Robert S. Fuller

Quantitative assessment of enzyme specificity in vivo: P2 recognition by Kex2 protease defined in a genetic system

Bevan, Alison, Brenner, Charles, Fuller, Robert S.

The specificity of the yeast proprotein-processing Kex2 protease was examined in vivo by using a sensitive, quantitative assay. A truncated prepro-α-factor gene encoding an α-factor precursor with...

Optimization of protease-inhibitor interactions by randomizing adventitious contacts

Komiyama, Tomoko, VanderLugt, Bryan, Fugère, Martin, Day, Robert, Kaufman, Randal J., Fuller, Robert S.

Polypeptide protease inhibitors are often found to inhibit targets with which they did not coevolve, as in the case of high-affinity inhibition of bacterial subtilisin by the leech inhibitor eglin c....

Soi3p/Rav1p Functions at the Early Endosome to Regulate Endocytic Trafficking to the Vacuole and Localization of Trans-Golgi Network Transmembrane Proteins

Sipos, György, Brickner, Jason H., Brace, E.J., Chen, Linyi, Rambourg, Alain, Kepes, Francois, ...

SOI3 was identified by a mutation, soi3-1, that suppressed a mutant trans-Golgi network (TGN) localization signal in the Kex2p cytosolic tail. SOI3, identical to RAV1, encodes a protein important for...

Protection from Anthrax Toxin-Mediated Killing of Macrophages by the Combined Effects of Furin Inhibitors and Chloroquine

Komiyama, Tomoko, Swanson, Joel A., Fuller, Robert S.

Cell surface proteolytic processing of anthrax protective antigen by furin or other furin-related proteases is required for its oligomerization, endocytosis, and function as a translocon for anthrax...

Yapsins Are a Family of Aspartyl Proteases Required for Cell Wall Integrity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Krysan, Damian J., Ting, Elizabeth L., Abeijon, Claudia, Kroos, Lee, Fuller, Robert S.

The yeast cell wall is a crucial extracellular organelle that protects the cell from lysis during environmental stress and morphogenesis. Here, we demonstrate that the yapsin family of five...

Quantitative assessment of enzyme specificity in vivo: P2 recognition by Kex2 protease defined in a genetic system

Bevan, Alison, Brenner, Charles, Fuller, Robert S.

The specificity of the yeast proprotein-processing Kex2 protease was examined in vivo by using a sensitive, quantitative assay. A truncated prepro-α-factor gene encoding an α-factor precursor with...

Optimization of protease-inhibitor interactions by randomizing adventitious contacts

Komiyama, Tomoko, VanderLugt, Bryan, Fugère, Martin, Day, Robert, Kaufman, Randal J., Fuller, Robert S.

Polypeptide protease inhibitors are often found to inhibit targets with which they did not coevolve, as in the case of high-affinity inhibition of bacterial subtilisin by the leech inhibitor eglin c....

Soi3p/Rav1p Functions at the Early Endosome to Regulate Endocytic Trafficking to the Vacuole and Localization of Trans-Golgi Network Transmembrane Proteins

Sipos, György, Brickner, Jason H., Brace, E.J., Chen, Linyi, Rambourg, Alain, Kepes, Francois, ...

SOI3 was identified by a mutation, soi3-1, that suppressed a mutant trans-Golgi network (TGN) localization signal in the Kex2p cytosolic tail. SOI3, identical to RAV1, encodes a protein important for...

Protection from Anthrax Toxin-Mediated Killing of Macrophages by the Combined Effects of Furin Inhibitors and Chloroquine

Komiyama, Tomoko, Swanson, Joel A., Fuller, Robert S.

Cell surface proteolytic processing of anthrax protective antigen by furin or other furin-related proteases is required for its oligomerization, endocytosis, and function as a translocon for anthrax...

Yapsins Are a Family of Aspartyl Proteases Required for Cell Wall Integrity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Krysan, Damian J., Ting, Elizabeth L., Abeijon, Claudia, Kroos, Lee, Fuller, Robert S.

The yeast cell wall is a crucial extracellular organelle that protects the cell from lysis during environmental stress and morphogenesis. Here, we demonstrate that the yapsin family of five...

Skp1p Regulates Soi3p/Rav1p Association with Endosomal Membranes but Is Not Required for Vacuolar ATPase Assembly▿

Brace, E. J., Parkinson, Leah P., Fuller, Robert S.

Skp1p is an essential component of SCF-type E3 ubiquitin ligase complexes and associates with these through binding to F-box proteins. Skp1p also binds F-box proteins in a number of non-SCF...

Plasma Membrane Translocation of Fluorescent-labeled Phosphatidylethanolamine Is Controlled by Transcription Regulators, PDR1 and PDR3

Kean, Leslie S., Grant, Althea M., Angeletti, Cesar, Mahé, Yannick, Kuchler, Karl, Fuller, Robert S., ...

The transcription regulators, PDR1 and PDR3, have been shown to activate the transcription of numerous genes involved in a wide range of functions, including resistance to physical and chemical...

SOI1 Encodes a Novel, Conserved Protein That Promotes TGN–Endosomal Cycling of Kex2p and Other Membrane Proteins by Modulating the Function of Two TGN Localization Signals

Brickner, Jason H., Fuller, Robert S.

Localization of yeast Kex2 protease to the TGN requires a signal (TLS1) in its cytosolic tail (C-tail). Mutation of TLS1 results in rapid transit of Kex2p to the vacuole. Isolation of suppressors of...

The Tlg SNARE complex is required for TGN homotypic fusion

Brickner, Jason H., Blanchette, Jennifer M., Sipos, György, Fuller, Robert S.

Using a new assay for membrane fusion between late Golgi/endosomal compartments, we have reconstituted a rapid, robust homotypic fusion reaction between membranes containing Kex2p and Ste13p, two...

Yeast Golgi-localized, γ-Ear–containing, ADP-Ribosylation Factor-binding Proteins Are but Adaptor Protein-1 Is Not Required for Cell-free Transport of Membrane Proteins from the Trans-Golgi Network to the Prevacuolar Compartment

Abazeed, Mohamed E., Fuller, Robert S.

Golgi-localized, γ-Ear–containing, ADP-ribosylation factor-binding proteins (GGAs) and adaptor protein-1 (AP-1) mediate clathrin-dependent trafficking of transmembrane proteins between the...

Inhibition of Furin/Proprotein Convertase-catalyzed Surface and Intracellular Processing by Small Molecules*

Komiyama, Tomoko, Coppola, Julia M., Larsen, Martha J., Van Dort, Marcian E., Ross, Brian D., Day, Robert, ...

Furin is a ubiquitously expressed proprotein convertase (PC) that plays a vital role in numerous disease processes including cancer metastasis, bacterial toxin activation (e.g. anthrax and...