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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 9, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-40112-9
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- Department of Microbiology and Parasitology (UCM) [UCM-920640]
- Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad, MINECO, Spain [BIO2013-48136-P, BIO2016-79289-P, BIO2015-70195-C2-1-R]
- Comunidad de Madrid (CM)
- Fondos Estructurales (FSE), Spain [B2017/BMD3691-InGEMICS-CM]
- Fondos Estructurales (FEDER), Spain [B2017/BMD3691-InGEMICS-CM]
- Special Chair on Fermented Beverages and Health
- research contract (Ayudante de Investigacion) from Comunidad de Madrid
- pre-doctoral fellowship (FPI program) from the Spanish Government
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Post-transcriptional control of mRNA is a key event in the regulation of gene expression. From yeast to human cells, P-bodies are cytoplasmic RNA-protein aggregates that play an essential role in this process, particularly under stress conditions. In this work, we show that in the model yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae cell wall stress induces the formation of these structures. This effect is dependent on multiple elements in the Cell Wall Integrity (CWI) MAPK signalling pathway, a signal transduction cascade responsible for the maintenance of cell integrity under adverse environmental conditions. Remarkably, P-body assembly requires the catalytic activity of the MAPK of the pathway, Slt2/Mpk1. In accordance with the control exerted by this signalling pathway, the timing of P-body formation is similar to that of the activation of the CWI pathway. Noticeably, mRNAs whose expression is regulated by this pathway localize in P-bodies after the cell is exposed to stress following a temporal pattern coincident with CWI pathway activation. Moreover, when these mRNAs are overexpressed in a mutant background unable to form visible P-bodies, the cells show hypersensitivity to agents that interfere with cell wall integrity, supporting that they play a role in the mRNA lifecycle under stress conditions.
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