Print Email Facebook Twitter Identity of the Growth-Limiting Nutrient Strongly Affects Storage Carbohydrate Accumulation in Anaerobic Chemostat Cultures of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Title Identity of the Growth-Limiting Nutrient Strongly Affects Storage Carbohydrate Accumulation in Anaerobic Chemostat Cultures of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Author Hazelwood, L.A. Walsh, M.C. Luttik, M.A.H. Daran-Lapujade, P. Pronk, J.T. Daran, J.M. Faculty Applied Sciences Department Kluyver Centre for Genomics of Industrial Fermentation Date 2009-11-01 Abstract OA Fund TU Delft Accumulation of glycogen and trehalose in nutrient-limited cultures of Saccharomyces cerevisiae is negatively correlated with the specific growth rate. Additionally, glucose-excess conditions (i.e., growth limitation by nutrients other than glucose) are often implicated in high-level accumulation of these storage carbohydrates. The present study investigates how the identity of the growth-limiting nutrient affects accumulation of storage carbohydrates in cultures grown at a fixed specific growth rate. In anaerobic chemostat cultures (dilution rate, 0.10 h–1) of S. cerevisiae, the identity of the growth-limiting nutrient (glucose, ammonia, sulfate, phosphate, or zinc) strongly affected storage carbohydrate accumulation. The glycogen contents of the biomass from glucose- and ammonia-limited cultures were 10- to 14-fold higher than those of the biomass from cultures grown under the other three glucose-excess regimens. Trehalose levels were specifically higher under nitrogen-limited conditions. These results demonstrate that storage carbohydrate accumulation in nutrient-limited cultures of S. cerevisiae is not a generic response to excess glucose but instead is strongly dependent on the identity of the growth-limiting nutrient. While transcriptome analysis of wild-type and msn2 msn4 strains confirmed that transcriptional upregulation of glycogen and trehalose biosynthesis genes is mediated by Msn2p/Msn4p, transcriptional regulation could not quantitatively account for the drastic changes in storage carbohydrate accumulation. The results of assays of glycogen synthase and glycogen phosphorylase activities supported involvement of posttranscriptional regulation. Consistent with the high glycogen levels in ammonia-limited cultures, the ratio of glycogen synthase to glycogen phosphorylase in these cultures was up to eightfold higher than the ratio in the other glucose-excess cultures. Subject OA-Fund TU Delft To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:3930f0ec-9634-4f83-8d1f-34baf58e3171 Publisher American Society for Microbiology Source Applied and Environmental Microbiology, November 2009, p. 6876-6885, Vol. 75, No. 21 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights American Society for Microbiology, OA-title Files PDF Daran6876.pdf 1.2 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:3930f0ec-9634-4f83-8d1f-34baf58e3171/datastream/OBJ/view