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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 282, Issue 7, 5063-5074, February 16, 2007
The Central Role of PDR1 in the Foundation of Yeast Drug Resistance*
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In the model yeast S. cerevisiae, MDR is referred to as PDR (pleiotropic drug response). The PDR network currently comprise 10 transcription factors regulating about 70 different target genes (Refs. 5-17; reviewed in Ref. 18). In this network, the Pdr1p transcription factor has the largest set of potential targets (about 50). Pdr1p and its functional homologue, Pdr3p, were identified in the early 1990s as regulators of the basal level of drug resistance in yeast cells (19, 20). Gain- or loss-of-function alleles of PDR1 and PDR3 confer resistance or sensitivity to a large panel of unrelated drugs, through constitutive modifications to the expression of ATP binding cassette transporters (e.g. Pdr5p, Snq2p, or Yor1p); major facilitator superfamily members (e.g. Flr1p, Tpo1p) or enzymes modifying the lipid composition of the plasma membrane (e.g. Pdr16p, Rsb1p, Ipt1p) (reviewed in Ref. 21). PDR1 and PDR3 display some functional redundancy, as the inactivation of both genes is required to have any major effect on the steady-state level of expression of their target genes, and Pdr1p and Pdr3p recognize the same DNA consensus motif (PDRE for pleiotropic drug response element) (16, 22). Pdr1p has been shown to modulate the in vivo expression and to bind in vitro to the promoters of genes encoding two other PDR regulators, namely PDR3 and YRR1, which are positively autoregulated (11, 16). Based on these findings, Pdr1p has been hypothesized to be at the top of a positive regulation loop leading to the overexpression of PDR effectors upon drug treatment (16). However, although the role of Pdr1p in maintaining basal levels of yeast multidrug resistance has been clearly established, its role in the drug-mediated regulation of PDR genes remains unclear. Pdr1p is required for the PDR5 response to cycloheximide, a process which seems to require the auto-activation of PDR3 (16). The induction of PDR5 and TPO1 (encoding a MDR permease) expression in response to herbicides (methyl-chlorophenoxyacetic acid and dichlorophenoxyacetic acid) is much weaker in the absence of either Pdr1p or Pdr3p (10). However, Wehrschutz et al. (23) have shown that the deletion of both PDR1 and PDR3, despite strongly reducing PDR5 basal expression, does not abolish the induction of this gene upon cycloheximide or diazaborine treatment. Similar results have been reported for the ABC transporter Snq2p, the expression of which is slightly up-regulated by 4-nitroquinoline (4-NQO) independent of PDR1 and PDR3 (24).
Most of what we know about the PDR network has emerged from experiments carried out in the absence of drugs using gain-of-function or knock-out versions of the PDR transcription factors. Therefore, very little is known about the dynamic functioning of the PDR network in general, and the role of the Pdr1p transcription factor in PDR acquisition. The physiological relevance of the PDR network also remains to be investigated on a genome-wide scale. We carried out a genome-wide study of the role of Pdr1p in the early dynamic response of the yeast transcriptome to fluphenazine. We combined the data obtained with the results of a previous microarray analysis of the yeast response to benomyl, an inhibitor of microtubule assembly, carried out in our laboratory (25). Fluphenazine belongs to the phenotiazine family of antipsychotic drugs. Phenotiazines are calmodulin antagonists, as they bind to calmodulin in a Ca2+-dependent manner and alter its capacity to activate its cellular targets (26). We chose fluphenazine because: 1) It efficiently up-regulates the transcription of CDR1 and CDR2, the functional homologues of PDR5 and SNQ2 in the pathogenic yeast Candida albicans (27). 2) It differs from benomyl, in terms of both its chemical structure and its cellular targets. 3) Calcineurin, one of the main targets of calmodulin, modulates drug susceptibility in S. cerevisiae (28) and is important for PDR activation in C. albicans (29). We found that Pdr1p actually played a major role in the full fluphenazine induction of the expression of many PDR genes. The global fluphenazine and benomyl responses clearly differed, but the sets of Pdr1p-dependent genes induced by the two drugs were strikingly similar. The induction of this set of genes may thus represent the physiological early pleiotropic drug response (ePDR). Genome-wide chromatin immunoprecipitation experiments in the absence and presence of fluphenazine showed that Pdr1p was constitutively bound to its target DNA, even in the absence of drugs. Thus, Pdr1p is a promoter-resident protein involved in both the basal expression and response to drugs of PDR genes. This study provides a genome-wide view of dynamic Pdr1p functioning in the early drug response in yeast.
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; his3
1; leu2
0; lys2
0; ura3
0) background. The wild-type, pdr1
, pdr3
, pdr8
, yrr1
, yrm1
, elm1
, and crz1
strains were ordered from the Euroscarf collection. The pdr1
pdr3
strain was constructed using the pdr3
strain, from which PDR1 was deleted with pAD-
PDR1 (30). Briefly, pAD-
PDR1 was digested with EcoRI and NotI. This generated a fragment including the URA marker flanked by sequences from the PDR1 promoter and terminator regions, respectively. This fragment was inserted in place of the wild-type PDR1 sequence, by homologous recombination, using a standard yeast transformation protocol (31). The deletion was controlled by PCR using forward primer (GCTAACTATTCATCTCAGCCAAG) and reverse primer (AGGAGATCGCCCTAGAAAACAG). Thirteen Myc tags were added to the part of the chromosomic PDR1 corresponding to the C terminus of Pdr1p as described in Ref. 32. The primers used were: GGAAGGAAGTTTTTGAGAACTTTTATCTATACAAACGTATACGTGAATTCGAGCTCGTTTAAAC and GGACCTCTACAGTATCCTGTGGAGCGACGTTTATCCAGATAGTCGGATCCCCGGGTTAATTAA. This PCR fragment was inserted into the yeast genome by homologous recombination, using a standard lithium acetate yeast transformation protocol (33). We checked that Myc-tagged proteins were correctly produced by Western blotting with the 9E10 antibody (anti-Myc mouse monoclonal antibody, Roche Applied Science). Growth Conditions and Drug TreatmentsFor time course analysis of the fluphenazine response, strains were cultured in YPD (1%(w/v) bacto-yeast extract, 2% (w/v) bacto-peptone, 2% (v/w) glucose) up to an A600 of 0.5. The culture was split in two. Fluphenazine (Sigma) was dissolved in water to a concentration of 10 mg/ml (stock solution). Fluphenazine was added to one of the two cultures, to the concentration of 40 µg/ml. An equivalent volume of water was added to the other culture. Cells were incubating for various periods of time (2, 5, 10, 20, 40, 80 min) and were then harvested by pouring 15 ml of culture into 30 ml of ethanol, storing at -80 °C, and centrifuging.
Transcriptome AnalysesMicroarrays containing oligonucleotides for probing most of the ORF of S. cerevisiae were produced by local microarray facilities. These microarrays contained 40-mer oligonucleotides from MWG deposited onto Corning ultragap slides, using an Omnigrid II spotter from Biorobotics (Genomic Solutions), with each gene represented twice on the array. The protocol for these microarray experiments can be obtained from the authors. Each experiment was performed at least twice, with independent biological samples, using dye swap. The arrays were read with a Genepix 4000B scanner and analyzed with Genepix Pro 4.0 (Axon Instruments Inc.). Artifactual, saturated or low-signal spots were excluded from the analysis. Print-tip lowess normalization was carried out using the Varan software with default parameters (34). The expression profiles of genes with more than 80% missing values were eliminated. The remaining missing values were replaced using the KNN-imputation method, available from GEPAS (35). Gene expression profiles were clustered using Genesis (36).
RT-qPCR AnalysesRT-qPCR were performed as described in Ref. 37. The primers were: ICT1, ACCAGCTAAACGTTTTGAAGTGG and ACCTTGATTGTCTGTGGTTGCAC; YOR1, CGAAATGACACCTCCAGAGTC and GTG GACTTACCAGCACCTGTACG; SNQ2, CTGTGGTGTTACACAACCTGTC and CATGTACTCTCCACACGTTGAGC; ACT1, GGTTGCTGCTTTGGTTATTG and GACCCATACCGACCATGATAC.
Chromatin Immunoprecipitation on DNA Arrays (ChIP-chip)Overnight cultures of tagged or wild-type yeasts were used to inoculate 100 ml of fresh YPD medium at 0.1 A600. Cells were grown to an A600 of 0.6-0.8. One 50-ml subculture was then treated with 40 µg/ml fluphenazine for 10 min, and the other 50 ml was incubated with an equivalent amount of water. Each culture was fixed by adding 1% formaldehyde for 15 min at room temperature. Fixation was stopped by adding 340 mM glycine and incubating for 5 min. Fixed cells were harvested by centrifugation and washed twice with TBS. ChIP extracts, IP, ligation-mediated PCR, labeling, slide preparation, and hybridization were carried out as described in Ref. 38. For qPCR analysis of specific promoters, we used 15% of each sample as described in Ref. 37. The primers were: RPN4, GCACTGAGAGGACGTTACTTC and CGGAACTTTCTAGAACCATCAC; PDR5, GACTCGTGATTCCGTGGAAAGG and CAGCCATAAGGTTATGCACATC; SNQ2, CTCACCGCTATCGCCTCACCAC and GATGCACTGAGAATGTAATGCAC and YGR035c, GTTTCCTACGGCAGAATAAGACC and ATTGCCCTCAAAACTGTATCTCATC. The ACT1 primers described above were used for normalization. For ChIP-chip analyses, we used arrays previously described in Ref. 38, encompassing 14,178 PCR products for all yeast genomic elements. Immunoprecipitated DNA from tagged or wild-type cells was used for competitive hybridization against Whole Cell Extract (WCE) from the same culture. Each experiment was repeated at least four times, using dye swap. Arrays were scanned using a GenePix 4100A scanner and fluorescence ratios were determined with GenePix Pro 5.1. Artifactual spots were excluded and local background was subtracted from the intensity of the signal. R-software was used for further analyses. The signals were normalized using the print-tip median. Log2(IP/WCE) was calculated for each DNA sequence. The median log2 value for the four experiments was used to reflect the relative enrichment in the immunoprecipitate, for a given locus. Only loci with a significant signal in at least 3 of 4 experiments were considered. For each sequence, a Z-score, corresponding to the enrichment value after centering and scaling the global distribution of all log2 enrichment values (Z = (E-µ)/S, where E is the median log2 value of the enrichment of the sequence, µ is the median value, and S the standard deviation for all enrichments) was calculated. The IP was considered to be significantly enriched in DNA sequences with a Z-score of more than 3. Genes with a Z score above 3 in one of the conditions tested but an enrichment ratio in the IP lower than the enrichment ratio in the mock IP plus 2.5 standard deviations were considered to be nonspecifically bound by Pdr1p.
Microarray Data DownloadAll microarray data and supplemental materials are publicly available (see Supplementary Materials).
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Fluphenazine Activates Msn2p/Msn4p-responsive Genes, a crz1p-dependent Calcium Response and Part of the PDR Network
Bioinformatic Analyses of the Fluphenazine ResponseWe used the T-profiler software to investigate the functional significance of these expression profiles (39). We found that six different regulatory DNA motifs were predicted to play a role in the early fluphenazine response (Fig. 2). Three of these motifs, rRPE, rRNA, and PAC, were associated with transient repression. The rRPE and rRNA motifs have been identified in silico in the promoters of genes involved in rRNA processing (40, 41). The PAC motif is derived from the rRNA motif and has been identified in in silico analyses of the promoters of ESR genes, the expression of which is repressed under stress conditions (1, 39). Genes containing the STRE motifs, corresponding to the DNA binding sequence of Msn2p/Msn4p, were induced very early and transiently (maximum t-value at 5 min) in our experiments. Msn2p/Msn4p are known to control the induction of stress-responsive genes involved in the ESR (1). Finally, the last two groups of motifs were associated with the induction of a second wave of genes (20-80 min). The first of these two DNA motifs has been identified in the promoter sequences of target genes of the Crz1p transcription factor in in silico analyses (39). Crz1p is known to bind to the CDRE (calcineurin-dependent response element) and is thought to be the major transcription factor target of the calmodulin-dependent phosphatase, calcineurin (42, 43). The final group of motifs are variations of the PDRE, which is recognized by the Pdr1p/Pdr3p transcription factors (5). This last result suggests that the pleiotropic drug response is an important component of the early response to fluphenazine.
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Finally, we found that 15 genes encoding proteins of the pleiotropic drug response pathway were induced by fluphenazine (Fig. 1). These genes encode multidrug transporters (PDR5, YOR1, SNQ2), proteins involved in lipid metabolism and membrane properties (RSB1, SNG1, PLB1) or the stress response (ICT1, YLR346c, YGP1, GRE2, HXK1). Some of these genes (RSB1, YLR346c, HXK1) were already induced at 5 min and their level of expression subsequently decreased; some (ICT1, SNQ2, PDR5, YOR1, SNG1, YGP1, GRE2, YAL061w) were induced from 10 min and were still significantly overexpressed at 80 min. Among the 15 PDR genes activated, 13 are potential targets of Pdr1p and/or Pdr3p (Fig. 1). The remaining two genes (PLB1 and SNG1) are potential targets of Yrr1p, Pdr8p, and Yrm1p (7, 8, 15). In addition, two genes encoding a ceramide synthase (IPT1) and a polyamine transporter (TPO1), which were induced only at 10 min and are therefore not shown on Fig. 1, could also be included in this list of fluphenazine-dependent PDR-responsive genes (see complete microarray data, Supplementary Materials). A significant PDR response therefore occurred very rapidly after drug exposure.
PDR1 Contributes to the Early Fluphenazine Response
We investigated the contribution of Pdr1p to the early fluphenazine response, by analyzing changes in genome expression in pdr1
cells, 2, 5, 10, 20, 40, and 80 min after fluphenazine treatment. The impact of PDR1 deletion on the early fluphenazine response was assessed quantitatively, by comparing time course gene expression profiles in the wild-type and knock-out strains using a specific cluster method as described in Ref. 25. Briefly, this method resulted in the hierarchical clustering of gene groups, from the most affected genes to genes insensitive to PDR1 deletion. PDR1 deletion had few visible effects on gene expression in the absence of drugs (data not shown). However, 9 genes displayed markedly lower levels of activation in the presence of fluphenazine in the strain with the deletion than in the wild-type (Fig. 3A). Seven of these genes (YOR1, SNQ2, RSB1, YAL061w, YLR346c, ICT1, GRE2) are potential Pdr1p targets and contain a PDRE in their promoter (Fig. 3A). Only two genes (YPR027c and RTN2), have not previously been identified as PDR1-dependent, contain no PDRE in their promoter and encode proteins of unknown function. The contribution of Pdr1p to the fluphenazine response therefore seems to be limited to the regulation of PDR genes. Surprisingly, PDR5, one of the main Pdr1p targets, was found in a second group of genes, which exhibited few or no dependence on Pdr1p (supplemental Fig. S3). PDR5 expression induction was actually slightly reduced and delayed in the pdr1
strain. The significance of this slight defect in PDR5 induction was confirmed by quantitative RT-qPCR and by direct competitive microarray hybridization of wild-type and pdr1
RNAs from cells exposed to fluphenazine for 5 and 10 min (data not shown).
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strain was, at least partly, sustained by Crz1p. We therefore carried out kinetic analyses of the fluphenazine response in strains deleted for CRZ1. We identified 6 groups of genes affected by CRZ1 deletion in the presence of fluphenazine (Fig. 3B). All but one of the calcium-responsive genes induced by fluphenazine (Fig. 1) were affected by CRZ1 deletion (Fig. 3B). Crz1p seemed to control a larger set of genes than Pdr1p in response to fluphenazine, but no Pdr1p-dependent gene was identified among the Crz1p-dependent genes. These results confirm that Crz1p is a major regulator of calcium-dependent transcriptional regulation pathways and that fluphenazine treatment stimulates the Crz1p pathway of transcriptional regulation, as predicted by T-profiler. However, Crz1p does not make an essential contribution to the induction of PDR genes, including PDR5, in response to fluphenazine. Similarly, Karababa et al. (46) demonstrated that the C. albicans Crz1p homologue is not involved in the regulation of drug resistance in this pathogenic yeast.
Pdr1p Constitutively Binds to Its Target Promoters in Vivo
We analyzed the Pdr1p DNA binding pattern in presence and absence of fluphenazine on a genome-wide scale, to identify genes directly regulated by Pdr1p in response to fluphenazine. We constructed a chromosomal C-terminal Myc-tagged version of Pdr1p and performed Pdr1p-Myc chromatin immunoprecipitation experiments coupled with DNA microarray identification of bound DNA fragments (ChIP-chip), 10 min after fluphenazine or mock treatment. We checked that Pdr1p-Myc was active and produced correctly by Western blotting, phenotypic analyses of cycloheximide resistance, and transcriptome analyses of the fluphenazine response of cells expressing Pdr1p-Myc (data not shown). Each ChIP-chip experiment, with or without fluphenazine, was reproduced four times, comparing immunoprecipitated DNA (IP) with input DNA (whole cell extract or WCE). The median log2 value of the enrichment ratio (IP/WCE), was calculated for each DNA sequence present on the slide (Fig. 4A). We assessed the significance of these enrichments, by assigning a Z-score (i.e. the distance in standard deviations of each enrichment from the mean of the global distribution) to each DNA sequence. We controlled for nonspecifically enriched DNA sequences, by carrying out four mock IP experiments with an untagged strain and estimating the mock IP enrichment for all sequences. Supplemental Table S4 lists the DNA sequences with a Z-score of more than 3 in at least one of the conditions tested (i.e. with or without fluphenazine) and with a significantly higher enrichment ratio in the Pdr1p-Myc than in the mock IP experiments. Table 1 presents a shorter list restricted to the Pdr1p potential targets which were found to be significantly bound using these criteria.
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Pdr1p binding was observed with the promoter of most of the PDR genes which were dependent of PDR1 for their fluphenazine induction (Table 1). These genes included PDR5, SNQ2, RSB1, GRE2, YLR346c, YOR1 and ICT1. RTN2, YAL061w, and YPR027c, which were clearly PDR1-dependent in our experiments (Fig. 3A), show no significant binding. The effect of Pdr1p on the transcription of these genes may be indirect. The promoter sequences of VHR1 and TPO1, for which fluphenazine induction did not require PDR1, were bound by Pdr1p, indicating that Pdr1p may regulate the expression of these genes, while being dispensable for their fluphenazine induction. Finally, many of the DNA sequences that bound to Pdr1p were promoters of genes which were not induced by fluphenazine. These sequences included the potential Pdr1p target genes YGR035c, PDR16, PDR10, PDR15, YCR061w, IPT1, and YMR102c (Table 1). They also included the promoters of genes encoding two transcriptional regulators: Rpn4p, which controls proteasome subunit expression, and Pdr3p (Table 1). However, some genes identified as Pdr1p targets in gain-of-function studies were not bound by the wild-type Pdr1p in the conditions tested. These genes are mostly related to general stress responses, (YLL056c, YGP1, FSP2, YAL061w, YJL216c, HXT9, HXT11). Also, the gene encoding the PDR transcriptional regulator, YRR1, which had been shown to be bound by Pdr1p in vitro (11), was not enriched in our experiments. Our genome-wide studies of Pdr1p binding properties showed that most of the PDRE present in the yeast genome were not bound by Pdr1p under the conditions tested (Fig. 4B). However, promoters containing PDRE were clearly overrepresented among the sequences bound by Pdr1p (Fig. 4B), confirming the importance of this motif for Pdr1p binding, as demonstrated both in vitro (48) and in vivo (49). Four subtypes of PDRE: A, B, C, and D have been defined (5). In our experiments, only type A and B bound Pdr1p (Table 1).
The Pdr1p-dependent Response Is Not Fluphenazine-specific
We assessed the specificity of the Pdr1p-dependent response to fluphenazine by comparing the results described above with the results obtained in a previous genome expression study of the response of yeast to benomyl (25). Benomyl is a standard antifungal drug from the benzimidazol family, which inhibits mitotic spindle biosynthesis. This drug therefore differs from fluphenazine, in terms of both its molecular structure and cellular targets. Kinetic transcriptome experiments have been carried out with benomyl, using experimental procedures and a time scale very similar to that described here. This made possible to compare the genes induced by the two drugs, and also to take into account the timing of these induction events. This analysis was conducted by comparing, at each time point, the induction ratio of the genes induced in fluphenazine and/or in benomyl. Fig. 5A shows the results obtained for the comparison at 10 min, corresponding to the peak in gene induction for both drugs. The induction of many genes was drug-specific. For instance, fluphenazine activated calcium-responsive genes in a characteristic manner (Fig. 5A, triangles). By contrast, benomyl strongly induced oxidative stress response genes (Fig. 5A, diamonds). Strikingly, about half of the genes which were induced similarly by both drugs at 10 min belonged to the group of genes defined as regulated by Pdr1p (Fig. 3A) or to the group of genes with promoters directly bound by Pdr1p (Table 1). These genes included PDR5, SNQ2, YOR1, TPO1, YLR346c, ICT1, and VHR1 (Fig. 5B). Thus, the early PDR response described in this work is not specific to fluphenazine and may represent the standard physiological Pdr1p response to various, unrelated drugs.
Early PDR Response Is Partially Dependent on Elm1p Kinase
The Elm1p kinase was recently reported to be an important modulator of the activity of Pdr1p gain-of-function mutants (50). We therefore used RT-qPCR to assess the effect of ELM1 deletion on the expression of ICT1, SNQ2, and YOR1, three genes highly dependent on Pdr1p for fluphenazine induction. We observed a significant decrease in the activation of the ICT1 and YOR1, but not in the case of SNQ2 (Fig. 6). These effects were smaller than 2-fold. Thus, ELM1 deletion does not affect the pleiotropic drug response the same way than the PDR1 deletion. Hence, Elm1p may play a minor role in the Pdr1p-dependent induction of PDR genes following exposure to fluphenazine.
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Pdr1p Is a Promoter-resident, Drug Response FactorThe ePDR involves only a limited subset of the Pdr1p targets identified to date (Fig. 3A, and Refs. 5 and 6). We investigated whether Pdr1p displayed promoter selection with modulation of its DNA binding properties, as reported for other transcription factors in yeast (e.g. Ref. 53). Pdr1p has been shown to be a constitutive nuclear protein (54). However, its DNA binding properties in vivo are largely unknown. Pdr1p binds in vitro to the PDRE (T(C/G)CG(C/T)GG(A/G)). The physiological function of this motif for basal Pdr1p-dependent regulation has been demonstrated by mutational analyses in vivo (e.g. Refs. 9, 16, 20, 22, 48). We used ChIP-chip to analyze the genome-wide DNA-binding pattern of Pdr1p, in both the presence and in the absence of drug. Our data demonstrate that, as previously suggested (5, 6), the PDRE is a major determinant for Pdr1p regulation but is not sufficient for Pdr1p binding. This study determined which of the 40 genes known to be sensitive to Pdr1p gain-of-function alleles, were directly regulated by wild-type Pdr1p. We found that the interaction between Pdr1p and the promoter of RPN4 occurs in vivo (supplemental Fig. S5), confirming that a direct functional link exists between PDR and the proteasome activity (55). Similarly, Pdr1p binds in vivo to the promoters of genes involved in ePDR (e.g. PDR5, SNQ2, YOR1, TPO1), encoding the functional counterpart of Pdr1p, Pdr3p, and other potential targets of Pdr1p (e.g. PDR10, PDR15, etc.) (Table 1). Following the submission of this article, a similar Pdr1p DNA binding pattern was described in another study (56), providing further support to our observations. Strikingly, we found that the DNA binding pattern of Pdr1p was largely independent of the presence of drugs. This key result is consistent with previous observations that cycloheximide modifies neither Pdr1p binding nor mediator subunit recruitment to the PDR5 promoter (57). The functioning of Pdr1p therefore differs from that of the other transcription factors implicated in the early fluphenazine and benomyl responses (Fig. 2 and Ref. 25). Indeed, Msn2p, Crz1p, and Yap1p are all regulated at the level of nucleocytoplasmic translocation and bind to their target promoters only under stress conditions (58-60).
Pdr1p DNA Binding Properties Do Not Dictate the Specific Activation of ePDR GenesThe constitutive binding of Pdr1p to its target promoters, independently of the presence of drugs, indicates that Pdr1p DNA binding properties alone cannot account for the selection of Pdr1p targets involved in ePDR. This situation is similar to that observed when a subset of Yap1p target genes is activated following the addition of benomyl (25). Benomyl triggers the translocation of Yap1p into the nucleus, but the promoter binding properties of Yap1p were not limited to the set of activated genes. Promoter binding therefore seems to be necessary, but not sufficient for the activation of gene expression. This suggests that Pdr1p, as a resident protein involved in the basal expression of ePDR genes, may play a particular role in facilitating the activation of these genes by drugs, through other as yet unidentified factors conveying a specific signal related to the chemical nature of the drug and, probably, the chromatin structure of the relevant promoters. Different sources of oxidative stress are known to trigger different modifications to Yap1p, potentially resulting in different transactivation and/or protein-protein interaction properties (61). Pdr1p has been shown to be phosphorylated in vivo and to contain several inhibitory motifs (49, 62). We have shown that the Elm1p kinase, which is known to affect Pdr1p gain-of-function activity (50), plays only a limited role in ePDR. Transduction pathways involved in Pdr1p activation in the presence of drugs remain unknown.
The Early Drug Response Results from a Combination of Transcriptional InputsThe ePDR response combines with other early transcriptional responses to delineate a transcriptional drug-specific response. Indeed, PDR1 deletion strongly reduces the induction of PDR5 by benomyl (25), whereas it has a rather limited effect on the activation of this gene by fluphenazine, diazaborine, and cycloheximide (Fig. 3A and Refs. 16 and 23). The opposite is true for SNQ2, which is more strongly affected by PDR1 deletion in the presence of fluphenazine than in the presence of benomyl (Fig. 3A and Ref. 25). The robust induction of PDR5 in presence of a calmodulin inhibitor may be connected to the role played by Pdr5p in calcium homeostasis (45). By contrast, the SNQ2 expression is less sensitive to PDR1 deletion in the presence of benomyl, because of Yap1p (25). Fluphenazine does not trigger the relocation of Yap1p to its target promoters,6 confirming that different transcriptional regulators are required for ePDR to fluphenazine and benomyl. All these observations suggest that a drug is sensed as a combination of chemical properties (e.g. redox properties, hydrophobicity, etc.) and cellular targets (e.g. calcium-binding proteins in the case of fluphenazine), converted into transcriptional inputs (e.g. Yap1p for oxidation). These different transcriptional inputs combine, at the promoter of target genes, to delineate a drug-specific response from a rather limited set of general transcriptional pathways (Fig. 7). This suggests that fluphenazine, benomyl, and other drugs stimulating ePDR have certain properties in common, which are recognized by unknown factors and lead to activation of the same set of Pdr1p-dependent genes. These common properties and the upstream signals triggering ePDR remain completely unknown. The identification of a putative common signal triggering ePDR in the presence of various, apparently unrelated drugs, would be extremely useful to control MDR in pathogenic yeasts.
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The on-line version of this article (available at http://www.jbc.org) contains supplemental Tables S1, S2, and S4 and Figs. S3 and S5. ![]()
1 Recipients of Ph.D. grants from the MENRT. ![]()
2 Present address: Equipe de Bioinformatique Génomique et Moléculaire, INSERM U726, Université Paris 7, 2 place Jussieu 75251 Paris cedex 05. ![]()
3 Recipient of a CNRS postdoctoral fellowship in the framework of the national Toxicologie Nucléaire program. ![]()
4 To whom correspondence should be addressed: Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire, CNRS UMR8541, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 75230 Paris cedex 05 France. Tel.: 33-1-44-32-35-72; Fax: 33-1-44-32-39-41; E-mail: devaux{at}biologie.ens.Fr.
5 The abbreviations used are: ESR, environmental stress response; MDR, multidrug resistance; PDR, pleiotropic drug resistance; ePDR, early pleiotropic drug response; PDRE, pleiotropic drug response element; STRE, stress response element; CDRE, calcineurin-dependent response element; RT-qPCR, reverse transcription followed by quantitative polymerase chain reaction; ChIP-chip, chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by DNA chip analysis; IP, immunoprecipitation; WCE, whole cell extract; FDR, false discovery rate; ORF, open reading frame. ![]()
6 V. Fardeau, unpublished results. ![]()
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