Metabolomics,Unknown,Transcriptomics,Genomics,Proteomics

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Transcription profiling of fission yeast meiosis and sporulation

ABSTRACT: Transcriptional profile of fission yeast meiosis and sporulation. Fission yeast cells undergo meiosis and sporulation under conditions of nutritional stress, most frequently nitrogen starvation. This is a complex developmental process, which results in the formation of four spores that are highly resistant to environmental stress. We have carried out time courses of diploid fission yeast cells undergoing meiosis and sporulation. To achieve the best possible synchrony we have used thermosensitive mutants in the meiotic inhibitor pat1. We first pre-synchronized the cells in G1 by removal of nitrogen at the permissive temperature for pat1, and then induced meiosis by inactivating pat1 with a temperature shift. pat1-induced meiosis is a standard technique, resulting in a highly synchronous meiosis that is very similar to the normal process. The use of pat1 mutants and a temperature-shift may cause some artifacts, so these results should be viewed together with temperature shift controls and especially with the results of the time course done with wild type diploids, available under accession numbers E-SNGR-3 to E-SNGR-7. In all cases we used as reference a pool consisting of equal amounts of RNA from all time points of the experiment. This experiment describes the first biological replicate for pat1 using array design A-SNGR-2. Note that there are three other biological replicates, which use array design A-SNGR-1 in experiment E-SNGR-2.

ORGANISM(S): Schizosaccharomyces pombe

SUBMITTER: Jurg Bahler

PROVIDER: E-SNGR-7 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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The transcriptional program of meiosis and sporulation in fission yeast.

Mata Juan J Lyne Rachel R Burns Gavin G Bähler Jürg J

Nature genetics 20020805 1

Sexual reproduction requires meiosis to produce haploid gametes, which in turn can fuse to regenerate a diploid organism. We have studied the transcriptional program that drives this developmental process in Schizosaccharomyces pombe using DNA microarrays. Here we show that hundreds of genes are regulated in successive waves of transcription that correlate with major biological events of meiosis and sporulation. Each wave is associated with specific promoter motifs. Clusters of neighboring genes ...[more]

PMID: 12161753

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Project description:In eukaryotes, chromosomal DNA is equally distributed to daughter cells during mitosis, whereas the number of chromosomes is halved during meiosis. Despite considerable progress in understanding the molecular mechanisms that regulate mitosis, there is currently a lack of complete understanding of the molecular mechanisms regulating meiosis. Here, we took advantage of the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, for which highly synchronous meiosis can be induced, and performed quantitative proteomics and phosphoproteomics analyses to track changes in protein expression and phosphorylation during meiotic cell divisions. We compared the proteomes and phosphoproteomes of mitotic cells with cells harvested around meiosis I, or meiosis II in strains bearing either the temperature-sensitive pat1-114 allele or conditional ATP analog-sensitive pat1-as2 allele of the Pat1 kinase. Comparing pat1-114 with pat1-as2 also allowed us to investigate the impact of elevated temperature (25°C versus 34°C) on meiosis, an issue that sexually reproducing organisms face due to climate change. Using TMTpro 18plex labeling and phosphopeptide enrichment strategies, we performed quantification of a total of 4673 proteins and 7172 phosphosites in S. pombe. We found that the protein level of 2680 proteins and the rate of phosphorylation of 4005 phosphosites significantly changed during progression of S. pombe cells through meiosis. The proteins exhibiting changes in expression and phosphorylation during meiotic cell divisions were represented mainly by those involved in the meiotic cell cycle, meiotic recombination, meiotic nuclear division, meiosis I, centromere clustering, microtubule cytoskeleton organization, ascospore formation, organonitrogen compound biosynthetic process, carboxylic acid metabolic process, gene expression, and ncRNA processing, among others. In summary, our findings provide global overview of changes in the levels and phosphorylation of proteins during progression of S. pombe cells through meiosis at normal and elevated temperatures, laying the groundwork for further elucidation of the functions and importance of specific proteins and their phosphorylation in regulating meiotic cell divisions in this yeast.

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Transcription profiling of fission yeast meiosis and sporulation

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The transcriptional program of meiosis and sporulation in fission yeast.

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