Growth-rate regulated genes have profound impact on interpretation of transcriptome profiling in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

  • Background: Growth rate is central to the development of cells in all organisms. However, little is known about the impact of changing growth rates. We used continuous cultures to control growth rate and studied the transcriptional program of the model eukaryote Saccharomyces cerevisiae, with generation times varying between 2 and 35 hours. Results: A total of 5930 transcripts were identified at the different growth rates studied. Consensus clustering of these revealed that half of all yeast genes are affected by the specific growth rate, and that the changes are similar to those found when cells are exposed to different types of stress (>80% overlap). Genes with decreased transcript levels in response to faster growth are largely of unknown function (>50%) whereas genes with increased transcript levels are involved in macromolecular biosynthesis such as those that encode ribosomal proteins. This group also covers most targets of the transcriptional activator RAP1, which is also known to be involved in replication. A positive correlation between the location of replication origins and the location of growth-regulated genes suggests a role for replication in growth rate regulation. Conclusion: Our data show that the cellular growth rate has great influence on transcriptional regulation. This, in turn, implies that one should be cautious when comparing mutants with different growth rates. Our findings also indicate that much of the regulation is coordinated via the chromosomal location of the affected genes, which may be valuable information for the control of heterologous gene expression in metabolic engineering.
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Author:Birgitte Regenberg, Thomas Grotkjær, Winther Ole, Anders Fausbøll, Mats Åkesson, Christoffer Bro, Lars Kai Hansen, Søren Brunak, Jens Nielsen
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-35003
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1186/gb-2006-7-11-r107
ISSN:1474-760X
ISSN:1465-6914
ISSN:1465-6906
Pubmed Id:https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17105650
Parent Title (English):Genome biology
Publisher:BioMed Central
Place of publication:London
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2006/12/07
Date of first Publication:2006/11/14
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2006/12/07
Volume:7
Issue:11, Art. R107
Page Number:13
First Page:R107.1
Last Page:R107.13
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© 2006 Regenberg et al., licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Source:Genome Biology 2006, 7:R107 ; doi:10.1186/gb-2006-7-11-r107
HeBIS-PPN:190085355
Institutes:Biowissenschaften / Biowissenschaften
Dewey Decimal Classification:5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 57 Biowissenschaften; Biologie / 570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie
Sammlungen:Sammlung Biologie / Sondersammelgebiets-Volltexte
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