Management of the endoplasmic reticulum stress by activation of the heat shock response in yeast
Journal article, 2014

In yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, accumulation of misfolded proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) causes ER stress and activates the unfolded protein response (UPR), which is mediated by Hac1p. The heat shock response (HSR) mediated by Hsf1p, mainly regulates cytosolic processes and protects the cell from stresses. Here, we find that a constitutive activation of the HSR could increase ER stress resistance in both wild-type and UPR-deficient cells. Activation of HSR decreased UPR activation in the WT (as shown by the decreased HAC1 mRNA splicing). We analyzed the genome-wide transcriptional response in order to propose regulatory mechanisms that govern the interplay between UPR and HSR and followed up for the hypotheses by experiments in vivo and in vitro. Interestingly, we found that the regulation of ER stress response via HSR is (1) only partially dependent on over-expression of Kar2p (ER resident chaperone induced by ER stress); (2) does not involve the increase in protein turnover via the proteasome activity; (3) is related to the oxidative stress response. From the transcription data, we also propose that HSR enhances ER stress resistance mainly through facilitation of protein folding and secretion. We also find that HSR coordinates multiple stress-response pathways, including the repression of the overall transcription and translation.

IN-VIVO

SACCHAROMYCES-CEREVISIAE

STRESS

UNFOLDED PROTEIN RESPONSE

endoplasmic reticulum stress

OXIDATIVE

heat shock response

ER-ASSOCIATED DEGRADATION

ANALYSIS

GENOME-WIDE

oxidative stress response

HSF1

proteasome activity

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR

QUALITY-CONTROL

EXPRESSION

transcriptome analysis

Author

Jin Hou

Chalmers, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Life Sciences

H. T. Tang

Shandong University

Zihe Liu

Chalmers, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Life Sciences

Tobias Österlund

Chalmers, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Life Sciences

Jens B Nielsen

Chalmers, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Life Sciences

Dina Petranovic Nielsen

Chalmers, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Life Sciences

FEMS Yeast Research

1567-1356 (ISSN) 1567-1364 (eISSN)

Vol. 14 3 481-494

Industrial Systems Biology of Yeast and A. oryzae (INSYSBIO)

European Commission (EC) (EC/FP7/247013), 2010-01-01 -- 2014-12-31.

Infrastructure

C3SE (Chalmers Centre for Computational Science and Engineering)

Subject Categories

Microbiology

Areas of Advance

Life Science Engineering (2010-2018)

DOI

10.1111/1567-1364.12125

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