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SUBMITTER: Simpson-Lavy KJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3808588 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Simpson-Lavy Kobi J KJ Johnston Mark M
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20131009 43
The AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) is a major stress sensor of mammalian cells. AMPK's homolog in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the SNF1 protein kinase, is a central regulator of carbon metabolism that inhibits the Snf3/Rgt2-Rgt1 glucose sensing pathway and activates genes involved in respiration. We present evidence that glucose induces modification of the Snf1 catalytic subunt of SNF1 with the small ubiquitin-like modifier protein SUMO, catalyzed by the SUMO (E3) ligase Mms21. Our r ...[more]