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protein coding gene - isp6 (SPAC4A8.04) - vacuolar serine protease Isp6

Gene summary

Standard name
isp6
Systematic ID
SPAC4A8.04
Product
vacuolar serine protease Isp6
Organism
Schizosaccharomyces pombe (fission yeast)
Synonyms
prb1
UniProt ID
P40903
ORFeome ID
21/21F12
Characterisation status
biological role published
Feature type
mRNA gene
Genomic location
chromosome I: 2544842..2546981 forward strand

Annotation

Disease association

MONDO:0005439 - familial hypercholesterolemia

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MONDO:0011369 - hypercholesterolemia, autosomal dominant, 3

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MONDO:0005066 - metabolic disease

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GO biological process

GO:0006914 - autophagy

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GO:0000747 - conjugation with cellular fusion

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GO:0031638 - zymogen activation

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GO cellular component

GO:0000324 - fungal-type vacuole

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GO:0000328 - fungal-type vacuole lumen

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GO:0005794 - Golgi apparatus

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GO:0031906 - late endosome lumen

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GO molecular function

GO:0004175 - endopeptidase activity

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GO:0008233 - peptidase activity

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GO:0004252 - serine-type endopeptidase activity

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Modification

MOD:00006 - N-glycosylated residue

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Multi-locus phenotype

FYPO:0004671 - abolished protein localization to vacuole during nitrogen starvation

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FYPO:0006375 - abolished protein processing during nitrogen starvation

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FYPO:0001669 - abolished protein processing during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0005256 - decreased carboxypeptidase activity

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FYPO:0000668 - decreased peptidase activity

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FYPO:0000835 - decreased protein level

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FYPO:0001422 - decreased protein processing during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0006381 - increased cellular reactive oxygen species level during nitrogen starvation

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FYPO:0004164 - increased cellular reactive oxygen species level in stationary phase

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FYPO:0000539 - increased protein secretion during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0000245 - loss of viability in stationary phase

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FYPO:0001178 - loss of viability upon nitrogen starvation

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FYPO:0006378 - normal protein localization to endoplasmic reticulum during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0001668 - normal protein processing during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0003376 - resistance to nitrogen starvation

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FYPO:0001234 - slow vegetative cell population growth

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FYPO:0002060 - viable vegetative cell population

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Protein sequence feature

SO:0000418 - signal_peptide

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Qualitative gene expression

PomGeneEx:0000019 - protein level decreased

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PomGeneEx:0000018 - protein level increased

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PomGeneEx:0000015 - RNA absent

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PomGeneEx:0000011 - RNA level increased

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PomGeneEx:0000013 - RNA level unchanged

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PomGeneEx:0000014 - RNA present

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Quantitative gene expression

PBO:0006310 - protein level

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PBO:0011963 - RNA level

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Single locus phenotype

FYPO:0001282 - abnormal chromatin organization during nitrogen starvation

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FYPO:0004670 - abnormal macroautophagy during nitrogen starvation

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FYPO:0000710 - abnormal mitotic cell cycle arrest in response to nitrogen starvation

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FYPO:0000196 - abnormal prospore formation

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FYPO:0001421 - abnormal protein processing during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0005178 - abnormal vacuolar morphology during nitrogen starvation

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FYPO:0002804 - abnormal vacuole organization during nitrogen starvation

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FYPO:0006295 - abolished macroautophagy during nitrogen starvation

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FYPO:0001669 - abolished protein processing during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0005256 - decreased carboxypeptidase activity

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FYPO:0003743 - decreased cell population growth during glucose starvation

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FYPO:0009078 - decreased cell population growth on ethanol carbon source

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FYPO:0000251 - decreased cell population growth on galactose carbon source

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FYPO:0009100 - decreased cell population growth on glycerol and galactose carbon source

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FYPO:0000684 - decreased cell population growth on glycerol carbon source

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FYPO:0009092 - decreased cell population growth on lysine and serine nitrogen source

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FYPO:0009099 - decreased cell population growth on mannitol carbon source

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FYPO:0007562 - decreased cell population growth on serine nitrogen source

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FYPO:0009097 - decreased cell population growth on xylose carbon source

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FYPO:0000708 - decreased mating efficiency

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FYPO:0000668 - decreased peptidase activity

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FYPO:0002798 - decreased protein degradation during nitrogen starvation

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FYPO:0001422 - decreased protein processing during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0005295 - decreased RNA catabolic process during nitrogen starvation

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FYPO:0001152 - decreased RNA level during nitrogen starvation

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FYPO:0000584 - decreased sporulation frequency

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FYPO:0001043 - increased mating efficiency

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FYPO:0001178 - loss of viability upon nitrogen starvation

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FYPO:0004084 - normal protein level during nitrogen starvation

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FYPO:0000833 - normal protein level during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0001096 - normal RNA level during nitrogen starvation

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FYPO:0000590 - normal sporulation

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FYPO:0002802 - nucleus mislocalized to cell cortex during nitrogen starvation

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FYPO:0000067 - resistance to brefeldin A

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FYPO:0000763 - resistance to cadmium

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FYPO:0000073 - resistance to caffeine

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FYPO:0000764 - resistance to cycloheximide

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FYPO:0002693 - resistance to diamide

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FYPO:0009038 - resistance to egtazic acid

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FYPO:0009070 - resistance to itraconazole

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FYPO:0001583 - resistance to lithium

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FYPO:0009087 - resistance to magnesium chloride and sodium dodecyl sulfate

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FYPO:0005193 - resistance to torin1

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FYPO:0001034 - resistance to tunicamycin

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FYPO:0000830 - resistance to vanadate

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FYPO:0006680 - sensitive to bisphenol A

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FYPO:0000088 - sensitive to hydroxyurea

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FYPO:0000089 - sensitive to methyl methanesulfonate

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FYPO:0007924 - sensitive to potassium chloride and sodium dodecyl sulfate

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FYPO:0000797 - sensitive to tert-butyl hydroperoxide

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FYPO:0000280 - sterile

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FYPO:0002060 - viable vegetative cell population

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FYPO:0002177 - viable vegetative cell with normal cell morphology

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Taxonomic conservation

PBO:0011065 - conserved in eukaryotes

PBO:0011071 - conserved in eukaryotes only

PBO:0011064 - conserved in fungi

PBO:0011069 - conserved in metazoa

PBO:0011070 - conserved in vertebrates

Protein features

IDNameInterPro nameDB name
PF05922Inhibitor_I9S8pro/Inhibitor_I9PFAM
PF00082Peptidase_S8Peptidase_S8/S53_domPFAM
cd04077Peptidases_S8_PCSK9_ProteinaseK_likePCSK9_ProteinaseK-likeCDD
PS00136SUBTILASE_ASPPeptidase_S8_Asp-ASPROSITE_PATTERNS
PS00138SUBTILASE_SERPeptidase_S8_Ser-ASPROSITE_PATTERNS
PS00137SUBTILASE_HISPeptidase_S8_His-ASPROSITE_PATTERNS
PS51257PROKAR_LIPOPROTEINPROSITE_PROFILES
PS51892SUBTILASEPROSITE_PROFILES
PR00723SUBTILISINPeptidase_S8_subtilisin-relPRINTS
G3DSA:3.40.50.200:FF:000007FUNFAM
SSF52743Subtilisin-likePeptidase_S8/S53_dom_sfSUPERFAMILY
SSF54897Protease propeptides/inhibitorsSUPERFAMILY
G3DSA:3.30.70.80Peptidase S8 propeptide/proteinase inhibitor I9S8pro/Inhibitor_I9_sfGENE3D
G3DSA:3.40.50.200Peptidase S8/S53 domainPeptidase_S8/S53_dom_sfGENE3D
PTHR43806PEPTIDASE S8Peptidase_S8_subtilisin-likePANTHER

Orthologs

References / Literature

PMID:17881729 - Atf1 is a target of the mitogen-activated protein kinase Pmk1 and regulates cell integrity in fission yeast.
Takada H et al. Mol Biol Cell 2007 Dec;18(12):4794-802
PMID:23697806 - A genome-wide resource of cell cycle and cell shape genes of fission yeast.
Hayles J et al. Open Biol 2013 May 22;3(5):130053
PMID:23173672 - Identification of novel genes involved in DNA damage response by screening a genome-wide Schizosaccharomyces pombe deletion library.
Pan X et al. BMC Genomics 2012 Nov 23;13:662
PMID:40015273 - A comprehensive Schizosaccharomyces pombe atlas of physical transcription factor interactions with proteins and chromatin.
Skribbe M et al. Mol Cell 2025 Feb 19;
PMID:17121544 - Fission yeast Tor2 links nitrogen signals to cell proliferation and acts downstream of the Rheb GTPase.
Uritani M et al. Genes Cells 2006 Dec;11(12):1367-79
PMID:23101633 - Quantitative analysis of fission yeast transcriptomes and proteomes in proliferating and quiescent cells.
Marguerat S et al. Cell 2012 Oct 26;151(3):671-83
PMID:16802154 - Enhanced productivity of protease-sensitive heterologous proteins by disruption of multiple protease genes in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
Idiris A et al. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2006 Nov;73(2):404-20
PMID:21153812 - Processing and maturation of carboxypeptidase Y and alkaline phosphatase in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
Mukaiyama H et al. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2011 Apr;90(1):203-13
PMID:26365378 - ESCRTs Cooperate with a Selective Autophagy Receptor to Mediate Vacuolar Targeting of Soluble Cargos.
Liu XM et al. Mol Cell 2015 Sep 17;59(6):1035-42
PMID:8312388 - Purification and characterization of the endogenous inhibitor for proteinase B from Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
Escudero B et al. Biochimie 1993;75(10):855-9
PMID:11872168 - Genes for a nuclease and a protease are involved in the drastic decrease in cellular RNA amount in fission yeast cells during nitrogen starvation.
Nakashima A et al. J Biochem 2002 Mar;131(3):391-8
PB_REF:0000003 - Disease Association Curation
PMID:19778961 - Autophagy-deficient Schizosaccharomyces pombe mutants undergo partial sporulation during nitrogen starvation.
Mukaiyama H et al. Microbiology (Reading) 2009 Dec;155(Pt 12):3816-3826
PMID:11115118 - Identification of proteases with shared functions to the proprotein processing protease Krp1 in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
Ladds G et al. Mol Microbiol 2000 Nov;38(4):839-53
PMID:27887640 - Functional and regulatory profiling of energy metabolism in fission yeast.
Malecki M et al. Genome Biol 2016 Nov 25;17(1):240
PMID:29432178 - General amino acid control in fission yeast is regulated by a nonconserved transcription factor, with functions analogous to Gcn4/Atf4.
Duncan CDS et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2018 Feb 20;115(8):E1829-E1838
PMID:16491466 - Construction of a protease-deficient strain set for the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, useful for effective production of protease-sensitive heterologous proteins.
Idiris A et al. Yeast 2006 Jan 30;23(2):83-99
PMID:30647105 - Comparative Genomic Screen in Two Yeasts Reveals Conserved Pathways in the Response Network to Phenol Stress.
Alhoch B et al. G3 (Bethesda) 2019 Mar 07;9(3):639-650
PMID:27918601 - Identifying genes required for respiratory growth of fission yeast.
Malecki M et al. Wellcome Open Res 2016;1:12
PMID:16823372 - ORFeome cloning and global analysis of protein localization in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
Matsuyama A et al. Nat Biotechnol 2006 Jul;24(7):841-7
PMID:20473289 - Analysis of a genome-wide set of gene deletions in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
Kim DU et al. Nat Biotechnol 2010 Jun;28(6):617-623
PMID:31239353 - Zinc-dependent activation of the Pho8 alkaline phosphatase in Schizosaccharomyces pombe .
Hu YM et al. J Biol Chem 2019 Aug 16;294(33):12392-12404
PMID:33138913 - Atg43 tethers isolation membranes to mitochondria to promote starvation-induced mitophagy in fission yeast.
Fukuda T et al. Elife 2020 Nov 03;9
PMID:34980915 - SignalP 6.0 predicts all five types of signal peptides using protein language models.
Teufel F et al. Nat Biotechnol 2022 Jul;40(7):1023-1025
PMID:39477503 - A DUF3844 domain-containing protein is required for vacuolar protein sorting in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
Inagawa T et al. J Gen Appl Microbiol 2024 Oct 31;
PMID:39705284 - Proteomic and phosphoproteomic analyses reveal that TORC1 is reactivated by pheromone signaling during sexual reproduction in fission yeast.
Bérard M et al. PLoS Biol 2024 Dec 20;22(12):e3002963
PMID:27984744 - Survival in Quiescence Requires the Euchromatic Deployment of Clr4/SUV39H by Argonaute-Associated Small RNAs.
Joh RI et al. Mol Cell 2016 Dec 15;64(6):1088-1101
PMID:39747188 - PhpC NF-Y transcription factor infiltrates heterochromatin to generate cryptic intron-containing transcripts crucial for small RNA production.
Srivastav MK et al. Nat Commun 2025 Jan 02;16(1):268
PMID:12529438 - Global transcriptional responses of fission yeast to environmental stress.
Chen D et al. Mol Biol Cell 2003 Jan;14(1):214-29
PMID:19669754 - Enhanced protein secretion from multiprotease-deficient fission yeast by modification of its vacuolar protein sorting pathway.
Idiris A et al. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2010 Jan;85(3):667-77
PMID:23050226 - A genetic screen to discover pathways affecting cohesin function in Schizosaccharomyces pombe identifies chromatin effectors.
Chen Z et al. G3 (Bethesda) 2012 Oct;2(10):1161-8
PMID:23950735 - Global analysis of fission yeast mating genes reveals new autophagy factors.
Sun LL et al. PLoS Genet 2013;9(8):e1003715
PMID:25803873 - Calnexin is essential for survival under nitrogen starvation and stationary phase in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
Núñez A et al. PLoS One 2015;10(3):e0121059
PMID:17261596 - Loss of the TOR kinase Tor2 mimics nitrogen starvation and activates the sexual development pathway in fission yeast.
Matsuo T et al. Mol Cell Biol 2007 Apr;27(8):3154-64
PMID:23231582 - Genome-wide characterization of the phosphate starvation response in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
Carter-O'Connell I et al. BMC Genomics 2012 Dec 12;13:697
PB_REF:0000006 - Disease associations from Monarch via human-pombe orthologs
PMID:25375137 - Systematic analysis of the role of RNA-binding proteins in the regulation of RNA stability.
Hasan A et al. PLoS Genet 2014 Nov;10(11):e1004684
PMID:31341193 - Ent3 and GGA adaptors facilitate diverse anterograde and retrograde trafficking events to and from the prevacuolar endosome.
Yanguas F et al. Sci Rep 2019 Jul 24;9(1):10747
PMID:33313903 - Ribosome profiling reveals ribosome stalling on tryptophan codons and ribosome queuing upon oxidative stress in fission yeast.
Rubio A et al. Nucleic Acids Res 2021 Jan 11;49(1):383-399
PMID:37787768 - Broad functional profiling of fission yeast proteins using phenomics and machine learning.
Rodríguez-López M et al. Elife 2023 Oct 03;12
PMID:35320724 - Cdc48 influence on separase levels is independent of mitosis and suggests translational sensitivity of separase.
Vijayakumari D et al. Cell Rep 2022 Mar 22;38(12):110554
PMID:24763107 - Absolute proteome and phosphoproteome dynamics during the cell cycle of Schizosaccharomyces pombe (Fission Yeast).
Carpy A et al. Mol Cell Proteomics 2014 Aug;13(8):1925-36
PMID:22633491 - Mapping N-glycosylation sites across seven evolutionarily distant species reveals a divergent substrate proteome despite a common core machinery.
Zielinska DF et al. Mol Cell 2012 May 25;46(4):542-8
PMID:31626996 - Multiplexed proteome profiling of carbon source perturbations in two yeast species with SL-SP3-TMT.
Paulo JA et al. J Proteomics 2020 Jan 06;210:103531
PMID:16550352 - A starvation-specific serine protease gene, isp6+, is involved in both autophagy and sexual development in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
Nakashima A et al. Curr Genet 2006 Jun;49(6):403-13
PMID:39367033 - Quantitative proteomics and phosphoproteomics profiling of meiotic divisions in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
Sivakova B et al. Sci Rep 2024 Oct 04;14(1):23105
PMID:33534698 - Tripartite suppression of fission yeast TORC1 signaling by the GATOR1-Sea3 complex, the TSC complex, and Gcn2 kinase.
Fukuda T et al. Elife 2021 Feb 03;10
PMID:21511999 - Comparative functional genomics of the fission yeasts.
Rhind N et al. Science 2011 May 20;332(6032):930-6
PMID:7954893 - Identification and characterization of genes induced during sexual differentiation in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
Sato S et al. Curr Genet 1994 Jul;26(1):31-7
PMID:33788833 - Analysis of the SNARE Stx8 recycling reveals that the retromer-sorting motif has undergone evolutionary divergence.
Yanguas F et al. PLoS Genet 2021 Mar;17(3):e1009463
PMID:17295836 - Fission yeast autophagy induced by nitrogen starvation generates a nitrogen source that drives adaptation processes.
Kohda TA et al. Genes Cells 2007 Feb;12(2):155-70