Response of Blastocladiella emersonii to hypoxia, iron deprivation and geldanamycin treatment followed by hypoxia.

Due to its aquatic saprophytic lifestyle, the fungus Blastocladiella emersonii seems to be adapted to low aerated environments and thus can be an interesting model of study of the hypoxic stress response. Iron deprivation, a hypoxia-mimicking stimulus due to HIF-1 stabilization, and geldanamycin, that causes HIF-1 depletion by HSP90 inhibition, are helpful parameters to find an evidence of an oxygen-dependent regulatory mechanism in B. emersonii similar to the metazoan HIF-1 pathway. Direct transcript comparison between cells grown under normoxic conditions (70%sat. O2 in air) and cells submitted to oxygen deprivation (direct and gradual) and iron (II) deprivation. It was also compared transcripts of cells submitted to direct 1-hour hypoxia (1%sat. O2) with cells treated with geldanamycin for 1 hour, followed to 1-hour hypoxia (1%sat. O2). There are at least 3 biological replicates (independent harvest) and 2 technical replicates of each array (L - left and R - right).