Learning from yeastsintracellular sensing of stress conditions

  1. Mariano Gacto 1
  2. Teresa Soto 1
  3. Jero Vicente-Soler 1
  4. Tomás G. Villa 2
  5. José Cansado 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Murcia
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    Universidad de Murcia

    Murcia, España

    ROR https://ror.org/03p3aeb86

    Localización xeográfica da organización Universidad de Murcia
  2. 2 Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
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    Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

    Santiago de Compostela, España

    ROR https://ror.org/030eybx10

    Localización xeográfica da organización Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Revista:
International microbiology: official journal of the Spanish Society for Microbiology

ISSN: 1618-1905

Ano de publicación: 2003

Volume: 6

Número: 3

Páxinas: 211-219

Tipo: Artigo

DOI: 10.1007/S10123-003-0136-X DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso aberto editor

Outras publicacións en: International microbiology: official journal of the Spanish Society for Microbiology

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Resumo

One intriguing challenge in modern biology is to understand how cells respond to, and distinguish between different stressing stimuli. Evidence accumulated in recent years indicates that a network of signaling pathways extends from the plasma membrane to the very core of the cell nucleus to transduce environmental changes into a graded transcriptional response. Although many steps still remain unclear, studies on the stress-activated protein kinase (SAPK) pathways and related mechanisms provide insight into the biochemistry that regulates signal transmission and leads to outcomes such as cell adaptation and differentiation. This review focuses on selected topics of current interest related to the sensing of stress signals in cells of the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Because signaling pathways appear to be evolutionarily well conserved, yeasts may be useful models to learn how higher eukaryotes sense and respond to stresses at the cellular level.