Project description:Random genomic sequencing and analysis by the Genolevures Consortium as part of a comparative genomics study of hemiascomycete yeasts
Project description:As part of the RNASeq Genome Annotation Assessment Project (RGASP) selected novel gene model predictions were analysed with RT-PCR-Seq. ArrayExpress Release Date: 2011-03-01 Publication Title: GENCODE: producing a reference annotation for ENCODE Publication Author List: Harrow J, Denoeud F, Frankish A, Reymond A, Chen CK, Chrast J, Lagarde J, Gilbert JG, Storey R, Swarbreck D, Rossier C, Ucla C, Hubbard T, Antonarakis SE, Guigo R Person Roles: submitter Person Last Name: Kokocinski Person First Name: Felix Person Mid Initials: Person Email: fsk@sanger.ac.uk Person Phone: -498006 Person Address: Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK Person Affiliation: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Person Roles: investigator Person Last Name: Hubbard Person First Name: Tim Person Mid Initials: Person Email: th@sanger.ac.uk Person Phone: -498055 Person Address: Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK Person Affiliation: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Person Roles: investigator Person Last Name: Reymond Person First Name: Alexandre Person Mid Initials: Person Email: Alexandre.Reymond@unil.ch Person Phone: Person Address: Lausanne, Switzerland Person Affiliation: University of Lausanne For data usage terms and conditions, please refer to http://www.genome.gov/27528022 and http://www.genome.gov/Pages/Research/ENCODE/ENCODEDataReleasePolicyFinal2008.pdf
Project description:Being a sister species of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Saccharomyces uvarum shows great potential regarding the future of the wine industry. The sulfite tolerance of most S. uvarum strains is poor, however. This is a major flaw that limits its utility in the wine industry. In S. cerevisiae, FZF1 plays a positive role in the transcription of SSU1, which encodes a sulfite efflux transport protein that is critical for sulfite tolerance. Although FZF1 has previously been shown to play a role in sulfite tolerance in S. uvarum, there is little information about its action mechanism. To assess the function of FZF1, two over-expression vectors that contained different FZF1 genes, and one FZF1 silencing vector, were constructed and introduced into a sulfite-tolerant S. uvarum strain using electroporation. In addition, an FZF1-deletion strain was constructed. Both of the FZF1-over-expressing strains showed an elevated tolerance to sulfite, and the FZF1-deletion strain showed the opposite effect. Repression of FZF1 transcription failed, however, presumably due to the lack of alleles of DCR1 and AGO. The qRT-PCR analysis was used to examine changes in transcription in the strains. Surprisingly, neither over-expressing strain promoted SSU1 transcription, although MET4 and HAL4 transcripts significantly increased in both sulfite-tolerance increased strains. We conclude that FZF1 plays a different role in the sulfite tolerance of S. uvarum compared to its role in S. cerevisiae.
