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. 2021 Dec 20;204(1):35.
doi: 10.1007/s00203-021-02708-6.

Extracellular pH and high concentration of potassium regulate the primary necrosis in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

V A Bidiuk  1 , A I Alexandrov  1 , A Ya Valiakhmetov  2
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Extracellular pH and high concentration of potassium regulate the primary necrosis in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

V A Bidiuk et al. Arch Microbiol. .

Abstract

Extracellular pH and concentration of K+ as well as their gradient across the plasma membrane have a significant impact on the physiology of the yeast cell, but their role in cell death has not been thoroughly investigated. Here we observed that increasing extracellular pH, as well as supplementing with K+ ions had a mitigating effect on cell death in yeast occurring under several conditions. The first is sugar induced cell death (SICD), and the second is death caused by several specific gene deletions, which have been recently identified in a systematic screen. It was shown that in both cases, primary necrosis is suppressed at neutral pH. SICD was also inhibited by the protonophore dinitrophenol (DNP) and 150 mM extracellular K+, with the latter condition also benefiting survival of cell dying due to gene mutations. In the case of SICD, these effects could not be mitigated by perturbing known pH-dependent signaling pathways, and thus are likely to be realized via direct effects on the plasma membrane potential. Thus, (a)-we show that stabilization of external pH at a neutral level can suppress different types of primary necrosis, and (b)-we suggest that changes to the cellular membrane potential can play a central role in yeast cell death caused by different factors.

Keywords: Extracellular pH; Membrane potential; Necrosis; Sugar-induced cell death; Yeast.

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