Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
Volume 23, Issue 19, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms231911034
Keywords
Saccharomyces cerevisiae; cell wall integrity; MAPK; Slt2; PIP2; neomycin
Funding
- Agencia Estatal de Investigacion from Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion (Spain) [PID2019-105342GB-I00/AEI]
- European Structural and Investment Funds [S2017/BMD-3691]
- Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovacion y Universidades (Spain)
- Comunidad de Madrid
- Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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The cell wall integrity pathway is a signaling pathway essential for yeast cell response to cell wall damage. By incorporating a genetic circuit as a signal amplifier, novel elements involved in this pathway can be identified. This study discovered various chemical agents, including neomycin, that can activate the pathway.
The cell wall integrity pathway (CWI) is a MAPK-mediated signaling route essential for yeast cell response to cell wall damage, regulating distinct aspects of fungal physiology. We have recently proven that the incorporation of a genetic circuit that operates as a signal amplifier into this pathway allows for the identification of novel elements involved in CWI signaling. Here, we show that the strong growth inhibition triggered by pathway hyperactivation in cells carrying the Integrity Pathway Activation Circuit (IPAC) also allows the easy identification of new stimuli. By using the IPAC, we have found various chemical agents that activate the CWI pathway, including the aminoglycoside neomycin. Cells lacking key components of this pathway are sensitive to this antibiotic, due to the disruption of signaling upon neomycin stimulation. Neomycin reduces both phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2) availability at the plasma membrane and myriocin-induced TORC2-dependent Ypk1 phosphorylation, suggesting a strong interference with plasma membrane homeostasis, specifically with PIP2. The neomycin-induced transcriptional profile involves not only genes related to stress and cell wall biogenesis, but also to amino acid metabolism, reflecting the action of this antibiotic on the yeast ribosome.
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