Transcriptional timing and noise of yeast cell cycle regulators-a single cell and single molecule approach

NPJ Systems Biology and Applications
Aouefa AmoussouviEdda Klipp

Abstract

Gene expression is a stochastic process and its appropriate regulation is critical for cell cycle progression. Cellular stress response necessitates expression reprogramming and cell cycle arrest. While previous studies are mostly based on bulk experiments influenced by synchronization effects or lack temporal distribution, time-resolved methods on single cells are needed to understand eukaryotic cell cycle in context of noisy gene expression and external perturbations. Using smFISH, microscopy and morphological markers, we monitored mRNA abundances over cell cycle phases and calculated transcriptional noise for SIC1, CLN2, and CLB5, the main G1/S transition regulators in budding yeast. We employed mathematical modeling for in silico synchronization and for derivation of time-courses from single cell data. This approach disclosed detailed quantitative insights into transcriptional regulation with and without stress, not available from bulk experiments before. First, besides the main peak in G1 we found an upshift of CLN2 and CLB5 expression in late mitosis. Second, all three genes showed basal expression throughout cell cycle enlightening that transcription is not divided in on and off but rather in high and low phases. Finally...Continue Reading

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