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Transcription profiling of Saccharomyces cerevisiae response to weak organic acids in chemostat cultures

ABSTRACT: Raw expression values (CHP data) for transcriptional profiling of the response of Saccharomyces cerevisiae to challenges with various weak organic acids Experiment Overall Design: The laboratory reference strain CEN.PK 113-7D (MATa) was grown at 30 Â°C in 2-L chemostat fermentors (Applikon, Schiedam, The Netherlands) with a working volume of 1-L using an electronic level sensor to maintain a constant volume. All cultures, including the reference, were fed with minimal medium as described by Verduyn et al. (1992) with 25 g L-1 glucose as the limiting nutrient and 0.15 ml L-1 silicone antifoam (BDH, Poole, England) to prevent excessive foaming. The dilution rate was set to 0.10 h-1 and the pH was controlled at 5.0 with the automatic addition (ADI 1031 bio controller, Applikon) of 2 M KOH. The stirrer speed was set at 800 RPM and anaerobicity was maintained by sparging the fermentor with N2 gas at 500 ml min-1. To prevent diffusion of oxygen, the fermentor was equipped with Norprene tubing and Viton O-rings and the medium vessel was also flushed with N2 gas. A comparable degree of weak acid uncoupling was ensured by decreasing the biomass yield to approximately 50% of the reference condition (no organic acids added) with the addition of the appropriate concentration of acetic acid, sodium benzoate, propionic acid or potassium sorbate to the reservoir media. Triplicate cultivations and microarrays were performed for each condition. Experiment Overall Design: Sampling of chemostat cultures, probe preparation and hybridization to Affymetrix GeneChip microarrays was performed as described previously (Piper et al., 2002), but with the following modifications. Double-stranded cDNA synthesis was carried out using 15 Î¼g of total RNA and the components of the One Cycle cDNA Synthesis Kit (Affymetrix). The double-stranded cDNA was purified (Genechip Sample Cleanup Module, Qiagen) before in vitro transcription and labeling (GeneChip IVT Labeling Kit, Affymetrix). Finally, labeled cRNA was purified (GeneChip Sample Cleanup Module) prior to fragmentation and hybridization of 15 Î¼g of biotinylated cRNA. Experiment Overall Design: Data acquisition was performed using the Affymetrix scanner 3000, quantification of array images and data filtering were performed with the Affymetrix software packages Microarray Suite v5.0, MicroDB v3.0 and Data Mining Tool v3.0. **note 2014-04-02: file GSM137686.CEL is truncated.

ORGANISM(S): Saccharomyces cerevisiae

SUBMITTER: Jean-Marc Daran

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-5926 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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Generic and specific transcriptional responses to different weak organic acids in anaerobic chemostat cultures of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

Abbott Derek A DA Knijnenburg Theo A TA de Poorter Linda M I LM Reinders Marcel J T MJ Pronk Jack T JT van Maris Antonius J A AJ

FEMS yeast research 20070430 6

Transcriptional responses to four weak organic acids (benzoate, sorbate, acetate and propionate) were investigated in anaerobic, glucose-limited chemostat cultures of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. To enable quantitative comparison of the responses to the acids, their concentrations were chosen such that they caused a 50% decrease of the biomass yield on glucose. The concentration of each acid required to achieve this yield was negatively correlated with membrane affinity. Microarray analysis reveale ...[more]

PMID: 17484738

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Transcription profiling of Saccharomyces cerevisiae response to weak organic acids in chemostat cultures

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Generic and specific transcriptional responses to different weak organic acids in anaerobic chemostat cultures of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

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