The Natural Product Resveratrol Inhibits Yeast Cell Separation by Extensively Modulating the Transcriptional Landscape and Reprogramming the Intracellular Metabolome

PLoS One. 2016 Mar 7;11(3):e0150156. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0150156. eCollection 2016.

Abstract

An increasing number of studies have shown that the promising compound resveratrol treats multiple diseases, such as cancer and aging; however, the resveratrol mode-of-action (MoA) remains largely unknown. Here, by virtue of multiple omics approaches, we adopted fission yeast as a model system with the goal of dissecting the common MoA of the anti-proliferative activity of resveratrol. We found that the anti-proliferative activity of resveratrol is mainly due to its unique role of inhibiting the separation of sister cells, similar phenotype with the C2H2 zinc finger transcription factor Ace2 knock-out strain. Microarray analysis shown that resveratrol has extensive impact on the fission yeast transcription levels. Among the changed gene's list, 40% of up-regulated genes are Core Environmental Stress Responses genes, and 57% of the down-regulated genes are periodically expressed. Moreover, resveratrol leverages the metabolome, which unbalances the intracellular pool sizes of several classes of amino acids, nucleosides, sugars and lipids, thus reflecting the remodulated metabolic networks. The complexity of the resveratrol MoA displayed in previous reports and our work demonstrates that multiple omics approaches must be applied together to obtain a complete picture of resveratrol's anti-proliferative function.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Biological Products / pharmacology*
  • Cell Division / drug effects
  • Cell Proliferation / drug effects
  • Gene Knockout Techniques
  • Intracellular Space / drug effects
  • Intracellular Space / metabolism*
  • Metabolome / drug effects*
  • Phenotype
  • Resveratrol
  • Schizosaccharomyces / cytology*
  • Schizosaccharomyces / drug effects
  • Schizosaccharomyces / genetics*
  • Schizosaccharomyces / metabolism
  • Schizosaccharomyces pombe Proteins / genetics
  • Stilbenes / pharmacology*
  • Transcription Factors / deficiency
  • Transcription Factors / genetics
  • Transcription, Genetic / drug effects*

Substances

  • Ace2 protein, S pombe
  • Biological Products
  • Schizosaccharomyces pombe Proteins
  • Stilbenes
  • Transcription Factors
  • Resveratrol

Grants and funding

This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (30900018), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (20090450651, 201003240) Shanghai Postdoctoral Science Foundation (08R214105) awarded to Zhe Wang. This work was also supported by National Key Basic Research Program of China (2013CB531603 and 2010CB912602) to KeKe Huo. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.