The DNA damage response (DDR) is regulated by a protein kinase signaling cascade that orchestrates DNA repair and other processes. Identifying the substrate effectors of these kinases is critical for understanding the underlying physiology and mechanism of the response. We have used quantitative mass spectrometry to profile DDR-dependent phosphorylation in budding yeast and genetically explored the dependency of these phosphorylation events on the DDR kinases MEC1, RAD53, CHK1, and DUN1. Based on these screens, a database containing many novel DDR-regulated phosphorylation events has been established. Phosphorylation of many of these proteins has been validated by quantitative peptide phospho-immunoprecipitation and examined for functional relevance to the DDR through largescale analysis of sensitivity to DNA damage in yeast deletion strains. We reveal a link between DDR signaling and the metabolic pathways of inositol phosphate and phosphatidyl inositol synthesis, which are required for resistance to DNA damage. We also uncover links between the DDR and TOR signaling as well as translation regulation. Taken together, these data shed new light on the organization of DDR signaling in budding yeast.enomes of all organisms constantly experience life-threatening chemical and structural alterations because of the highly reactive chemical environments in which they reside and endogenous errors that occur during genome replication (1, 2). The ability to repair these lesions and maintain genomic stability is critical to organismal survival. A failure to maintain this stability leads to deleterious events such as mutagenesis, chromosomal rearrangements, gene amplifications or deletions, and the gain or loss of entire chromosomes. These events reduce the fitness and may even endanger the life of unicellular organisms while leading to developmental abnormalities and tumorigenesis in metazoans. Selective pressure from these DNA insults has resulted in the evolution of a higher-order regulatory pathway referred to as the DNA-damage response (DDR), which emerged to coordinate repair processes both by directing the types of repair to be used for particular lesions and by coordinating this repair with other cellular events such as cell-cycle progression (1).The eukaryotic DDR consists of two central protein kinases of the PIKK family, ataxia-telangiectasia mutated (ATM) and ataxia telangiectasia and Rad3-related (ATR) (3, 4). These proteins participate in sensing common intermediates in DNA repair, such as double-strand breaks or stalled replication forks, and thereupon phosphorylate downstream effectors to promote appropriate repair and cell-cycle coordination. The outlines of these pathways were originally established largely through studies in budding and fission yeast (1) and subsequently were expanded in mammals. In budding yeast, Tel1 (ATM homolog) and MEC1 (ATR homolog) carry out the bulk of the DNA-damage signaling. Unlike ATM in mammals, Tel1 has a relatively minor role in the budding yeast DDR (5). Downstream of these...