Physiological and toxic effects of purine intermediate 5-amino-4-imidazolecarboxamide ribonucleotide (AICAR) in yeast.
J Biol Chem, 2011/9/02;286(35):30994-31002.
Hürlimann HC[1], Laloo B[1], Simon-Kayser B[1], Saint-Marc C[1], Coulpier F[2], Lemoine S[2], Daignan-Fornier B[3], Pinson B[1]
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PMID: 21757731DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M111.262659
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Abstract
5-Amino-4-imidazolecarboxamide ribonucleotide 5'-phosphate (AICAR) is a monophosphate metabolic intermediate of the de novo purine synthesis pathway that has highly promising metabolic and antiproliferative properties. Yeast mutants unable to metabolize AICAR are auxotroph for histidine. A screening for suppressors of this phenotype identified recessive and dominant mutants that result in lowering the intracellular AICAR concentration. The recessive mutants affect the adenosine kinase, which is shown here to catalyze the phosphorylation of AICAR riboside in yeast. The dominant mutants strongly enhance the capacity of the alkaline phosphatase Pho13 to dephosphorylate 5-amino-4-imidazole N-succinocarboxamide ribonucleotide 5'-phosphate(SAICAR) into its non-toxic riboside form. By combining these mutants with transcriptomics and metabolomics analyses, we establish that in yeast responses to AICAR and SAICAR are clearly linked to the concentration of the monophosphate forms, whereas the derived nucleoside moieties have no effect even at high intracellular concentration. Finally, we show that AICAR/SAICAR concentrations vary under physiological conditions known to modulate transcription of the purine and phosphate pathway genes.
MeSH terms
Alkaline Phosphatase; Aminoimidazole Carboxamide; Catalysis; Chromatography, Liquid; Fungal Proteins; Gene Expression Regulation, Fungal; Genes, Dominant; Genes, Fungal; Genes, Recessive; Models, Chemical; Mutation; Purines; Ribonucleotides; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Species Specificity; Transcription, Genetic
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