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ArticleEukaryotic cell2008

C-terminal signals regulate targeting of glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored proteins to the cell wall or plasma membrane in Candida albicans.

Yuxin Mao, Zimei Zhang, Charles Gast, Brian Wong

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Article in Eukaryotic cell, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 16% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Yuxin MaoDivision of Infectious Diseases, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA.
Zimei Zhang
Charles Gast
Brian Wong
Oregon Health & Science University · USYale University · US

Funding

Mechanisms of drug resistance in Candida albicansR01AI064085 · NIAID · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI WONG, BRIAN · 2005 to 2007
$1.1M
ESSENTIAL PROTEIN SECRETION GENES OF CANDIDA ALBICANSR01AI047442 · NIAID · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI WONG, BRIAN · 2000 to 2003
$1.0M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI047442NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI064085NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI-47442NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI-64085
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fungal glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored proteins localize to the plasma membrane (PM), cell wall (CW), or both. To study signals that regulate PM versus CW targeting in Candida albicans, we (i) fused the N and/or C termini of the GPI CW protein Hwp1p and the GPI PM protein Ecm331p to green fluorescent protein (GFP) and (ii) expressed and localized the resulting fusions. Forty-seven amino acids from the C terminus of Hwp1p were sufficient to target GFP to the CW, and 66 amino acids from the C terminus of Ecm331p were sufficient to target GFP to the PM. Truncation and mutagenesis studies showed that G390 was the omega cleavage site in Ecm331p. Domain exchange and mutagenesis studies showed that (i) the 5 amino acids immediately N-terminal to the omega sites (the omega - 5 to omega - 1 amino acids) played key roles in targeting to the PM or CW; (ii) KK and FE residues at positions omega - 1 and omega - 2, respectively, targeted to the PM and CW; and (iii) a loss of I at position omega - 5 increased PM retention. Small fluorescent reporters can be used to study the peptide signals that regulate PM versus CW targeting of GPI proteins and may be useful for identifying proteins that interact with key targeting signals.

Indexed as

Protein Sorting SignalsAmino Acid MotifsAmino Acid SequenceCandida albicansCell MembraneCell WallFungal ProteinsGlycosylphosphatidylinositolsGreen Fluorescent ProteinsMolecular Sequence DataProtein TransportRecombinant Fusion ProteinsFungal ProteinsGlycosylphosphatidylinositolsGreen Fluorescent ProteinsProtein Sorting SignalsRecombinant Fusion Proteins

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PMID18723603
PMCPMC2583546
OpenAlexW2130127752

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