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: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:To better understand how yeast adapt and respond to sequential stressors, an industrial yeast strain, URM 6670 (also known as BT0510), which is highly flocculent, tolerant to ethanol, osmotic and heat shock stresses, was subjected to three different treatments: 1. osmotic stress followed by ethanol stress, 2. oxidative stress followed by ethanol stress, 3. glucose withdrawal followed by ethanol stress. Samples were collected before the first stress (control), after the first stress and after the second stress (ethanol). RNA was extracted and analyzed by RNAseq.
Project description:Wild type and ppt1 mutant under hypo-osmotic shock. Cultures were grown with 1M sorbitol for ~20 hours, cells were collected by centrifugation and resuspended in YPD at time zero. Samples were collected at 0, 7, 15, 30 and 60 minutes after transfer to YPD. Experimental samples were used to generate Cy5-labeled cDNA probes, whereas mRNA reference pools extracted from cultures of the respective strains grown to early log phase under normal conditions, were used to generate Cy3-labeled cDNA probes. Cy5- and Cy3-labeled probes were hybridized together to microarrays printed with PCR-amplified fragments, representing 6280 of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae ORFs. Keywords: time-course
Project description:Fungal group III histidine kinases are the molecular targets of some classes of fungicides. In contrast to the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the fungal pathogen Candida albicans possesses a group III histidine kinase, CaNik1p, also called Cos1p. To investigate the function of CaNIK1, the gene was expressed in S. cerevisiae. The transformants became susceptible to antifungal compounds to which the wild-type strain is resistant. The susceptibility was related to the activation of the MAP kinase Hog1p of the osmotic stress response pathway. Gene expression analysis revealed a strong overlap of the responses to osmotic stress and to fludioxonil at early time points. While the response to fludioxonil persisted, the response to osmotic stress was diminished with time. S. cerevisiae expressing Candida albicans Nik1p were treated with 10 µg/ml fludioxonil. As a comparison, another culture of S. cerevisiae expressing Candida albicans Nik1p was treated with 1 M sorbitol to induce osmotic stress response. One culture remained untreated as a control. From all cultures, samples were taken after a duration of 15, 30 and 60 min.
Project description:High glucose concentrations were desirable for ethanol fermentation of Zymomonas mobilis, but it can lead to decrease in ethanol production and productivity. Sorbitol as a compatible solute can be absorbed or synthesized to counteract the detrimental osmotic stress caused from external high glucose concentrations by Z. mobilis. Currently, molecular mechanisms of tolerance to high glucose concentrations and sorbitol promoting ethanol fermentation are still unclear for Z. mobilis. To better understand mechanisms with which high concentrations of glucose and sorbitol affect physiology and metabolism of Z. mobilis ATCC31821 (ZM4), the global transcriptional responses of ZM4 to the challenge of high glucose concentration and sorbitol were profiled using whole genome microarray analysis. Swings J, Deley J. Bacterial Rev. 1977, 41(1): 1-46. Loos H, Kramer R, Sahm H and Sprenger GA. J Bacteriol. 1994, 176(24):7688–7693.
Project description:It is unclear how the amount of active nuclear MAPK over time quantitatively affects transcription. Here, we seek to address this issue by studying signal transduction and transcriptional response in a system that separates signalling from adaptation and hence signal strength from signal duration. The system is based on Saccharomyces cerevisiae osmoadaptation and allows modulation of the period of HOG-dependent responses without changing the initial stress intensity. The conditional osmotic stress system includes (i) a yeast mutant (gpd1 gpd2) unable to produce its main osmolyte glycerol, subsequently stressed with (ii) a stress inductor (polyols of different sizes) and allowed to adapt by (iii) expression of polyol flux-mediating aquaglyceroporin (rat AQP9). As there is no endogenous glycerol production, the osmoadaptation rate depends only on the size dependent equilibration rate over the plasma membrane of the polyol used as both stress inductor and compatible solute. Hence, we apply initially identical stresses but with differential durations, and determine the global transcriptional response. Saccharomyces cerevisiae W303-1A (MATa leu2-3/112 ura3-1 trp1-1 his3-11/15 gpd1::TRP1 gpd2::URA3) osmotically stressed with 1M of glycerol, erythritol, xylitol or sorbitol. Samples are taken in triplicates (except for sorbitol 20 an 90 min and 20 min xylitol were duplicates were taken) in time course series after stress application. Total of 45 samples. RNA from from cultures of gpd1 gpd2 cells expressing rAQP9 prior to polyol exposure was used as reference RNA for all microarrays.