Modelling reveals novel roles of two parallel signalling pathways and homeostatic feedbacks in yeast

Abstract:

The high osmolarity glycerol (HOG) pathway in yeast serves as a prototype signalling system for eukaryotes. We used an unprecedented amount of data to parameterise 192 models capturing different hypotheses about molecular mechanisms underlying osmo-adaptation and selected a best approximating model. This model implied novel mechanisms regulating osmo-adaptation in yeast. The model suggested that (i) the main mechanism for osmo-adaptation is a fast and transient non-transcriptional Hog1-mediated activation of glycerol production, (ii) the transcriptional response serves to maintain an increased steady-state glycerol production with low steady-state Hog1 activity, and (iii) fast negative feedbacks of activated Hog1 on upstream signalling branches serves to stabilise adaptation response. The best approximating model also indicated that homoeostatic adaptive systems with two parallel redundant signalling branches show a more robust and faster response than single-branch systems. We corroborated this notion to a large extent by dedicated measurements of volume recovery in single cells. Our study also demonstrates that systematically testing a model ensemble against data has the potential to achieve a better and unbiased understanding of molecular mechanisms.

SEEK ID: https://fairdomhub.org/publications/237

PubMed ID: 23149687

Projects: ICYSB 2015 - International Practical Course in Systems Biology

Publication type: Not specified

Journal: Mol Syst Biol

Citation: Mol Syst Biol. 2012;8:622. doi: 10.1038/msb.2012.53.

Date Published: 15th Nov 2012

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Authors: J. Schaber, R. Baltanas, A. Bush, E. Klipp, A. Colman-Lerner

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