A push-pull system of repressors matches levels of glucose transporters to extracellular glucose in budding yeast
Montano-Gutierrez, L. F.; Sturrock, M.; Farquhar, I. L.; Correia, K.; Shahrezaei, V.; Swain, P. S.
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A common cellular task is to match gene expression dynamically to a range of concentrations of a regulatory molecule. Studying glucose transport in budding yeast, we determine mechanistically how such matching occurs for seven hexose transporters. By combining time-lapse microscopy with mathematical modelling, we find that levels of transporters are history-dependent and are regulated by a push-pull system comprising two types of repressors. Repression by these two types varies with glucose in opposite ways, and not only matches the expression of transporters by their affinity to a range of glucose concentrations, but also the expression of some to how glucose is changing. We argue that matching is favoured by a rate-affinity trade-off and that the regulatory system allows yeast to import glucose rapidly enough to starve competitors. Matching expression to a pattern of input is fundamental, and we believe that push-pull repression is widespread.
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