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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 277, Issue 29, 26276-26280, July 19, 2002
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Saccharomyces cerevisiae RNA Polymerase II Is Affected by Kluyveromyces lactis Zymocin*

Daniel JablonowskiDagger and Raffael Schaffrath§

From the Institut für Genetik, Biologicum, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Weinbergweg 10, D-06120 Halle (Saale), Germany

Received for publication, April 8, 2002, and in revised form, May 3, 2002

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The G1 arrest imposed by Kluyveromyces lactis zymocin on Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells requires a functional RNA polymerase II (pol II) Elongator complex. In studying a link between zymocin and pol II, progressively truncating the carboxyl-terminal domain (CTD) of pol II was found to result in zymocin hypersensitivity as did mutations in four different CTD kinase genes. Consistent with the notion that Elongator preferentially associates with hyperphosphorylated (II0) rather than hypophosphorylated (IIA) pol II, the II0/IIA ratio was imbalanced toward II0 on zymocin treatment and suggests zymocin affects pol II function, presumably in an Elongator-dependent manner. As judged from chromatin immunoprecipitations, zymocin-arrested cells were affected with regards to pol II binding to the ADH1 promotor and pol II transcription of the ADH1 gene. Thus, zymocin may interfere with pol II recycling, a scenario assumed to lead to down-regulation of pol II transcription and eventually causing the observed G1 arrest.

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Yeast killer toxins are genetically and biochemically diverse. The double-stranded RNA-encoded viral toxins KT28 and K1 from Saccharomyces cerevisiae (1) bind to cell wall mannan and glucan moieties (2, 3), while zymocin, a double-stranded DNA-encoded three-subunit (alpha beta gamma ) protein complex from Kluyveromyces lactis, requires cell wall chitin for docking (4, 5). KT28 and K1 use retrograde import (6), block DNA synthesis (7), or destroy cytoplasmic membrane function through TOK1 K+-channel hyperactivation (8), whereas zymocin arrests S. cerevisiae by a G1 cell cycle block (9-11). Expression of the gamma -subunit of zymocin, the gamma -toxin, is sufficient to mimic this arrest (12, 13). As for the target of gamma -toxin (TOT),1 mutations in seven TOT genes lead to zymocin resistance. TOT1-3 and TOT5-7 are identical with ELP1-6 coding for RNA polymerase II (pol II) Elongator and TOT4 (KTI12) specifies an Elongator-associated protein (14-24). In addition, loss of SIT4, KTI11, and KTI13 results in a tot phenotype, suggesting these genes may play a role in TOT function too (25, 26). Elongator is conserved from yeast to man (27), associates with hyperphosphorylated pol II (II0) (16), and is thought to play a role in transcription by virtue of its Elp3p subunit, a histone acetyltransferase (HAT) (17). Consistently, combining deletions of ELP3 and CTK1 coding for the alpha -subunit of CTDK-I (28), a transcriptionally relevant pol II carboxyl-terminal domain (CTD) kinase, is synthetically lethal (29). Reducing the HAT activity of Elongator phenocopies zymocin resistance (19, 22), implying that the HAT is essential for K. lactis zymocicity. TOT can be dissociated from Elongator function by ELP3/TOT3 mutagenesis, suggesting that Elongator communicates with gamma -toxin in a HAT-dependent manner (23). As Elongator is non-essential, it cannot simply be blocked by gamma -toxin. Instead, its function may be modified so that pol II activity becomes poisoned. Evidences demonstrating down-regulation of pol II-dependent genes (22) and expression of partial zymocin resistance on overproducing Fcp1p, the CTD phosphatase, support this notion (23).

To study a link between zymocin action and pol II function, we found progressive CTD truncations and mutations in CTD kinase genes to result in zymocin hypersensitivity. Remarkably, zymocin treatment led to accumulation of pol II form II0. As judged from chromatin immune precipitations (CHIP), zymocin-arrested cells were affected with regards to pol II binding to and transcription of the ADH1 locus. Our data imply that zymocin affects, in a manner presumably dependent on Elongator, pol II function, a scenario assumed to lead to down-regulation of pol II transcription and eventually cause the observed G1 arrest.

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All yeast strains used in this study are described in Table I. Standard YPD (1% yeast extract, 2% peptone, 2% dextrose) and SD (0.67% yeast nitrogen base, 2% dextrose) media were prepared as described (30). Zymocin sensitivity or resistance was assessed using the killer eclipse assay (31) and zymocin YPD plate assays. The latter involved partial purification of zymocin from AWJ137 cell-free culture supernatants and supplementation to YPD plates (5, 23). Zymocin arrest of S. cerevisiae strain LS20 involved partial purification of zymocin from K. lactis killer AWJ137 grown in YPD flask cultures for 48 h at 30 °C. After centrifugation (6,000 rpm) 50 ml of cell-free supernatants were mixed with 50 ml of 2× YPD medium and inoculated with LS20 cells. These were arrested by zymocin on further incubating for 3-6 h at 30 °C. As controls, untreated LS20 cultures were incubated for the same period of time. Following harvest (6,000 rpm at 4 °C), cells were disrupted by the glass bead method using a multivortex (five 60-s bursts at 4 °C) in 500 µl of breaking buffer B60 (32). After clearing the cell lysates protein content was measured using the Bio-Rad kit. Identical amounts of total protein obtained from three independent experiments of untreated and zymocin-arrested cells were subjected to SDS-PAGE analysis using 6% gels, electroblotted onto polyvinylidene difluoride membranes (Immobilon), and probed with mouse monclonal anti-pol IIA and anti-pol II0 antibodies 8WG16 and H14 (Covance). Protein loadings were compared using a polyclonal rabbit antibody directed against the alpha - and beta -subunits of yeast Pfk1p (33). pol II quantitation used the Image Master 2D (Amersham Biosciences) program.

                              
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CHIPs were carried out as described (34). In brief, untreated and zymocin-arrested yeast cells grown to A600 ~1.0 in YPD were cross-linked for 15 min in 1% (v/v) formaldehyde. Following addition of 2.5 ml of 2.5 M glycine and three 1× TBS (20 mM Tris-HCl, pH 7.6, 137 mM NaCl) washes, cells were lysed with glass beads in FA lysis buffer (34). Sheared chromatin solution was added to the anti-CTD and anti-CTD-S5-P antibodies 8WG16 and H14 (Covance) and incubated for 90 min. Following the addition of secondary antibodies coupled to protein A-Sepharose CL-4B beads (Amersham Biosciences) and incubation for a further 60 min, chromatin was immunoprecipitated, washed, and incubated at 65 °C for 10 min. Following SDS treatment, chromatin was subjected to protease treatment and reversal of the cross-links (35). For all subsequent PCR reactions a single preparation of immunoprecipitated chromatin served as template. PCR conditions and electrophoresis were as described (34). Primers used were as follows: ADH-235, TTC CTT CCT TCA TTC ACG CAC ACT; ADH-13, GTT GAT TGT ATG CTT GGT ATA GCT TG; ADH146, ACG CTT GGC ACG GTG ACT G; ADH372, ACC GTC GTG GGT GTA ACC AGA; ADH935, GTT TGG TCA AGT CTC CAA TCA AGG; ADH1271, ATA AGA GCG ACC TCA TGC TAT ACC; IGRVII-1, CCC ACC ACC GAT AAC GAC AAG; and IGRVII-2, CCA ACA AAT GAG GCG GAA CC.

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Effects of Mutations in pol II CTD Kinase Genes on Zymocin Sensitivity-- Our previous findings that pol II Elongator mutations confer zymocin resistance (22) and that overexpression of Fcp1p, the pol II CTD-phosphatase (36), results in reduction of zymocin sensitivity (23) indicated a functional link between zymocin, pol II, and Elongator. To ask whether pol II activity is correlated with expression of zymocin sensitivity we studied the effects of genetic conditions known or assumed to impair pol II activity on the response of a yeast cell to zymocin. Of the four yeast cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs) involved in pol II CTD phosphorylation, we assayed deletions of SRB10/SRB11 and CTK1/CTK2/CTK3 and partial loss-of-function mutations in KIN28 and BUR1/BUR2 (28, 34, 37-41). As became evident from increased sizes of eclipses formed in a K. lactis/S. cerevisiae colony interaction killer eclipse assay, bur1-2 and bur2-1 mutants were hypersensitive toward zymocin (Fig. 1A). Similarly, deletion of CTK1, the alpha -subunit structural gene of the CTDK-I kinase, resulted in zymocin hypersensitivity, whereas disruption of the beta - (CTK2) and gamma - (CTK3) subunit genes failed to have any effect (Fig. 1B). Moreover, disruption of either the SRB10 CTD kinase gene or its SRB11 cyclin gene led to zymocin hypersensitivity as judged from YPD zymocin plate (Fig. 1C) and killer eclipse assays (not shown); thus, compared with their isogenic wild-type parent, srb10Delta and srb11Delta cells became arrested by less amounts of zymocin. Consistently, a KIN28 mutant (kin28T17D, Ref. 34) with reduced kinase activity was found to be zymocin-hypersensitive, too, when tested in eclipse (Fig. 1D) or zymocin plate assays (not shown). In conclusion, genetic scenarios that impair pol II function by (partial) loss of CTD-CDK activities alter the responsivenss of a yeast cell to zymocin and cause hypersensitive phenotypes. Thus, cells with reduced CDK activities require less amounts of zymocin than wild-type cells to become arrested in G1. This finding strongly suggests a functional link between zymocin mode of action and the CTD of pol II.


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Fig. 1.   Effect of mutations in the CTD-CDK genes on zymocin sensitivity expression of S. cerevisiae. A, killer eclipse assay with bur1-2 and bur2-1 mutants. The indicated strains were tested against a K. lactis strain (upper row, killer strain AWJ137; lower row, non-killer strain NK40) and incubated for 1 day at 30 °C. Eclipse formation around the killer strain indicates zymocin sensitivity. tot3Delta cells served as zymocin-resistant control. B, YPD zymocin plate assays with ctk1Delta , ctk2Delta , and ctk3Delta cells. The indicated strains were serially diluted and spotted onto YPD-rich medium lacking zymocin (control) or being supplemented with the indicated amounts of zymocin (percent, v/v). C, YPD zymocin plate assays with srb10Delta and srb11Delta cells. Strains were prepared as in the legend to B. D, killer eclipse assay with the kin28 mutant. Strains were processed as described in the legend to A. Note that all CTD-CDK mutants express hypersensitivity toward the K. lactis zymocin.

Effects of pol II-CTD Truncation Mutations on Zymocin Sensitivity-- Inspired by reports that underproduction of pol II (42) phencopies the effects of CTD truncation mutations, i.e. slow growth, inositol auxotrophy, and thermosensitivity (43, 44), and by our observation that pol II underassembly leads to zymocin hypersensitivity (23), we studied the effects of progressively truncating the CTD of pol II on the response of a yeast cell to zymocin. As can be deduced from the appropriate YPD zymocin plate assays presented in Fig. 2B, most viable CTD truncations (Ref. 45; Fig. 2, pV8, pV4, pV3, pV7, and pV19) behaved comparable with wild-type full-length CTD and unaltered with respect to zymocin sensitivity phenotypes on plates supplemented with 45-50% (v/v) zymocin. However, the penultimate and ultimate viable CTD truncations (Ref. 45; Fig. 2, pV20 and pV17), and all progressive ones reported to express conditional phenotypes (Ref. 45; Fig. 2, pC2, pC23, pC6, pC1, and pC3) were found to confer hypersensitivity to zymocin (Fig. 2). Thus, hypersensitive phenotypes could be correlated with conditional phenotypes of CTD truncations. This appears to be consistent with the effects of pol II underassembly on expression of hypersensitivity toward zymocin (23). Taken together with the above findings on the effect of CTD-CDK mutants on zymocin sensitivity, other scenarios that lead to an overall reduction of pol II function convert sensitive yeast cells into hypersensitive ones. This reinforces the notion that zymocin action is linked to a functional pol II CTD.


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Fig. 2.   Effect of progressive CTD truncation mutations on zymocin sensitivity expression of S. cerevisiae. A, the degree of CTD truncation tested for zymocin sensitivity expression is shown for each mutant on the horizontal axis, and the plasmid-encoded allele is indicated (e.g. pV8). Viable CTD truncations are distinguished from conditional and lethal ones. B, YPD zymocin plate assays. 10-Fold serial dilutions of strains carrying a wild-type (wt) CTD and progressive CTD truncation mutations were tested for zymocin sensitivity expression as described in the legend to Fig. 1B. tot3Delta cells served as zymocin-resistant control. Note that progressively truncating the CTD causes cells to express a zymocin hypersensitivity phenotype.

pol II CTD Phosphorylation States in Response to Zymocin Treatment-- Since pol II Elongator is essential for zymocicity (22) and stably associates with pol II form II0 (16), we next asked whether zymocin may require Elongator to be associated with II0 and whether zymocin influences the phosphorylation equlibrium of pol II. To do so, identical protein amounts obtained from untreated and zymocin-arrested cells were subjected to SDS-PAGE analysis, electroblotted, and immunoprobed with anti-IIA (8WG16) or anti-II0 (H14) antibodies to distinguish hypo- from hyperphosphorylated pol II forms IIA and II0. As illustrated in Fig. 3A, this analysis revealed that while untreated cells had unaltered II0/IIA ratios over a period of 6 h, zymocin treatment had an effect on the phosphorylation states of pol II; 3 h post-treatment, pol II form II0 accumulated 2-fold compared with the same time point of the untreated sample, and pol II form IIA remained almost unchanged; 6 h post-treatment, however, pol II form IIA drastically declined, consistent with a 5-fold increase of pol II form II0. Thus, on treating cells with zymocin, the ratio between pol II forms IIA and II0 became dramatically shifted toward the latter, indicating that zymocin-arrested cells accumulate pol II in its hyperphosphorylated form II0. Similarly, pol II form II0 was found to accumulate in zymocin-arrested cells that were subjected to cell fractionation, while form IIA declined after zymocin treatment (Fig. 3B). These results suggest that zymocin action interferes with pol II function by preventing preinitiation complex formation-competent pol II form IIA to be recycled from elongating form II0 during the pol II transcription cycle.


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Fig. 3.   Effect of zymocin application on pol II phosphorylation states. A, identical protein amounts obtained from zymocin-untreated and zymocin-arrested cells after 3 and 6 h were subjected to 6% SDS-PAGE and immunoprobed with monoclonal antibodies specific for the hypophosphorylated CTD of pol II (IIA) and the hyperphosphorylated CTD of pol II (II0). Protein loading was followed using a polyclonal antiserum specific for the alpha - and beta -subunits of phosphofructokinase 1 (Pfk1p) (33). B, identical protein amounts obtained from cell fractionation of untreated cells and cells arrested with zymocin for 3 h were subjected to 6% SDS-PAGE and immunoprobed with antibodies specific for IIA and II0 (see A). Protein loading was followed as described in the legend to A.

pol II Transcription of and Promoter Binding to the ADH1 Locus in Response to Zymocin-- As judged from reverse transcriptase-PCR and Northern hybridization studies, zymocin appears to preferentially affect pol II rather than pol I or pol III function (22). Therefore, we decided to study pol II action in untreated and zymocin-arrested cells while being bound to and transcribing through the ADH1 locus. To do so, CHIPs were carried out with anti-IIA (8WG16) or anti-II0 (H14) antibodies and subjected to PCR using primers to amplify DNA fragments specific for the ADH1 promoter or its coding sequences (Fig. 4A). Consistent with a previous CHIP study (34), our analysis demonstrated that in untreated cells the predominant fractions of pol II form IIA are found at the ADH1 promoter and the early coding sequence (Fig. 4B, left upper panel), while hyperphosphorylated pol II form II0 was preferentially found to associate with the promoter. As soon as it clears the promoter there is a significant decrease of H14-mediated recognition, indicating that the CTD of pol II is subject to dephosphorylation (Fig. 4B, left middle panel). Thus, initially in early elongation pol II is heavily phosphorylated on the Ser5 of CTD, whereas later in elongation Ser5 becomes dephosphorylated (34). In striking contrast to this pattern were CHIPs performed with zymocin-arrested cells; while pol IIA bound to the promoter was drastically reduced compared with untreated cells, it was found to be predominantly associated within the early coding sequence of the ADH1 gene after zymocin application (Fig. 4B, right upper panel). As for pol II form II0, zymocin treatment significantly interfered with its capability to bind to the ADH1 promoter, resulting in a steep decrease compared with the parallel experiment without zymocin (Fig. 4B, right middle panel). While the latter finding suggests that zymocin-arrested cells are transcriptionally impaired with regards to recruiting pol II form IIA to the ADH1 promoter, the former observations may be interpreted as pol II recognized by the 8WG16 antibody being stalled during early ADH1 transcription elongation. Taken together, these CHIP studies suggest that zymocin action is linked to pol II function and imply that zymocin negatively interferes with the pol II transcription cycle by affecting the recycling of initiation-competent IIA from elongation-competent II0.


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Fig. 4.   Effect of zymocin treatment on pol II binding to and transcription through the ADH1 locus. A, schematic representation of the primer pairs used to PCR-amplify regions upstream of and within the ADH1 locus following CHIP experiments on untreated and zymocin-arrested cells. The open bar represents the open reading frame (ADH1); the gray bars indicate PCR products with coordinates relative to the initiation codon of the open reading frame. B, CHIP/PCR. Cross-linked and sheared chromatin obtained from zymocin-untreated and zymocin-arrested cells was immunoprecipitated with the indicated antibodies. After reversal of cross-linking and purification of the DNA, PCR was used to test for the presence of promotor or coding sequences (CDS). Each CHIP/PCR panel contained a second primer pair that amplifies an intergenic region (IGR) of chromosome VII, thus providing an internal background control. Input (bottom) shows the signal from the chromatin before immunoprecipitation.


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The recent identification of the pol II Elongator complex as TOT, the putative target of the K. lactis zymocin (22), has implied a link between zymocin action and pol II transcriptional elongation (23). Since TOT/Elongator is dispensable for life, its function cannot simply be blocked by zymocin (and its gamma -toxin subunit). Instead, it has been proposed that Elongator becomes modified so that pol II activity is poisoned (22, 23). To check this model we asked whether cells, compromised for pol II function, are altered with respect to their response to zymocin too. Genetic scenarios leading to reduced pol II function by mutating individual pol II CTD-CDK genes or by progressively truncating the CTD itself were found to confer zymocin hypersensitivity. Thus, the ability of a cell to express wild-type zymocin sensitivity is at least in part determined by the length of the CTD and the presence of each of the four known yeast CTD-CDK genes. Presumed stability of the CTD of the pol II subunit in these mutants was not affected (and for CTD truncation variants this has been shown; Ref. 44), but rather assembly of pol II holoenzyme was interfered with so that its function was compromised with respect to interaction with mediator (during initiation) or with Elongator (on CTD phosphorylation and promoter clearance); both scenarios, CTD truncation and CTD-CDK mutation, would ultimately lead to a decline of pol II activity. Consistently, CTD truncations and CTD-CDK mutations phenocopy the effects of underproducing the largest CTD-subunit of pol II, Rpb1p, which include slow growth, temperature sensitivity, inositol auxotrophy, and zymocin hypersensitivity (23, 42, 45). Together with the facts that zymocin action requires a functional pol II Elongator complex and that overexpressing Fcp1p, the CTD-phosphatase of pol II, renders cells partially zymocin-resistant (23), these findings suggest that zymocin action requires Elongator to be associated with pol II0 while elongating. Zymocin hypersenitivity due to the above conditions (pol II underassembly, CTD deletions, and CTD-CDK mutations) may imply that in the mutant cells the equilibrium between pol II-free and pol II-bound Elongator is imbalanced, eventually leading to a net increase of Elongator capable of signaling the presence of zymocin. In support of this, the requirement of TOT for gamma -toxin and zymocin action was shown to be separable from Elongator wild-type function by TOT3/ELP3 mutagenesis, suggesting that Elongator communicates with gamma -toxin (directly or indirectly) in a manner dependent on its HAT subunit (23).

How to integrate these findings in a model that explains both requirement of Elongator for and involvement of pol II in zymocin action? Our observations that zymocin-arrested cells accumulate pol II form II0 and that binding of pol II to the ADH1 promoter is dramatically reduced following zymocin treatment are indicative for pol II function being affected. Consistently, we have demonstrated down-regulation of pol II activity (22) in the presence of zymocin, while pol I activity largely remains unaffected (22). Thus, zymocin appears to preferentially affect pol II rather than pol I (or pol III) function. An attractive, though speculative, model as to how zymocin might work at the molecular level involves gamma -toxin to transform Elongator so that pol II becomes limiting. If this conversion conferred a dominant negative effect onto pol II function for example by blocking pol II in its II0 form, zymocin-treated cells would be expected to be seriously affected with regards to pol II recycling during transcription. In favor of this are our findings showing that the IIA/II0 ratio is imbalanced toward form II0 following zymocin application. Also, the CHIP studies demonstrate that form IIA predominantly accumulates during early transcription elongation within the ADH1 gene, while pol II0 is significantly impaired with regards to ADH1 promoter binding and clearance. Thus, pol II recycling necessary for preinitiation complex formation is likely affected by zymocin. Such a scenario can be ultimately envisaged to result in a decline of overall pol II activity and might eventually, due to a transcriptional shutdown of the START-specific gene program, culminate in the observed G1 cell cycle arrest. Consistent with this notion are temperature-sensitive mutations in the largest CTD subunits of yeast and hamster pol II, which cause a conditional G1 arrest at START (46, 47). Thus, cell cycle progression and START execution appear to be particularly sensitive to an impaired pol II function.

    ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

We thank S. Buratowski, A. Greenleaf, D. Skaar, G. Prelich, and R. Young for providing yeast CTD and CTD-CDK mutants. We also thank K. Breunig for critically reading the manuscript.

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* This work was supported by a grant from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Scha 750/2) (to R. S.).The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. The article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.

Dagger Supported by a grant sponsored by the "Graduierten Förderung des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt."

§ To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel.: 49-345-5526333; Fax: 49-345-5527151; E-mail: schaffrath@genetik.uni-halle.de.

Published, JBC Papers in Press, May 15, 2002, DOI 10.1074/jbc.M203354200

    ABBREVIATIONS

The abbreviations used are: TOT, gamma -toxin target; pol II, RNA polymerase II; HAT, histone acetyltransferase; CHIP, chromatin immune precipitation; CTD, carboxyl-terminal domain; IIA, hypophosphorylated pol II; II0, hyperphosphorylated pol II; CDK, cyclin-dependent kinase.

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