Communication between mitochondria and nucleus: defining a retrograde response in fission yeast
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ABSTRACT: Retrograde response was widely studied in budding yeast but the main transcription factors that transmit it (RTG1,2 and 3) are not conserved in other organisms, thus it is interesting to study how communication between mitochondria and nucleus evolved in distantly related fission yeast, and which are the common aspects of this conserved pathway between yeast and higher organisms.To analyse any retrograde response in fission yeast, we inhibited the electron transport chain activity by antimycin A and studied cellular gene expression changes by microarrays. Cells treated with antimycin A in fermentative medium (YE with 3% glucose), showed the same growth rate as untreated cells, but they reached a lower biomass in stationary phase. Antimycin A treated cells consumed glucose at a faster rate and produced more ethanol, indicating that the energy metabolism was shifted even more towards fermentation. We analyzed the transcriptomes of antimycin A-treated cells to untreated control cells during early exponential growth phase (OD 0.5).
INSTRUMENT(S): Axon GenePix 4000B scanning hardware
ORGANISM(S): Schizosaccharomyces pombe
SUBMITTER: Mimoza Hoti
PROVIDER: E-MTAB-4520 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
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