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Yeast molecular chaperone gene SSB2 is involved in the endoplasmic reticulum stress response

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The Saccharomyces cerevisiae chaperone gene SSB2 belongs to the Hsp70 family. Unlike other HSP70 genes, SSB2 gene expression is reduced after heat shock. It has been reported that Ssb2p can be cross-linked to ribosome-bound nascent polypeptide chains, suggesting a potential role of SSB2 in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress response. In this study, SSB2-deletion and SSB2-overexpression yeast strains were generated and applied to explore the potential mechanism by which SSB2 is involved in the tunicamycin (TM)-induced ER stress response. We demonstrate for the first time that SSB2 deficiency results in reduced resistance to TM, while overexpression of SSB2 increases resistance to TM in an IRE1-HAC1 pathway-dependent manner; these observations are related to changes in intracellular unfolded protein response activities (under the TM-stressed condition). Additionally, SSB2 deletion induces early apoptosis and it may play a causal role in the shortened replicative life span of ssb2Δ mutants observed in this study. These findings highlight the involvement of SSB2 in ER stress responses and ageing in yeast.

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Abbreviations

CLS:

Chronological life span

ER:

Endoplasmic reticulum

RLS:

Replicative life span

S. cerevisiae :

Saccharomyces cerevisiae

TM:

Tunicamycin

UPR:

Unfolded protein response

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the China National Natural Science Foundation (31101051, 81671399), the Ordinary University Innovation Team Construction Project of Guangdong Province (2015KCXTD022). We are grateful to Brian K. Kennedy (Buck Institute), Matt Kaeberlein and Brian M. Wasko (University of Washington) for technical assistance.

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X-GL designed the experiments. WZ, H-JC, K-PQ, TZ and X-SH performed experiments. WZ wrote the manuscript. All authors discussed the results and commented on the manuscript.

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Zhao, W., Cui, HJ., Qiu, KP. et al. Yeast molecular chaperone gene SSB2 is involved in the endoplasmic reticulum stress response. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 112, 589–598 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10482-018-1189-3

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