CONTACTS

Institute of Microbiology of AS CR, v.v.i.
Vídeňská 1083
142 20 Prague 4
Czech Republic
PHONE: +420 241 062 503
FAX: +420 241 062 501

oCellaris - usefull SW to analyse pH and stress granules in yeast

MEMBERS

Jiří Hašek, PhD. (head) hasek [at] biomed.cas.cz +420 241 062 503
Ivana Malcová-Janatová, PhD. janatova [at] biomed.cas.cz +420 241 062 769
Miroslava Opekarová, PhD. opekaro [at] biomed.cas.cz +420 241 062 504
Pavla Vašicová, PhD. vasicova [at] biomed.cas.cz +420 241 062 504
Tomáš Groušl, MSc. (PhD student) grousl [at] biomed.cas.cz +420 241 062 590
Lenka Senohrábková, MSc. (PhD student) senohra [at] biomed.cas.cz +420 241 062 590
Renata Slabá, MSc. (PhD student) rslaba [at] biomed.cas.cz +420 241 062 590
Pavla Luxová, BSc. (Diploma student) luxova [at] biomed.cas.cz +420 241 062 503
Dana Janošková, MSc. (technician) janosko [at] biomed.cas.cz +420 241 062 590
Lenka Nováková, MSc. (part-time technician) lenkan [at] biomed.cas.cz +420 241 062 590
Jarmila Serbousková (part-time technician) +420 241 062 503
Eva Streiblová, PhD. DSc. streiblo [at] biomed.cas.cz +420 241 062 351
Ivana Frýdlová, PhD. (maternity leave)

RESEARCH TOPICS

Studies on the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae concern (i) the plasma membrane compartmentalization, (ii) the heat stress-induced stress granules.  
 

CURRENT PROJECTS

Plasma membrane compartmentalization

In cooperation with the Institute of Cell Biology and Plant Physiology at Regensburg University, we obtained important results with a key impact on understanding of plasma membrane arrangement in eukaryotic cells. With the use of fluorescent markers attached to various plasma membranes proteins, we showed that the plasma membrane of S. cerevisiae is subdivided into at least two stable lateral compartments. One consists of 50 to 80 patches of about 300 nm in diameter is called MCC (Membrane Compartment of Can1, the arginine permease). The other one- MCP (Membrane Compartment of Pma1, the H+/ATPase) fills the space in between the MCC patches. Some other PM proteins, like Hxt1 or Gap1 are distributed homogeneously. The distribution of proton symporters in MCC can be affected by, e.g., lipid composition or the plasma membrane energization, the distribution of other proteins is resistant to these effects. Recently we have documented that the dwelling in the MCC protects its residents against endocytosis. The physiological importance of the compartmentalization of the plasma membrane is under intensive study in our group.  

Heat-induced stress granules in S. cerevisiae

In higher eukaryotic cells exposed to various environmental stresses translation initiation factors form cytoplasmic accumulations, called stress granules. We construct various S. cerevisiae strains expressing fusion proteins tagged with GFP, mRFP, mCherry, TagRFP and TagBFP from the chromosomal sites and analyze changes in distribution of translational factors,ribosomal proteins, mRNA binding proteins, mRNA and regulatory proteins under various stresses. Together, our data indicate that stress granules induced by robust heat shock represent dynamic structures resembling stress granules described in higher eukaryotic cells.  
 

FUNDING

The projects are financially supported by the following institutions:
Institutional Research Concept AV0Z50200510
Czech Science Foundation: P305/12/0480
Technology Agency of the Czech Republic: TA01011467

COLLABORATION

Sao Paulo State University, Araraquara, Brasil (Dr. Juliana Sposto Avaca Crusca)
University of Regensburg, Germany (Prof. W.Tanner)
University of Graz, Austria (Prof. S.D. Kohlwein)
NICHD NIH, Bethesda, USA (Dr. A. Hinnebusch)
University of Salzburg, Austria (Prof. M. Breitenbach)
Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics AS CR, Prague (Dr. Jiří Pokorný, Dr. Michal Cifra)
St John's University, New York, USA (Dr. Ales Vancura)
Stockholm University, Sweden (Dr. P.A. Ivanov)
NUI Maynooth, Maynooth, Ireland (Dr. Gary Jones)
University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom (Dr. Mark Ashe)
Inst. Exp. Medicine AS CR, Prague, Czech Republic, (Dr. Jan Malinsky, Dr. Vendy Stradalova)

PUBLICATIONS - since 2005

Malinsky J., Opekarova M., Grossmann G., Tanner W. (2013) Membrane Microdomains Rafts, and Detergent-Resistant Membranes in Plants and Fungi. Annu. Rev. Plant. Biol. 64, 25.1-25.29. doi:10.1146/annurev-arplant-050312-120103

Grousl T., Ivanov P., Malcova I., Pompach P., Frydlova I., Slaba R., Senohrabkova L., Novakova L., Hasek J. (2013) Heat shock-induced accumulation of translation elongation and termination factors precedes assembly of stress granules in S. cerevisiae. PLoS ONE 8(2): e57083. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0057083

Gaur N.A., Hasek J., Brickner D.G., Qiu H., Zhang F., Wong C.M., Malcova I., Vasicova P., Brickner J.H., Hinnebusch A.G. (2013)Vps factors are required for efficient transcription elongation in budding yeast. Genetics 2013 Jan 22. [Epub ahead of print]

Vasicova P., Stradalova V., Halada P., Hasek J., Malcova I. (2013) Nuclear import of chromatin remodeler Isw1 is mediated by atypical bipartite cNLS and classical import pathway. Traffic 2013 Feb;14(2):176-93. doi: 10.1111/tra.12025. Epub 2012 Nov 26.

Rinnerthaler M., Büttner S., Laun P., Heeren G., Felder T.K., Klinger H., Weinberger M., Stolze K., Grousl T., Hasek J., Benada O., Frydlova I., Klocker A., Simon-Nobbe B., Jansko B., Breitenbach-Koller H., Eisenberg T., Gourlay C.W., Madeo F., Burhans W.C., Breitenbach M. (2012) Yno1p/Aim14p, a NADPH-oxidase ortholog, controls extramitochondrial reactive oxygen species generation, apoptosis, and actin cable formation in yeast Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 29, 8658-8663

Streiblová E., Gryndlerová H., Gryndler M. (2012) Truffle brûlé: an efficient fungal life strategy. FEMS Microbiol Ecol. 2012 Apr;80(1):1-8. doi: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2011.01283.x. Epub 2012 Jan 16.

Gryndler M., Trilčová J., Hršelová H., Streiblová E., Gryndlerová H., Jansa J. (2012) Tuber aestivum Vittad. mycelium quantified: advantages and limitations of a qPCR approach. Mycorrhiza 2012 Dec 28. [Epub ahead of print]

Stradalova V., Blazikova M., Grossmann G., Opekarová M., Tanner W., Malinsky J. (2012) Distribution of cortical endoplasmic reticulum determines positioning of endocytic events in yeast plasma membrane. PLoS One 2012;7(4):e35132. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035132. Epub 2012 Apr 9.

Tanner W., Malinsky J., Opekarova M. (2011) In plant and animal cells, detergent-resistant membranes do not define functional membrane rafts.Plant Cell 23, 1191-1193

Streiblová E., Gryndlerová H., Valda S., Gryndler M. (2010) Tuber aestivum - hypogenous fungus neglected the Czech Republic. Czech Mycology 61, 163-173

Opekarova M., Malinsky J., Tanner W. (2010) Plants and fungi in the era of heterogenous plasma membranes. Plant Biology 12, 94-98

Loibl M., Grossmann G., Stradalova V., Klingl A., Rachel R., Tanner W., Malinsky J., Opekarova M. (2010) C-terminus of Nce102 determines the structure and function of microdomains in the yeast plasma membrane.Eukaryotic Cell 9, 1184-1192

Malinsky J., Opekarova M., Tanner W. (2010) The lateral compartmentalization of the yeast plasma membrane.Yeast 8, 473-478

Novakova Z., Hubackova S., Kosar M., Janderova-Rossmeislova L., Dobrovolna J, Vasicova P., Vancurova M., Horejsi Z., Hozak P., Bartek J., Hodny Z. (2010) Cytokine expression and signaling in drug-induced cellular senescence. Oncogene. 29, 273-284

Groušl T., Ivanov P., Frýdlová I., Vašicová P., Janda F., Vojtová J., Malínská K., Malcová I., Nováková L., Janošková D., Valášek L., Hašek J. (2009) Robust heat shock induces eIF2α-phosphorylation- independent assembly of stress granules containing eIF3 and 40S ribosomal subunits in budding yeast S. cerevisiae. J.Cell.Sci.122, 2078-2088

Frýdlová I., Malcová I., Vašicová P., Hašek J. (2009) Deregulation of DSE1 gene expression results in aberrant budding within the birth scar and CWI pathway activation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Eukaryot.Cell 8, 586-594

Prevorovský M., Groušl T., Stanurová J., Rynes J., Nellen W., Půta F., Folk P. (2009) Cbf11 and Cbf12, the fission yeast CSL proteins, play opposing roles in cell adhesion and coordination of cell and nuclear division. Exp Cell Res. 315, 1533-1547

Jelínek F., Cifra M.,  Pokorný J., Vaniš J., Šimša J., Hašek J., Frýdlová I. (2009) Measurement of electrical oscillations and mechanical vibrations of yeast cells membrane around 1 kHz. Electromagn Biol Med. 28, 223-232

Grossmann G. , Malinsky J., Stahlschmidt W., Loibl M., Weig-Meckl I., Frommer W.B., Opekarová M., Tanner W. (2008) Plasma membrane microdomains regulate turnover of transport proteins in yeast J.Cell. Biol. 183, 1075-1088

Zhang F., Gaur N.A., Hasek J., Kim S-J., Qiu H., Swanson M.J., Hinnebusch A.G. (2008) Disrupting Vesicular Trafficking at the Endosome Attenuates Transcriptional Activation by Gcn4. Mol. Cell. Biol. 28, 6796-6818

Pokorny J., Hašek J., Vanis J., Jelínek F. (2008) Biophysical aspects of cancer-electromagnetic mechanism. Indian J. Exp. Biol. 46, 310-321

Dhonukshe P., Grigoriev I., Fischer R., Tominaga M., Robinson D.G., Hašek J. , Paciorek T., Petrášek J., Seifertová D., Zažímalová E., Gadella Jr T.W.J., Stierhof Y-D., Ueda T., Oiwa K., Akhmanova A., Brock R., Spang A., Friml J. (2008) Auxin transport inhibitors impair vesicle motility and actin cytoskeleton dynamics in diverse eukaryotes. PNAS 105, 4489-4494

Frýdlová I., Basler M., Vašicová P., Malcová I., Hašek J. (2007) Special type of pheromone-induced invasive growth in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Current Genetics 52, 87-96

Grossmann G., Opekarová M., Malínský J., Weig-Meckl I.,Tanner W. (2007) Membrane potential governs lateral segregation of plasma membrane proteins and lipids in yeast. EMBO J. 26, 1-8

Grossmann G., Opekarová M., Nováková L., Stolz J., Tanner W. (2006) Lipid Raft-Based Membrane Compartmentation of a Plant Transport Protein Expressed in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Eukaryotic Cell 5, 945-953

Malcová-Janatová I., Koubek Z., Malínská K., Raková R., Hašek J. (2006) The fission yeast ortholog of eIF3a subunit is not functional in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Folia Microbiologica 51, 555-564

Petříčková K, Hašek J., Benada O., Petříček M. (2006) The WD-40 repeat protein PkwA of Thermomonospora curvata is associated with rapid growth and is localized in the tips of growing hyphae. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 258, 187-193

Jelínek F., Šaroch J., Kučera O., Hašek J., Pokorný J., Jafrezic-Renault N., Ponsonnet L. (2006) Measurement of electromagnetic activity of yeast cells at 42GHz. Radioengineering 15, 1-4

Nguyen P.H., Hašek J., Kohlwein S.D., Romero C., Choi J.H., Vancura A. (2005) Interaction of Pik1p and Sjl1 proteins in membrane trafficking. FEMS Yeast Research 5, 363-371

Hašek, J. (2005) Yeast fluorescence microscopy. p85-96, In: Methods in Molecular Biology, Vol. 313 :Yeast Protocols (W.Xiao ed.) Totowa, NJ: Humana Press Inc.

Jelínek F, Pokorný J, Šaroch J, Hašek J (2005) Experimental investigation of electromagnetic activity of yeast cell at millimeter waves. Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine 24, 301-307

Opekarová M., Malínská K., Nováková L., Tanner W. (2005) Differential effect of phosphatidylethanolamine depletion on raft proteins. Further evidence for diversity of rafts in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1711, 87-95

Hašek J., Peřinka L., Valášek L. (2005) Specification of the monoclonal antibody PK1 reactivity in Chinese hamster ovary cells. Folia Biologica 51, 50-51

Pokorný J., Hašek J., Jelínek F. (2005) Electromagnetic field of microtubules: Effects of transfer of mass particles and electrons. J. Biol. Phys. 31, 501-514

Pokorný J., Hašek J., Jelínek F. (2005) Endogenous Electric Field and Organization of Living Matter. Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine 24, 185-197