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ArticleScientific reports2016

Protective Effects of Arginine on Saccharomyces cerevisiae Against Ethanol Stress.

Yanfei Cheng, Zhaoli Du, Hui Zhu, Xuena Guo, Xiuping He

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Article in Scientific reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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45 citing papers in PubMed, 121 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Yanfei ChengCAS Key Laboratory of Microbial Physiological and Metabolic Engineering, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Zhaoli DuCAS Key Laboratory of Microbial Physiological and Metabolic Engineering, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Hui ZhuCAS Key Laboratory of Microbial Physiological and Metabolic Engineering, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Xuena GuoCAS Key Laboratory of Microbial Physiological and Metabolic Engineering, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Xiuping HeCAS Key Laboratory of Microbial Physiological and Metabolic Engineering, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Institute of Microbiology · CNChinese Academy of Sciences · CN

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Yeast cells are challenged by various environmental stresses in the process of industrial fermentation. As the currently main organism for bio-ethanol production, Saccharomyces cerevisiae suffers from ethanol stress. Some amino acids have been reported to be related to yeast tolerance to stresses. Here the relationship between arginine and yeast response to ethanol stress was investigated. Marked inhibitions of ethanol on cell growth, expression of genes involved in arginine biosynthesis and intracellular accumulation of arginine were observed. Furthermore, extracellular addition of arginine can abate the ethanol damage largely. To further confirm the protective effects of arginine on yeast cells, yeast strains with different levels of arginine content were constructed by overexpression of ARG4 involved in arginine biosynthesis or CAR1 encoding arginase. Intracellular arginine was increased by 18.9% or 13.1% respectively by overexpression of ARG4 or disruption of CAR1, which enhanced yeast tolerance to ethanol stress. Moreover, a 41.1% decrease of intracellular arginine was observed in CAR1 overexpressing strain, which made yeast cells keenly sensitive to ethanol. Further investigations indicated that arginine protected yeast cells from ethanol damage by maintaining the integrity of cell wall and cytoplasma membrane, stabilizing the morphology and function of organellae due to low ROS generation.

Indexed as

ArginaseArginineBiosynthetic PathwaysEthanolGene Expression Regulation, FungalGenetic EngineeringReactive Oxygen SpeciesSaccharomyces cerevisiaeSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsStress, PhysiologicalARG1 protein, S cerevisiaeArginaseArginineCAR1 protein, S cerevisiaeEthanolReactive Oxygen SpeciesSaccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins

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PMID27507154
PMCPMC4979094
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