RESUMO
The response to proteotoxic stresses such as heat shock allows organisms to maintain protein homeostasis under changing environmental conditions. We asked what happens if an organism can no longer react to cytosolic proteotoxic stress. To test this, we deleted or depleted, either individually or in combination, the stress-responsive transcription factors Msn2, Msn4, and Hsf1 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Our study reveals a combination of survival strategies, which together protect essential proteins. Msn2 and 4 broadly reprogram transcription, triggering the response to oxidative stress, as well as biosynthesis of the protective sugar trehalose and glycolytic enzymes, while Hsf1 mainly induces the synthesis of molecular chaperones and reverses the transcriptional response upon prolonged mild heat stress (adaptation).
Assuntos
Proteínas de Saccharomyces cerevisiae , Fatores de Transcrição , Proteínas de Ligação a DNA/genética , Proteínas de Ligação a DNA/metabolismo , Fatores de Transcrição de Choque Térmico/genética , Fatores de Transcrição de Choque Térmico/metabolismo , Proteínas de Choque Térmico/genética , Proteínas de Choque Térmico/metabolismo , Resposta ao Choque Térmico/genética , Estresse Proteotóxico , Saccharomyces cerevisiae/metabolismo , Proteínas de Saccharomyces cerevisiae/metabolismo , Fatores de Transcrição/metabolismoRESUMO
Neutrophils rapidly respond to inflammation and infection, but to which degree their functional trajectories after mobilization from the bone marrow are shaped within the circulation remains vague. Experimental limitations have so far hampered neutrophil research in human disease. Here, using innovative fixation and single-cell-based toolsets, we profile human and murine neutrophil transcriptomes and proteomes during steady state and bacterial infection. We find that peripheral priming of circulating neutrophils leads to dynamic shifts dominated by conserved up-regulation of antimicrobial genes across neutrophil substates, facilitating pathogen containment. We show the TLR4/NF-κB signaling-dependent up-regulation of canonical neutrophil activation markers like CD177/NB-1 during acute inflammation, resulting in functional shifts in vivo. Blocking de novo RNA synthesis in circulating neutrophils abrogates these plastic shifts and prevents the adaptation of antibacterial neutrophil programs by up-regulation of distinct effector molecules upon infection. These data underline transcriptional plasticity as a relevant mechanism of functional neutrophil reprogramming during acute infection to foster bacterial containment within the circulation.