Calcium signaling mediates the response to cadmium toxicity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells

Autor: Andrei Florin Danet, Ileana C. Farcasanu, Valentina C. Popa, Lavinia L. Ruta, Ioana Nicolau, Virgil Iordache, Aurora Neagoe
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: FEBS Letters. 588:3202-3212
ISSN: 1873-3468
0014-5793
Popis: The involvement of Ca(2+) in the response to high Mn(2+), Co(2+), Ni(2+), Cu(2+), Zn(2+), Cd(2+), and Hg(2+) was investigated in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The yeast cells responded through a sharp increase in cytosolic Ca(2+) when exposed to Cd(2+), and to a lesser extent to Cu(2+), but not to Mn(2+), Co(2+), Ni(2+), Zn(2+), or Hg(2+). The response to high Cd(2+) depended mainly on external Ca(2+) (transported through the Cch1p/Mid1p channel) but also on vacuolar Ca(2+) (released into the cytosol through the Yvc1p channel). The adaptation to high Cd(2+) was influenced by perturbations in Ca(2+) homeostasis. Thus, the tolerance to Cd(2+) often correlated with sharp Cd(2+)-induced cytosolic Ca(2+) pulses, while the Cd(2+) sensitivity was accompanied by the incapacity to rapidly restore the low cytosolic Ca(2+).
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