| Standard Name | AFR1 |
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| Systematic Name | YDR085C |
| Feature Type | ORF, Verified |
| Description | Protein required for pheromone-induced projection (shmoo) formation; regulates septin architecture during mating; has an RVXF motif that mediates targeting of Glc7p to mating projections; interacts with Cdc12p; AFR1 has a paralog, YER158C, that arose from the whole genome duplication (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) |
| Name Description | Alpha-Factor Receptor regulator 7 |
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| Note: this feature is encoded on the Crick strand. | |
| Genetic position: 47.97 cM |
Gene Ontology Annotations All AFR1 GO evidence and references
| Molecular Function | |
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| Manually curated | |
| Biological Process | |
| Manually curated | |
| Cellular Component | |
| Manually curated |
Regulatory Role
| Regulatory modules | predicted: stressResponse (607, 481, 457, 451) |
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Mutant phenotypes All AFR1 Phenotype evidence and references
| Classical genetics | |
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| reduction of function | |
| Large-scale survey | |
| null |
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interactions All AFR1 Interaction evidence and references
| 24 total interaction(s) for 18 unique genes/features. | |
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Expression Summary
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Protein Information All AFR1 Protein evidence and references
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| Phosphorylation | PhosphoGRID | PhosphoPep Database |
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sequence information
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| Genetic position: 47.97 cM | |||||||||||||
| Last Update | Coordinates: 2011-02-03 | Sequence: 1996-07-31 | ||||||||||||
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Analyze Sequence
| S288C only | |
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Resources
| External Links | All Associated Seq | Entrez Gene | Entrez RefSeq Protein | MIPS | Search all NCBI (Entrez) | UniProtKB |
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| Primary SGDID | S000002492 |
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References cited on this page View Complete Literature Guide for AFR1
| 1) | DeMattei CR, et al. (2000) Point mutations identify a conserved region of the saccharomyces cerevisiae AFR1 gene that is essential for both the pheromone signaling and morphogenesis functions. Genetics 155(1):43-55 |
| 2) | Konopka JB (1993) AFR1 acts in conjunction with the alpha-factor receptor to promote morphogenesis and adaptation. Mol Cell Biol 13(11):6876-88 |
| 3) | Giot L and Konopka JB (1997) Functional analysis of the interaction between Afr1p and the Cdc12p septin, two proteins involved in pheromone-induced morphogenesis. Mol Biol Cell 8(6):987-98 |
| 4) | Byrne KP and Wolfe KH (2005) The Yeast Gene Order Browser: combining curated homology and syntenic context reveals gene fate in polyploid species. Genome Res 15(10):1456-61 |
| 5) | Changwei Z, et al. (2007) Afr1p has a role in regulating the localization of Mpk1p at the shmoo tip in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. FEBS Lett 581(14):2670-4 |
| 6) | Bharucha JP, et al. (2008) Saccharomyces cerevisiae Afr1 protein is a protein phosphatase 1/Glc7-targeting subunit that regulates the septin cytoskeleton during mating. Eukaryot Cell 7(8):1246-55 |
| 7) | Davis C, et al. (1998) Afr1p regulates the Saccharomyces cerevisiae alpha-factor receptor by a mechanism that is distinct from receptor phosphorylation and endocytosis. Genetics 148(2):625-35 |




