This document summarizes research on lipid homeostasis and cold tolerance in fermentation biotechnology laboratories. It shows that at low temperatures, there is an increase in the presence of the kinase Ypk1 in the soluble fraction, and a decrease in production of inositol phosphorylceramides (IPCs) by downregulation of Ypk1. The expression of genes involved in cold tolerance, such as ORM2, is also induced at low temperatures. Additionally, low temperatures decrease the level of phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PI(4,5)P2) at the plasma membrane and increase the amount of inositol hexakisphosphate (1-IP7).
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I would like to thank the organizers for the opportunity to present the results of our group in this meeting.
My talk will be focused on cold-responses in the model yeast S. cerevisiae and
will present advances in cold signaling and regulation of membrane composition and properties.
Data have an obvious interest in development of commercial strains, like those used in traditional biotechnological applications, including bread or wine,
but also knowledge in membrane biology may open exciting areas of study with unexpected applications.
Altogether, our results demonstrated the activation of 2 MAPK pathways by cold, the HOG and the CWI. The first is triggered in minutes by a rapid decrease in membrane fluidity, while activation of Slt2 takes place at mid-term, mediated likely by a change in membrane composition.
Quite interestingly, the Kennedy’s group recently reported a role of the cell wall integrity pathway in membrane fluidity homeostasis. Again, strains deficient in the core components of the pathway, showed increased sensitivity to palmitoleate (C16:1), which causes hyper-fluidity of the membrane.
As I will show here, this is not the sole pathway involved in membrane homeostasis.