Comparison of the transcriptional response to ethanol in laboratory and wild yeast strains

An S288c-derived lab strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae has lower ethanol resistance than either the vineyard strain M22 or the oak strain YPS163. We performed a 60 minute time-course experiment in the presence of 5% ethanol and compared the transcriptional response to ethanol between strains. We additionally analyzed the time-point of maximal response (30 min.) in wild type cells, YPS163 msn2D, and YPS163 hap1D cells. The genomic expression response to 5% ethanol stress was measured in 3 different strain backgrounds, and 2 different mutant backgrounds. Basal gene expression was also compared in two non-lab strains to the S288c reference. A single replicate was performed for the time-course experiment. All of the single time-point experiments were performed using biological triplicates.