Microorganisms have evolved plastic growth control mechanisms that ensure adaptation to dynamical environmental changes, including those that arise from their proliferation (such as nutrients limitations and cellular secretion in the medium). During its natural life cycle, budding yeast may undergo several metabolic transitions from fermentation to respiration, followed by entry into a reversible state of proliferation arrest known as quiescence (De Virgilio, 2012; Gray et al., 2004; Sun and Gresham, 2021; Miles et al., 2021). Despite quiescence being an essential part of the microorganism life cycle that ensures cell survival over prolonged periods (Fontana et al., 2010), it has received little attention compared to the analysis of biological processes in proliferative contexts.

Quiescent cells strongly differ from proliferating cells in terms of metabolic activity and gene expression (Gray et al., 2004; Miles et al., 2013). They also display a large body of structural rearrangements in the cytoskeleton, mitochondria, nuclear organization, and the appearance of protein superassemblies, clusters, and aggregates (Sagot and Laporte, 2019; Sun and Gresham, 2021). So far, the complex and entangled regulatory processes controlling this particular state’s establishment remain poorly understood. In particular, the detailed sequence of events describing how the dynamics of metabolic cues during the natural life cycle drive the entry into quiescence is still missing.

Also, an essential feature of microbial ecosystems in the stationary phase (SP) is the existence of phenotypic variability (Campbell et al., 2016; Avery, 2006; Holland et al., 2014; Labhsetwar et al., 2013; Ackermann, 2015; Bagamery et al., 2020; Solopova et al., 2014) and history-dependent behaviors that lead to fate divergences (Balaban et al., 2004; Cerulus et al., 2018). In quiescence, the coexistence of heterogeneous cell populations has been previously reported (Allen et al., 2006; Laporte et al., 2018a). Nevertheless, how phenotypic diversity emerges in a clonal population during a natural life cycle remains elusive (Figure 1—figure supplement 1A). Bridging this gap requires performing longitudinal tracking of individual cells over time. However, an important technical obstacle is that it must be done in population-scale growth experiments to allow cell proliferation to have a collective impact on the environment.

Previous work has used an abrupt transition to glucose starvation to study how cells reorganize upon entry into the SP in various biological contexts (Munder et al., 2016; Bagamery et al., 2020). While this experimental framework may be helpful for studying standard properties of cells undergoing proliferation arrest, the results cannot be transposed to the context of entering quiescence during an undisturbed life cycle, in which cells undergo a sequence of metabolic transitions and feedback continuously into the composition of their environment. Indeed, an essential condition to reach a bona fide quiescence state (i.e., the ability to recover proliferation after prolonged arrest) is that cells must experience a respiration phase (RP) to accumulate carbohydrates, which does not occur upon abrupt glucose starvation (Ocampo et al., 2012; Li et al., 2013). In addition, different nutrient limitations lead to distinct quiescent states (Klosinska et al., 2011). Therefore, it is essential to develop novel methods that capture the true dynamics of cell transitions as they may occur in their ecological niche (Miles et al., 2021).

Here, we report the development of a microfluidic platform for single-cell ecology, allowing continuous tracking of individual cells’ fate during an unperturbed full life cycle (up to 10 days). Using a fluorescent reporter of internal pH (Mouton et al., 2020; Miesenböck et al., 1998; Dechant et al., 2010; Munder et al., 2016), we observe that the diauxic shift (DS) witnesses a cell fate divergence, where a minority of cells experience a metabolic crash similar to that observed upon an abrupt starvation (Bagamery et al., 2020). Interestingly, our long-term tracking capabilities further reveal that these cells experience a premature yet reversible induction of cellular reorganizations that coincide with limited survival. In contrast, respiration-competent cells experience fluctuations in internal pH in sync with metabolic transitions that drive successive waves of cellular reorganizations and a stochastic switch to a glass transition of the cytoplasm long after proliferation cessation. Altogether, our analysis reveals how metabolic changes encountered by yeast cells during an unperturbed life cycle coordinate the temporal control of complex cellular reorganizations.

To track individual cell behavior during an unperturbed life cycle, we set up a device composed of a 25 ml liquid yeast culture (YPD medium) connected to a microfluidic device for single-cell observation (Figure 1A, Figure 1—figure supplement 1B and C, 1F). Thanks to a closed recirculation loop, individual cells trapped in the microfluidic device could be imaged over time while experiencing the same environmental changes as the population liquid culture. To prevent clogging in the microfluidic device due to the high cell density in the culture (up to 10⁹ cells/ml), we designed a filtration device based on inertial differential migration (Kuntaegowdanahalli and Papautsky, 2008). Using this technique, cells were rerouted back to the liquid culture before entering the microfluidic device (Figure 1A). Optical density (OD) and fluorescence measurements revealed a filtration efficiency superior to 99%, reducing the concentration of cells entering the device by two orders of magnitude (Figure 1—figure supplement 1– S1E), and allowing us to image the cells over up to 10 days. We also checked that the same filtration device could sort S. pombe cells with 92% efficiency, thus highlighting the versatility of the methodology.

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Using this methodology, we successfully recapitulated the successive proliferation phases occurring at the population level upon carbon source exhaustion with single-cell resolution (Richards, 1928), namely: a rapid exponential growth (doubling time = 84 ± 12 min) corresponding to glucose fermentation (referred to as the fermentation phase or FP in the following, from t = 0 to t = 5.5 hr), followed by a sharp growth arrest, or DS (from t = 5.5 to t = 13.9 hr); then, the resumption of a slow proliferative regime (doubling time = 307 ± 52 min) which is associated with the use of ethanol as a carbon source for a respiratory metabolism (RP, from t = 13.9 to t = 31.6 hr) and a final cell proliferation cessation occurring upon carbon source exhaustion, leading to SP, see Figure 1B, C and Figure 1—video 1.Figure 1—source data 1 . To make sure that this growth pattern was not specific to the BY strain used for this experiment, we also made population growth measurements in various prototrophic and auxotrophic strains, and obtained similar results (Figure 1—figure supplement 2). To quantify the data further, the transition times between each metabolic phase were determined using piecewise exponential fits (Figure 1—figure supplement 1 S1G). By refeeding the cells with fresh YPD medium after 10 days, we observed that up to ~80 % of them reentered the cell cycle within 5 hr (Figure 1—figure supplement 1 -S1H). This result confirmed the reversibility of cell proliferation arrest and testified that cells establish bona fide quiescence in our growth conditions (Laporte et al., 2018b).

A drop in medium pH has long been reported to coincide with the resources’ exhaustion during microbial growth (Burtner et al., 2009). Yet, how internal pH evolves over an entire life cycle has never been investigated. To address this, we used the ratiometric fluorescent probe of cytosolic pH, pHluorin (Figure 1D, Miesenböck et al., 1998; Mouton et al., 2020), which was calibrated to display the actual internal pH (Figure 1D–F and Figure 1—figure supplement 1– S1I). Using this readout, we observed that the pH, which was initially around 7.7, started to decline synchronously in all cells during the F phase (Figure 1E, F and Figure 1—video 2). At the onset of the DS, most cells (88%, N = 466) abruptly reached a plateau (pH ~6.9, blue lines on Figure 1F) followed by a slight pH increase (up to pH ~7.2) that coincided with entry into a respiratory metabolism. In contrast, a minority (12%, N = 466) of cells (Figure 1E and red lines on Figure 1F) experienced a further drop in pH down to about 5.8 during the DS. In this subpopulation, the fluorescence signal progressively disappeared, precluding monitoring the internal pH for more than 20 hr in a reliable manner.

In cells with high internal pH during the DS, the pH gradually declined after reaching a local maximum during the R phase. These cells then experienced a sharp pH drop down to about 5.8, which occurred at very heterogeneous times during the SP, unlike the cells with an early pH drop. Altogether, these observations revealed unprecedented dynamics of internal pH during the yeast life cycle: pH variations appeared to be in sync with the sequence of proliferation phases, suggesting that internal pH is a crucial marker of the cells’ metabolic status during their life cycle.

These continuous pH measurements also unraveled a divergence in cell fate at the DS, leading to the early emergence of heterogeneity within the population, in line with previous observations made upon abrupt starvation (Bagamery et al., 2020). This phenomenon was also observed in a W303 strain (Figure 1—figure supplement 3). Recent studies have shown that the activation of respiration was a crucial metabolic response to survive glucose deprivation (Weber et al., 2020), enabling carbohydrate storage (Ocampo et al., 2012) and long-term viability (Laporte et al., 2018a). Interestingly, it was shown that a respiration defect was naturally observed in about 10 % of cells upon proliferation cessation following glucose exhaustion (Laporte et al., 2018a). Hence to further characterize whether differences in metabolic status drove the emergence of divergent cell fates at the DS, first, we quantified cellular proliferation over time using single-cell area measurements. We found that cells with a late pH drop resumed growth and roughly doubled their biomass during the R phase (blue lines on Figure 2A and Figure 2—source data 1) in agreement with Figure 1C.

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In contrast, cells that experienced an early pH drop (red lines on Figure 2A) did not recover during the R phase, suggesting that they could not transition to respiratory metabolism. Indeed, these cells did not resume growth when adding lactate (i.e., a nonfermentable carbon source) to the medium neither (Figure 2—figure supplement 1A). However, most of them were still viable after 3 days in SP, even though their survival declined faster than adapting cells (Figure 2B).

Second, to assess cellular respiratory function, we used the mitochondrial Ilv3-mCherry marker (Laporte et al., 2018a). Whereas the mitochondrial network architecture appeared similar (i.e., tubular) in all cells before the DS, proliferating cells in the R phase displayed a fragmented mitochondria phenotype typical of respiring cells (blue cell, Figure 2C). In contrast, nonproliferating cells underwent a globularization of their mitochondrial network (red cell, Figure 2C and Figure 2—video 1). We further quantified the mitochondrial network’s reorganization dynamics by computing a custom aggregation index that discriminates globularized versus tubular and fragmented mitochondria (Figure 2D and Figure 2—source data 1, see Materials and methods for details). Based on the clear distinction in the aggregation index between adapting and nonadapting cells, we measured that about ~10 % of the cells could not transition to a respiratory metabolism (at t = 12 hr post-DS, Figure 2D), in agreement with previous findings (Laporte et al., 2018a). Importantly, this quantification revealed that the mitochondrial globularization in nonadapting cells was temporally closely associated with the DS since it started as early as 1h20 (p < 0.05) after its onset (Figure 2C,D). Altogether, these results demonstrate that proliferating and nonproliferating cells experienced divergent cell fates at the DS based on their ability to switch to respiration; hence, they were referred to as respiration positive (R+) and negative (R−), respectively. Also, these results suggest that the inability of R− cells to activate a respiratory metabolism was either triggered by this metabolic challenge or, alternatively, preexisted the DS, knowing that respiratory deficient cells (i.e., ρ− cells) are common in the BY background (yet less so in W303 strains) due to the genetic instability of mitochondrial DNA (Dimitrov et al., 2009).

To discriminate between these two hypotheses, we used the mitochondrial localization marker Tom70-GFP (Tom70 is a protein of the outer mitochondrial membrane) and a preCox4-mCherry fusion (preCox4 is a nuclear-encoded mitochondrial protein that is imported only in functional mitochondria Veatch et al., 2009), to assess the cells’ ability to respire (Fehrmann et al., 2013). Using these markers, we first checked that all R+ cells maintained a functional preCox4-mCherry import from fermentation to respiration (i.e., they were ρ+ cells, Figure 2E). Then, we observed that among the R− cells, only a minority (i.e., 19%) had a dysfunctional mitochondrial import before the DS, indicating that they had a preexisting respiratory deficiency (see ρ− cells in Figure 2E). In contrast, the vast majority of R− cells (81%) transitioned from ρ+ to ρ− during the DS. This result demonstrates that the respiration defect observed in R− cells occurred concomitantly with the environmental switch and was therefore not due to a preexisting condition. Also, we showed that the progeny quite faithfully inherited it (inheritance index = 0.52, i.e., is smaller than 1, see Figure 2—figure supplement 1B and Material and methods for details). Altogether, these observations supported a scenario in which a fate divergence occurred early at the onset of the DS, where R+ cells quickly switched to a respiratory metabolism, while R− cells failed to do so.

As numerous cellular reorganizations occur during entry into quiescence (Sagot and Laporte, 2019), we sought to quantitatively determine how they are coordinated with metabolic transitions during the life cycle. Indeed, the metabolism controls internal cellular pH, which in turn can induce significant physicochemical changes in the proteome, such as protein aggregation and phase transition (Munder et al., 2016; Dechant et al., 2010). To do this, we monitored the dynamics of formation of supramolecular bodies associated with quiescence or the response to starvation: P-bodies formation (using the Dhh1-GFP fusion Beckham et al., 2008; Balagopal and Parker, 2009; Mugler et al., 2016), metabolic or regulatory enzymes prone to aggregation (Gln1-GFP and Cdc28-GFP) (Narayanaswamy et al., 2009; Petrovska et al., 2014; Shah et al., 2014), actin bodies formation (Abp1-GFP) (Sagot et al., 2006), and proteasome storage granules (PSGs, using the Scl1-GFP fusion) (Laporte et al., 2008; Peters et al., 2013).

We found that the cellular reorganizations were highly coordinated with the sequence of metabolic phases and the cellular proliferation status (Figure 3A and Figure 3—source data 1): in R+ cells, Dhh1-GFP and Gln1-GFP (Figure 3—video 1) foci appeared at the onset of the DS, then were partially dissolved during the R phase, and reappeared upon entry into SP. Other hallmarks of proliferation cessation, such as actin bodies, PSGs, and other protein foci (Cdc28-GFP), showed up only at the end of the R phase. Importantly, we observed that R− cells also experienced a consistent formation of fluorescent foci for the markers that we monitored, yet, unlike R+ cells, they all appeared during the DS. In addition, all these foci ultimately disappeared, presumably as a consequence of the premature cell death observed in this subpopulation.

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By overlapping the dynamics of fluorescence foci formation with that of internal pH (from Figure 1F), we noticed that the formation of bodies overall coincided with variation in absolute pH level in both R+ and R− cells, even though it appeared at different timescales. This finding is compatible with the hypothesis that the drop in internal pH – which reflects a decrease in metabolic activity – actually drives successive waves of body formation and the appearance of quiescence hallmarks. Indeed, upon the DS, a pH decrease down to ~7 would trigger the formation of Gln1 and Dhh1 foci in both R+ and R− cells. In R+ cells, the rerise of the pH associated with proliferation resumption in the R phase would induce the disassembly of these structures until the pH reaches 7 again, after carbon source exhaustion in SP. In both R+ and R−, actin bodies, PSG, and Cdc28 foci would form only when the intracellular pH reaches 6.

To further check this hypothesis, since energy depletion was shown to induce a global modification of the cytoplasm to a glassy state (Munder et al., 2016), we sought to observe these transitions by monitoring the frame-to-frame displacement of Gln1-GFP foci over time (Figure 3B, Munder et al., 2016). This marker was chosen because foci are already present at the DS. We found that the mobility of Gln1-GFP foci decreased sharply in R− cells during the DS (Figure 3—video 1) and much later in R+ cells, consistently with the differences observed regarding the times of pH drops in both populations (Figure 3C). To better establish the links between pH and mobility, we exploited the fact that lipid droplets (LDs) could be conveniently observed using phase-contrast images (Heimlicher et al., 2019). Similarly, the time of loss of LDs mobility correlated very well with that of Gln1-GFP foci (Figure 3—figure supplement 1A). By quantifying both the time of loss of LD mobility and the dynamics of pH drop in single cells, we observed that both events were tightly correlated in all cells, despite the large cell-to-cell heterogeneity in the time of pH drop in R+ cells (Figure 3D , Figure 3—figure supplement 1B, Figure 3—source data 2 and Figure 3—source data 3). Also, after synchronizing all single-cell trajectories from the time of loss of LD mobility, we showed that the mobility loss of the cytoplasm occurred at a similar pH ~6 in both R+ and R− cells (Figure 3E, Figure 3—source data 2 and Figure 3—source data 3). Therefore, these observations suggest that the internal pH, which displays a very dynamic behavior during the yeast life cycle, induces waves of cellular structural remodeling that ultimately triggers a global transition of the cytoplasm to a gel-like state. This model is further supported by the concomitance between the premature pH drop and the phase transition in respiratory deficient (R−) cells. Altogether, it suggests that, upon nutrient exhaustion, cells undergo stereotypical pH-dependent structural reorganizations, no matter their respiratory status. R− cells’ inability to switch to respiration, which ultimately compromises the long-term viability in this subpopulation (Ocampo et al., 2012; Weber et al., 2020), makes this transition precocious, and explains the divergent cell fates in the population at the DS.

In this study, we have developed a new microfluidic platform that allows us to monitor a full cell proliferation cycle in liquid culture with single-cell resolution. Individual cell tracking and quantitative fluorescence measurements provide a unique dynamic assessment of the successive metabolic transitions from fermentation to the SP observed in a liquid culture submitted to nutrients exhaustion. In contrast to most previous studies that used abrupt environmental switches to investigate the metabolic response to starvation, our methodology recapitulates the unperturbed dynamics of nutrients experienced by cells during a life cycle in laboratory conditions. We envision that this methodology could be further applied to other contexts in which collective cell behavior impacts the environment, which in turn shapes individual cellular responses – for example, metabolic oscillations (Tu et al., 2005) and cooperative behaviors (Dal Co et al., 2020; Campbell et al., 2015).

Continuous monitoring of cell growth and mitochondrial markers revealed a clear divergence in cell fate, where a minority of them failed to establish a respiratory metabolism, in line with recent observations obtained using an abrupt medium change (Bagamery et al., 2020). The dramatic drop in internal pH upon proliferation cessation in R− cells at the DS suggests that the failure to transition to respiration induces a major loss of energy homeostasis in this subpopulation, that may, in turn, compromise long-term viability (Ocampo et al., 2012; Weber et al., 2020). By and large, this phenomenon could not be explained by preexisting phenotypic differences in the population during the FP (Bagamery et al., 2020) but rather appeared to be triggered by the metabolic challenge associated with the exhaustion of glucose.

Previous studies have unraveled how changes in cytosolic pH – including upon nutrient exhaustion – control protein supramolecular assemblies (Peters et al., 2013; Petrovska et al., 2014). Our analysis shows that nonmonotonous fluctuations in pH level occur in sync with metabolic transitions during an unperturbed life cycle. Further, it reveals that successive pH drops are closely temporally related to the formation of many protein bodies and granules, despite the large cell-to-cell temporal variability associated with the onset of these events. Interestingly, since the structural reorganization of many protein complexes is one of the well-described hallmarks of quiescence (Sagot and Laporte, 2019), our observations thus suggest that internal pH acts as a key controller that drives waves of structural changes at well-defined pH levels during entry into quiescence. That R– cells display foci formation similarly as the R+ cells provide further support to a model of stereotypical structural reorganizations driven by energy depletion and transduced by internal pH level.

In addition to monitoring the superassembly of specific markers, we showed that the transition to SP is accompanied by a transition of the cytoplasm to a glassy-like phase, hence transposing previous observations (Parry et al., 2014; Joyner et al., 2016; Munder et al., 2016) to the context of an unperturbed life cycle in budding yeast (Heimlicher et al., 2019). Importantly, the appearance of the glassy-like state occurs right at the DS in the R– cells and is significantly delayed and variable in time in R+ cells. We propose that the start of respiration upon glucose exhaustion prevents a precocious glass transition, which might be detrimental to cell viability if it occurs in an uncoordinated manner with other cellular reorganizations processes (e.g., energy storage)(Ocampo et al., 2012; Weber et al., 2020).

The abrupt and concomitant transition of all cells during the DS shows how the rapid evolution of the environment at this precise moment drives cell behavior in a deterministic manner, in the same way as during abrupt starvation (Bagamery et al., 2020; Munder et al., 2016). Conversely, the remarkable cell-to-cell temporal heterogeneity during the transition to a glassy state in R+ cells suggests that the cells have a developmental program whose progression is partly stochastic, that is, not entirely determined by the external environment. This last observation further supports that it is impossible to follow the process of entry into quiescence faithfully by imposing the dynamics of environmental changes (Miles et al., 2021) or based on population measurements only. Further studies using our methodology may allow us to discover how the succession of the different key steps of this developmental process contributes to establishing the specific physiological properties of quiescent cells (e.g., long-term survival and stress tolerance).

The CAD file used to generate the microfluidic device is available on a github repository (https://github.com/TAspert/Continuous_filtration copy archived at https://archive.softwareheritage.org/swh:1:rev:8476f782bf6ff8fff2a9c78172cc8f072cc73916). The source data used to make the panels (excluding raw image files) are included for each figure. Due to size constraints representative raw image data for Figure 1 is available at Zenodo (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5592983) and the remaining raw image data, including files for Figures 2 and 3, are available on request from the corresponding author.

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Author details

1. Basile Jacquel

   1. Department of Developmental Biology and Stem Cells, Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Illkirch, France
   2. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Illkirch, France
   3. Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Illkirch, France
   4. Université de Strasbourg, Illkirch, France

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   Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Supervision

   Contributed equally with

   Théo Aspert

   Competing interests

   No competing interests declared

   "This ORCID iD identifies the author of this article:" 0000-0002-5670-4635

2. Théo Aspert

   1. Department of Developmental Biology and Stem Cells, Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Illkirch, France
   2. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Illkirch, France
   3. Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Illkirch, France
   4. Université de Strasbourg, Illkirch, France

   Contribution

   Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Supervision

   Contributed equally with

   Basile Jacquel

   Competing interests

   No competing interests declared

   "This ORCID iD identifies the author of this article:" 0000-0003-2957-0683

3. Damien Laporte

   Institut de Biochimie et Génétique Cellulaires, UMR 5095 CNRS - Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France, Bordeaux, France

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   Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

   Competing interests

   No competing interests declared

   "This ORCID iD identifies the author of this article:" 0000-0002-1556-5253

4. Isabelle Sagot

   Institut de Biochimie et Génétique Cellulaires, UMR 5095 CNRS - Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France, Bordeaux, France

   Contribution

   Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review and editing, Supervision

   Competing interests

   No competing interests declared

   "This ORCID iD identifies the author of this article:" 0000-0003-2158-1783

5. Gilles Charvin

   1. Department of Developmental Biology and Stem Cells, Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Illkirch, France
   2. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Illkirch, France
   3. Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Illkirch, France
   4. Université de Strasbourg, Illkirch, France

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   Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft, Supervision

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   charvin@igbmc.fr

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   "This ORCID iD identifies the author of this article:" 0000-0002-6852-6952

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