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Inhibition of phosphoglucomutase activity by lithium alters cellular calcium homeostasis and signaling in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

¹Department of Laboratory Medicine, ²Department of Immunology and Biotechnology, and ³Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Pécs University, Pécs, Hungary; and ⁴Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama

Submitted 21 September 2004 ; accepted in final form 8 February 2005

Phosphoglucomutase is a key enzyme of glucose metabolism that interconverts glucose-1-phosphate and glucose-6-phosphate. Loss of the major isoform of phosphoglucomutase in Saccharomyces cerevisiae results in a significant increase in the cellular glucose-1-phosphate-to-glucose-6-phosphate ratio when cells are grown in medium containing galactose as carbon source. This imbalance in glucose metabolites was recently shown to also cause a six- to ninefold increase in cellular Ca²⁺ accumulation. We found that Li⁺ inhibition of phosphoglucomutase causes a similar elevation of total cellular Ca²⁺ and an increase in ⁴⁵Ca²⁺ uptake in a wild-type yeast strain grown in medium containing galactose, but not glucose, as sole carbon source. Li⁺ treatment also reduced the transient elevation of cytosolic Ca²⁺ response that is triggered by exposure to external CaCl₂ or by the addition of galactose to yeast cells starved of a carbon source. Finally, we found that the Ca²⁺ overaccumulation induced by Li⁺ exposure was significantly reduced in a strain lacking the vacuolar Ca²⁺-ATPase Pmc1p. These observations suggest that Li⁺ inhibition of phosphoglucomutase results in an increased glucose-1-phosphate-to-glucose-6-phosphate ratio, which results in an accelerated rate of vacuolar Ca²⁺ uptake via the Ca²⁺-ATPase Pmc1p.

calcium influx; calcium signal; galactose; glucose phosphate

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