Differential scaling between G1 protein production and cell size dynamics promotes commitment to the cell division cycle in budding yeast
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ABSTRACT: In the unicellular eukaryote Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Cln3-CDK activity enables Start, the irreversible commitment to the cell division cycle. However, the concentration of Cln3 has been paradoxically considered to remain constant during G1, due to the presumed scaling of its production rate with cell size dynamics. Measuring metabolic and biosynthetic activity during cell cycle progression in single cells, we found that cells exhibit pulses in protein production rate, which do not scale with cell size dynamics, but -following the intrinsic metabolic dynamics- peak around Start. Using a viral-based bicistronic construct and targeted proteomics to measure Cln3 at the single-cell and population level, we show that the differential scaling between protein production and cell size leads to a temporal increase in Cln3 concentration, and passage through Start. This differential scaling causes Start in both daughter and mother cells, across growth conditions. Thus, uncoupling between two fundamental physiological parameters drives cell cycle commitment.
INSTRUMENT(S): Orbitrap Fusion Lumos
ORGANISM(S): Saccharomyces Cerevisiae (baker's Yeast)
SUBMITTER: Alexander Schmidt
LAB HEAD: Alexander Schmidt
PROVIDER: PXD015327 | Pride | 2019-10-29
REPOSITORIES: Pride
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