Unknown,Transcriptomics,Genomics,Proteomics

Dataset Information

HIRA, a Conserved Histone Chaperone, Plays an Essential Role in Low-dose Stress Response via Transcriptional Stimulation in Fission Yeast

ABSTRACT: Cells that have been pre-exposed to mild stress (priming stress) acquire transient resistance to subsequent severe stress even under different combinations of stresses. This phenomenon is called cross-tolerance. Although it has been reported that cross-tolerance occurs in many organisms, the molecular basis is not clear yet. Here, we identified slm9+ as a responsible gene for the cross-tolerance in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Slm9 is a homolog of mammalian HIRA histone chaperone. HIRA forms a conserved complex and gene disruption of other HIRA complex components, Hip1, Hip3, and Hip4, also yielded a cross-tolerance-defective phenotype, indicating that the fission yeast HIRA is involved in the cross-tolerance as a complex. We also revealed that Slm9 was recruited to the stress-responsive gene loci upon stress treatment in an Atf1-dependent manner. The expression of stress-responsive genes under stress conditions was compromised in HIRA disruptants. Consistent with this, Pol II recruitment and nucleosome eviction at these gene loci were impaired in slm9D cells. Furthermore, we found that the priming stress enhanced the expression of stress-responsive genes in wild-type cells that were exposed to the severe stress. These observations suggest that HIRA functions in stress response through transcriptional regulation. To determine whether fission yeast HIRA specifically regulates stress-responsive genes under stress condition, we performed genome-wide analysis by using Affymetrix GeneChip oligonucleotide microarrays. Fission yeast cells (WT, slm9D, hip1D) were grown in quadruplicate at 32Â°C to the logarithmic phase and an aliquot was collected as the unstressed control. The other three aliquots were exposed to 40Â°C for 1 h, 25 mM H2O2 for 1 h, or 40Â°C for 1 h followed by 25 mM H2O2 for 1 h, respectively. Total RNA was purified and all the 12 RNA samples were analyzed with GeneChip Yeast Genome 2.0 Array (Affymetrix).

ORGANISM(S): Schizosaccharomyces pombe

SUBMITTER: Fuyuki Ishikawa

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-35281 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

ACCESS DATA

Publications

HIRA, a conserved histone chaperone, plays an essential role in low-dose stress response via transcriptional stimulation in fission yeast.

Chujo Moeko M Tarumoto Yusuke Y Miyatake Koichi K Nishida Eisuke E Ishikawa Fuyuki F

The Journal of biological chemistry 20120515 28

Cells that have been pre-exposed to mild stress (priming stress) acquire transient resistance to subsequent severe stress even under different combinations of stresses. This phenomenon is called cross-tolerance. Although it has been reported that cross-tolerance occurs in many organisms, the molecular basis is not clear yet. Here, we identified slm9(+) as a responsible gene for the cross-tolerance in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Slm9 is a homolog of mammalian HIRA histone chapero ...[more]

PMID: 22589550

Similar Datasets

Project description:Organisms frequently experience environmental stresses that occur in predictable patterns and combinations. For wild Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast growing in natural environments, cells may experience high osmotic stress when they first enter broken fruit, followed by high ethanol levels during fermentation, and then finally high levels of oxidative stress resulting from respiration of ethanol. Yeast have adapted to these patterns by evolving sophisticated “cross protection” mechanisms, where mild ‘primary’ doses of one stress can enhance tolerance to severe doses of a different ‘secondary’ stress. For example, in many yeast strains, mild osmotic or mild ethanol stresses cross protect against severe oxidative stress, which likely reflects an anticipatory response important for high fitness in nature. During the course of genetic mapping studies to understand the mechanisms underlying natural variation in ethanol-induced cross protection against H2O2, we found that a key H2O2 scavenging enzyme, cytosolic catalase T (Ctt1p), was absolutely essential for cross protection in a wild oak strain, suggesting the absence of compensatory mechanisms for acquired H2O2 resistance under that condition. In this study, we found surprising heterogeneity across diverse yeast strains in whether CTT1 function was fully necessary for acquired H2O2 resistance. Some strains exhibited partial dispensability of CTT1 when ethanol and/or salt were used as mild stressors, suggesting that compensatory peroxidases may play a role in acquired stress resistance in certain genetic backgrounds. We leveraged global transcriptional responses to ethanol and salt stresses in strains with different levels of CTT1 dispensability, allowing us to identify possible regulators of these alternative peroxidases and acquired stress resistance in general. Ultimately, this study highlights how superficially similar traits can have different underlying molecular foundations and provides a framework for understanding the diversity and regulation of stress defense mechanisms.

Dataset Information

HIRA, a Conserved Histone Chaperone, Plays an Essential Role in Low-dose Stress Response via Transcriptional Stimulation in Fission Yeast

Publications

HIRA, a conserved histone chaperone, plays an essential role in low-dose stress response via transcriptional stimulation in fission yeast.

Similar Datasets

OmicsDI is part of the ELIXIR infrastructure

Tweets