The Role of histone modifications in transcriptional regulation upon stress
In response to fluctuations in the environment, all living organisms have the ability to sense, respond and adapt to the new conditions. In budding yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) there is a massive and rapid reorganization of the transcriptional program in response to a stressful situation, which...
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| Tipo de recurso: | tesis doctoral |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2014 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | CBUC, CESCA |
| Repositorio: | TDR. Tesis Doctorales en Red |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:www.tdx.cat:10803/382837 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10803/382837 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Transcription Chromatin Histone Posttranslational modifications Stress Transcripció Cromatina Histona Modificacions porttraduccionals Estrés 577 |
| Sumario: | In response to fluctuations in the environment, all living organisms have the ability to sense, respond and adapt to the new conditions. In budding yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) there is a massive and rapid reorganization of the transcriptional program in response to a stressful situation, which is governed by different signaling pathways, transcription factors, chromatin remodelers and histone modifiers. Many examples of histone posttranslational modifications (PTM) have been associated with transcriptional activation or repression under normal growth conditions, however little is known about the role of histones in the cellular adaptive response upon stress. In this study, we systematically analyze by high throughput screens cellular growth and transcription initiation of stress-responsive genes in 569 histone point mutants upon heat and osmostress. These screens provide a novel global map of the histone residues required for cellular survival and transcriptional regulation in response to heat and osmostress. Moreover, we show that the histone residues required in response to stress depend on the type of gene and/or the type of stress. Furthermore we characterized some examples of newly identified histone marks from histones H3 and H4 involved in the transcriptional regulation upon different stress conditions. |
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