Heat stress induced Cup9 dependent transcriptional regulation of Sir2
15 Jan 2015-Molecular and Cellular Biology (American Society for Microbiology)-Vol. 35, Iss: 2, pp 437-450
TL;DR: The mechanism by which Sir2 is regulated under heat stress is demonstrated, which reveals that a transient heat shock causes a drastic reduction in the SIR2 transcript which results in sustained failure to initiate silencing for as long as 90 generations.
Abstract: The epigenetic writer Sir2 maintains the heterochromatin state of chromosome in three chromosomal regions, namely, the silent mating type loci, telomeres, and the ribosomal DNA (rDNA). In this study, we demonstrated the mechanism by which Sir2 is regulated under heat stress. Our study reveals that a transient heat shock causes a drastic reduction in the SIR2 transcript which results in sustained failure to initiate silencing for as long as 90 generations. Hsp82 overexpression, which is the usual outcome of heat shock treatment, leads to a similar downregulation of SIR2 transcription. Using a series of genetic experiments, we have established that heat shock or Hsp82 overexpression causes upregulation of CUP9 that, in turn, represses SIR2 transcription by binding to its upstream activator sequence. We have mapped the cis regulatory element of SIR2. Our study shows that the deletion of cup9 causes reversal of the Hsp82 overexpression phenotype and upregulation of SIR2 expression in heat-induced Hsp82-overexpressing cells. On the other hand, we found that Cup9 overexpression represses SIR2 transcription and leads to a failure in the establishment of heterochromatin. The results of our study highlight the mechanism by which environmental factors amend the epigenetic configuration of chromatin.
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TL;DR: The model organism Saccharomyces cerevisiae is used to establish that a transient heat shock and particularly the concomitant induction of Hsp90 lead to increased genomic instability via transcriptional regulation of the major checkpoint kinase Rad53.
Abstract: It is well documented that elevated body temperature causes tumors to regress upon radiotherapy. However, how hyperthermia induces DNA damage sensitivity is not clear. We show that a transient heat shock and particularly the concomitant induction of Hsp90 lead to increased genomic instability under DNA-damaging conditions. Using Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a model eukaryote, we demonstrate that elevated levels of Hsp90 attenuate efficient DNA damage signaling and dictate preferential use of the potentially mutagenic double-strand break repair pathway. We show that under normal physiological conditions, Hsp90 negatively regulates RAD53 transcription to suppress DNA damage checkpoint activation. However, under DNA damaging conditions, RAD53 is derepressed, and the increased level of Rad53p triggers an efficient DNA damage response. A higher abundance of Hsp90 causes increased transcriptional repression on RAD53 in a dose-dependent manner, which could not be fully derepressed even in the presence of DNA damage. Accordingly, cells behave like a rad53 loss-of-function mutant and show reduced NHEJ efficiency, with a drastic failure to up-regulate RAD51 expression and manifestly faster accumulation of CLN1 and CLN2 in DNA-damaged G1, cells leading to premature release from checkpoint arrest. We further demonstrate that Rad53 overexpression is able to rescue all of the aforementioned deleterious effects caused by Hsp90 overproduction.
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...The presence of imported di- or tripeptides causes the activation of E3 ubiquitin ligase Ubr1 and accelerates the Ubr1-dependent ubiquitylation of Cup9 (46)....
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...It had been demonstrated previously that under normal conditions, Cup9 is a short-lived protein, having approximately 5 min as its half-life (46)....
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TL;DR: The present results showed that Hsc82 binds to and stabilizes Cna2 and that dissociation of CNA2 from HSc82 is necessary for its activation and that calcineurin is activated after exposure to stresses.
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...It was previously reported that prolonged heat shock (at 37°C) causes telomere shortening in yeast (32, 33)....
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...In another study, it was reported that prolonged exposure to heat stress (37°C) as well as Hsp82 overexpression led to telomere shortening in wild-type cells (32, 33)....
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