Journal
FEMS YEAST RESEARCH
Volume 14, Issue 8, Pages 1249-1262Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/1567-1364.12218
Keywords
vitamin B-1; thiamine diphosphate-dependent enzymes; antioxidants; reactive oxygen species; reactive nitrogen species
Funding
- National Science Centre, Poland [DEC-2011/03/N/NZ1/01305]
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Numerous recent studies have established a hypothesis that thiamine (vitamin B-1) is involved in the responses of different organisms against stress, also suggesting that underlying mechanisms are not limited to the universal role of thiamine diphosphate (TDP) in the central cellular metabolism. The current work aimed at characterising the effect of exogenously added thiamine on the response of baker's yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae to the oxidative (1 mM H2O2), osmotic (1 M sorbitol) and thermal (42 degrees C) stress. As compared to the yeast culture in thiamine-free medium, in the presence of 1.4 mu M external thiamine, (1) the relative mRNA levels of major TDP-dependent enzymes under stress conditions vs. unstressed control (the 'stress/control ratio') were moderately lower, (2) the stress/control ratio was strongly decreased for the transcript levels of several stress markers localised to the cytoplasm, peroxisomes, the cell wall and (with the strongest effect observed) the mitochondria (e.g. Mn-superoxide dismutase), (3) the production of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species under stress conditions was markedly decreased, with the significant alleviation of concomitant protein oxidation. The results obtained suggest the involvement of thiamine in the maintenance of redox balance in yeast cells under oxidative stress conditions, partly independent of the functions of TDP-dependent enzymes.
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