Yeast Metabolic and Signaling Genes Are Required for Heat-Shock Survival
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Yeast metabolic and signaling genes are required for PNAS PLUS heat-shock survival and have little overlap with the heat-induced genes Patrick A. Gibneya,b,1, Charles Lub,1, Amy A. Caudya,2,3, David C. Hessc,3, and David Botsteina,b,4 aLewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics and bDepartment of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544; and cDepartment of Biology, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA 95053 Contributed by David Botstein, September 30, 2013 (sent for review August 25, 2013) Genome-wide gene-expression studies have shown that hundreds or proteins that increase in abundance as part of the heat-shock of yeast genes are induced or repressed transiently by changes in response (1, 11–14). Classically, this set of genes/proteins includes temperature; many are annotated to stress response on this basis. the molecular chaperones, which often are induced in response to To obtain a genome-scale assessment of which genes are function- stress (14). However, by using the deletion collection to assay ally important for innate and/or acquired thermotolerance, we thermotolerance, we also can identify genes important for stress combined the use of a barcoded pool of ∼4,800 nonessential, pro- resistance that are either constitutively present or posttransla- totrophic Saccharomyces cerevisiae deletion strains with Illumina- tionally modified. We therefore carried out two kinds of exper- based deep-sequencing technology. As reported in other recent iment to examine heat-stress resistance. First we studied the 50 °C studies that have used deletion mutants to study stress responses, survival time-course of samples from a steady-state chemostat cul- we observed that gene deletions resulting in the highest thermo- ture of the entire prototrophic barcoded deletion collection. Sec- sensitivity generally are not the same as those transcriptionally ond, we tested for the acquisition of thermotolerance by shifting fi induced in response to heat stress. Functional analysis of identi ed the temperature of the chemostat to 37 °C, a temperature known genes revealed that metabolism, cellular signaling, and chromatin to suffice for induction of the heat-stress–associated gene set, regulation play roles in regulating thermotolerance and in acquired before doing another 50 °C survival time-course. Results of these thermotolerance. However, for most of the genes identified, the experiments are summarized in Table 1. molecular mechanism behind this action remains unclear. In fact, a In the first experiment, we identified a surprisingly small num- large fraction of identified genes are annotated as having unknown ber of deletion strains (55 gene deletions) that differ significantly functions, further underscoring our incomplete understanding of the response to heat shock. We suggest that survival after heat from the rest of the population in their heat sensitivity (Tables 2 shock depends on a small number of genes that function in assess- and 3). Most of these strains are much more sensitive to heat ing the metabolic health of the cell and/or regulate its growth in shock than the rest of the population; only a few were more a changing environment. resistant. We found that there was very little overlap between this set of genes and the much larger number of genes identified SYSTEMS BIOLOGY in other recent studies (5–8) as being induced as part of the heat- eat stress has been the subject of hundreds of studies, many Hof which have sought to understand the role of single genes fi or gene families in mediating the response to heat shock, whereas Signi cance others have attempted to examine system-level responses to heat (1, 2). Two basic approaches have been used to study the global We used the model eukaryote Saccharomyces cerevisiae to cellular response to heat or other stresses. One approach follows investigate which genes are important for survival of heat the response to temperature shift at a genomic scale using gene- stress. Previously, this question was addressed by examining expression microarrays to define the set of genes whose expres- which genes are turned on by mild heat stress; in this study, we sion is altered (3, 4). This approach necessarily limits the stress examined gene-deletion mutants for increased sensitivity to to temperatures at which the cells remain viable and express their lethal heat stress. This approach reveals that these two sets genes. The other approach uses single- or pooled-deletion strains of genes are largely nonoverlapping, demonstrating that mu- to assess the relative fitness of individuals alone or within a popu- tant analysis is a powerful complementary approach to gene- lation undergoing heat stress; this approach allows the use of lethal expression analysis. In addition, many of the genes identified heat to assess the ability to survive (5–8). as important for heat survival are involved in metabolism or We studied heat-stress resistance at a genomic scale further signaling, or their function is completely uncharacterized, sug- by introducing a number of experimental refinements. First, we gesting that our understanding of the systems-level response to used cultures growing at steady state before the heat stress to heat stress is incomplete. minimize effects of growth conditions. We had shown previously that the growth rate of cells has a profound effect on their ability Author contributions: P.A.G., C.L., A.A.C., D.C.H., and D.B. designed research; P.A.G., C.L., A.A.C., and D.C.H. performed research; P.A.G., C.L., A.A.C., and D.C.H. contributed new to survive a lethal heat shock (9): Slow-growing cells are much reagents/analytical tools; P.A.G., C.L., A.A.C., D.C.H., and D.B. analyzed data; and P.A.G., less sensitive than cells growing rapidly. By using the chemostat, C.L., A.A.C., D.C.H., and D.B. wrote the paper. variation in growth rate was minimized. Second, we used a newly The authors declare no conflict of interest. constructed prototrophic, barcoded nonessential deletion col- Freely available online through the PNAS open access option. lection to avoid the unwanted survival behaviors of auxotrophic 1P.A.G. and C.L. contributed equally to this work. mutations present in the standard, commercially available de- 2Present address: Banting and Best Department of Medical Research, Terrence Donnelly letion collection (7). Third, we used next-generation sequencing Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, and our previously developed analysis algorithms to follow in- Canada M5S 3E1. dividual barcodes and thereby quantitatively assess relative sur- 3A.A.C. and D.C.H. contributed equally to this work. vival during heat stress (7, 10). 4To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: [email protected]. Both thermotolerance and acquired thermotolerance have This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10. been studied in detail, with a general focus on the roles of transcripts 1073/pnas.1318100110/-/DCSupplemental. www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1318100110 PNAS | Published online October 28, 2013 | E4393–E4402 Downloaded by guest on October 1, 2021 Table 1. Phenotypic categories of heat-sensitive mutants 30–50 °C phenotype 37–50 °C phenotype Description Sensitive (P < 0.01) Sensitive (P < 0.01) Strains are hypersensitive to heat when shifted from 30–50 °C and do not acquire thermotolerance after pretreatment at 37 °C (10 genes; Table 2) Sensitive (P < 0.01) Resistant (P value for Strains are hypersensitive to heat when shifted from 30–50 °C and do acquire sensitivity is > 0.01) thermotolerance after pretreatment at 37 °C (49 genes; Table 3) Wild-type (P value for Sensitive (P < 0.05) Strains exhibit sensitivity to heat similar to wild type when shifted from 30–50 °C but exhibit sensitivity is > 0.05) hypersensitivity to lethal heat shock after pretreatment at 37 °C (nine genes; Table 4) shock response. Interestingly, many of the 55 genes we identified resource without this drawback, we generated a prototrophic as conferring hypersensitivity to heat are functionally involved deletion collection consisting of 4,783 viable deletion strains (see with cellular signaling, chromatin regulation, or carbohydrate Materials and Methods for details). This prototrophic deletion metabolism, suggesting unknown and potentially interesting collection has a number of useful features. First, each deletion is connections between heat shock and these processes. In the marked with the same barcode used in the original yeast deletion second experiment (pretreatment at 37 °C), we found only 10 collection. Thus, array-based methods for measuring deletion deletion strains that show significantly lower rates of survival frequency in pooled samples of the deletion collection will work than the pooled population as a whole (Table 2). These strains with this set. Second, the presence of the magic marker (can1Δ:: generally appear to be a subset of the 55 genes found in the first STE2pr-SpHIS5) allows the addition of another reporter (e.g., experiment, although the data for a few of them fell below our CLONAT-resistance) using the synthetic genetic array strategy (16, stringent threshold. We also found a third set of deletions (nine 17). Third, each deletion is marked with the G418-resistance cas- strains) whose survival in the first experiment (30–50 °C) was sette, as in the original deletion collection, allowing the user to select typical of the rest of the population but whose thermotolerance for G418-resistance when manipulating the deletion collection and was reduced significantly (by the same criteria used above) in the thus reducing potential contaminants. Fourth, unlike the original second experiment (Table 4). deletion collection, we included 12 isogenic wild-type controls on In this study we found only a few genes whose absence had a every 96-well plate as controls for position-related variance.