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Karen L Hinkle1, Darlene Olsen2
1Department of Biology, Norwich University, 158 Harmon Drive, Northfield, VT 05663 USA.
Abstract:
The pesticide 3-trifluoromethyl-4-nitrophenol (TFM) is used to control sea lamprey populations in the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain. Little is known about the effects of this pesticide on gene expression in eukaryotic species. This study used microarray analysis to determine the effects of short term, high dose TFM exposure on gene expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Yeast grown in standard glucose-containing media showed significant variation in gene expression in pathways related to cytoplasmic translation with the majority of these genes being downregulated. These findings were supported by the analysis of a similar but glucose-free experiment revealing that these cytoplasmic translation genes, mostly ribosomal subunit expressing genes, were similarly downregulated. The repression of the ribosomal subunit genes suggests that TFM exposure, regardless of glucose availability, evokes features of the environmental stress response in yeast.
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