Hydrogen peroxide induced loss of heterozygosity correlates with replicative lifespan and mitotic asymmetry inSaccharomyces cerevisiae.
Cellular aging inSaccharomyces cerevisiaecan lead to genomic instability and impaired mitotic asymmetry. To investigate the role of oxidative stress in cellular aging, we examined the effect of exogenous hydrogen peroxide on genomic instability and mitotic asymmetry in a collection of yeast strains with diverse backgrounds. We treated yeast cells with hydrogen peroxide and monitored the changes of viability and the frequencies of loss of heterozygosity (LOH) in response to hydrogen peroxide doses. The mid-transition points of viability and LOH were quantified using sigmoid mathematical functions. We found that the increase of hydrogen peroxide dependent genomic instability often occurs before a drop in viability. We previously observed that elevation of genomic instability generally lags behind the drop in viability during chronological aging. Hence, onset of genomic instability induced by exogenous hydrogen peroxide treatment is opposite to that induced by endogenous oxidative stress during chronological aging, with regards to the midpoint of viability. This contrast argues that the effect of endogenous oxidative stress on genome integrity is well suppressed up to the dying-off phase during chronological aging. We found that the leadoff of exogenous hydrogen peroxide induced genomic instability to viability significantly correlated with replicative lifespan (RLS), indicating that yeast cells' ability to counter oxidative stress contributes to their replicative longevity. Surprisingly, this leadoff is positively correlated with an inverse measure of endogenous mitotic asymmetry, indicating a trade-off between mitotic asymmetry and cell's ability to fend off hydrogen peroxide induced oxidative stress. Overall, our results demonstrate strong associations of oxidative stress to genomic instability and mitotic asymmetry at the population level of budding yeast.
Department of Biology, Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia, United States.|Current affiliation: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States.
Emine
0000-0001-9324-0879
E
Güven
Department of Biology, Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia, United States.|Current affiliation: Program of Molecular Genetics and Genomics, Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States.
Lindsay A
LA
Parnell
Department of Biology, Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
Erin D
ED
Jackson
Department of Biology, Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
Meighan C
MC
Parker
Department of Biology, Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
Nilin
N
Gupta
Department of Biology, Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
Jenny
J
Rodrigues
Department of Biology, Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia, United States.|Current affiliation: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Department of Biology, Geology, and Environmental Science, SimCenter, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States.
Hong
0000-0002-1060-6722
H
Qin
Aging; Hydrogen peroxide; Lifespan; Loss of heterozygosity; Oxidative stress; Yeast