Transcription of the phosphoglycerate kinase gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae increases when fermentative cultures are stressed by heat‐shock
- 1 December 1986
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in European Journal of Biochemistry
- Vol. 161 (3), 525-531
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1432-1033.1986.tb10474.x
Abstract
The single gene for phosphoglycerate kinase (PGK) in the haploid genome of Saccharomyces cerevisiae is expressed to a very high level in cultures fermenting glucose. Despite this it responds to heat-shock. When S. cerevisiae growing exponentially on glucose media was shifted from 25 degrees C to 38 degrees C transient increases of 6-7-fold in cellular PGK mRNA were observed. This elevation in PGK mRNA still occurred in the presence of the protein-synthesis inhibitor cycloheximide, but was not observed in cells bearing the rna1.1 mutation. From the kinetics of continuous labelling of PGK mRNA, relative to the labelling of other RNAs in the same cultures whose levels do not alter with heat-shock, it was shown that the elevation in PGK mRNA in response to temperature upshift reflects primarily an increased synthesis of this mRNA and not an alteration of its half-life. PGK mRNA synthesis is therefore one target of a response mechanism to thermal stress. Synthesis of PGK enzyme in glucose-grown cultures is efficient after mild (25 degrees C to 38 degrees C) or severe (25 degrees C to 42 degrees C) heat-shocks. Following the severe shock, the synthesis of most proteins is abruptly terminated, but synthesis of PGK and a few other glycolytic enzymes continues at levels comparable to the levels of synthesis of most of those proteins dramatically induced by heat (heat-shock proteins). Cells that overproduce PGK due to the presence of multiple copies of the PGK gene on a high-copy-number plasmid continue their overproduction of this enzyme during severe thermal stress. Therefore PGK mRNA is both elevated in level in response to heat-shock and translated efficiently at supra-optimal temperatures.Keywords
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