Project description:All organisms have evolved elaborate physiological pathways that regulate growth, proliferation, metabolism, and stress response. These pathways must be properly coordinated to elicit the appropriate response to an ever-changing environment. While individual pathways have been well studied in a variety of model systems, there remains much to uncover about how they are integrated to produce global changes in a cell. Past work from our lab, focused on engineering the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae for fermentation of the non-native pentose sugar xylose, discovered that hyperactivation of the RAS/Protein Kinase A (PKA) pathway was needed for rapid anaerobic xylose fermentation. Interestingly, the mechanism of PKA hyperactivation has a dramatic impact on growth and metabolism on xylose; deletion of the RAS inhibitor IRA2 permits rapid growth and fermentation, while deletion of the PKA regulatory subunit BCY1 allows for fermentation without growth on xylose. To understand how a single deletion in the PKA pathway can decouple growth and metabolism, we performed transcriptomic analysis of these strains, predicting that altered PKA activity would impact global gene expression and identify pathways important for growth and metabolism coordination. Notably, we found enriched differential expression of lipid metabolism genes, targets of the phospholipid biosynthetic gene transcription factor Ino4, and genes containing the Aft1/2 consensus motif. These results suggested that dysfunctional lipid homeostasis may be responsible for decoupling growth and metabolism in the bcy1∆ strain. In parallel work, we also directly evolved the bcy1∆ strain to grow anaerobically on xylose and found point mutations in TPK1, OPI1, RIM8, and TOA1 permitted growth. Interestingly, Opi1 is the inhibitor of Ino4, further supporting the role of lipid homeostasis in growth and metabolism coordination. This work shows that a single genetic change can have dramatic impacts on multiple aspects of cellular physiology.
Project description:Characterize the transcriptional response to INO2 and INO4 expression level (INO-level) and efficient factor We used microarrays to capture the global responses of INO-level in Carbon and Nitrogen limited growth.
Project description:Integrated analysis of the transcriptome-lipidome reveals the interactions of inositol-choline and SNF1 in controlling lipid biosynthesis
Project description:Global rewiring of lipid metabolism for acetyl CoA-derived production through deleting transcription factor genes ino2/ino4 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Project description:Oxidative stress is experienced by all aerobic organisms and results in cellular damage. The damage caused during oxidative stress is particular to the oxidant challenge faced, and so too is the induced stress response. The eukaryote Saccharomyces cerevisiae is sensitive to low concentrations of the lipid hydroperoxide - linoleic acid hydroperoxide (LoaOOH) - and its response is unique relative to other peroxide treatments. Part of the yeast response to LoaOOH includes a change in the cellular requirement for nutrients, such as sulfur, nitrogen and various metal ions. The metabolism of sulfur is involved in antioxidant defence, although the role nitrogen during oxidative stress is not well understood. Investigating the response induced by yeast to overcome LoaOOH exposure, with a particular focus on nitrogen metabolism, will lead to greater understanding of how eukaryotes survive lipid hydroperoxide-induced stress, and associated lipid peroxidation, which occurs in the presence of polyunsaturated fatty acids. We used genome-wide microarrays to investigate the changes in gene expression of S. cerevisiae (Dal80Δ) to LoaOOH-induced oxidative stress.
Project description:Oxidative stress is experienced by all aerobic organisms and results in cellular damage. The damage caused during oxidative stress is particular to the oxidant challenge faced, and so too is the induced stress response. The eukaryote Saccharomyces cerevisiae is sensitive to low concentrations of the lipid hydroperoxide - linoleic acid hydroperoxide (LoaOOH) - and its response is unique relative to other peroxide treatments. Part of the yeast response to LoaOOH includes a change in the cellular requirement for nutrients, such as sulfur, nitrogen and various metal ions. The metabolism of sulfur is involved in antioxidant defence, although the role nitrogen during oxidative stress is not well understood. Investigating the response induced by yeast to overcome LoaOOH exposure, with a particular focus on nitrogen metabolism, will lead to greater understanding of how eukaryotes survive lipid hydroperoxide-induced stress, and associated lipid peroxidation, which occurs in the presence of polyunsaturated fatty acids. We used genome-wide microarrays to investigate the changes in gene expression of S. cerevisiae (Dal80M-NM-^T) to LoaOOH-induced oxidative stress. S. cerevisiae (Dal80M-NM-^T) were exposed to an arresting concentration of LoaOOH (75 M-BM-5M) for 1 hr to induce oxidative stress. Yeast treated with an equivalent volume of solvent (methanol) were used as a control. Following treatment conditions, total RNA was extracted from LoaOOH-treated or control yeast and hybridised onto Affymetrix microarrays.