Related Experiment Video
Updated: Oct 10, 2026

In Vivo Monitoring of Transcriptional Activity During Metabolic Transition Using a Bioluminescent Reporter in Yeast
Published on: February 21, 2025
Heme-mediated transcriptional control in Kluyveromyces lactis
M González-Domínguez1, M A Freire-Picos, E Ramil
1Dpto Biología Celular y Molecular, Universidad de A Coruña, Spain.
Abstract:
Heme is of great importance in oxygen-dependent biological functions, since it serves as a prosthetic group for many proteins related to oxygen-binding, oxidative damage prevention and electron transport. It also regulates gene expression through the action of specific transcriptional regulatory factors. In this paper, we present an analysis of heme-dependent transcriptional regulation of several respiration-related genes in an aerobic respiratory yeast, Kluyveromyces lactis. We also report that the KlHEM13 gene, encoding the heme biosynthetic enzyme coproporphyrinogen oxidase, is under heme and oxygen transcriptional regulation, thereby controlling the synthesis of the effector, heme. KlHEM13 is induced during hypoxia, which represents the first report of a transcriptionally regulated gene with this behaviour in K. lactis.
Related Concept Videos
Prokaryotic Transcriptional Activators and Repressors
Transcription of prokaryotic...
Prokaryotic Transcriptional Activators and Repressors
Transcription of prokaryotic...
Transcription Attenuation in Prokaryotes
There are several different mechanisms used to attenuate transcription. In ribosome mediated...
Eukaryotic Transcription Inhibitors
Eukaryotic transcription inhibitors usually contain two distinct domains, a DNA...
General Transcription Factors
Operons

