Glucose, Nitrogen, and Phosphate Repletion in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: Common Transcriptional Responses to Different Nutrient Signals

G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics

Michael K. Conway¹  Douglas Grunwald¹  Warren Heideman¹ 

[1] Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53705Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53705Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53705

关键词: mitogenesis;    glucose;    yeast;    transcription;    RRPE;    glucose;    nitrogen;    phosphate;    protein kinase A;    TOR;    cAMP;   

DOI  :  10.1534/g3.112.002808

学科分类：生物科学（综合）

来源: Genetics Society of America

【 摘 要 】

Saccharomyces cerevisiae are able to control growth in response to changes in nutrient availability. The limitation for single macronutrients, including nitrogen (N) and phosphate (P), produces stable arrest in G1/G0. Restoration of the limiting nutrient quickly restores growth. It has been shown that glucose (G) depletion/repletion very rapidly alters the levels of more than 2000 transcripts by at least 2-fold, a large portion of which are involved with either protein production in growth or stress responses in starvation. Although the signals generated by G, N, and P are thought to be quite distinct, we tested the hypothesis that depletion and repletion of any of these three nutrients would affect a common core set of genes as part of a generalized response to conditions that promote growth and quiescence. We found that the response to depletion of G, N, or P produced similar quiescent states with largely similar transcriptomes. As we predicted, repletion of each of the nutrients G, N, or P induced a large (501) common core set of genes and repressed a large (616) common gene set. Each nutrient also produced nutrient-specific transcript changes. The transcriptional responses to each of the three nutrients depended on cAMP and, to a lesser extent, the TOR pathway. All three nutrients stimulated cAMP production within minutes of repletion, and artificially increasing cAMP levels was sufficient to replicate much of the core transcriptional response. The recently identified transceptors Gap1, Mep1, Mep2, and Mep3, as well as Pho84, all played some role in the core transcriptional responses to N or P. As expected, we found some evidence of cross talk between nutrient signals, yet each nutrient sends distinct signals.

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