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    Lpx1p links glucose-induced calcium signaling and plasma membrane H+-ATPase activation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells.
    (2017) Castanheira, Diogo Dias; Santana, Eduardo Perovano; Santos, Fernanda Godoy; Diniz, Raphael Hermano Santos; Oliveira, Fábio Faria; Pereira, Renata Rebeca; Trópia, Maria José Magalhães; Castro, Ieso de Miranda; Brandão, Rogélio Lopes
    In yeast, as in other eukaryotes, calcium plays an essential role in signaling transduction to regulate different processes. Many pieces of evidence suggest that glucose-induced activation of plasma membrane H+-ATPase, essential for yeast physiology, is related to calcium signaling. Until now, it was not identified any protein that could be regulated by calcium in this context. Lpx1p, a serine-protease that is also involved in the glucose-induced activation of the plasma membrane H+-ATPase activation, could be a candidate to respond to intracellular calcium signaling involved in this process. In this work, and by using different approaches, we showed many pieces of evidence suggesting that the requirement of calcium signaling for activation of the plasma membrane H+-ATPase is due to its requirement for activation of Lpx1p. According to the current model, activation of Lpx1p would cause hydrolysis of an acetylated tubulin that keeps the plasma membrane H+-ATPase in an inactive state. Therefore, after its activation, Lpx1p would hydrolyze the acetylated tubulin making the plasma membrane H+-ATPase phosphorylation accessible for at least one protein kinase.
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    Calcium signaling and sugar-induced activation of plasma membrane H+-ATPase in Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells.
    (2006) Trópia, Maria José Magalhães; Cardoso, Anamaria de Souza; Tisi, Renata; Fietto, Luciano Gomes; Fietto, Juliana Lopes Rangel; Martegani, Enzo; Castro, Ieso de Miranda; Brandão, Rogélio Lopes
    In this work, we show that glucose-induced activation of plasma membrane H+-ATPase from Saccharomyces cerevisiae is strongly dependent on calcium metabolism and that the glucose sensor Snf3p works in a parallel way with the G protein Gpa2p in the control of the pathway. The role of Snf3p is played by the Snf3p C-terminal tail, since in a strain with the deletion of the SNF3 gene, but also expressing a chimera protein formed by Hxt1p (a glucose transporter) and the Snf3p C-terminal tail, a normal glucose-activation process can be observed. We present evidences indicating that Snf3p would be the sensor for the internal signal (phosphorylated sugars) of this pathway that would connect calcium signaling and activation of the plasma membrane ATPase. We also show that Snf3p could be involved in the control of Pmc1p activity that would regulate the calcium availability in the cytosol.
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    The involvement of calcium carriers and of the vacuole in the glucose-induced calcium signaling and activation of the plasma membrane H+-ATPase in Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells.
    (2012) Bouillet, Leoneide Érica Maduro; Cardoso, Anamaria de Souza; Perovano, Eduardo; Pereira, R. R.; Ribeiro, Erica Milena de Castro; Trópia, Maria José Magalhães; Fietto, Luciano Gomes; Tisi, Renata; Martegani, Enzo; Castro, Ieso de Miranda; Brandão, Rogélio Lopes
    Previous work from our laboratories demonstrated that the sugar-induced activation of plasma membrane H+-ATPase in Saccharomyces cerevisiae is dependent on calcium metabolism with the contribution of calcium influx from external medium. Our results demonstrate that a glucose-induced calcium (GIC) transporter, a new and still unidentified calcium carrier, sensitive to nifedipine and gadolinium and activated by glucose addition, seems to be partially involved in the glucose-induced activation of the plasma membrane H+-ATPase. On the other hand, the importance of calcium carriers that can release calcium from internal stores was analyzed in glucose-induced calcium signaling and activation of plasma membrane H+-ATPase, in experimental conditions presenting very low external calcium concentrations. Therefore the aim was also to investigate how the vacuole, through the participation of both Ca2+-ATPase Pmc1 and the TRP homologue calcium channel Yvc1 (respectively, encoded by the genes PMC1 and YVC1) contributes to control the intracellular calcium availability and the plasma membrane H+-ATPase activation in response to glucose. In strains presenting a single deletion in YVC1 gene or a double deletion in YVC1 and PMC1 genes, both glucose-induced calcium signaling and activation of the H+-ATPase are nearly abolished. These results suggest that Yvc1 calcium channel is an important component of this signal transduction pathway activated in response to glucose addition. We also found that by a still undefined mechanism Yvc1 activation seems to correlate with the changes in the intracellular level of IP3. Taken together, these data demonstrate that glucose addition to yeast cells exposed to low external calcium concentrations affects calcium uptake and the activity of the vacuolar calcium channel Yvc1, contributing to the occurrence of calcium signaling connected to plasma membrane H+-ATPase activation.