Project description:Fungal group III histidine kinases are the molecular targets of some classes of fungicides. In contrast to the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the fungal pathogen Candida albicans possesses a group III histidine kinase, CaNik1p, also called Cos1p. To investigate the function of CaNIK1, the gene was expressed in S. cerevisiae. The transformants became susceptible to antifungal compounds to which the wild-type strain is resistant. The susceptibility was related to the activation of the MAP kinase Hog1p of the osmotic stress response pathway. Gene expression analysis revealed a strong overlap of the responses to osmotic stress and to fludioxonil at early time points. While the response to fludioxonil persisted, the response to osmotic stress was diminished with time.
Project description:Fungal group III histidine kinases are the molecular targets of some classes of fungicides. In contrast to the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the fungal pathogen Candida albicans possesses a group III histidine kinase, CaNik1p, also called Cos1p. To investigate the function of CaNIK1, the gene was expressed in S. cerevisiae. The transformants became susceptible to antifungal compounds to which the wild-type strain is resistant. The susceptibility was related to the activation of the MAP kinase Hog1p of the osmotic stress response pathway. Gene expression analysis revealed a strong overlap of the responses to osmotic stress and to fludioxonil at early time points. While the response to fludioxonil persisted, the response to osmotic stress was diminished with time. S. cerevisiae expressing Candida albicans Nik1p were treated with 10 µg/ml fludioxonil. As a comparison, another culture of S. cerevisiae expressing Candida albicans Nik1p was treated with 1 M sorbitol to induce osmotic stress response. One culture remained untreated as a control. From all cultures, samples were taken after a duration of 15, 30 and 60 min.
Project description:Yeast cells can be affected during their growth to several stress conditions. One of the most known and characterised is the osmotic stress and most of the studies about osmotic sterss response in yeast have been focused on salt or sorbitol stress. However, during yeast growth in industrially relevant processes (for instance throughout alcoholic fermentation on the must to produce alcoholic beverages) the osmotic stress is mainly due to the high sugar(in particular glucose) concentration (200-250 g/L). In this study we want to know the transcriptional response of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae when it was grown in a medium with high glucose concentration. For this aim we have grown yeast in YP medium containing 2% of glucose in cultures overnight and after that we diluted this cultures to an OD600 of 0.1 in two differents mediums: YP containing 2% or 20% of glucose.One hour later of inoculation we collect the cells and quikly frozen in liquid nitrogen. We extracted the total mRNA of the cells and after that we did the microarrays, comparing cells were grown in YP2 media against the cells were grown in YP20 media.
Project description:Yeast cells can be affected during their growth to several stress conditions. One of the most known and characterised is the osmotic stress and most of the studies about osmotic sterss response in yeast have been focused on salt or sorbitol stress. However, during yeast growth in industrially relevant processes (for instance throughout alcoholic fermentation on the must to produce alcoholic beverages) the osmotic stress is mainly due to the high sugar(in particular glucose) concentration (200-250 g/L).
Project description:Timely signaling pathways activation allows cells to survive diverse environmental stress conditions. Mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) are a highly conserved class of signaling molecules in eukaryotes with essential functions in cellular responses to stress. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the role of MAPK Hog1 as a master regulator of the coordinated response to osmotic stress is well understood. However, recent findings suggest that the role of Hog1 may extend beyond canonical osmoadaptation. This study investigates the role of Hog1 in mediating transcriptional responses to acute oxidative and ethanol stress. By harnessing the natural variation present in wild strains of S. cerevisiae, we use gene knockouts, comparative transcriptomics, and survival assays to determine Hog1’s involvement in stress responses beyond osmoadaptation. Our findings demonstrate that Hog1 mediates transcriptional reprogramming for non-osmotic stress response in a strain-dependent manner. Osmospecificity of Hog1 activity was identified in the DBY8268 laboratory strain, while differential gene expression was observed in HOG1 knockouts of all wild strains tested under both oxidative and ethanol stress. Further, our data indicate that the function of Hog1 in the response to non-osmotic stress is distinct from the canonical response, with effects ranging from altered ribosomal protein expression dynamics to altered environmental stress response (ESR) activity. Differences in expression correlate with fitness defects of hog1∆ mutants. These results suggest a generalized role of the Hog1 MAPK in S. cerevisiae, consistent with an evolutionarily generalized function for this kinase, underscoring the importance of genomic diversity for elucidating stress signalling dynamics in yeast.
Project description:Protein extracts of three yeast strains (Saccharomyces cerevisiae CEN.PK113-7D, Kluyveromyces marxianus CBS6556 and Yarrowia lipolytica W29) cultivated in chemostats under different conditions. Representative samples containing aliquots of all conditions for each yeast strain were spiked with UPS2 standard (Sigma) to estimate absolute values in fmol. The conditions for Saccharomyces cerevisiae CEN.PK113-7D are: - Standard condition : 30°C, pH 5.5 - High temperature: 36°C, pH 5.5 - Low pH: 30°C, pH 3.5 - Osmotic stress : 30°C, pH 5.5, 1M KCl The conditions for Kluyveromyces marxianus CBS6556 are: - Standard condition : 30°C, pH 5.5 - High temperature: 40°C, pH 5.5 - Low pH: 30°C, pH 3.5 - Osmotic stress: 30°C, pH 5.5, 0.6 M KCl The conditions for Yarrowia lipolytica W29 are: - Standard condition: 28°C, pH 5.5 - High temperature: 32°C, pH 5.5 - Low pH: 28°C, pH 3.5 This study is part of the OMICS data generation WP of CHASSY project (European Union’s Horizon 2020 grant agreement No 720824).
Project description:To better understand how yeast adapt and respond to sequential stressors, an industrial yeast strain, URM 6670 (also known as BT0510), which is highly flocculent, tolerant to ethanol, osmotic and heat shock stresses, was subjected to three different treatments: 1. osmotic stress followed by ethanol stress, 2. oxidative stress followed by ethanol stress, 3. glucose withdrawal followed by ethanol stress. Samples were collected before the first stress (control), after the first stress and after the second stress (ethanol). RNA was extracted and analyzed by RNAseq.
Project description:Relative quantification of protein abundances of three yeast strains (Saccharomyces cerevisiae CEN.PK113-7D, Kluyveromyces marxianus CBS6556 and Yarrowia lipolytica W29) cultivate in chemostats under different conditions. The conditions for Saccharomyces cerevisiae CEN.PK113-7D are: - Standard condition – 30°C, pH 5.5 - High temperature - 36°C, pH 5.5 - Low pH - 30°C, pH 3.5 - Osmotic stress – 30°C, pH 5.5, 1M KCl The conditions for Kluyveromyces marxianus CBS6556 are: - Standard condition – 30°C, pH 5.5 - High temperature - 40°C, pH 5.5 - Low pH - 30°C, pH 3.5 - Osmotic stress – 30°C, pH 5.5, 0.6 M KCl The conditions for Yarrowia lipolytica W29 are: - Standard condition - 28°C, pH 5.5 - High temperature - 32°C, pH 5.5 - Low pH - 28°C, pH 3.5 This study is part of the OMICS data generation of CHASSY project (European Union’s Horizon 2020 grant agreement No 720824).
Project description:Adaptation to altered osmotic conditions is a fundamental property of living cells and has been studied in particular detail in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Yeast cells accumulate glycerol as compatible solute, controlled at different levels by the High Osmolarity Glycerol (HOG) response pathway. Up to now, essentially all osmostress studies in yeast have been performed with glucose as carbon and energy source, which is metabolised by glycolysis with glycerol is as a normal by-product. Here we investigated the response of yeast to osmotic stress when yeast is respiring ethanol as carbon and energy source. Remarkably, yeast cells do not accumulate glycerol under these conditions and it appears that trehalose may partly take over the role as compatible solute. The HOG pathway is activated in very much the same way as in during growth on glucose medium and is also required for osmotic adaptation. Slower volume recovery was observed in ethanol-grown cells as compared to glucose-grown cells. Dependence on key regulators as well as the global gene expression profile were similar in many ways to those previously observed in glucose-grown cells. However, there are indications that cells re-arrange redox-metabolism when respiration is hampered under osmostress, a feature that could not be observed in glucose-grown cells.
Project description:When challenged with osmotic shock, S. cerevisiae induces hundreds of genes, despite a global reduction in transcriptional capacity. The mechanisms that regulate this rapid reallocation of transcriptional resources are not known. Here we show that redistribution of RNA Pol II upon stress requires the stress-responsive MAP kinase Hog1. We find that Hog1 and RNA Pol II co-localize to open reading frames that bypass global transcriptional repression, and that these targets are specified by two osmotic stress-responsive transcription factors. The combination of reduced global transcription with a gene-specific override mechanism allows cells to rapidly switch their transcriptional program in response to stress.