scholarly journals Genetic basis of variation in heat and ethanol tolerance in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Riles ◽  
Justin C. Fay

ABSTRACTSaccharomyces cerevisiae has the capability of fermenting sugar to produce concentrations of ethanol that are toxic to most organisms. Other Saccharomyces species also have a strong fermentative capacity, but some are specialized to low temperatures, whereas S. cerevisiae is the most thermotolerant. Although S. cerevisiae has been extensively used to study the genetic basis of ethanol tolerance, much less is known about temperature dependent ethanol tolerance. In this study, we examined the genetic basis of ethanol tolerance at high temperature among strains of S. cerevisiae. We identified two amino acid polymorphisms in SEC24 that cause strong sensitivity to ethanol at high temperature and more limited sensitivity to temperature in the absence of ethanol. We also identified a single amino acid polymorphism in PSD1 that causes sensitivity to high temperature in a strain dependent fashion. The genes we identified provide further insight into genetic variation in ethanol and temperature tolerance and the interdependent nature of these two traits in S. cerevisiae.

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-103
Author(s):  
Sonia Kumari ◽  
Awadhesh K.Jha ◽  
Anil K Singh

Saccharomyces cerevisiae is common yeast of economic importance in food and brewing industries. This study aimed at isolating the yeast from local sources, viz. Toddy, Date palm toddy, Fermented dough, Fermented fruit juice of apple and orange and then characterized on the basis of their morphology, microbial count, temperature, ethanol tolerance, flocculation, and fermentative ability and on stress test, to see if they can serve as a sources for industrial purposes. Some of them were found to possess high temperature and ethanol tolerance ability, some had high flocculation and fermentative capacity and survived when subjected to various stress conditions. Saccharomyces cerevisiae isolated from these local sources can be used effectively in the bakery and brewing industries. The yeast isolated from date palm has ability to grow at low temperature, have high ethanol tolerance ability and high flocculation ability. Likewise yeast isolated from toddy has ability to grow at high temperature and also have good ethanol tolerance ability. The ability of yeast to flocculate have benefit of easy separation from the final product at the end of fermentation without filtration/centrifugation and it is a important source for bakers industry while yeast that have good ethanol tolerance ability and high temperature tolerance ability can be use in alcoholic industry from various sources.


2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Roy ◽  
Taryn B. T. Athey ◽  
Jean-Philippe Auger ◽  
Guillaume Goyette-Desjardins ◽  
Marie-Rose Van Calsteren ◽  
...  

Blood ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 119 (23) ◽  
pp. 5563-5574 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jillian Stephen ◽  
Lindsay S. Cairns ◽  
Wendy J. Pickford ◽  
Mark A. Vickers ◽  
Stanislaw J. Urbaniak ◽  
...  

Abstract The K blood group remains an important target in hemolytic disease of the newborn (HDN), with no immune prophylaxis available. The aim was to characterize the Th response to K as a key step in designing specific immunotherapy and understanding the immunogenicity of the Ag. PBMCs from K-negative women who had anti-K Abs after incompatible pregnancy, and PBMCs from unimmunized controls, were screened for proliferative responses to peptide panels spanning the K or k single amino acid polymorphism. A dominant K peptide with the polymorphism at the C terminus elicited proliferation in 90% of alloimmunized women, and it was confirmed that responding cells expressed helper CD3+CD4+ and “memory” CD45RO+ phenotypes, and were MHC class II restricted. A relatively high prevalence of background peptide responses independent of alloimmunization may contribute to K immunogenicity. First, cross-reactive environmental Ag(s) pre-prime Kell-reactive Th cells, and, second, the K substitution disrupts an N-glycosylation motif, allowing the exposed amino acid chain to stimulate a Th repertoire that is unconstrained by self-tolerance in K-negative individuals. The dominant K peptide was effective in inducing linked suppression in HLA-transgenic mice and can now be taken forward for immunotherapy to prevent HDN because of anti-K responses.


2011 ◽  
Vol 86 (4) ◽  
pp. 2302-2311 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. C. Irvin ◽  
J. Zurney ◽  
L. S. Ooms ◽  
J. D. Chappell ◽  
T. S. Dermody ◽  
...  

2007 ◽  
Vol 23 (12) ◽  
pp. 1444-1450 ◽  
Author(s):  
Z.-Q. Ye ◽  
S.-Q. Zhao ◽  
G. Gao ◽  
X.-Q. Liu ◽  
R. E. Langlois ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (10) ◽  
pp. 1322-1336
Author(s):  
Nozomu Iwabuchi ◽  
Yugo Kitazawa ◽  
Kensaku Maejima ◽  
Hiroaki Koinuma ◽  
Akio Miyazaki ◽  
...  

2003 ◽  
Vol 75 (19) ◽  
pp. 4956-4963 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peiran Liu ◽  
Fred E. Regnier

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