Malecki, Michal and Bitton, Danny A and Rodríguez-López, Maria and Rallis, Charalampos and Calavia, Noelia Garcia and Smith, Graeme C and Bähler, Jürg (2016) Functional and regulatory profiling of energy metabolism in fission yeast. Genome Biology, 17 (1). 240-. DOI https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-016-1101-2
Malecki, Michal and Bitton, Danny A and Rodríguez-López, Maria and Rallis, Charalampos and Calavia, Noelia Garcia and Smith, Graeme C and Bähler, Jürg (2016) Functional and regulatory profiling of energy metabolism in fission yeast. Genome Biology, 17 (1). 240-. DOI https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-016-1101-2
Malecki, Michal and Bitton, Danny A and Rodríguez-López, Maria and Rallis, Charalampos and Calavia, Noelia Garcia and Smith, Graeme C and Bähler, Jürg (2016) Functional and regulatory profiling of energy metabolism in fission yeast. Genome Biology, 17 (1). 240-. DOI https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-016-1101-2
Abstract
Background The control of energy metabolism is fundamental for cell growth and function and anomalies in it are implicated in complex diseases and ageing. Metabolism in yeast cells can be manipulated by supplying different carbon sources: yeast grown on glucose rapidly proliferates by fermentation, analogous to tumour cells growing by aerobic glycolysis, whereas on non-fermentable carbon sources metabolism shifts towards respiration. Results We screened deletion libraries of fission yeast to identify over 200 genes required for respiratory growth. Growth media and auxotrophic mutants strongly influenced respiratory metabolism. Most genes uncovered in the mutant screens have not been implicated in respiration in budding yeast. We applied gene-expression profiling approaches to compare steady-state fermentative and respiratory growth and to analyse the dynamic adaptation to respiratory growth. The transcript levels of most genes functioning in energy metabolism pathways are coherently tuned, reflecting anticipated differences in metabolic flows between fermenting and respiring cells. We show that acetyl-CoA synthase, rather than citrate lyase, is essential for acetyl-CoA synthesis in fission yeast. We also investigated the transcriptional response to mitochondrial damage by genetic or chemical perturbations, defining a retrograde response that involves the concerted regulation of distinct groups of nuclear genes that may avert harm from mitochondrial malfunction. Conclusions This study provides a rich framework of the genetic and regulatory basis of energy metabolism in fission yeast and beyond, and it pinpoints weaknesses of commonly used auxotroph mutants for investigating metabolism. As a model for cellular energy regulation, fission yeast provides an attractive and complementary system to budding yeast.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Cell Nucleus; Mitochondria; Schizosaccharomyces; Acetyl Coenzyme A; Glucose; Gene Expression Profiling; Adaptation, Biological; Signal Transduction; Gene Expression Regulation, Fungal; Fermentation; Energy Metabolism; Mutation; High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing; Transcriptome |
Divisions: | Faculty of Science and Health Faculty of Science and Health > Life Sciences, School of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 18 Jun 2021 15:21 |
Last Modified: | 30 Oct 2024 19:48 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/26699 |
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