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:We examined the stress response in Entamoeba histolytica trophozoites by comparing untreated log-phase HM-1:IMSS trophozoites to those subjected to heat shock at 42C for 1 hour. Keywords: stress reponse
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:We examined the stress response in Entamoeba histolytica trophozoites by comparing untreated log-phase HM-1:IMSS trophozoites to those subjected to heat shock at 42C for 1 hour. Keywords: stress reponse We compared two arrays from normal trophozoites to two arrays from trophozoites subjected to heat shock.
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