Print Email Facebook Twitter Combinatorial effects of environmental parameters on transcriptional regulation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: A quantitative analysis of a compendium of chemostat-based transcriptome data Title Combinatorial effects of environmental parameters on transcriptional regulation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: A quantitative analysis of a compendium of chemostat-based transcriptome data Author Knijnenburg, T.A. Daran, J.M.G. Van den Broek, M.A. Daran-Lapujade, P.A.S. De Winde, J.H. Pronk, J.T. Reinders, M.J.T. Wessels, L.F.A. Faculty Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science Department Mediamatics Date 2009-01-27 Abstract OA Fund TU delft Background: Microorganisms adapt their transcriptome by integrating multiple chemical and physical signals from their environment. Shake-flask cultivation does not allow precise manipulation of individual culture parameters and therefore precludes a quantitative analysis of the (combinatorial) influence of these parameters on transcriptional regulation. Steady-state chemostat cultures, which do enable accurate control, measurement and manipulation of individual cultivation parameters (e.g. specific growth rate, temperature, identity of the growth-limiting nutrient) appear to provide a promising experimental platform for such a combinatorial analysis. Results: A microarray compendium of 170 steady-state chemostat cultures of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is presented and analyzed. The 170 microarrays encompass 55 unique conditions, which can be characterized by the combined settings of 10 different cultivation parameters. By applying a regression model to assess the impact of (combinations of) cultivation parameters on the transcriptome, most S. cerevisiae genes were shown to be influenced by multiple cultivation parameters, and in many cases by combinatorial effects of cultivation parameters. The inclusion of these combinatorial effects in the regression model led to higher explained variance of the gene expression patterns and resulted in higher function enrichment in subsequent analysis. We further demonstrate the usefulness of the compendium and regression analysis for interpretation of shake-flask-based transcriptome studies and for guiding functional analysis of (uncharacterized) genes and pathways. Conclusion: Modeling the combinatorial effects of environmental parameters on the transcriptome is crucial for understanding transcriptional regulation. Chemostat cultivation offers a powerful tool for such an approach. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:df8adb48-76de-443b-b321-67fa6941a60b Publisher BioMed Central Source BMC Genomics, 10 (53), 2009 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2009 Knijnenburg et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use and distributi Files PDF 1471-2164-10-53.pdf 1.2 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:df8adb48-76de-443b-b321-67fa6941a60b/datastream/OBJ/view