Chemogenetic E-MAP in Saccharomyces cerevisiae for Identification of Membrane Transporters Operating Lipid Flip Flop

PLoS Genet. 2016 Jul 27;12(7):e1006160. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006160. eCollection 2016 Jul.

Abstract

While most yeast enzymes for the biosynthesis of glycerophospholipids, sphingolipids and ergosterol are known, genes for several postulated transporters allowing the flopping of biosynthetic intermediates and newly made lipids from the cytosolic to the lumenal side of the membrane are still not identified. An E-MAP measuring the growth of 142'108 double mutants generated by systematically crossing 543 hypomorphic or deletion alleles in genes encoding multispan membrane proteins, both on media with or without an inhibitor of fatty acid synthesis, was generated. Flc proteins, represented by 4 homologous genes encoding presumed FAD or calcium transporters of the ER, have a severe depression of sphingolipid biosynthesis and elevated detergent sensitivity of the ER. FLC1, FLC2 and FLC3 are redundant in granting a common function, which remains essential even when the severe cell wall defect of flc mutants is compensated by osmotic support. Biochemical characterization of some other genetic interactions shows that Cst26 is the enzyme mainly responsible for the introduction of saturated very long chain fatty acids into phosphatidylinositol and that the GPI lipid remodelase Cwh43, responsible for introducing ceramides into GPI anchors having a C26:0 fatty acid in sn-2 of the glycerol moiety can also use lyso-GPI protein anchors and various base resistant lipids as substrates. Furthermore, we observe that adjacent deletions in several chromosomal regions show strong negative genetic interactions with a single gene on another chromosome suggesting the presence of undeclared suppressor mutations in certain chromosomal regions that need to be identified in order to yield meaningful E-map data.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Cell Wall / genetics
  • Cell Wall / metabolism
  • Ceramides / genetics
  • Ceramides / metabolism
  • Chromosome Deletion
  • Crosses, Genetic
  • Ergosterol / genetics
  • Ergosterol / metabolism
  • Fatty Acids / genetics
  • Fatty Acids / metabolism
  • Glycosylphosphatidylinositols / genetics
  • Glycosylphosphatidylinositols / metabolism
  • Lipid Metabolism / genetics*
  • Membrane Proteins / genetics*
  • Membrane Transport Proteins / genetics*
  • Membrane Transport Proteins / metabolism
  • Mutant Proteins / genetics
  • Phosphatidylinositols / genetics
  • Phosphatidylinositols / metabolism
  • Saccharomyces cerevisiae / genetics*
  • Saccharomyces cerevisiae / metabolism
  • Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins / genetics*
  • Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins / metabolism
  • Sphingolipids / genetics
  • Sphingolipids / metabolism

Substances

  • Ceramides
  • FLC1 protein, S cerevisiae
  • Fatty Acids
  • Glycosylphosphatidylinositols
  • Membrane Proteins
  • Membrane Transport Proteins
  • Mutant Proteins
  • Phosphatidylinositols
  • Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins
  • Sphingolipids
  • Ergosterol

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (http://www.snf.ch/en/Pages/default.aspx: CRSI33_125232 and 31003AB_131078 to AC, and 31003A_153416 to RS. This work was also supported by a grant from the Novartis Foundation for Biomedical Research, Basel (http://www.stiftungmedbiol.novartis.com) to AC. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.