Calcineurin is essential in cyclosporin A- and FK506-sensitive yeast strains.
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The immunophilin-immunosuppressant complexes cyclophilin-cyclosporin A (CsA) and FKBP12-FK506 inhibit the phosphatase calcineurin to block T-cell activation. Although cyclophilin A, FKBP12, and calcineurin are highly conserved from yeast to man, none had previously been shown to be essential for viability. We find that CsA-sensitive yeast strains are FK506 hypersensitive and demonstrate that calcineurin is required for viability in these strains. Mutants lacking cyclophilin A or FKBP12 are resistant to CsA or FK506, respectively. Thus, both the immunosuppressive and the antifungal actions of CsA and FK506 result from calcineurin inhibition by immunophilin-drug complexes. In yeast strains in which calcineurin is not essential, calcineurin inhibition or mutation of calcineurin confers hypersensitivity to LiCl or NaCl, suggesting that calcineurin regulates cation transport.
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- Authors
- Breuder, T., Hemenway, C. S., Movva, N. R., Cardenas, M. E., & Heitman, J.
- Affiliations
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute (US)
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Publisher
- National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 1994-06-07
- Volume
- 91
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 5372-5376
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
- PMC
- PMC43997
- OpenAlex
- W1967407965
- Cited by
- 135
- References
- 45
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- FWCI
- 3.80
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (ES 07031, T32ES007031)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Signaling Pathways in Disease
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Fungal and yeast genetics research
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
- Keywords
- calcineurin, cyclosporine, FK506, immunophilins, cyclophilin A, FKBP12, yeast viability, cation transport, antifungal activity, T cell activation
- MeSH terms
- Amino Acid Isomerases, Base Sequence, Calmodulin-Binding Proteins, Carrier Proteins, Drug Resistance, Microbial, Lithium, Molecular Sequence Data, Neomycin, Phosphoprotein Phosphatases, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Sodium, Tacrolimus, Cyclosporine, DNA Primers, Peptidylprolyl Isomerase, Calcineurin
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