0606

Copper is an essential metal ion that is toxic when accumulated to high intracellular concentrations. The yeast Mac1 protein is a copper-sensing transcription factor that is essential for both the activation and inactivation of genes required for high affinity copper ion transport. Here we demonstrate that in response to low copper ion concentrations Mac1 protein is rendered inactive for copper transporter gene transcription. Under high copper ion concentrations Mac1 is degraded in a rapid, copper-specific manner. This degradation is critical to prevent copper toxicity that would otherwise result from sustained expression of the copper transport genes. These results demonstrate that nutritional and toxic copper concentrations elicit distinct fates for the Mac1 copper-sensing transcription factor and establish a new mechanism by which trace metals regulate gene expression.

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