Project description:CRISPRi screens on the repression of 129 protein kinases and 161 transcription factors in S. cerevisiae. We quantify perturbation effects on cellular fitness at 23, 30 and 38°C, expression of the SSA1 Hsp70 chaperone (as proxy for heat shock response activity) and thermotolerance. The integration of these phenotypes allowed us to identify core signaling pathways of the HSR and their contributions to temperature-associated growth and heat resistance.
Project description:Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae has been widely used as a model system for studying genomic instability. In this study, heat-shock-induced genomic alterations were explored in the heterozygous diploid yeast strain JSC25-1. In combination of the whole-genome microarray, the patterns of chromosomal instability induced by heat shock could also be explored at a whole genome level. Using this system, we found heat-shock treatment resulted in hundreds-fold higher rate of genomic alterations, including aneuploidy and loss of heterozygosity (LOH).
Project description:Microarray time courses followed the response of 5 yeast strains to heat shock. Expression variation due to genetic, environmental, and genotype-by-environment interactions were identified. Keywords: Timecourse and single timepoint expression studies of stress response in yeast
Project description:Microarray time courses followed the response of 5 yeast strains to heat shock. Expression variation due to genetic, environmental, and genotype-by-environment interactions were identified. Keywords: Timecourse and single timepoint expression studies of stress response in yeast The genomic expression response to heat shock was measured in 5 different yeast strains over the course of 2 hours. Basal expression at 25C was also compared in 4 non-lab strains to the S288c refernce. All experiments were done in duplicate, for a total of 68 Samples.
Project description:DNA array expression analysis comparing RNA transcripts in wild type and hho1 strains before and after a heat-shock from 25 to 37 degrees. Keywords: expression, heat shock
Project description:Life is resilient because living systems are able to respond to elevated temperatures with an ancient gene expression program called the heat shock response (HSR). Our global analysis revealed a modular HSR dependent on the severity of the stress in yeast. Interestingly, at all temperatures analyzed, the transcription of hundreds of genes is upregulated among them the molecular chaperones, which protect proteins from aggregation. However, for approximately 90% of the regulated genes, the function under stress remained enigmatic. Surprisingly, the majority of these upregulated genes is translated but only for a small fraction this results in raised proteins levels. In this context, increased translation is required to counter-balance elevated protein turnover at elevated temperatures. This anaplerotic reaction together with the molecular chaperone system allows yeast to buffer proteotoxic stress. When the capacity of this system is exhausted at extreme temperatures, translation is stopped via phase transition and growth stops.
Project description:Transcriptional induction of Heat Shock Protein (HSP) genes in yeast is accompanied by dynamic changes in their 3D structure and spatial organization, yet the molecular basis for these phenomena remains unknown. Using chromosome conformation capture and single cell imaging, we show that genes transcriptionally activated by Heat Shock Factor 1 (Hsf1) specifically interact across chromosomes and coalesce into diffraction-limited intranuclear foci. Genes activated by the alternative stress regulators Msn2 and Msn4, in contrast, do not interact among themselves nor with Hsf1 targets. Likewise, constitutively expressed genes, even those interposed between HSP genes, show no detectable interaction. Hsf1 forms discrete subnuclear puncta when stressactivated, and these puncta dissolve in concert with transcriptional attenuation, paralleling the kinetics of HSP gene coalescence and dissolution. Nuclear Hsf1 and RNA Pol II are both necessary for intergenic HSP gene interactions, while DNA-bound Hsf1 is necessary and sufficient to drive coalescence of a heterologous gene. Our findings demonstrate that Hsf1 can dynamically restructure the yeast genome.