The plant hormone indoleacetic acid induces invasive growth in <i>Saccharomyces cerevisiae</i>

  • Reeta Prusty
    Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Nine Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142
  • Paula Grisafi
    Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Nine Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142
  • Gerald R. Fink
    Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Nine Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142

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<jats:p> Fungi must recognize plant-specific signals to initiate subsequent morphogenetic events such as filamentation that lead to infection. Here we show that the plant hormone indoleacetic acid (IAA) induces adhesion and filamentation of <jats:italic>Saccharomyces cerevisiae</jats:italic> . Genome expression profiling of cells treated with IAA identified Yap1, a fungal specific transcription factor, as a key mediator of this response. Strains lacking <jats:italic>YAP1</jats:italic> ( <jats:italic>yap1-1</jats:italic> ) are hypersensitive to growth on IAA because they accumulate more IAA than can wild type. Members of a family of transporters the amino acid/auxin:proton symport permeases with homology to <jats:italic>AUX1</jats:italic> , a putative IAA transporter from plants, are up-regulated in the <jats:italic>yap1-1</jats:italic> mutant. Deletion of any one of these transporters makes <jats:italic>yap1-1</jats:italic> mutants more resistant to IAA by decreasing its uptake. The permease mutants are defective in IAA perception and filamentation. The ability of a fungus to perceive a plant hormone that causes it to differentiate into an invasive form has important implications for plant–pathogen interactions. </jats:p>

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