Project description:In this study, we constructed three isogenic strains of S96 yrr1Δ background (its native YRR1 gene was knocked out) carrying three different YRR1 alleles, YRR1_S96, YRR1_YJM789, YRR1_S96-I775E, respectively. We then conducted chromatin immuno-precipitation followed by high-throughput sequencing (ChIP-Seq) for Yrr1 protein on the three strains grown in Yeast Peptone Dextrose medium (YPD) and YPD + 4NQO.
Project description:We measured the response of S. cerevisiae to arrest in the presence of alpha factor. These were collected in support of a related DNaseI-sequencing study. Keywords: Alpha-factor arrest S.cerevisiae R276 (MATa ura3Δ0 leu2Δ0 his3Δ1 met15Δ0 bar1Δ::KanMX) (C. Boone, University of Toronto; S288c background derived from BY4741), was cultured overnight in 50 ml rich medium (YPD) at 30°C, diluted into 500 ml fresh YPD to an OD660 of ~0.8, and treated with yeast α-factor (Sigma-Aldrich) at a final concentration of 50 ng / ml. This culture was incubated at 30°C with shaking for 3 hours (final OD660 ~1). After this treatment, approximately 90% of the cells had formed mating projections when checked by light microscopy. Total RNA from these cells was isolated using hot acidic phenol. 50 μg of total RNA was treated with Turbo Dnase (Ambion), and checked for integrity using a Bioanalyzer 2100 (Agilent). Total RNA was labeled according to the manufacturer’s protocol and applied to Affymetrix Yeast 2.0 arrays. Data were analyzed using the “affy” package from Bioconductor.
Project description:We performed massive screening of the genes in yeast that were involved in the tolerance to isopropanol using the non-essential genes deleted yeast collection, and identified sixty-five disruptants that grew slower than the wild type strain in the presence of isopropanol. The isopropanol sensitive mutants were tested to know their behaviour under other alcohol stresses. Besides, we conducted microarray analysis to reveal the transcriptional response to isopropanol stress in yeast. Our results certainly provide new insights into yeast response to C3 alcohol isopropanol. Strain BY4743 was used in this test. The prepared cells were inoculated into 120 ml of fresh media (YPD without isopropanol, and YPD with 20 g/l or 40 g/l of isopropanol) in 500-ml Sakaguchi-flasks. They were cultivated for 3 h at 30M-BM-0C with 130-rpm shaking. At least three independent experiments were performed at each concentration of isopropanol.
Project description:In this study, we constructed three isogenic strains of S96 yrr1Δ background (its native YRR1 gene was knocked out) carrying three different YRR1 alleles, YRR1_S96, YRR1_YJM789 and YRR1_S96-I775E, respectively. We then conducted RNA deep sequencing (RNA-Seq) on the three strains grown in Yeast Peptone Dextrose medium (YPD), YPD + 4NQO and Yeast Peptone glycerol medium (YPglycerol).
Project description:Second fermentation in a bottle supposes such specific conditions that undergo yeasts to a set of stress situations like high ethanol, low nitrogen, low pH or sub-optimal temperature. Also, yeast have to grow until 1 or 2 generations and ferment all sugar available while they resist increasing CO2 pressure produced along with fermentation. Because of this, yeast for second fermentation must be selected depending on different technological criteria such as resistance to ethanol, pressure, high flocculation capacity, and good autolytic and foaming properties. All of these stress factors appear sequentially or simultaneously, and their superposition could amplify their inhibitory effects over yeast growth. Considering all of the above, it has supposed interesting to characterize the adaptive response of commercial yeast strain EC1118 during second-fermentation experiments under oenological/industrial conditions by transcriptomic profiling. We have pointed ethanol as the most relevant environmental condition in the induction of genes involved in respiratory metabolism, oxidative stress, autophagy, vacuolar and peroxisomal function, after comparison between time-course transcriptomic analysis in alcoholic fermentation and transcriptomic profiling in second fermentation. Other examples of parallelism include overexpression of cellular homeostasis and sugar metabolism genes. Finally, this study brings out the role of low-temperature on yeast physiology during second-fermentation. S. cerevisiae EC1118 pre-adapted to ethanol cells and sucrose (20 g/L) were added to 20 L of base wine (Cavas Freixenet, Sant Sadurní D’Anoia, Spain). Complete volume was bottled with 350 mL each one. All were sealed and incubated in static conditions at 16ºC for approximately 40 days after tirage. Three samples were taken during the process for transcriptional study of the physiological adaptation of yeast cells to industrial second fermentation conditions. A sample corresponding to exponential-growth phase under unstressed conditions (in YPD at 28ºC) was used as an external reference. Three timepoints from second-fermentation were monitored and three biological replicates from each timepoint were analyzed.
Project description:Oxidative stress is a harmful condition in a cell, tissue, or organ, caused by an imbalnace between reactive oxygen species and other oxidants and the capacity of antioxidant defense systems to remove them. The budding yeast S. cerevisiae has been the major eukaryotic model for studies of response to oxidative stress. We used microarrays to study the genome-wide temporal response of the yeast S. cerevisiae to oxidative stress induced by cumene hydroperoxide. Keywords: time course