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Physiological regulation of yeast cell death in multicellular colonies is triggered by ammonia
     1 Institute of Microbiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 142 20 Prague-4, Czech Republic

    2 Department of Genetics and Microbiology, Charles University in Prague, 116 36 Prague-1, Czech Republic

    Abstract

    The existence of programmed cell death (PCD) in yeast and its significance to simple unicellular organisms is still questioned. However, such doubts usually do not reflect the fact that microorganisms in nature exist predominantly within structured, multicellular communities capable of differentiation, in which a profit of individual cells is subordinated to a profit of populations. In this study, we show that some PCD features naturally appear during the development of multicellular Saccharomyces cerevisiae colonies. An ammonia signal emitted by aging colonies triggers metabolic changes that localize yeast death only in the colony center. The remaining population can exploit the released nutrients and survives. In colonies defective in Sok2p transcription factor that are unable to produce ammonia (Vachova, L., F. Devaux, H. Kucerova, M. Ricicova, C. Jacq, and Z. Palkova. 2004. J. Biol. Chem. 279:37973–37981), death is spread throughout the whole population, thus decreasing the lifetime of the colony. The absence of Mca1p metacaspase or Aif1p orthologue of mammalian apoptosis-inducing factor does not prevent regulated death in yeast colonies.

    Libue Vachova and Zdena Palkova contributed equally to this work.

    Abbreviations used in this paper: ASPase, protease cleaving after aspartate residue; BKP, bromcresol purple; DHE, dihydroethidium; GMA, glycerol medium agar; PCD, programmed cell death; PS, phosphatidylserine; ROS, reactive oxygen species; YCD, yeast cell death.

    Introduction

    Programmed cell death (PCD) in metazoa is essential for the development of differentiated tissues as well as for the harmless removal of aged or impaired cells. Several ways of dying, including apoptosis, apoptosis-like PCD, and necrosis-like PCD, as well as various signaling pathways triggering the PCD were described previously (Leist and Jaattela, 2001). These programs partially share some morphological characteristics and regulations, whereas some other features are specific for a particular mode of death. Usually, each of these processes results in safe cell removal and degradation of macromolecules to basic compounds, avoiding the release of toxic components. There are indications that at least some of the biochemical changes that are typical for mammalian PCDs exist in yeast. Markers of phosphatidylserine (PS) relocalization, DNA breaks, and chromatin fragmentation were described in yeast that were exposed to different extracellular toxic compounds (e.g., acetic acid or H2O2; Madeo et al., 1999; Ludovico et al., 2001) or were producing some proapoptotic proteins of higher metazoa (Shimizu et al., 2000). Such changes also appear both in replicatively (Laun et al., 2001) and chronologically (Herker et al., 2004) aged yeast cells growing in liquid cultures. Both Mca1p, which belongs to metacaspases (Madeo et al., 2002), and Aif1p, an orthologue of mammalian apoptosis-inducing factor (Wissing et al., 2004), were described as playing roles in yeast death. Despite these findings, two principle doubts must be dispelled before accepting mammalian-like apoptosis in yeast. The first one is linked to findings showing that even in metazoa, some of the "apoptotic" death features can also be found in other PCDs. It is also linked to the fact that the use of some reagents that were developed for studies of mammalian apoptosis could be problematic in yeast (e.g., detection of caspase by caspase inhibitors; Wysocki and Kron, 2004). The second doubt concerns the fact that, considering standard liquid yeast cultures as a population of unicellular individuals (Fannjiang et al., 2004), a reason for, and the importance of, a programmed mode of death is not clear.

    In this study, we present evidence that regulated yeast cell death (YCD) exhibiting some PCD features plays an important role in the long-term development and survival of yeast multicellular colonies. In contrast to more or less homogeneous yeast cultures in liquids, populations within colonies growing on solid media have more possibilities to differentiate and to form specialized cell variants in favor of the whole population. Thus, colonies can be considered multicellular microorganisms (Palkova, 2004) that are capable of simple differentiation and of processes attributed, so far, to metazoa.

    Results and discussion

    Aged and newly born cells are located at distinct colony areas

    To analyze the timing of the appearance and localization of dying cells in yeast colonies, we grew giant colonies of Saccharomyces cerevisiae BY4742 strains (Fig. 1 A) on glycerol medium agar (GMA). At the indicated time intervals, we picked up cells from two distinct areas of a colony (the center and outer margin; Fig. 1 B) in order to check the occurrence of features that are characteristic of apoptosis-like YCD, as described previously (Madeo et al., 1997; see Figs. 2 and 3). In initial experiments, we evaluated the basic characteristics of colony growth and cell distribution within colonies (Fig. 1, B–E) to be able to estimate the relative age and fate of cells analyzed in individual samples. First, we monitored colony biomass increments and occupancy areas in individual phases of colony development. The data revealed that the biomass of a colony increases linearly, at least during the first 16 d of cultivation. Also, the radius of expansion at the outer colony margin is almost linear over the entire estimated time interval of 29 d (Fig. 1, B and E). In parallel, we monitored relative age and the possible relocation of cells within a colony during its growth (Fig. 1, B–D). For this purpose, we inoculated giant colonies with cells vitally stained with AlexaFluor488 5-TFP, and, at the time intervals, we quantified the amount of stained cells in the center and in newly grown colony margins. After a quick decrease in the percentage of stained cells as a result of intensive cell growth during the first 4 d, the amount of stained cells in the colony center continued to decrease, but did so slowly (Fig. 1 D). None of the stained (i.e., primal and, thus, older) cells appeared in newly growing margins, even at very early developmental phases (unpublished data). This implies that, during their division, cells are not effectively pushed in a horizontal direction to other colony regions, but instead remain approximately at their original location. Therefore, the samples picked up from outer colony margins should contain substantial portions of relatively young infant cells, whereas the samples picked up from the center are mostly composed of older, chronologically aging cells.

    During colony development, YCD is restricted to specific colony areas

    Fig. 2 summarizes the time course of the stress and death features in colonies; i.e., the presence of reactive oxygen species (ROS), PS relocalization, presence of a protease hydrolyzing (aspartate)2-rhodamine (D2R; a substrate designated for the detection of caspase activity in mammalian cells) (Hug et al., 1999; Fig. S4, available at http://www.jcb.org/cgi/content/full/jcb.200410064/DC1), DNA breaks, changes in chromatin condensation and integrity, and changes in cell morphology. Three relatively early markers (ROS, protease, and DNA breaks) are already perceptible in cells both in the center and at the outer margin of BY4742 colonies at the 5th day and culminate between the 8th and 12th day. Remaining evident in central cells, they later disappear from cells of the outer margin. PS relocalization was found in central and outer margin cells between the 8th and 16th day (Fig. 2 F). However, exact quantification of this relocalization was not possible because of inefficient protoplasting of aged cells. Advanced changes in chromatin (cell type 3; see Fig. 3) develop only in the colony center, and, starting at the 21st day, they are visible in a relatively high number of cells (Fig. 2 D). In addition to these features, the percentage of permeabilized (stained with bromcresol purple [BKP]) dead cells is already low at the outer margin (2.5 ± 0.7%) on the 21st day, whereas it is 10 times higher in the colony center (26.2 ± 3.3%). Again, this documents the different fates of cells in the respective colony areas.

    Most typical cell nuclei changes (visualized by DAPI and TUNEL) and their appearance during BY4742 colony development are summarized in Fig. 3. Both in the center and at the outer margin of colonies, cell type 1 (having a V-shape or a slightly dispersed nucleus with DNA breaks detectable by TUNEL) appears early (already at the 5th day). Later, cell type 2, containing two or more distinctly demarcated pieces of DNA, starts to appear with relatively low frequency (1–5%). These cell types (1 and 2) almost completely disappear from the outer colony margin by the 16th day. In contrast, they remain evident in the central region, where cell types 3 and 4 also gradually appear and then dominate in aged colonies. Cell type 3 seems to be the penultimate stadium of death. It is characterized by the presence of diffuse fragmented (3a) or dispersed chromatin (3c) or by chromatin condensed near the nucleus periphery (3b, present with low frequency, 1–5%), and it is followed by the last visible stadium of YCD ("shrunk" cells, type 4; Figs. 2 and 3).

    Area-specific YCD occurs within yeast colonies independently on yeast metacaspase Mca1p and Aif1p

    It was shown recently that Mca1p metacaspase (Madeo et al., 2002) and yeast Aif1p (Wissing et al., 2004) can function as regulators of yeast apoptosis. Interestingly, the absence of either MCA1 or AIF1 genes has no impact on the normal development of colonies or on the localization of YCD features (unpublished data). Moreover, a fraction of living cells from colonies of the mca1 strain was stained by D2R, indicating the presence of another caspase-like (or another protease cleaving after aspartate residue [ASPase]) activity (Hug et al., 1999; Fig. 4). This agrees with the observation of Herker et al. (2004) that, in chronologically aged mca1 cells, the caspase-like signal is restored. The number of cells that are stainable by D2R is relatively low (up to 5%), but, after the 16th day, it reproducibly differs in the center (2%) and at the outer margins (no cells) of the colony (Fig. 2 B). Additionally, larger numbers of cells in both BY4742 and mca1 colonies seem to possess a nonactive ASPase, which can be activated by heat shock of cells picked up from colonies (Fig. 4 B). Thus, it cannot be excluded that, in colonies, an inactive precursor of ASPase is activated in cells in which some intracellular stress factors (e.g., ROS) reached detrimental levels.

    The fluorochrome-labeled inhibitors of caspases, which were previously used for the monitoring of caspase activity in yeast (Madeo et al., 2002), appear to be unsuitable for the detection of potential caspase activity in colonies because they nonspecifically stain not only permeabilized cells, as described recently (Wysocki and Kron, 2004), but also stain intact cells that are probably still living (Fig. S2, available at http://www.jcb.org/cgi/content/full/jcb.200410064/DC1).

    Specific localization of YCD in colonies is dependent on ammonia signaling

    The preceding data clearly indicate that both old cells in the center as well as newly grown cells at the outer margins exhibit stress and death features (e.g., ROS, ASPase, and DNA breaks) until the 11th or 12th day. Thereafter, the dying process continues only in the central cells, whereas the newly born outer cells appear to gain the ability to escape YCD. The timing of this turn nicely correlates with the developmental transition of colonies to the ammonia-producing phase (Figs. 2 and 3; Palkova and Vachova, 2003) that is connected with the reprogramming of cellular metabolism, enabling an escape from oxidative stress (Palkova et al., 2002). This finding provides interesting implications for a role of ammonia signaling in colony differentiation and in control of yeast death in particular colony areas. To test this hypothesis, we repeated all experiments with colonies formed by strains defective in Sok2p transcription factor that do not produce significant amounts of ammonia and that exhibit defects in long-term survival (Vachova et al., 2004). Although the growth and time course distributions of cells within sok2 colonies are similar to those in BY4742 colonies (Fig. 1, B–E), the profile of the appearance of dying markers significantly differs. Particularly, sok2 cells located at the outer margin lack an ability to escape YCD at later developmental phases; i.e., almost all dying markers are perceptible in these cells throughout the entire investigated period (Figs. 2 and 3). Additionally, the proportion of cells with presumably intact cell walls but with reduced cellular content (shrunk cells) rapidly increases in the entire sok2 colony after the 12th day (Fig. 2 E). Some of these cells are completely empty, whereas others contain pieces of cytosol, vacuoles (as indicated by yeast vacuole membrane marker MDY-64 staining; unpublished data), and fragments of DNA (stage 4; Fig. 3). The high proportion of these cells (30% after the 16th day) indicates that YCD is accelerated in sok2 colonies as compared with BY4742 colonies (Fig. 2), thus explaining the overall lower percentage of sok2 cells that occurs in less developed YCD stages (Fig. 2). A relatively moderate increase (twofold) in the number of D2R-stained sok2 cells evoked by the heat shock (Fig. 4 B) suggests that sok2 cells probably already passed over the stage of ASPase activation.

    Faster sok2 death is also documented by the fact that already at the 21st day, the sok2 colony possesses only 38.5 ± 6.2% of cells that are able to form new progeny as compared with the BY4742 colony of the same age. Also, there is about a six-time higher percentage of BKP-positive dead cells in sok2 outer colony margins (12.1 ± 1%) than in that of BY4742 (2.5 ± 0.7%).

    Model of YCD timing, its regulation, and importance for colony differentiation and growth

    On the basis of the preceding data, we propose a model of events occurring within yeast colonies that appear to be crucial for colony development and long-term survival (Fig. 5 A). The progressively increasing level of oxidative stress during the first acidic phase (Palkova et al., 2002) causes an induction of YCD throughout the whole colony. However, before stress reaches the detrimental level and before YCD proceeds to later stages, cells in the colony dispatch an ammonia signal. Then, ammonia induces metabolic changes, enabling an escape from oxidative stress (Palkova et al., 2002) and allowing at least some of the cells (e.g., newly born cells at the periphery) to escape YCD and to launch new, healthy generations. Conversely, a majority of cells located in the central, and probably more stressed, parts of the colony proceeds to die. However, even there, some newly born cells appear in aged colonies (starting at the 21st day of development; unpublished data). For cells in a colony that are unable to emit and accept ammonia signals (e.g., sok2 cells), they are also not able to modify their metabolism (Vachova et al., 2004), and the stress gradually increases throughout the entire colony, including the newly grown regions. In such a case, there is no proper differentiation, and death spreads throughout the whole colony, including the peripheral younger cells and their progeny (Fig. 5). Moreover, an increasing stress level, which is already perceptible in young sok2 colonies (Vachova et al., 2004), can both accelerate the regulated YCD process and induce necrotic-like death in parallel. The first is indicated by a higher level of empty cells observed in sok2 colonies (Fig. 2 E), and the second by an increased number of destabilized and disrupted cells in sok2 colonies, as described previously (Vachova et al., 2004).

    Contrary to uncontrolled cell lysis, regulated YCD should allow the safe elimination of cells injured by stress from central colony parts, thus preventing a release of toxic cellular components until they are degraded to "safe" simple compounds. These, consequently, could serve as important nutrient sources that enable the growth of healthy cells (e.g., those located at the periphery). To prove this, we compared the accrual of the outer margin of a colony, from which we removed its whole central part at the time when advanced YCD changes start to appear (16–19 d), with that of the normal colony (Fig. 5 B). The data clearly indicate that the removal of central cells reduces the accrual of the outer margin to 75.3 ± 8.1%.

    To summarize, the presented data indicate that yeast death exhibiting some features of higher eukaryotic PCD naturally occurs in S. cerevisiae colonies. This YCD is dependent on the time periods of colony development and on the position of cells within the multicellular colony. Cells in aging colonies reach YCD spontaneously, probably responding to cumulative intracellular stress. Contrary to apoptosis-like processes that were described previously (Herker et al., 2004), YCD within colonies is the first example of regulated yeast death that is not uniformly spread in a population, but instead is located at specific areas of a colony. This differentiation appears to be regulated by ammonia signaling, which is responsible for changes that locally prevent YCD progress. Regulated YCD can prevent a release of toxic cellular components, thus avoiding necrotic collapse of the colony, and can also provide nutrients for healthy cells. Therefore, regulated cell death in yeast colonies (and possibly in other multicellular communities of microorganisms) can be as important for their development as are apoptosis and related processes that occur within metazoa.

    Materials and methods

    Yeast strains and media

    The wild-type strain S. cerevisiae BY4742 (MAT, his31, leu20, lys20, and ura30) and the isogenic mutants sok2, mca1, and aif1 are from the European Saccharomyces cerevisiae Archive for Functional Analysis collection. Colonies were grown on GMA (3% glycerol, 1% yeast extract, and 2% agar) or on GMA–BKP (GMA with 0.01% BKP) at 28°C (Palkova and Forstova, 2000). In each experiment, a large number of parallel plates was inoculated, with six giant colonies per plate (Fig. 1 A). This always allowed us to analyze cells from a colony, the development of which was not influenced by preceding manipulation (e.g., by the previous removal of some cells).

    Monitoring of a colony accrual during its growth on GMA

    Colonies growing on GMA were photographed at specified time points using an integrating 3CCD color camera (model HV-C20; Hitachi Denshi), and the final picture was created by the overlaying of all photos after colony edge highlighting in Adobe Photoshop 7. A similar procedure was used to determine the effect of the removal of central parts of the colony on subsequent outer margin expansion (Fig. 5 B). On seven plates with six colonies, all cells from the center of two corner colonies were carefully removed, and the remaining two untreated corner colonies were used as controls. The expansion was compared after 6 d.

    Monitoring of relative age and possible relocation of cells within giant colonies

    Giant colonies were inoculated with cells vitally stained with AlexaFluor488 5-TFP (AlexaFluor488 carboxylic acid, 2,3,5,6-tetrafluorophenyl ester amine-reactive probe; Molecular Probes). The labeling was performed according to the manufacturer's manual. Cells were picked up from colonies at various time intervals and were resuspended in 10 mM MES and 1 M sorbitol. The percentage of stained cells in the center and in newly grown outer colony margins was quantified using fluorescence microscopy.

    Staining of YCD markers

    Cells were picked up from the colony center and from outer colony margins (as indicated in Fig. 1 B) and were resuspended in 10 mM MES, pH 6, and 1 M sorbitol.

    Staining for ROS with dihydroethidium (DHE; Sigma Aldrich), which preferentially stains superoxide radicals, was performed as previously described (Madeo et al., 1999). DHE was added to the final concentration of 5 μg/ml, and samples were incubated for 10 min at room temperature.

    ASPase was detected by staining with D2R (CaspSCREEN Flow Cytometric Apoptosis Detection Kit; BioVision), the nonfluorescent substrate, which is cleaved to green fluorescent monosubstituted rhodamine 110 and free rhodamine (Fig. S4). Cells were incubated with D2R at 30°C for 30 min. To monitor protease activation by heat shock, cells were picked up from colonies and heated for 5 min at 60°C in D2R incubation buffer before ASPase detection.

    Staining of DNA breaks with TUNEL assay was performed as described previously (Madeo et al., 1999), but in Eppendorf tubes. DNA ends were labeled using the in situ Cell Death Detection Kit, POD (Roche Diagnostics). All buffers and solutions were supplemented with 1.2 M sorbitol.

    For the detection of chromatin changes, cells were stained with 0.25 μg/ml DAPI as described previously (Hasek and Streiblova, 1996).

    PS relocalization was visualized with Annexin V/propidium iodide (ApoAlert Annexin V and Apo2.7-PE kit; BD Biosciences) as described previously (Madeo et al., 1997). In brief, after cell protoplasting (5.5% glusulase [Boehringer Mannheim] and 15 U/ml lyticase [Sigma Aldrich] for 2 h at 28°C), protoplasts were stained with Annexin V–FITC and propidium iodide for 20 min at room temperature. All solutions contain 1.2 M sorbitol.

    Cells were viewed under a fluorescence microscope using filter N2.1 (DHE and propidium iodide red stainings), I3 filter (protease and Annexin V green stainings), and A filter (DAPI staining).

    Determination of dead and clonogenic cells

    Permeabilized dead cells were stained with BKP (entering only permeabilized cells) in colonies in situ during their growth on GMA–BKP. Cells were resuspended in 10 mM MES, pH 6, and 1 M sorbitol and were viewed under a fluorescence microscope using filter N2.1. At least 300 cells in five parallels were evaluated in each of the two independent experiments. For clonogenic cell determination, the whole colony was resuspended in water, the concentration of wet biomass was adjusted to 10 mg/ml (108 cells/ml), and cells were plated after dilution on YPG (1% yeast extract, 1% peptone, 2% glucose, and 2% agar).

    Fluorescence microscopy and image acquisition

    We used a fluorescence microscope (model DMR; Leica) equipped with a 100x/1.3 oil objective (model HCX PL fluotar; Leica), a high performance CCD camera (model 4912; Cohu), and Lucia 32 software version 4.50 (Laboratory Imaging).

    Online supplemental material

    Supplemental materials and methods describe the problems connected with the use of fluorochrome-labeled inhibitors of caspases for caspase detection in yeast and the data supporting the use of D2R caspase substrate. Fig. S1 shows examples of caspase inhibitors. Table S1 shows staining of S. cerevisiae cells with different combinations of FLICA and FITC. Fig. S2 shows a comparison of staining with FLICA and FITC and counterstaining with PI. Fig. S3 shows staining of dead cells with FITC and FITC-VAD-FMK. Fig. S4 shows staining of active ASPase in cells from yeast colonies with D2R substrate. Online supplemental material is available at http://www.jcb.org/cgi/content/full/jcb.200410064/DC1.

    Acknowledgments

    We thank V. Zavada for critical reading of the manuscript and V. Haislova for technical assistance.

    This work was supported by grants from the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (204/05/0294 and 525/05/0297) and from the Ministry of Education (AV0Z50200510 and LC531). Z. Palkova is a European Molecular Biology Organization Young Investigator.

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