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In the present study, we demonstrate that cysteine and homocysteine, but not glutathione, inhibit yeast growth in a concentration-dependent manner. Using deletion strains (str2\u0394 and str4\u0394) we show that cysteine and homocysteine independently inhibit yeast growth. Transcriptional profiling of yeast treated with cysteine and homocysteine revealed that genes coding for antioxidant enzymes like glutathione peroxidase, catalase and superoxide dismutase were down-regulated. Furthermore, transcriptional response to homocysteine did not show any similarity to the response to H2O2. We also failed to detect induction of reactive oxygen species in homocysteine- and cysteine-treated cells, using fluorogenic probes. These results indicate that homocysteine- and cysteine-induced growth defect is not due to the oxidative stress. However, we found an increase in the expression of KAR2 (karyogamy 2) gene, a well-known marker of ER (endoplasmic reticulum) stress and also observed HAC1 cleavage in homocysteine- and cysteinetreated cells, which indicates that homocysteine- and cysteine-mediated growth defect may probably be attributed to ER stress. Transcriptional profiling also revealed that genes involved in one-carbon metabolism, glycolysis and serine biosynthesis were up-regulated on exogenous addition of cysteine and homocysteine, suggesting that cells try to reduce the intracellular concentration of thiols by up-regulating the genes involved in their metabolism.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1042\/bj20051411","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2006,4,28]],"date-time":"2006-04-28T18:24:37Z","timestamp":1146248677000},"page":"61-69","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1042\/crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":72,"title":["Homocysteine- and cysteine-mediated growth defect is not associated with induction of oxidative stress response genes in yeast"],"prefix":"10.1042","volume":"396","author":[{"given":"Arun","family":"Kumar","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Mall Road, Delhi-110007, India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Lijo","family":"John","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Mall Road, Delhi-110007, India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Md.\u00a0Mahmood","family":"Alam","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Mall Road, Delhi-110007, India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ankit","family":"Gupta","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Mall Road, Delhi-110007, India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Gayatri","family":"Sharma","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Mall Road, Delhi-110007, India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Beena","family":"Pillai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Mall Road, Delhi-110007, India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Shantanu","family":"Sengupta","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Mall Road, Delhi-110007, India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"288","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2006,4,26]]},"reference":[{"key":"2021112213071391400_B1","article-title":"Homocysteine in Health and Disease","author":"Carmel","year":"2001"},{"key":"2021112213071391400_B2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"363","DOI":"10.7326\/0003-4819-131-5-199909070-00008","article-title":"Homocyst(e)ine and cardiovascular disease: a critical review of the epidemiologic evidence","volume":"131","author":"Eikelboom","year":"1999","journal-title":"Ann. 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