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Functional dissection of Ctr4 and Ctr5 amino-terminal regions reveals motifs with redundant roles in copper transport

Département de Biochimie, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Sherbrooke, 3001 12e Ave Nord, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada J1H 5N4

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Simon Labbé
Simon.Labbe{at}USherbrooke.ca

Copper uptake in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe is carried out by a heteromeric complex formed by two proteins, Ctr4 and Ctr5. In this study, a stable expression system using integrative plasmids was developed to investigate the respective roles of Ctr4 and Ctr5 in copper transport. It was shown that expression of full-length Ctr4 or truncated Ctr4 containing residues 106–289 was required for localization of Ctr5 to the plasma membrane. Likewise, when the full-length Ctr5 or truncated Ctr5 from residues 44–173 was co-expressed with Ctr4, this protein was visualized at the periphery of the cell. To determine the importance of the Mets motifs (consisting of five methionines arranged as Met-X2-Met-X-Met, where X is any amino acid) of Ctr4 and Ctr5 in the heteroprotein complex, we co-expressed Ctr5 lacking the Mets motif and Cys-X-Met-X-Met sequence with wild-type Ctr4 or its mutant derivatives. Conversely, Ctr4 lacking the Mets motif and Met¹²² was expressed with wild-type Ctr5 or its mutant derivatives. These experiments revealed that the five Mets motifs of Ctr4 and the Ctr4 residue Met¹²² have equally important roles in copper assimilation. Furthermore, the two partially overlapping Mets motifs and the Cys-X-Met-X-Met sequence in Ctr5 have redundant functions in copper transport, with the latter sequence making a greater contribution than the former. Together, the data reveal that co-expression of both Ctr4 and Ctr5 is necessary for the proper function and localization of the heteroprotein complex to the plasma membrane. Once on the cell surface, the N-terminal regions of Ctr4 and Ctr5 can function independently to transport copper; however, the greatest efficiency is achieved when both N termini are present.

Supplementary figures showing the fluorescence microscopy visualization of the cellular location of wild-type or mutant Ctr4–GFP proteins, and the visualization of wild-type or mutant Ctr5–MYC₁₂ proteins by indirect immunofluorescence microscopy, are available with the online version of this paper.

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