Phosphorylation-dependent Activation of Peroxisome Proliferator Protein PEX11 Controls Peroxisome Abundance
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Peroxisomes are dynamic organelles that divide continuously in growing cell cultures and expand extensively in lipid-rich medium. Peroxisome population control is achieved in part by Pex11p-dependent regulation of peroxisome size and number. Although the production of Pex11p in yeast is tightly linked to peroxisome biogenesis by transcriptional regulation of the PEX11 gene, it remains unclear if and how Pex11p activity could be modulated by rapid signaling. We report the reversible phosphorylation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Pex11p in response to nutritional cues and delineate a mechanism for phosphorylation-dependent activation of Pex11p through the analysis of phosphomimicking mutants. Peroxisomal phenotypes in the PEX11-A and PEX11-D strains expressing constitutively dephosphorylated and phosphorylated forms of Pex11p resemble those of PEX11 gene knock-out and overexpression mutants, although PEX11 transcript and Pex11 protein levels remain unchanged. We demonstrate functional inequality and differences in subcellular localization of the Pex11p forms. Pex11Dp promotes peroxisome fragmentation when reexpressed in cells containing induced peroxisomes. Pex11p translocates between endoplasmic reticulum and peroxisomes in a phosphorylation-dependent manner, whereas Pex11Ap and Pex11Dp are impaired in trafficking and constitutively associated with mature and proliferating peroxisomes, respectively. Overexpression of cyclin-dependent kinase Pho85p results in hyperphosphorylation of Pex11p and peroxisome proliferation. This study provides the first evidence for control of peroxisome dynamics by phosphorylation-dependent regulation of a peroxin.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".