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First published online 23 December 2002
doi: 10.1242/jcs.00266

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Krh1p and Krh2p act downstream of the Gpa2p G subunit to negatively regulate haploid invasive growth

Montserrat Batlle^*, Ailan Lu, David A. Green, Yong Xue and Jeanne P. Hirsch

Brookdale Department of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
^* Present address: Servei de Cardiologia, Escala 1, planta 6, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Villaroel 170, Barcelona 08036, Spain
Present address: Applied Biosystems, 35 Wiggins Avenue, Bedford, MA 01730, USA

Author for correspondence (e-mail: jeanne.hirsch{at}mssm.edu)

Accepted 11 November 2002

The yeast G subunit Gpa2p and its coupled receptor Gpr1p function in a signaling pathway that is required for the transition to pseudohyphal and invasive growth. A two-hybrid screen using a constitutively active allele of GPA2 identified the KRH1 gene as encoding a potential binding partner of Gpa2p. Strains containing deletions of KRH1 and its homolog KRH2 were hyper-invasive and displayed a high level of expression of FLO11, a gene involved in pseudohyphal and invasive growth. Therefore, KRH1 and KRH2 encode negative regulators of the invasive growth pathway. Cells containing krh1 krh2 mutations also displayed increased sensitivity to heat shock and decreased sporulation efficiency, indicating that Krh1p and Krh2p regulate multiple processes controlled by the cAMP/PKA pathway. The krh1 krh2 mutations suppressed the effect of a gpa2 mutation on FLO11 expression and eliminated the effect of a constitutively active GPA2 allele on induction of FLO11 and heat shock sensitivity, suggesting that Krh1p and Krh2p act downstream of Gpa2p. The Sch9p kinase was not required for the signal generated by deletion of KRH1 and KRH2; however, the cAMP-dependent kinase Tpk2p was required for generation of this signal. These results support a model in which activation of Gpa2p relieves the inhibition exerted by Krh1p and Krh2p on components of the cAMP/PKA signaling pathway.

Key words: GPA2, KRH1, KRH2, Kelch repeat

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