Project description:Yeast cells can be affected during their growth to several stress conditions. One of the most known and characterised is the osmotic stress and most of the studies about osmotic sterss response in yeast have been focused on salt or sorbitol stress. However, during yeast growth in industrially relevant processes (for instance throughout alcoholic fermentation on the must to produce alcoholic beverages) the osmotic stress is mainly due to the high sugar(in particular glucose) concentration (200-250 g/L).
Project description:We analyzed genome-wide transcriptional profiles of Saccharomyces cerevisiae BY4742 strain in response to BPA, focusing on two exposure scenarios: (i) low-observed-effect concentration (<10% inhibition) to examine chronic effect of BPA on yeast population, and (ii) high-inhibitory concentration (>70% inhibition) to study acute effect. Initially, yeast cells were exposed to various concentrations of BPA. 50 mg/L and 300 mg/L BPA were determined as low-observed-effect concentration and the high-inhibitory concentration, respectively. Transcriptional profiles indicated that 81 genes were repressed and 104 genes were induced in response to 50 mg/L BPA. On the other hand, in 300 mg/L BPA exposure, 378 genes were down-regulated, while 606 genes were significantly up-regulated. Our data showed that there were similar processes affected by both concentrations such as mitochondria, nucleobase-containing small molecule metabolic process, transcription from RNA polymerase II promoter, and mitotic cell cycle and associated processes. However, different modes of actions of the BPA were found between two concentrations. 300 mg/L BPA exposure showed severe effects on the processes by repressing or inducing several genes or total mechanisms with high level of expression changes, while 50 mg/L BPA exposure changed the expression of some important genes with low level of expression changes in the processes. These results suggest that yeast cells respond via different ways to the different concentrations of BPA at transcriptomic level.
Project description:Yeast cells can be affected during their growth to several stress conditions. One of the most known and characterised is the osmotic stress and most of the studies about osmotic sterss response in yeast have been focused on salt or sorbitol stress. However, during yeast growth in industrially relevant processes (for instance throughout alcoholic fermentation on the must to produce alcoholic beverages) the osmotic stress is mainly due to the high sugar(in particular glucose) concentration (200-250 g/L). In this study we want to know the transcriptional response of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae when it was grown in a medium with high glucose concentration. For this aim we have grown yeast in YP medium containing 2% of glucose in cultures overnight and after that we diluted this cultures to an OD600 of 0.1 in two differents mediums: YP containing 2% or 20% of glucose.One hour later of inoculation we collect the cells and quikly frozen in liquid nitrogen. We extracted the total mRNA of the cells and after that we did the microarrays, comparing cells were grown in YP2 media against the cells were grown in YP20 media.
Project description:The goal of this study is to analyse how the gene expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae changes in dependency on the glucose concentration. Therefore, fed batch cultivations were carried out, during which the glucose concentration was maintained stable for several hours. Samples were taken at different times during the cultivations, the RNA was isolated and hybridised on whole genome yeast microarrays. Results from cultivations with the glucose concentrations 50, 70, 100 and 500 mg/L are presented. In addition, one sample from a starvation period (0 mg/L glucose) was analysed. Keywords: Dependency on glucose concentration
Project description:We measured the response of S. cerevisiae to arrest in the presence of alpha factor. These were collected in support of a related DNaseI-sequencing study. Keywords: Alpha-factor arrest S.cerevisiae R276 (MATa ura3Δ0 leu2Δ0 his3Δ1 met15Δ0 bar1Δ::KanMX) (C. Boone, University of Toronto; S288c background derived from BY4741), was cultured overnight in 50 ml rich medium (YPD) at 30°C, diluted into 500 ml fresh YPD to an OD660 of ~0.8, and treated with yeast α-factor (Sigma-Aldrich) at a final concentration of 50 ng / ml. This culture was incubated at 30°C with shaking for 3 hours (final OD660 ~1). After this treatment, approximately 90% of the cells had formed mating projections when checked by light microscopy. Total RNA from these cells was isolated using hot acidic phenol. 50 μg of total RNA was treated with Turbo Dnase (Ambion), and checked for integrity using a Bioanalyzer 2100 (Agilent). Total RNA was labeled according to the manufacturer’s protocol and applied to Affymetrix Yeast 2.0 arrays. Data were analyzed using the “affy” package from Bioconductor.