Chaperone condensates buffer the heat shock response against pleiotropic inputs
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Abstract
Stress response pathways can be specific, dedicated to one stimulus, or pleiotropic, funneling distinct perturbations into a shared program. The heat shock response (HSR), the Hsf1-driven transcriptional program, has been linked to numerous stresses, suggesting it is pleiotropic. Here we find that high amplitude HSR activation is specific to heat shock in budding yeast. Heat shock activates the HSR through a condensate cascade in which orphan ribosomal proteins condense with Sis1 and Hsp70, titrating these chaperones away from their repressive interactions with Hsf1, triggering Hsf1 condensation with the transcriptional machinery, and activating HSR genes. Other stressors likewise drive Sis1 and Hsp70 condensation, redeploying Sis1 to stimulus-specific subcellular sites. However, chaperone condensation is not sufficient to activate the HSR. Sis1 and Hsp70 condense under conditions in which the HSR remains inactive, and Sis1 depletion increases HSR activation under all conditions except heat shock. These results suggest that chaperone condensates buffer the HSR, setting a threshold for activation and imparting specificity.Keywords
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