Coordinate responses to alkaline pH stress in budding yeast
Authors:Albert Serra-Cardona, David Canadell and Joaquín Ariño
Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular & Institut de Biotecnologia i Biomedicina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra 08193, Barcelona, Spain.
Keywords:
calcineurin, Snf1, PKA, transcriptomics, S. cerevisiae
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Albert Serra-Cardona, David Canadell and Joaquín Ariño (2015). Coordinate responses to alkaline pH stress in budding yeast. Microbial Cell 2(6): 182-196.
© 2015 Serra-Cardona et al. This is an open-access article released under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license, which allows the unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are acknowledged.
Abstract:
Alkalinization of the medium represents a stress condition for the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae to which this organism responds with profound remodeling of gene expression. This is the result of the modulation of a substantial number of signaling pathways whose participation in the alkaline response has been elucidated within the last ten years. These regulatory inputs involve not only the conserved Rim101/PacC pathway, but also the calcium-activated phosphatase calcineurin, the Wsc1-Pkc1-Slt2 MAP kinase, the Snf1 and PKA kinases and oxidative stress-response pathways. The uptake of many nutrients is perturbed by alkalinization of the environment and, consequently, an impact on phosphate, iron/copper and glucose homeostatic mechanisms can also be observed. The analysis of available data highlights cases in which diverse signaling pathways are integrated in the gene promoter to shape the appropriate response pattern. Thus, the expression of different genes sharing the same signaling network can be coordinated, allowing functional coupling of their gene products.
doi: 10.15698/mic2015.06.205
Volume 2, pp. 182 to 196, published 22/05/2015.