The budding yeast protein Sum1 functions independently of its binding partners Hst1 and Sir2 histone deacetylases to regulate microtubule assembly.

The budding yeast protein Sum1 is a transcription factor that associates with the histone deacetylase Hst1p or, in its absence, with Sir2p to form repressed chromatin. In this study, SUM1 has been identified as an allele-specific dosage suppressor of mutations in the major alpha-tubulin-coding gene TUB1. When cloned in a 2mu vector, SUM1 suppressed the cold-sensitive and benomyl-hypersensitive phenotypes associated with the tub1-1 mutation. The suppression was Hst1p- and Sir2p-independent, suggesting that it was not mediated by deacetylation events associated with Sum1p when it functions along with its known partner histone deacetylases. This protein was confined to the nucleus, but did not colocalize with the microtubules nor did it bind to alpha- or beta-tubulin. Cells deleted of SUM1 showed hypersensitivity to benomyl and cold-sensitive growth, phenotypes exhibited by mutants defective in microtubule function and cytoskeletal defects. These observations suggest that Sum1p is a novel regulator of microtubule function. We propose that as a dosage suppressor, Sum1p promotes the formation of microtubules by increasing the availability of the alphabeta-heterodimer containing the mutant alpha-tubulin subunit.

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