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Heterokaryon Technique for Analysis of Cell Type-specific Localization
Published on: March 11, 2011
Yeast ubiquitin ligase Rsp5 contains nuclear localization and export signals
Piotr Cholbinski1, Zaneta Jastrzebska, Monika Wysocka-Kapcinska
1Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.
Abstract:
The Rsp5 ubiquitin ligase regulates numerous cellular processes. Rsp5 is mainly localized to the cytoplasm but nuclear localization was also reported. A potential nuclear export signal was tested for activity by using a GFP(2) reporter. The 687-LIGGIAEIDI-696 sequence located in the Hect domain was identified as a nuclear export signal active in a Crm1-dependent manner, and its importance for the localization of Rsp5 was documented by using fluorescence microscopy and a lacZ-based reporter system. Analysis of the cellular location of other Rsp5 fragments fused with GFP(2) indicated two independent potential nuclear localization signals, both located in the Hect domain. We also uncovered Rsp5 fragments that are important to targeting/tethering Rsp5 to various regions in the cytoplasm. The presented data indicate that Rsp5 ligase is a shuttling protein whose distribution within the cytoplasm and partitioning between cytoplasmic and nuclear locations is determined by a balance between the actions of several targeting sequences and domains.
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