SGD Paper 
Amit M, et al. (2010) Equivalent Mutations in the Eight Subunits of the Chaperonin CCT Produce Dramatically Different Cellular and Gene Expression Phenotypes. J Mol Biol 401(3):532-543
Abstract: The eukaryotic cytoplasmic chaperonin-containing TCP-1 (CCT) is a complex formed by two back-to-back stacked hetero-octameric rings that assists the folding of actins, tubulins and other proteins in an ATP-dependent manner. Here, we tested the significance of the hetero-oligomeric nature of CCT for its function by introducing, in each of the eight subunits in turn, an identical mutation at a position that is conserved in all the subunits and is involved in ATP hydrolysis, in order to establish the extent of 'individuality' of the various subunits. Our results show that these identical mutations lead to dramatically different phenotypes. For example, Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast cells with the mutation in subunit CCT2 display heat-and cold-sensitivity for growth, have an excess of actin patches and are the only strain here generated that is pseudo-diploid. By contrast, cells with the mutation in subunit CCT7 are the only ones to accumulate juxta-nuclear protein aggregates that may reflect an impaired stress response in this strain. System-level analysis of the strains using RNA microarrays reveals connections between CCT and several cellular networks including ribosome biogenesis and TOR2 that help to explain the phenotypic variability observed.CI - Copyright (c) 2010. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
| Status: Published | Type: Journal Article | PubMed ID: 20600117 |
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