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Vaknin I, Willinger O, Mandl J, Heuberger H, Ben-Ami D, Zeng Y, Goldberg S, Orenstein Y, Amit R. A universal system for boosting gene expression in eukaryotic cell-lines. Nat Commun 2024; 15:2394. [PMID: 38493141 PMCID: PMC10944472 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-46573-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2023] [Accepted: 03/04/2024] [Indexed: 03/18/2024] Open
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We demonstrate a transcriptional regulatory design algorithm that can boost expression in yeast and mammalian cell lines. The system consists of a simplified transcriptional architecture composed of a minimal core promoter and a synthetic upstream regulatory region (sURS) composed of up to three motifs selected from a list of 41 motifs conserved in the eukaryotic lineage. The sURS system was first characterized using an oligo-library containing 189,990 variants. We validate the resultant expression model using a set of 43 unseen sURS designs. The validation sURS experiments indicate that a generic set of grammar rules for boosting and attenuation may exist in yeast cells. Finally, we demonstrate that this generic set of grammar rules functions similarly in mammalian CHO-K1 and HeLa cells. Consequently, our work provides a design algorithm for boosting the expression of promoters used for expressing industrially relevant proteins in yeast and mammalian cell lines.
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- Inbal Vaknin
- Department of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Technion, Haifa, Israel
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- Department of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Technion, Haifa, Israel
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- Department of Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
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- School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
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- School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
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- Department of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Technion, Haifa, Israel
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- Department of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Technion, Haifa, Israel
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- Department of Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
- The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
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- Department of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Technion, Haifa, Israel.
- The Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute, Technion, Haifa, Israel.
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Zande PV, Wittkopp PJ. Active compensation for changes in TDH3 expression mediated by direct regulators of TDH3 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.01.13.523977. [PMID: 36711763 PMCID: PMC9882118 DOI: 10.1101/2023.01.13.523977] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Genetic networks are surprisingly robust to perturbations caused by new mutations. This robustness is conferred in part by compensation for loss of a gene's activity by genes with overlapping functions, such as paralogs. Compensation occurs passively when the normal activity of one paralog can compensate for the loss of the other, or actively when a change in one paralog's expression, localization, or activity is required to compensate for loss of the other. The mechanisms of active compensation remain poorly understood in most cases. Here we investigate active compensation for the loss or reduction in expression of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae gene TDH3 by its paralogs TDH1 and TDH2. TDH1 and TDH2 are upregulated in a dose-dependent manner in response to reductions in TDH3 by a mechanism requiring the shared transcriptional regulators Gcr1p and Rap1p. Other glycolytic genes regulated by Rap1p and Gcr1p show changes in expression similar to TDH2, suggesting that the active compensation by TDH3 paralogs is part of a broader homeostatic response mediated by shared transcriptional regulators.
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- Pétra Vande Zande
- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Current address: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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Duveau F, Vande Zande P, Metzger BP, Diaz CJ, Walker EA, Tryban S, Siddiq MA, Yang B, Wittkopp PJ. Mutational sources of trans-regulatory variation affecting gene expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. eLife 2021; 10:67806. [PMID: 34463616 PMCID: PMC8456550 DOI: 10.7554/elife.67806] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2021] [Accepted: 08/03/2021] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Heritable variation in a gene’s expression arises from mutations impacting cis- and trans-acting components of its regulatory network. Here, we investigate how trans-regulatory mutations are distributed within the genome and within a gene regulatory network by identifying and characterizing 69 mutations with trans-regulatory effects on expression of the same focal gene in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Relative to 1766 mutations without effects on expression of this focal gene, we found that these trans-regulatory mutations were enriched in coding sequences of transcription factors previously predicted to regulate expression of the focal gene. However, over 90% of the trans-regulatory mutations identified mapped to other types of genes involved in diverse biological processes including chromatin state, metabolism, and signal transduction. These data show how genetic changes in diverse types of genes can impact a gene’s expression in trans, revealing properties of trans-regulatory mutations that provide the raw material for trans-regulatory variation segregating within natural populations.
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- Fabien Duveau
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States.,Laboratory of Biology and Modeling of the Cell, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon, Université de Lyon, Lyon, France
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States.,Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
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Afrin M, Gaurav AK, Yang X, Pan X, Zhao Y, Li B. TbRAP1 has an unusual duplex DNA binding activity required for its telomere localization and VSG silencing. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2020; 6:6/38/eabc4065. [PMID: 32948591 PMCID: PMC7500927 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abc4065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2020] [Accepted: 07/31/2020] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Localization of Repressor Activator Protein 1 (RAP1) to the telomere is essential for its telomeric functions. RAP1 homologs either directly bind the duplex telomere DNA or interact with telomere-binding proteins. We find that Trypanosoma brucei RAP1 relies on a unique double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) binding activity to achieve this goal. T. brucei causes human sleeping sickness and regularly switches its major surface antigen, variant surface glycoprotein (VSG), to evade the host immune response. VSGs are monoallelically expressed from subtelomeres, and TbRAP1 is essential for VSG regulation. We identify dsDNA and single-stranded DNA binding activities in TbRAP1, which require positively charged 737RKRRR741 residues that overlap with TbRAP1's nuclear localization signal in the MybLike domain. Both DNA binding activities are electrostatics-based and sequence nonspecific. The dsDNA binding activity can be substantially diminished by phosphorylation of two 737RKRRR741-adjacent S residues and is essential for TbRAP1's telomere localization, VSG silencing, telomere integrity, and cell proliferation.
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- Marjia Afrin
- Center for Gene Regulation in Health and Disease, Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences, College of Sciences and Health Professions, Cleveland State University, 2121 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44115, USA
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- Center for Gene Regulation in Health and Disease, Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences, College of Sciences and Health Professions, Cleveland State University, 2121 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44115, USA
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- Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, State Key Laboratory of Chirosciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, State Key Laboratory of Chirosciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, State Key Laboratory of Chirosciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China.
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- Center for Gene Regulation in Health and Disease, Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences, College of Sciences and Health Professions, Cleveland State University, 2121 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44115, USA.
- Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
- Department of Inflammation and Immunity, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
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Sayyed K, Hdayed I, Tabcheh M, Abdel-Razzak Z, El-Bitar H. Antioxidant properties of the Lebanese plant Iris x germanica L. crude extracts and antagonism of chlorpromazine toxicity on Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Drug Chem Toxicol 2020; 45:1168-1179. [PMID: 32847432 DOI: 10.1080/01480545.2020.1810261] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Iris x germanica L., which belongs to the Iridaceae family, has been reported in the literature for its antioxidant properties in acellular chemical-antioxidant assays. Chlorpromazine (CPZ) is an antipsychotic drug known to cause adverse reactions in humans. Oxidative stress is among the main mechanisms by which CPZ exerts its toxicity in animal cell models as well as in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. In this study we investigated the protective effects of I. germanica L. crude extracts against CPZ toxicity. We demonstrated that methanolic extracts from rhizome (R-M), leaf (L-M) and flower (Fl-M) had potent antioxidant activity by scavenging the free radical DPPH, with half-maximal effective concentrations (EC50) 193, 107, and 174 µg/mL, respectively. R-M, L-M and Fl-M at doses up to 1000 µg/mL, didn't affect yeast cell growth. In addition, we demonstrated for the first time that L-M at 1000 µg/mL and R-M at all tested doses counteracted CPZ toxicity, probably by promoting yeast cell antioxidant agents. The R-M capacity to counteract CPZ toxicity was lost in the yeast strain mutant in catalase-encoding gene (Cta1), while strains mutant in Sod2, Skn7 and Rap1 showed mild or full R-M-induced protective effect against CPZ toxicity. Our results demonstrated that I. germanica L. R-M extract counteracted CPZ toxicity in the yeast cell model. Further studies are planned to isolate the involved bioactive compounds and identify the involved genes and the antioxidant agents.
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- Katia Sayyed
- EDST-AZM-center and Lebanese University, Faculty of Sciences I, Rafic Hariri Campus, Hadath, Lebanon.,Lebanese American University- Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Natural Sciences, Byblos, Lebanon
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- EDST-AZM-center and Lebanese University, Faculty of Sciences I, Rafic Hariri Campus, Hadath, Lebanon
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- EDST-AZM-center and Lebanese University, Faculty of Sciences III, Mont-Michel Campus, Tripoli, Lebanon
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- EDST-AZM-center and Lebanese University, Faculty of Sciences I, Rafic Hariri Campus, Hadath, Lebanon
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- EDST-AZM-center and Lebanese University, Faculty of Sciences I, Rafic Hariri Campus, Hadath, Lebanon.,EDST-AZM-center and Lebanese University, Faculty of Sciences III, Mont-Michel Campus, Tripoli, Lebanon
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Kasahara K, Nakayama R, Shiwa Y, Kanesaki Y, Ishige T, Yoshikawa H, Kokubo T. Fpr1, a primary target of rapamycin, functions as a transcription factor for ribosomal protein genes cooperatively with Hmo1 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. PLoS Genet 2020; 16:e1008865. [PMID: 32603360 PMCID: PMC7357790 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008865] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2019] [Revised: 07/13/2020] [Accepted: 05/15/2020] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Fpr1 (FK506-sensitive proline rotamase 1), a protein of the FKBP12 (FK506-binding protein 12 kDa) family in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, is a primary target for the immunosuppressive agents FK506 and rapamycin. Fpr1 inhibits calcineurin and TORC1 (target of rapamycin complex 1) when bound to FK506 and rapamycin, respectively. Although Fpr1 is recognised to play a crucial role in the efficacy of these drugs, its physiological functions remain unclear. In a hmo1Δ (high mobility group family 1-deleted) yeast strain, deletion of FPR1 induced severe growth defects, which could be alleviated by increasing the copy number of RPL25 (ribosome protein of the large subunit 25), suggesting that RPL25 expression was affected in hmo1Δfpr1Δ cells. In the current study, extensive chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) and ChIP-sequencing analyses revealed that Fpr1 associates specifically with the upstream activating sequences of nearly all RPG (ribosomal protein gene) promoters, presumably in a manner dependent on Rap1 (repressor/activator site binding protein 1). Intriguingly, Fpr1 promotes the binding of Fhl1/Ifh1 (forkhead-like 1/interacts with forkhead 1), two key regulators of RPG transcription, to certain RPG promoters independently of and/or cooperatively with Hmo1. Furthermore, mutation analyses of Fpr1 indicated that for transcriptional function on RPG promoters, Fpr1 requires its N-terminal domain and the binding surface for rapamycin, but not peptidyl-prolyl isomerase activity. Notably, Fpr1 orthologues from other species also inhibit TORC1 when bound to rapamycin, but do not regulate transcription in yeast, which suggests that these two functions of Fpr1 are independent of each other.
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- Koji Kasahara
- Department of Molecular Microbiology, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Bioscience, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan
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- Research Institute of Green Science and Technology, Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, Japan
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- NODAI Genome Research Center, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan
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- Graduate School of Medical Life Science, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan
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Trypanosoma brucei RAP1 Has Essential Functional Domains That Are Required for Different Protein Interactions. mSphere 2020; 5:5/1/e00027-20. [PMID: 32102938 PMCID: PMC7045384 DOI: 10.1128/msphere.00027-20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Trypanosoma brucei causes human African trypanosomiasis and regularly switches its major surface antigen, VSG, to evade the host immune response. VSGs are expressed from subtelomeres in a monoallelic fashion. TbRAP1, a telomere protein, is essential for cell viability and VSG monoallelic expression and suppresses VSG switching. Although TbRAP1 has conserved functional domains in common with its orthologs from yeasts to mammals, the domain functions are unknown. RAP1 orthologs have pleiotropic functions, and interaction with different partners is an important means by which RAP1 executes its different roles. We have established a Cre-loxP-mediated conditional knockout system for TbRAP1 and examined the roles of various functional domains in protein expression, nuclear localization, and protein-protein interactions. This system enables further studies of TbRAP1 point mutation phenotypes. We have also determined functional domains of TbRAP1 that are required for several different protein interactions, shedding light on the underlying mechanisms of TbRAP1-mediated VSG silencing. RAP1 is a telomere protein that is well conserved from protozoa to mammals. It plays important roles in chromosome end protection, telomere length control, and gene expression/silencing at both telomeric and nontelomeric loci. Interaction with different partners is an important mechanism by which RAP1 executes its different functions in yeast. The RAP1 ortholog in Trypanosoma brucei is essential for variant surface glycoprotein (VSG) monoallelic expression, an important aspect of antigenic variation, where T. brucei regularly switches its major surface antigen, VSG, to evade the host immune response. Like other RAP1 orthologs, T. brucei RAP1 (TbRAP1) has conserved functional domains, including BRCA1 C terminus (BRCT), Myb, MybLike, and RAP1 C terminus (RCT). To study functions of various TbRAP1 domains, we established a strain in which one endogenous allele of TbRAP1 is flanked by loxP repeats, enabling its conditional deletion by Cre-mediated recombination. We replaced the other TbRAP1 allele with various mutant alleles lacking individual functional domains and examined their nuclear localization and protein interaction abilities. The N terminus, BRCT, and RCT of TbRAP1 are required for normal protein levels, while the Myb and MybLike domains are essential for normal cell growth. Additionally, the Myb domain of TbRAP1 is required for its interaction with T. brucei TTAGGG repeat-binding factor (TbTRF), while the BRCT domain is required for its self-interaction. Furthermore, the TbRAP1 MybLike domain contains a bipartite nuclear localization signal that is required for its interaction with importin α and its nuclear localization. Interestingly, RAP1’s self-interaction and the interaction between RAP1 and TRF are conserved from kinetoplastids to mammals. However, details of the interaction interfaces have changed throughout evolution. IMPORTANCETrypanosoma brucei causes human African trypanosomiasis and regularly switches its major surface antigen, VSG, to evade the host immune response. VSGs are expressed from subtelomeres in a monoallelic fashion. TbRAP1, a telomere protein, is essential for cell viability and VSG monoallelic expression and suppresses VSG switching. Although TbRAP1 has conserved functional domains in common with its orthologs from yeasts to mammals, the domain functions are unknown. RAP1 orthologs have pleiotropic functions, and interaction with different partners is an important means by which RAP1 executes its different roles. We have established a Cre-loxP-mediated conditional knockout system for TbRAP1 and examined the roles of various functional domains in protein expression, nuclear localization, and protein-protein interactions. This system enables further studies of TbRAP1 point mutation phenotypes. We have also determined functional domains of TbRAP1 that are required for several different protein interactions, shedding light on the underlying mechanisms of TbRAP1-mediated VSG silencing.
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Molecular response of Deinococcus radiodurans to simulated microgravity explored by proteometabolomic approach. Sci Rep 2019; 9:18462. [PMID: 31804539 PMCID: PMC6895123 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-54742-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2019] [Accepted: 11/19/2019] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
Abstract
Regarding future space exploration missions and long-term exposure experiments, a detailed investigation of all factors present in the outer space environment and their effects on organisms of all life kingdoms is advantageous. Influenced by the multiple factors of outer space, the extremophilic bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans has been long-termly exposed outside the International Space Station in frames of the Tanpopo orbital mission. The study presented here aims to elucidate molecular key components in D. radiodurans, which are responsible for recognition and adaptation to simulated microgravity. D. radiodurans cultures were grown for two days on plates in a fast-rotating 2-D clinostat to minimize sedimentation, thus simulating reduced gravity conditions. Subsequently, metabolites and proteins were extracted and measured with mass spectrometry-based techniques. Our results emphasize the importance of certain signal transducer proteins, which showed higher abundances in cells grown under reduced gravity. These proteins activate a cellular signal cascade, which leads to differences in gene expressions. Proteins involved in stress response, repair mechanisms and proteins connected to the extracellular milieu and the cell envelope showed an increased abundance under simulated microgravity. Focusing on the expression of these proteins might present a strategy of cells to adapt to microgravity conditions.
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Tomáška Ĺ, Nosek J, Sepšiová R, Červenák F, Juríková K, Procházková K, Neboháčová M, Willcox S, Griffith JD. Commentary: Single-stranded telomere-binding protein employs a dual rheostat for binding affinity and specificity that drives function. Front Genet 2019; 9:742. [PMID: 30697232 PMCID: PMC6341069 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2018.00742] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2018] [Accepted: 12/22/2018] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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- Ĺubomír Tomáška
- Department of Genetics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Department of Genetics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Department of Genetics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Department of Genetics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Department of Genetics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
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- Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
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Červenák F, Juríková K, Sepšiová R, Neboháčová M, Nosek J, Tomáška L. Double-stranded telomeric DNA binding proteins: Diversity matters. Cell Cycle 2017; 16:1568-1577. [PMID: 28749196 DOI: 10.1080/15384101.2017.1356511] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Telomeric sequences constitute only a small fraction of the whole genome yet they are crucial for ensuring genomic stability. This function is in large part mediated by protein complexes recruited to telomeric sequences by specific telomere-binding proteins (TBPs). Although the principal tasks of nuclear telomeres are the same in all eukaryotes, TBPs in various taxa exhibit a surprising diversity indicating their distinct evolutionary origin. This diversity is especially pronounced in ascomycetous yeasts where they must have co-evolved with rapidly diversifying sequences of telomeric repeats. In this article we (i) provide a historical overview of the discoveries leading to the current list of TBPs binding to double-stranded (ds) regions of telomeres, (ii) describe examples of dsTBPs highlighting their diversity in even closely related species, and (iii) speculate about possible evolutionary trajectories leading to a long list of various dsTBPs fulfilling the same general role(s) in their own unique ways.
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- Filip Červenák
- a Department of Genetics , Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Natural Sciences , Bratislava , Slovakia
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- a Department of Genetics , Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Natural Sciences , Bratislava , Slovakia
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- a Department of Genetics , Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Natural Sciences , Bratislava , Slovakia
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- b Department of Biochemistry , Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Natural Sciences , Bratislava , Slovakia
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- b Department of Biochemistry , Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Natural Sciences , Bratislava , Slovakia
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- a Department of Genetics , Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Natural Sciences , Bratislava , Slovakia
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Duan YM, Zhou BO, Peng J, Tong XJ, Zhang QD, Zhou JQ. Molecular dynamics of de novo telomere heterochromatin formation in budding yeast. J Genet Genomics 2016; 43:451-65. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jgg.2016.03.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2015] [Revised: 03/09/2016] [Accepted: 03/17/2016] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Sepsiova R, Necasova I, Willcox S, Prochazkova K, Gorilak P, Nosek J, Hofr C, Griffith JD, Tomaska L. Evolution of Telomeres in Schizosaccharomyces pombe and Its Possible Relationship to the Diversification of Telomere Binding Proteins. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0154225. [PMID: 27101289 PMCID: PMC4839565 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0154225] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2015] [Accepted: 04/11/2016] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Telomeres of nuclear chromosomes are usually composed of an array of tandemly repeated sequences that are recognized by specific Myb domain containing DNA-binding proteins (telomere-binding proteins, TBPs). Whereas in many eukaryotes the length and sequence of the telomeric repeat is relatively conserved, telomeric sequences in various yeasts are highly variable. Schizosaccharomyces pombe provides an excellent model for investigation of co-evolution of telomeres and TBPs. First, telomeric repeats of S. pombe differ from the canonical mammalian type TTAGGG sequence. Second, S. pombe telomeres exhibit a high degree of intratelomeric heterogeneity. Third, S. pombe contains all types of known TBPs (Rap1p [a version unable to bind DNA], Tay1p/Teb1p, and Taz1p) that are employed by various yeast species to protect their telomeres. With the aim of reconstructing evolutionary paths leading to a separation of roles between Teb1p and Taz1p, we performed a comparative analysis of the DNA-binding properties of both proteins using combined qualitative and quantitative biochemical approaches. Visualization of DNA-protein complexes by electron microscopy revealed qualitative differences of binding of Teb1p and Taz1p to mammalian type and fission yeast telomeres. Fluorescence anisotropy analysis quantified the binding affinity of Teb1p and Taz1p to three different DNA substrates. Additionally, we carried out electrophoretic mobility shift assays using mammalian type telomeres and native substrates (telomeric repeats, histone-box sequences) as well as their mutated versions. We observed relative DNA sequence binding flexibility of Taz1p and higher binding stringency of Teb1p when both proteins were compared directly to each other. These properties may have driven replacement of Teb1p by Taz1p as the TBP in fission yeast.
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- Regina Sepsiova
- Department of Genetics, Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Ilkovicova 6, 842 15, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
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- Chromatin Molecular Complexes, Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Brno, CZ-62500, Czech Republic
- Laboratory of Functional Genomics and Proteomics, National Centre for Biomolecular Research, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, CZ-62500, Czech Republic
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- Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 27599, United States of America
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- Department of Genetics, Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Ilkovicova 6, 842 15, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
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- Department of Genetics, Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Ilkovicova 6, 842 15, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
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- Department of Biochemistry, Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Ilkovicova 6, 842 15, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
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- Chromatin Molecular Complexes, Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Brno, CZ-62500, Czech Republic
- Laboratory of Functional Genomics and Proteomics, National Centre for Biomolecular Research, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, CZ-62500, Czech Republic
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- Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 27599, United States of America
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- Department of Genetics, Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Ilkovicova 6, 842 15, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
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Steinberg-Neifach O, Lue NF. Telomere DNA recognition in Saccharomycotina yeast: potential lessons for the co-evolution of ssDNA and dsDNA-binding proteins and their target sites. Front Genet 2015; 6:162. [PMID: 25983743 PMCID: PMC4416457 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2015.00162] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2015] [Accepted: 04/10/2015] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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In principle, alterations in the telomere repeat sequence would be expected to disrupt the protective nucleoprotein complexes that confer stability to chromosome ends, and hence relatively rare events in evolution. Indeed, numerous organisms in diverse phyla share a canonical 6 bp telomere repeat unit (5'-TTAGGG-3'/5'-CCCTAA-3'), suggesting common descent from an ancestor that carries this particular repeat. All the more remarkable, then, are the extraordinarily divergent telomere sequences that populate the Saccharomycotina subphylum of budding yeast. These sequences are distinguished from the canonical telomere repeat in being long, occasionally degenerate, and frequently non-G/C-rich. Despite the divergent telomere repeat sequences, studies to date indicate that the same families of single-strand and double-strand telomere binding proteins (i.e., the Cdc13 and Rap1 families) are responsible for telomere protection in Saccharomycotina yeast. The recognition mechanisms of the protein family members therefore offer an informative paradigm for understanding the co-evolution of DNA-binding proteins and the cognate target sequences. Existing data suggest three potential, inter-related solutions to the DNA recognition problem: (i) duplication of the recognition protein and functional modification; (ii) combinatorial recognition of target site; and (iii) flexibility of the recognition surfaces of the DNA-binding proteins to adopt alternative conformations. Evidence in support of these solutions and the relevance of these solutions to other DNA-protein regulatory systems are discussed.
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- Olga Steinberg-Neifach
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, W. R. Hearst Microbiology Research Center, Weill Medical College, Cornell University , New York, NY, USA ; Hostos Community College, City University of New York , Bronx, NY, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, W. R. Hearst Microbiology Research Center, Weill Medical College, Cornell University , New York, NY, USA
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Li X, Zhang H, Tian L, Huang L, Liu S, Li D, Song F. Tomato SlRbohB, a member of the NADPH oxidase family, is required for disease resistance against Botrytis cinerea and tolerance to drought stress. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2015; 235:14-24. [PMID: 26157450 DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2015.02.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2014] [Revised: 02/21/2015] [Accepted: 02/21/2015] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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NADPH oxidases (also known as respiratory burst oxidase homologs, Rbohs) are key enzymes that catalyze the generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in plants. In the present study, eight SlRboh genes were identified in tomato and their possible involvement in resistance to Botrytis cinerea and drought tolerance was examined. Expression of SlRbohs was induced by B. cinerea and Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato but displayed distinct patterns. Virus-induced gene silencing based silencing of SlRbohB resulted in reduced resistance to B. cinerea but silencing of other SlRbohs did not affect the resistance. Compared to non-silenced plants, the SlRbohB-silenced plants accumulated more ROS and displayed attenuated expression of defense genes after infection with B. cinerea. Silencing of SlRbohB also suppressed flg22-induced ROS burst and the expression of SlLrr22, a marker gene related to PAMP-triggered immunity (PTI). Transient expression of SlRbohB in Nicotiana benthamiana led to enhanced resistance to B. cinerea. Furthermore, silencing of SlRbohB resulted in decreased drought tolerance, accelerated water loss in leaves and the altered expression of drought-responsive genes. Our data demonstrate that SlRbohB positively regulates the resistance to B. cinerea, flg22-induced PTI, and drought tolerance in tomato.
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- Xiaohui Li
- National Key Laboratory for Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou China
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- National Key Laboratory for Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou China
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- National Key Laboratory for Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou China
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- National Key Laboratory for Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou China
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- National Key Laboratory for Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou China
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- National Key Laboratory for Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou China
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- National Key Laboratory for Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou China
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The term “transcriptional network” refers to the mechanism(s) that underlies coordinated expression of genes, typically involving transcription factors (TFs) binding to the promoters of multiple genes, and individual genes controlled by multiple TFs. A multitude of studies in the last two decades have aimed to map and characterize transcriptional networks in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. We review the methodologies and accomplishments of these studies, as well as challenges we now face. For most yeast TFs, data have been collected on their sequence preferences, in vivo promoter occupancy, and gene expression profiles in deletion mutants. These systematic studies have led to the identification of new regulators of numerous cellular functions and shed light on the overall organization of yeast gene regulation. However, many yeast TFs appear to be inactive under standard laboratory growth conditions, and many of the available data were collected using techniques that have since been improved. Perhaps as a consequence, comprehensive and accurate mapping among TF sequence preferences, promoter binding, and gene expression remains an open challenge. We propose that the time is ripe for renewed systematic efforts toward a complete mapping of yeast transcriptional regulatory mechanisms.
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Kueng S, Oppikofer M, Gasser SM. SIR proteins and the assembly of silent chromatin in budding yeast. Annu Rev Genet 2013; 47:275-306. [PMID: 24016189 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-genet-021313-173730] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Saccharomyces cerevisiae provides a well-studied model system for heritable silent chromatin in which a histone-binding protein complex [the SIR (silent information regulator) complex] represses gene transcription in a sequence-independent manner by spreading along nucleosomes, much like heterochromatin in higher eukaryotes. Recent advances in the biochemistry and structural biology of the SIR-chromatin system bring us much closer to a molecular understanding of yeast silent chromatin. Simultaneously, genome-wide approaches have shed light on the biological importance of this form of epigenetic repression. Here, we integrate genetic, structural, and cell biological data into an updated overview of yeast silent chromatin assembly.
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- Stephanie Kueng
- Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, 4058 Basel, Switzerland
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Lusk RW, Eisen MB. Spatial promoter recognition signatures may enhance transcription factor specificity in yeast. PLoS One 2013; 8:e53778. [PMID: 23320104 PMCID: PMC3540036 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053778] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2012] [Accepted: 12/04/2012] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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The short length and high degeneracy of sites recognized by DNA-binding transcription factors limit the amount of information they can carry, and individual sites are rarely sufficient to mediate the regulation of specific targets. Computational analysis of microbial genomes has suggested that many factors function optimally when in a particular orientation and position with respect to their target promoters. To investigate this further, we developed and trained spatial models of binding site positioning and applied them to the genome of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. We found evidence of non-random organization of sites within promoters, differences in binding site density, or both for thirty-eight transcription factors. We show that these signatures allow transcription factors with substantial differences in binding site specificity to share similar promoter specificities. We illustrate how spatial information dictating the positioning and density of binding sites can in principle increase the information available to the organism for differentiating a transcription factor’s true targets, and we indicate how this information could potentially be leveraged for the same purpose in bioinformatic analyses.
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- Richard W. Lusk
- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
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- Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America
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Chen M, Licon K, Otsuka R, Pillus L, Ideker T. Decoupling epigenetic and genetic effects through systematic analysis of gene position. Cell Rep 2013; 3:128-37. [PMID: 23291096 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2012.12.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2012] [Revised: 10/01/2012] [Accepted: 12/07/2012] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Classic "position-effect" experiments repositioned genes near telomeres to demonstrate that the epigenetic landscape can dramatically alter gene expression. Here, we show that systematic gene knockout collections provide an exceptional resource for interrogating position effects, not only near telomeres but at every genetic locus. Because a single reporter gene replaces each deleted gene, interrogating this reporter provides a sensitive probe into different chromatin environments while controlling for genetic context. Using this approach, we find that, whereas systematic replacement of yeast genes with the kanMX marker does not perturb the chromatin landscape, chromatin differences associated with gene position account for 35% of kanMX activity. We observe distinct chromatin influences, including a Set2/Rpd3-mediated antagonistic interaction between histone H3 lysine 36 trimethylation and the Rap1 transcriptional activation site in kanMX. This interaction explains why some yeast genes have been resistant to deletion and allows successful generation of these deletion strains through the use of a modified transformation procedure. These findings demonstrate that chromatin regulation is not governed by a uniform "histone code" but by specific interactions between chromatin and genetic factors.
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- Menzies Chen
- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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The mechanisms that maintain the stability of chromosome ends have broad impact on genome integrity in all eukaryotes. Budding yeast is a premier organism for telomere studies. Many fundamental concepts of telomere and telomerase function were first established in yeast and then extended to other organisms. We present a comprehensive review of yeast telomere biology that covers capping, replication, recombination, and transcription. We think of it as yeast telomeres—soup to nuts.
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The enigmatic conservation of a Rap1 binding site in the Saccharomyces cerevisiae HMR-E silencer. G3-GENES GENOMES GENETICS 2012; 2:1555-62. [PMID: 23275878 PMCID: PMC3516477 DOI: 10.1534/g3.112.004077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2012] [Accepted: 09/27/2012] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Silencing at the HMR and HML loci in Saccharomyces cerevisiae requires recruitment of Sir proteins to the HML and HMR silencers. The silencers are regulatory sites flanking both loci and consisting of binding sites for the Rap1, Abf1, and ORC proteins, each of which also functions at hundreds of sites throughout the genome in processes unrelated to silencing. Interestingly, the sequence of the binding site for Rap1 at the silencers is distinct from the genome-wide binding profile of Rap1, being a weaker match to the consensus, and indeed is bound with low affinity relative to the consensus sequence. Remarkably, this low-affinity Rap1 binding site variant was conserved among silencers of the sensu stricto Saccharomyces species, maintained as a poor match to the Rap1 genome-wide consensus sequence in all of them. We tested multiple predictions about the possible role of this binding-site variant in silencing by substituting the native Rap1 binding site at the HMR-E silencer with the genome-wide consensus sequence for Rap1. Contrary to the predictions from the current models of Rap1, we found no influence of the Rap1 binding site version on the kinetics of establishing silencing, nor on the maintenance of silencing, nor the extent of silencing. We further explored implications of these findings with regard to prevention of ectopic silencing, and deduced that the selective pressure for the unprecedented conservation of this binding site variant may not be related to silencing.
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Glucose, nitrogen, and phosphate repletion in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: common transcriptional responses to different nutrient signals. G3-GENES GENOMES GENETICS 2012; 2:1003-17. [PMID: 22973537 PMCID: PMC3429914 DOI: 10.1534/g3.112.002808] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2012] [Accepted: 06/20/2012] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Saccharomyces cerevisiae are able to control growth in response to changes in nutrient availability. The limitation for single macronutrients, including nitrogen (N) and phosphate (P), produces stable arrest in G1/G0. Restoration of the limiting nutrient quickly restores growth. It has been shown that glucose (G) depletion/repletion very rapidly alters the levels of more than 2000 transcripts by at least 2-fold, a large portion of which are involved with either protein production in growth or stress responses in starvation. Although the signals generated by G, N, and P are thought to be quite distinct, we tested the hypothesis that depletion and repletion of any of these three nutrients would affect a common core set of genes as part of a generalized response to conditions that promote growth and quiescence. We found that the response to depletion of G, N, or P produced similar quiescent states with largely similar transcriptomes. As we predicted, repletion of each of the nutrients G, N, or P induced a large (501) common core set of genes and repressed a large (616) common gene set. Each nutrient also produced nutrient-specific transcript changes. The transcriptional responses to each of the three nutrients depended on cAMP and, to a lesser extent, the TOR pathway. All three nutrients stimulated cAMP production within minutes of repletion, and artificially increasing cAMP levels was sufficient to replicate much of the core transcriptional response. The recently identified transceptors Gap1, Mep1, Mep2, and Mep3, as well as Pho84, all played some role in the core transcriptional responses to N or P. As expected, we found some evidence of cross talk between nutrient signals, yet each nutrient sends distinct signals.
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Functions of protosilencers in the formation and maintenance of heterochromatin in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. PLoS One 2012; 7:e37092. [PMID: 22615905 PMCID: PMC3355138 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0037092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2012] [Accepted: 04/17/2012] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, transcriptionally silent heterochromatin at HML and HMR loci is established by silencers that recruit SIR complex and promote its propagation along chromatin. Silencers consist of various combinations of two or three binding sites for origin recognition complex (ORC), Abf1 and Rap1. A single ORC, Abf1 or Rap1 site cannot promote silencing, but can enhance silencing by a distant silencer, and is called a protosilencer. The mechanism of protosilencer function is not known. We examine the functions of ORC, Abf1 and Rap1 sites as components of the HMR-E silencer, and as protosilencers. We find that the Rap1 site makes a larger and unique contribution to HMR-E function compared to ORC and Abf1 sites. On the other hand, Rap1 site does not act as a protosilencer to assist HML-E silencer in forming heterochromatin, whereas ORC and Abf1 sites do. Therefore, different mechanisms may be involved in the roles of Rap1 site as a component of HMR-E and as a protosilencer. Heterochromatin formed by ORC or Abf1 site in collaboration with HML-E is not as stable as that formed by HMR-E and HML-E, but increasing the copy number of Abf1 site enhances heterochromatin stability. ORC and Abf1 sites acting as protosilencers do not modulate chromatin structure in the absence of SIR complex, which argues against the hypothesis that protosilencers serve to create a chromatin structure favorable for SIR complex propagation. We also investigate the function of ARS1 containing an ORC site and an Abf1 site as a protosilencer. We find that ARS1 inserted at HML enhances heterochromatin stability, and promotes de novo formation of a chromatin structure that partially resembles heterochromatin in an S phase dependent manner. Taken together, our results indicate that protosilencers aid in the formation and maintenance of heterochromatin structure.
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Lickwar CR, Mueller F, Hanlon SE, McNally JG, Lieb JD. Genome-wide protein-DNA binding dynamics suggest a molecular clutch for transcription factor function. Nature 2012; 484:251-5. [PMID: 22498630 PMCID: PMC3341663 DOI: 10.1038/nature10985] [Citation(s) in RCA: 186] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2011] [Accepted: 02/23/2012] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Dynamic access to genetic information is central to organismal development and environmental response. Consequently, genomic processes must be regulated by mechanisms that alter genome function relatively rapidly. Conventional chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) experiments measure transcription factor occupancy, but give no indication of kinetics and are poor predictors of transcription factor function at a given locus. To measure transcription-factor-binding dynamics across the genome, we performed competition ChIP (refs 6, 7) with a sequence-specific Saccharomyces cerevisiae transcription factor, Rap1 (ref. 8). Rap1-binding dynamics and Rap1 occupancy were only weakly correlated (R(2) = 0.14), but binding dynamics were more strongly linked to function than occupancy. Long Rap1 residence was coupled to transcriptional activation, whereas fast binding turnover, which we refer to as 'treadmilling', was linked to low transcriptional output. Thus, DNA-binding events that seem identical by conventional ChIP may have different underlying modes of interaction that lead to opposing functional outcomes. We propose that transcription factor binding turnover is a major point of regulation in determining the functional consequences of transcription factor binding, and is mediated mainly by control of competition between transcription factors and nucleosomes. Our model predicts a clutch-like mechanism that rapidly engages a treadmilling transcription factor into a stable binding state, or vice versa, to modulate transcription factor function.
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- Colin R. Lickwar
- Department of Biology, Carolina Center for the Genome Sciences, Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center CB #3280, 408 Fordham Hall University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3280
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- LRBGE-National Cancer Institute The National Institutes of Health 41 Library Drive Bethesda, MD 20892
- Institut Pasteur Groupe Imagerie et Modélisation Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité de Recherche Associée 2582 25-28 rue du Docteur Roux, 75015 Paris, France
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- Department of Biology, Carolina Center for the Genome Sciences, Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center CB #3280, 408 Fordham Hall University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3280
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- LRBGE-National Cancer Institute The National Institutes of Health 41 Library Drive Bethesda, MD 20892
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- Department of Biology, Carolina Center for the Genome Sciences, Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center CB #3280, 408 Fordham Hall University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3280
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Matot B, Le Bihan YV, Lescasse R, Pérez J, Miron S, David G, Castaing B, Weber P, Raynal B, Zinn-Justin S, Gasparini S, Le Du MH. The orientation of the C-terminal domain of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Rap1 protein is determined by its binding to DNA. Nucleic Acids Res 2012; 40:3197-207. [PMID: 22139930 PMCID: PMC3326314 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr1166] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2011] [Revised: 11/10/2011] [Accepted: 11/11/2011] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Rap1 is an essential DNA-binding factor from the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae involved in transcription and telomere maintenance. Its binding to DNA targets Rap1 at particular loci, and may optimize its ability to form functional macromolecular assemblies. It is a modular protein, rich in large potentially unfolded regions, and comprising BRCT, Myb and RCT well-structured domains. Here, we present the architectures of Rap1 and a Rap1/DNA complex, built through a step-by-step integration of small angle X-ray scattering, X-ray crystallography and nuclear magnetic resonance data. Our results reveal Rap1 structural adjustment upon DNA binding that involves a specific orientation of the C-terminal (RCT) domain with regard to the DNA binding domain (DBD). Crystal structure of DBD in complex with a long DNA identifies an essential wrapping loop, which constrains the orientation of the RCT and affects Rap1 affinity to DNA. Based on our structural information, we propose a model for Rap1 assembly at telomere.
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- Béatrice Matot
- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Institut de Biologie et Technologie de Saclay, Laboratoire de Biologie Structurale et Radiobiologie, CNRS-URA2096, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Institut de Radiobiologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire, Service Instabilité Génétique Réparation et Recombinaison, Laboratoire Télomère et Réparation du Chromosome, 92260 Fontenay-aux-roses, SOLEIL Synchrotron, L'Orme des Merisiers Saint-Aubin, Gif-sur-Yvette, Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire, UPR4301, CNRS, rue Charles Sadron, 45071 Orléans cedex 02, Institut Pasteur, CNRS-URA2185, Plate-forme 6, Cristallogenèse et Diffraction des Rayons X, 25 Rue Dr. Roux, 75724 Paris and Institut Pasteur, Plateforme de Biophysique des Macromolécules et de leurs Interactions, Département de Biologie Structurale et Chimie, F-75015 Paris, France
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- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Institut de Biologie et Technologie de Saclay, Laboratoire de Biologie Structurale et Radiobiologie, CNRS-URA2096, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Institut de Radiobiologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire, Service Instabilité Génétique Réparation et Recombinaison, Laboratoire Télomère et Réparation du Chromosome, 92260 Fontenay-aux-roses, SOLEIL Synchrotron, L'Orme des Merisiers Saint-Aubin, Gif-sur-Yvette, Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire, UPR4301, CNRS, rue Charles Sadron, 45071 Orléans cedex 02, Institut Pasteur, CNRS-URA2185, Plate-forme 6, Cristallogenèse et Diffraction des Rayons X, 25 Rue Dr. Roux, 75724 Paris and Institut Pasteur, Plateforme de Biophysique des Macromolécules et de leurs Interactions, Département de Biologie Structurale et Chimie, F-75015 Paris, France
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- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Institut de Biologie et Technologie de Saclay, Laboratoire de Biologie Structurale et Radiobiologie, CNRS-URA2096, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Institut de Radiobiologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire, Service Instabilité Génétique Réparation et Recombinaison, Laboratoire Télomère et Réparation du Chromosome, 92260 Fontenay-aux-roses, SOLEIL Synchrotron, L'Orme des Merisiers Saint-Aubin, Gif-sur-Yvette, Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire, UPR4301, CNRS, rue Charles Sadron, 45071 Orléans cedex 02, Institut Pasteur, CNRS-URA2185, Plate-forme 6, Cristallogenèse et Diffraction des Rayons X, 25 Rue Dr. Roux, 75724 Paris and Institut Pasteur, Plateforme de Biophysique des Macromolécules et de leurs Interactions, Département de Biologie Structurale et Chimie, F-75015 Paris, France
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- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Institut de Biologie et Technologie de Saclay, Laboratoire de Biologie Structurale et Radiobiologie, CNRS-URA2096, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Institut de Radiobiologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire, Service Instabilité Génétique Réparation et Recombinaison, Laboratoire Télomère et Réparation du Chromosome, 92260 Fontenay-aux-roses, SOLEIL Synchrotron, L'Orme des Merisiers Saint-Aubin, Gif-sur-Yvette, Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire, UPR4301, CNRS, rue Charles Sadron, 45071 Orléans cedex 02, Institut Pasteur, CNRS-URA2185, Plate-forme 6, Cristallogenèse et Diffraction des Rayons X, 25 Rue Dr. Roux, 75724 Paris and Institut Pasteur, Plateforme de Biophysique des Macromolécules et de leurs Interactions, Département de Biologie Structurale et Chimie, F-75015 Paris, France
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- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Institut de Biologie et Technologie de Saclay, Laboratoire de Biologie Structurale et Radiobiologie, CNRS-URA2096, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Institut de Radiobiologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire, Service Instabilité Génétique Réparation et Recombinaison, Laboratoire Télomère et Réparation du Chromosome, 92260 Fontenay-aux-roses, SOLEIL Synchrotron, L'Orme des Merisiers Saint-Aubin, Gif-sur-Yvette, Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire, UPR4301, CNRS, rue Charles Sadron, 45071 Orléans cedex 02, Institut Pasteur, CNRS-URA2185, Plate-forme 6, Cristallogenèse et Diffraction des Rayons X, 25 Rue Dr. Roux, 75724 Paris and Institut Pasteur, Plateforme de Biophysique des Macromolécules et de leurs Interactions, Département de Biologie Structurale et Chimie, F-75015 Paris, France
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- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Institut de Biologie et Technologie de Saclay, Laboratoire de Biologie Structurale et Radiobiologie, CNRS-URA2096, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Institut de Radiobiologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire, Service Instabilité Génétique Réparation et Recombinaison, Laboratoire Télomère et Réparation du Chromosome, 92260 Fontenay-aux-roses, SOLEIL Synchrotron, L'Orme des Merisiers Saint-Aubin, Gif-sur-Yvette, Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire, UPR4301, CNRS, rue Charles Sadron, 45071 Orléans cedex 02, Institut Pasteur, CNRS-URA2185, Plate-forme 6, Cristallogenèse et Diffraction des Rayons X, 25 Rue Dr. Roux, 75724 Paris and Institut Pasteur, Plateforme de Biophysique des Macromolécules et de leurs Interactions, Département de Biologie Structurale et Chimie, F-75015 Paris, France
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- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Institut de Biologie et Technologie de Saclay, Laboratoire de Biologie Structurale et Radiobiologie, CNRS-URA2096, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Institut de Radiobiologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire, Service Instabilité Génétique Réparation et Recombinaison, Laboratoire Télomère et Réparation du Chromosome, 92260 Fontenay-aux-roses, SOLEIL Synchrotron, L'Orme des Merisiers Saint-Aubin, Gif-sur-Yvette, Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire, UPR4301, CNRS, rue Charles Sadron, 45071 Orléans cedex 02, Institut Pasteur, CNRS-URA2185, Plate-forme 6, Cristallogenèse et Diffraction des Rayons X, 25 Rue Dr. Roux, 75724 Paris and Institut Pasteur, Plateforme de Biophysique des Macromolécules et de leurs Interactions, Département de Biologie Structurale et Chimie, F-75015 Paris, France
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- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Institut de Biologie et Technologie de Saclay, Laboratoire de Biologie Structurale et Radiobiologie, CNRS-URA2096, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Institut de Radiobiologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire, Service Instabilité Génétique Réparation et Recombinaison, Laboratoire Télomère et Réparation du Chromosome, 92260 Fontenay-aux-roses, SOLEIL Synchrotron, L'Orme des Merisiers Saint-Aubin, Gif-sur-Yvette, Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire, UPR4301, CNRS, rue Charles Sadron, 45071 Orléans cedex 02, Institut Pasteur, CNRS-URA2185, Plate-forme 6, Cristallogenèse et Diffraction des Rayons X, 25 Rue Dr. Roux, 75724 Paris and Institut Pasteur, Plateforme de Biophysique des Macromolécules et de leurs Interactions, Département de Biologie Structurale et Chimie, F-75015 Paris, France
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- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Institut de Biologie et Technologie de Saclay, Laboratoire de Biologie Structurale et Radiobiologie, CNRS-URA2096, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Institut de Radiobiologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire, Service Instabilité Génétique Réparation et Recombinaison, Laboratoire Télomère et Réparation du Chromosome, 92260 Fontenay-aux-roses, SOLEIL Synchrotron, L'Orme des Merisiers Saint-Aubin, Gif-sur-Yvette, Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire, UPR4301, CNRS, rue Charles Sadron, 45071 Orléans cedex 02, Institut Pasteur, CNRS-URA2185, Plate-forme 6, Cristallogenèse et Diffraction des Rayons X, 25 Rue Dr. Roux, 75724 Paris and Institut Pasteur, Plateforme de Biophysique des Macromolécules et de leurs Interactions, Département de Biologie Structurale et Chimie, F-75015 Paris, France
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- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Institut de Biologie et Technologie de Saclay, Laboratoire de Biologie Structurale et Radiobiologie, CNRS-URA2096, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Institut de Radiobiologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire, Service Instabilité Génétique Réparation et Recombinaison, Laboratoire Télomère et Réparation du Chromosome, 92260 Fontenay-aux-roses, SOLEIL Synchrotron, L'Orme des Merisiers Saint-Aubin, Gif-sur-Yvette, Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire, UPR4301, CNRS, rue Charles Sadron, 45071 Orléans cedex 02, Institut Pasteur, CNRS-URA2185, Plate-forme 6, Cristallogenèse et Diffraction des Rayons X, 25 Rue Dr. Roux, 75724 Paris and Institut Pasteur, Plateforme de Biophysique des Macromolécules et de leurs Interactions, Département de Biologie Structurale et Chimie, F-75015 Paris, France
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- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Institut de Biologie et Technologie de Saclay, Laboratoire de Biologie Structurale et Radiobiologie, CNRS-URA2096, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Institut de Radiobiologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire, Service Instabilité Génétique Réparation et Recombinaison, Laboratoire Télomère et Réparation du Chromosome, 92260 Fontenay-aux-roses, SOLEIL Synchrotron, L'Orme des Merisiers Saint-Aubin, Gif-sur-Yvette, Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire, UPR4301, CNRS, rue Charles Sadron, 45071 Orléans cedex 02, Institut Pasteur, CNRS-URA2185, Plate-forme 6, Cristallogenèse et Diffraction des Rayons X, 25 Rue Dr. Roux, 75724 Paris and Institut Pasteur, Plateforme de Biophysique des Macromolécules et de leurs Interactions, Département de Biologie Structurale et Chimie, F-75015 Paris, France
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- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Institut de Biologie et Technologie de Saclay, Laboratoire de Biologie Structurale et Radiobiologie, CNRS-URA2096, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Institut de Radiobiologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire, Service Instabilité Génétique Réparation et Recombinaison, Laboratoire Télomère et Réparation du Chromosome, 92260 Fontenay-aux-roses, SOLEIL Synchrotron, L'Orme des Merisiers Saint-Aubin, Gif-sur-Yvette, Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire, UPR4301, CNRS, rue Charles Sadron, 45071 Orléans cedex 02, Institut Pasteur, CNRS-URA2185, Plate-forme 6, Cristallogenèse et Diffraction des Rayons X, 25 Rue Dr. Roux, 75724 Paris and Institut Pasteur, Plateforme de Biophysique des Macromolécules et de leurs Interactions, Département de Biologie Structurale et Chimie, F-75015 Paris, France
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Bregman A, Avraham-Kelbert M, Barkai O, Duek L, Guterman A, Choder M. Promoter elements regulate cytoplasmic mRNA decay. Cell 2012; 147:1473-83. [PMID: 22196725 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2011.12.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 136] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2011] [Revised: 09/14/2011] [Accepted: 12/06/2011] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Promoters are DNA elements that enable transcription and its regulation by trans-acting factors. Here, we demonstrate that yeast promoters can also regulate mRNA decay after the mRNA leaves the nucleus. A conventional yeast promoter consists of a core element and an upstream activating sequence (UAS). We find that changing UASs of a reporter gene without altering the transcript sequence affects the transcript's decay kinetics. A short cis element, comprising two Rap1p-binding sites, and Rap1p itself, are necessary and sufficient to induce enhanced decay of the reporter mRNA. Furthermore, Rap1p stimulates both the synthesis and the decay of a specific population of endogenous mRNAs. We propose that Rap1p association with target promoter in the nucleus affects the composition of the exported mRNP, which in turn regulates mRNA decay in the cytoplasm. Thus, promoters can play key roles in determining mRNA levels and have the capacity to coordinate rates of mRNA synthesis and decay.
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- Almog Bregman
- Department of Molecular Microbiology, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 31096, Israel
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Romagnoli G, Cundari E, Negri R, Crescenzi M, Farina L, Giuliani A, Bianchi MM. Synchronous protein cycling in batch cultures of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae at log growth phase. Exp Cell Res 2011; 317:2958-68. [DOI: 10.1016/j.yexcr.2011.09.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2011] [Revised: 09/09/2011] [Accepted: 09/12/2011] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Novel transcript truncating function of Rap1p revealed by synthetic codon-optimized Ty1 retrotransposon. Genetics 2011; 190:523-35. [PMID: 22135353 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.111.136648] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Extensive mutagenesis via massive recoding of retrotransposon Ty1 produced a synthetic codon-optimized retrotransposon (CO-Ty1). CO-Ty1 is defective for retrotransposition, suggesting a sequence capable of down-regulating retrotransposition. We mapped this sequence to a critical ~20-bp region within CO-Ty1 reverse transcriptase (RT) and confirmed that it reduced Ty1 transposition, protein, and RNA levels. Repression was not Ty1 specific; when introduced immediately downstream of the green fluorescent protein (GFP) stop codon, GFP expression was similarly reduced. Rap1p mediated this down-regulation, as shown by mutagenesis and chromatin immunoprecipitation. A regular threefold drop is observed in different contexts, suggesting utility for synthetic circuits. A large reduction of RNAP II occupancy on the CO-Ty1 construct was observed 3' to the identified Rap1p site and a novel 3' truncated RNA species was observed. We propose a novel mechanism of transcriptional regulation by Rap1p whereby it serves as a transcriptional roadblock when bound to transcription unit sequences.
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Xiao L, Grove A. Coordination of Ribosomal Protein and Ribosomal RNA Gene Expression in Response to TOR Signaling. Curr Genomics 2011; 10:198-205. [PMID: 19881913 PMCID: PMC2705853 DOI: 10.2174/138920209788185261] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2009] [Revised: 03/04/2009] [Accepted: 03/06/2009] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Cells grow in response to nutrients or growth factors, whose presence is detected and communicated by elaborate signaling pathways. Protein kinases play crucial roles in processes such as cell cycle progression and gene expression, and misregulation of such pathways has been correlated with various diseased states. Signals intended to promote cell growth converge on ribosome biogenesis, as the ability to produce cellular proteins is intimately tied to cell growth. Part of the response to growth signals is therefore the coordinate expression of genes encoding ribosomal RNA (rRNA) and ribosomal proteins (RP). A key player in regulating cell growth is the Target of Rapamycin (TOR) kinase, one of the gatekeepers that prevent cell cycle progression from G1 to S under conditions of nutritional stress. TOR is structurally and functionally conserved in all eukaryotes. Under favorable growth conditions, TOR is active and cells maintain a robust rate of ribosome biogenesis, translation initiation and nutrient import. Under stress conditions, TOR signaling is suppressed, leading to cell cycle arrest, while the failure of TOR to respond appropriately to environmental or nutritional signals leads to uncontrolled cell growth. Emerging evidence from Saccharomyces cerevisiae indicates that High Mobility Group (HMGB) proteins, non-sequence-specific chromosomal proteins, participate in mediating responses to growth signals. As HMGB proteins are distinguished by their ability to alter DNA topology, they frequently function in the assembly of higher-order nucleoprotein complexes. We review here recent evidence, which suggests that HMGB proteins may function to coordinate TOR-dependent regulation of rRNA and RP gene expression.
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- Lijuan Xiao
- Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA
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Kasahara K, Ohyama Y, Kokubo T. Hmo1 directs pre-initiation complex assembly to an appropriate site on its target gene promoters by masking a nucleosome-free region. Nucleic Acids Res 2011; 39:4136-50. [PMID: 21288884 PMCID: PMC3105432 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq1334] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Saccharomyces cerevisiae Hmo1 binds to the promoters of ∼70% of ribosomal protein genes (RPGs) at high occupancy, but is observed at lower occupancy on the remaining RPG promoters. In Δhmo1 cells, the transcription start site (TSS) of the Hmo1-enriched RPS5 promoter shifted upstream, while the TSS of the Hmo1-limited RPL10 promoter did not shift. Analyses of chimeric RPS5/RPL10 promoters revealed a region between the RPS5 upstream activating sequence (UAS) and core promoter, termed the intervening region (IVR), responsible for strong Hmo1 binding and an upstream TSS shift in Δhmo1 cells. Chromatin immunoprecipitation analyses showed that the RPS5-IVR resides within a nucleosome-free region and that pre-initiation complex (PIC) assembly occurs at a site between the IVR and a nucleosome overlapping the TSS (+1 nucleosome). The PIC assembly site was shifted upstream in Δhmo1 cells on this promoter, indicating that Hmo1 normally masks the RPS5-IVR to prevent PIC assembly at inappropriate site(s). This novel mechanism ensures accurate transcriptional initiation by delineating the 5′- and 3′-boundaries of the PIC assembly zone.
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- Koji Kasahara
- Division of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Graduate School of Nanobioscience, Yokohama City University, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan.
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Joo YJ, Kim JH, Kang UB, Yu MH, Kim J. Gcn4p-mediated transcriptional repression of ribosomal protein genes under amino-acid starvation. EMBO J 2010; 30:859-72. [PMID: 21183953 DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2010.332] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2010] [Accepted: 11/16/2010] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Gcn4p is a well-characterized bZIP transcription factor that activates more than 500 genes encoding amino acids and purine biosynthesis enzymes, and many stress-response genes under various stress conditions. Under these stresses, it had been shown that transcriptions of ribosomal protein (RP) genes were decreased. However, the detailed mechanism of this downregulation has not been elucidated. In this study, we present a novel mechanistic model for a repressive role of Gcn4p on RP transcription, especially under amino-acid starvation. It was found that Gcn4p bound directly to Rap1p, which in turn inhibited Esa1p-Rap1p binding. The inhibition of Esa1p recruitment to RP promoters ultimately reduced the level of histone H4 acetylation and RP transcription. These data revealed that Gcn4p has simultaneous dual roles as a repressor for RP genes as well as an activator for amino-acid biosynthesis genes. Moreover, our results showed evidence of a novel link between general control of amino-acid biosynthesis and ribosome biogenesis mediated by Gcn4p at an early stage of adaptation to amino-acid starvation.
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- Yoo Jin Joo
- Laboratory of Biochemistry, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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Seitz SB, Voytsekh O, Mohan KM, Mittag M. The role of an E-box element: multiple frunctions and interacting partners. PLANT SIGNALING & BEHAVIOR 2010; 5:1077-80. [PMID: 20818183 PMCID: PMC3115072 DOI: 10.4161/psb.5.9.12564] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Circadian clocks can be entrained by light-dark or temperature cycles. In the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, 12h changes in temperature between 18°C and 28°C synchronize its clock. Both subunits of the circadian RNA-binding protein CHLAMY1, named C1 and C3, are able to integrate temperature information. C1 gets hyper-phosphorylated in cells grown at 18°C and the level of C3 is up-regulated at this temperature. In the long period mutant per1, where temperature entrainment is disturbed, the temperature-dependent regulation of C1 and C3 is altered. Up-regulation of C3 at the low temperature is mediated predominantly by an E-box element situated in its promoter region. This cis-acting element is also relevant for circadian expression of c3 as well as of its up-regulation in cells, where C1 is overexpressed. Among the few identified factors interacting with the E-box region, C3 is also present, suggesting that it feedbacks on its own transcription.
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- Institut für Allgemeine Botanik und Pflanzenphysiologie; Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena; Jena, Germany
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Telomere capping in non-dividing yeast cells requires Yku and Rap1. EMBO J 2010; 29:3007-19. [PMID: 20628356 DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2010.155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2009] [Accepted: 06/18/2010] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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The assembly of a protective cap onto the telomeres of eukaryotic chromosomes suppresses genomic instability through inhibition of DNA repair activities that normally process accidental DNA breaks. We show here that the essential Cdc13-Stn1-Ten1 complex is entirely dispensable for telomere protection in non-dividing cells. However, Yku and Rap1 become crucially important for this function in these cells. After inactivation of Yku70 in G1-arrested cells, moderate but significant telomere degradation occurs. As the activity of cyclin-dependent kinases (CDK) promotes degradation, these results suggest that Yku stabilizes G1 telomeres by blocking the access of CDK1-independent nucleases to telomeres. The results indeed show that both Exo1 and the Mre11/Rad50/Xrs2 complex are required for telomeric resection after Yku loss in non-dividing cells. Unexpectedly, both asynchronously growing and quiescent G0 cells lacking Rap1 display readily detectable telomere degradation, suggesting an earlier unanticipated function for this protein in suppression of nuclease activities at telomeres. Together, our results show a high flexibility of the telomeric cap and suggest that distinct configurations may provide for efficient capping in dividing versus non-dividing cells.
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Lavoie H, Hogues H, Mallick J, Sellam A, Nantel A, Whiteway M. Evolutionary tinkering with conserved components of a transcriptional regulatory network. PLoS Biol 2010; 8:e1000329. [PMID: 20231876 PMCID: PMC2834713 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000329] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2009] [Accepted: 02/03/2010] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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A surprising level of evolutionary plasticity is revealed by analysis of differences between related yeasts in the mechanisms regulating the essential cellular process of ribosomal gene expression. Gene expression variation between species is a major contributor to phenotypic diversity, yet the underlying flexibility of transcriptional regulatory networks remains largely unexplored. Transcription of the ribosomal regulon is a critical task for all cells; in S. cerevisiae the transcription factors Rap1, Fhl1, Ifh1, and Hmo1 form a multi-subunit complex that controls ribosomal gene expression, while in C. albicans this regulation is under the control of Tbf1 and Cbf1. Here, we analyzed, using full-genome transcription factor mapping, the roles, in both S. cerevisiae and C. albicans, of each orthologous component of this complete set of regulators. We observe dramatic changes in the binding profiles of the generalist regulators Cbf1, Hmo1, Rap1, and Tbf1, while the Fhl1-Ifh1 dimer is the only component involved in ribosomal regulation in both fungi: it activates ribosomal protein genes and rDNA expression in a Tbf1-dependent manner in C. albicans and a Rap1-dependent manner in S. cerevisiae. We show that the transcriptional regulatory network governing the ribosomal expression program of two related yeast species has been massively reshaped in cis and trans. Changes occurred in transcription factor wiring with cellular functions, movements in transcription factor hierarchies, DNA-binding specificity, and regulatory complexes assembly to promote global changes in the architecture of the fungal transcriptional regulatory network. Conserved metabolic machineries direct energy production and investment in most life forms. However, variation in the transcriptional regulation of the genes that encode this machinery has been observed and shown to contribute to phenotypic differences between species. Here, we show that the regulatory circuits governing the expression of central metabolic components (in this case the ribosomes) in different yeast species have an unexpected level of evolutionary plasticity. Most transcription factors involved in the regulation of expression of ribosomal genes have in fact been reused in new ways during the evolutionary time separating S. cerevisiae and C. albicans to generate global changes in transcriptional network structures and new ribosomal regulatory complexes.
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- Hugo Lavoie
- Biotechnology Research Institute, National Research Council, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Biotechnology Research Institute, National Research Council, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Biotechnology Research Institute, National Research Council, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Biotechnology Research Institute, National Research Council, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Biotechnology Research Institute, National Research Council, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Biotechnology Research Institute, National Research Council, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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The cellular role of the Ada2 coactivator is currently understood in the context of the SAGA histone acetyltransferase (HAT) complex, where Ada2 increases the HAT activity of Gcn5 and interacts with transcriptional activators. Here we report a new function for Ada2 in promoting transcriptional silencing at telomeres and ribosomal DNA. This silencing function is the first characterized role for Ada2 distinct from its involvement with Gcn5. Ada2 binds telomeric chromatin and the silencing protein Sir2 in vivo. Loss of ADA2 causes the spreading of Sir2 and Sir3 into subtelomeric regions and decreased histone H4 K16 acetylation. This previously uncharacterized boundary activity of Ada2 is functionally similar to, but mechanistically distinct from, that of the MYST family HAT Sas2. Mounting evidence in the literature indicates that boundary activities create chromosomal domains important for regulating gene expression in response to environmental changes. Consistent with this, we show that upon nutritional changes, Ada2 occupancy increases at a subtelomeric region proximal to a SAGA-inducible gene and causes derepression of a silenced telomeric reporter gene. Thus, Ada2, likely in the context of SAGA, is positioned at chromosomal termini to participate in both transcriptional repression and activation in response to nutrient signaling.
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Pelechano V, Jimeno-González S, Rodríguez-Gil A, García-Martínez J, Pérez-Ortín JE, Chávez S. Regulon-specific control of transcription elongation across the yeast genome. PLoS Genet 2009; 5:e1000614. [PMID: 19696888 PMCID: PMC2721418 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000614] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2009] [Accepted: 07/24/2009] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Transcription elongation by RNA polymerase II was often considered an invariant non-regulated process. However, genome-wide studies have shown that transcriptional pausing during elongation is a frequent phenomenon in tightly-regulated metazoan genes. Using a combination of ChIP-on-chip and genomic run-on approaches, we found that the proportion of transcriptionally active RNA polymerase II (active versus total) present throughout the yeast genome is characteristic of some functional gene classes, like those related to ribosomes and mitochondria. This proportion also responds to regulatory stimuli mediated by protein kinase A and, in relation to cytosolic ribosomal-protein genes, it is mediated by the silencing domain of Rap1. We found that this inactive form of RNA polymerase II, which accumulates along the full length of ribosomal protein genes, is phosphorylated in the Ser5 residue of the CTD, but is hypophosphorylated in Ser2. Using the same experimental approach, we show that the in vivo–depletion of FACT, a chromatin-related elongation factor, also produces a regulon-specific effect on the expression of the yeast genome. This work demonstrates that the regulation of transcription elongation is a widespread, gene class–dependent phenomenon that also affects housekeeping genes. Transcription of DNA–encoded information into RNA is the first step in gene regulation. RNA polymerases initiate transcription at the promoter region and elongate the transcripts traveling throughout the gene until reaching the termination sequences. Classical models of transcriptional regulation were focused on the initiation step, but there is increasing evidence for gene regulation after initiation. We have investigated the importance of elongation in gene regulation using the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, one of the main experimental systems in modern biology. By comparing the genomic distribution of RNA polymerase molecules with the actual transcriptional signal across the genome, we have detected that many genes are regulated at the elongation level. We show that yeast cells use this step to modulate the expression of several groups of genes, which have to be simultaneously regulated in a very coordinated manner. Genes encoding essential functions, like those related to protein synthesis and respiration, change their transcriptional activities in response to environmental stimuli, without changing in the same extension the amount of RNA polymerase that is physically associated to them. We also show that this kind of regulation, in spite of taking place during the elongation step, can be mediated by promoter-binding transcription factors.
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- Vicent Pelechano
- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Universitat de València, Burjassot, Spain
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- Sección de Chips de DNA, Servei Central de Suport a la Investigació, Universitat de València, Burjassot, Spain
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- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Universitat de València, Burjassot, Spain
- * E-mail: (JEPO); (SC)
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- Departamento de Genética, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
- * E-mail: (JEPO); (SC)
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Distinct differences in chromatin structure at subtelomeric X and Y' elements in budding yeast. PLoS One 2009; 4:e6363. [PMID: 19626119 PMCID: PMC2709909 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006363] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2009] [Accepted: 06/21/2009] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, all ends of telomeric DNA contain telomeric repeats of (TG(1-3)), but the number and position of subtelomeric X and Y' repeat elements vary. Using chromatin immunoprecipitation and genome-wide analyses, we here demonstrate that the subtelomeric X and Y' elements have distinct structural and functional properties. Y' elements are transcriptionally active and highly enriched in nucleosomes, whereas X elements are repressed and devoid of nucleosomes. In contrast to X elements, the Y' elements also lack the classical hallmarks of heterochromatin, such as high Sir3 and Rap1 occupancy as well as low levels of histone H4 lysine 16 acetylation. Our analyses suggest that the presence of X and Y' elements govern chromatin structure and transcription activity at individual chromosome ends.
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Andreopoulos B, Winter C, Labudde D, Schroeder M. Triangle network motifs predict complexes by complementing high-error interactomes with structural information. BMC Bioinformatics 2009; 10:196. [PMID: 19558694 PMCID: PMC2714575 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-10-196] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2009] [Accepted: 06/27/2009] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Background A lot of high-throughput studies produce protein-protein interaction networks (PPINs) with many errors and missing information. Even for genome-wide approaches, there is often a low overlap between PPINs produced by different studies. Second-level neighbors separated by two protein-protein interactions (PPIs) were previously used for predicting protein function and finding complexes in high-error PPINs. We retrieve second level neighbors in PPINs, and complement these with structural domain-domain interactions (SDDIs) representing binding evidence on proteins, forming PPI-SDDI-PPI triangles. Results We find low overlap between PPINs, SDDIs and known complexes, all well below 10%. We evaluate the overlap of PPI-SDDI-PPI triangles with known complexes from Munich Information center for Protein Sequences (MIPS). PPI-SDDI-PPI triangles have ~20 times higher overlap with MIPS complexes than using second-level neighbors in PPINs without SDDIs. The biological interpretation for triangles is that a SDDI causes two proteins to be observed with common interaction partners in high-throughput experiments. The relatively few SDDIs overlapping with PPINs are part of highly connected SDDI components, and are more likely to be detected in experimental studies. We demonstrate the utility of PPI-SDDI-PPI triangles by reconstructing myosin-actin processes in the nucleus, cytoplasm, and cytoskeleton, which were not obvious in the original PPIN. Using other complementary datatypes in place of SDDIs to form triangles, such as PubMed co-occurrences or threading information, results in a similar ability to find protein complexes. Conclusion Given high-error PPINs with missing information, triangles of mixed datatypes are a promising direction for finding protein complexes. Integrating PPINs with SDDIs improves finding complexes. Structural SDDIs partially explain the high functional similarity of second-level neighbors in PPINs. We estimate that relatively little structural information would be sufficient for finding complexes involving most of the proteins and interactions in a typical PPIN.
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- Bill Andreopoulos
- Biotechnology Center (BIOTEC), Technische Universität Dresden, 01307 Dresden, Germany.
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Yang X, Figueiredo LM, Espinal A, Okubo E, Li B. RAP1 is essential for silencing telomeric variant surface glycoprotein genes in Trypanosoma brucei. Cell 2009; 137:99-109. [PMID: 19345190 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2009.01.037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 130] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2008] [Revised: 10/10/2008] [Accepted: 01/14/2009] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Trypanosoma brucei expresses variant surface glycoprotein (VSG) genes in a strictly monoallelic fashion in its mammalian hosts, but it is unclear how this important virulence mechanism is enforced. Telomere position effect, an epigenetic phenomenon, has been proposed to play a critical role in VSG regulation, yet no telomeric protein has been identified whose disruption led to VSG derepression. We now identify tbRAP1 as an intrinsic component of the T. brucei telomere complex and a major regulator for silencing VSG expression sites (ESs). Knockdown of tbRAP1 led to derepression of all VSGs in silent ESs, but not VSGs located elsewhere, and resulted in stronger derepression of genes located within 10 kb from telomeres than genes located further upstream. This graduated silencing pattern suggests that telomere integrity plays a key role in tbRAP1-dependent silencing and VSG regulation.
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- Xiaofeng Yang
- Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences, Center for Gene Regulation in Health and Diseases, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH 44115, USA
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Luke B, Panza A, Redon S, Iglesias N, Li Z, Lingner J. The Rat1p 5' to 3' exonuclease degrades telomeric repeat-containing RNA and promotes telomere elongation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mol Cell 2009; 32:465-77. [PMID: 19026778 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2008.10.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 233] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2008] [Revised: 07/21/2008] [Accepted: 10/28/2008] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Vertebrate telomeres are transcribed into telomeric repeat-containing RNA (TERRA) that associates with telomeres and may be important for telomere function. Here, we demonstrate that telomeres are also transcribed in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by RNA polymerase II (RNAPII). Yeast TERRA is polyadenylated and stabilized by Pap1p and regulated by the 5' to 3' exonuclease, Rat1p. rat1-1 mutant cells accumulate TERRA and harbor short telomeres because of defects in telomerase-mediated telomere elongation. Overexpression of RNaseH overcomes telomere elongation defects in rat1-1 cells, indicating that RNA/DNA hybrids inhibit telomerase function at chromosome ends in these mutants. Thus, telomeric transcription combined with Rat1p-dependent TERRA degradation is important for regulating telomerase in yeast. Telomere transcription is conserved in different kingdoms of the eukaryotic domain.
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- Brian Luke
- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research (ISREC), CH-1066 Epalinges, Switzerland
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Zhang T, Li D, Li W, Wang Y, Sang J. CaSfl1 plays a dual role in transcriptional regulation in Candida albicans. Sci Bull (Beijing) 2008. [DOI: 10.1007/s11434-008-0302-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Feeser EA, Wolberger C. Structural and functional studies of the Rap1 C-terminus reveal novel separation-of-function mutants. J Mol Biol 2008; 380:520-31. [PMID: 18538788 PMCID: PMC2516966 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2008.04.078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2008] [Revised: 04/25/2008] [Accepted: 04/29/2008] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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The yeast Rap1 protein plays an important role in transcriptional silencing and in telomere length homeostasis. Rap1 mediates silencing at the HM loci and at telomeres by recruiting the Sir3 and Sir4 proteins to chromatin via a Rap1 C-terminal domain, which also recruits the telomere length regulators, Rif1 and Rif2. We report the 1.85 A resolution crystal structure of the Rap1 C-terminus, which adopts an all-helical fold with no structural homologues. The structure was used to engineer surface mutations in Rap1, and the effects of these mutations on silencing and telomere length regulation were assayed in vivo. Our surprising finding was that there is no overlap between mutations affecting mating-type and telomeric silencing, suggesting that Rap1 plays distinct roles in silencing at the silent mating-type loci and telomeres. We also found novel Rap1 phenotypes and new separation-of-function mutants, which provide new tools for studying Rap1 function. Yeast two-hybrid studies were used to determine how specific mutations affect recruitment of Sir3, Rif1, and Rif2. A comparison of the yeast two-hybrid and functional data reveals patterns of protein interactions that correlate with each Rap1 phenotype. We find that Sir3 interactions are important for telomeric silencing, but not mating type silencing, and that Rif1 and Rif2 interactions are important in different subsets of telomeric length mutants. Our results show that the role of Rap1 in silencing differs between the HM loci and the telomeres and offer insight into the interplay between HM silencing, telomeric silencing, and telomere length regulation. These findings suggest a model in which competition and multiple recruitment events modulate silencing and telomere length regulation.
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- Elizabeth A Feeser
- Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205-2185, USA
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Yeast Rap1 contributes to genomic integrity by activating DNA damage repair genes. EMBO J 2008; 27:1575-84. [PMID: 18480842 DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2008.93] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2007] [Accepted: 04/14/2008] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Rap1 (repressor-activator protein 1) is a multifunctional protein that controls telomere function, silencing and the activation of glycolytic and ribosomal protein genes. We have identified a novel function for Rap1, regulating the ribonucleotide reductase (RNR) genes that are required for DNA repair and telomere expansion. Both the C terminus and DNA-binding domain of Rap1 are required for the activation of the RNR genes, and the phenotypes of different Rap1 mutants suggest that it utilizes both regions to carry out distinct steps in the activation process. Recruitment of Rap1 to the RNR3 gene is dependent on activation of the DNA damage checkpoint and chromatin remodelling by SWI/SNF. The dependence on SWI/SNF for binding suggests that Rap1 acts after remodelling to prevent the repositioning of nucleosomes back to the repressed state. Furthermore, the recruitment of Rap1 requires TAF(II)s, suggesting a role for TFIID in stabilizing activator binding in vivo. We propose that Rap1 acts as a rheostat controlling nucleotide pools in response to shortened telomeres and DNA damage, providing a mechanism for fine-tuning the RNR genes during checkpoint activation.
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Bendjennat M, Weil PA. The transcriptional repressor activator protein Rap1p is a direct regulator of TATA-binding protein. J Biol Chem 2008; 283:8699-710. [PMID: 18195009 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m709436200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Essentially all nuclear eukaryotic gene transcription depends upon the function of the transcription factor TATA-binding protein (TBP). Here we show that the abundant, multifunctional DNA binding transcription factor repressor activator protein Rap1p interacts directly with TBP. TBP-Rap1p binding occurs efficiently in vivo at physiological expression levels, and in vitro analyses confirm that this is a direct interaction. The DNA binding domains of the two proteins mediate interaction between TBP and Rap1p. TBP-Rap1p complex formation inhibits TBP binding to TATA promoter DNA. Alterations in either Rap1p or TBP levels modulate mRNA gene transcription in vivo. We propose that Rap1p represents a heretofore unrecognized regulator of TBP.
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- Mourad Bendjennat
- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University, School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232-0615, USA
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Hershman SG, Chen Q, Lee JY, Kozak ML, Yue P, Wang LS, Johnson FB. Genomic distribution and functional analyses of potential G-quadruplex-forming sequences in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Nucleic Acids Res 2008; 36:144-56. [PMID: 17999996 PMCID: PMC2248735 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm986] [Citation(s) in RCA: 223] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2007] [Revised: 10/14/2007] [Accepted: 10/19/2007] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Although well studied in vitro, the in vivo functions of G-quadruplexes (G4-DNA and G4-RNA) are only beginning to be defined. Recent studies have demonstrated enrichment for sequences with intramolecular G-quadruplex forming potential (QFP) in transcriptional promoters of humans, chickens and bacteria. Here we survey the yeast genome for QFP sequences and similarly find strong enrichment for these sequences in upstream promoter regions, as well as weaker but significant enrichment in open reading frames (ORFs). Further, four findings are consistent with roles for QFP sequences in transcriptional regulation. First, QFP is correlated with upstream promoter regions with low histone occupancy. Second, treatment of cells with N-methyl mesoporphyrin IX (NMM), which binds G-quadruplexes selectively in vitro, causes significant upregulation of loci with QFP-possessing promoters or ORFs. NMM also causes downregulation of loci connected with the function of the ribosomal DNA (rDNA), which itself has high QFP. Third, ORFs with QFP are selectively downregulated in sgs1 mutants that lack the G4-DNA-unwinding helicase Sgs1p. Fourth, a screen for yeast mutants that enhance or suppress growth inhibition by NMM revealed enrichment for chromatin and transcriptional regulators, as well as telomere maintenance factors. These findings raise the possibility that QFP sequences form bona fide G-quadruplexes in vivo and thus regulate transcription.
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- Steve G. Hershman
- College of Arts and Sciences and Vagelos Scholars Program, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate Program, Penn Center for Bioinformatics, and Penn Institute on Aging, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- College of Arts and Sciences and Vagelos Scholars Program, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate Program, Penn Center for Bioinformatics, and Penn Institute on Aging, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- College of Arts and Sciences and Vagelos Scholars Program, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate Program, Penn Center for Bioinformatics, and Penn Institute on Aging, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- College of Arts and Sciences and Vagelos Scholars Program, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate Program, Penn Center for Bioinformatics, and Penn Institute on Aging, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- College of Arts and Sciences and Vagelos Scholars Program, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate Program, Penn Center for Bioinformatics, and Penn Institute on Aging, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- College of Arts and Sciences and Vagelos Scholars Program, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate Program, Penn Center for Bioinformatics, and Penn Institute on Aging, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- College of Arts and Sciences and Vagelos Scholars Program, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate Program, Penn Center for Bioinformatics, and Penn Institute on Aging, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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Hattier T, Andrulis ED, Tartakoff AM. Immobility, inheritance and plasticity of shape of the yeast nucleus. BMC Cell Biol 2007; 8:47. [PMID: 17996101 PMCID: PMC2222239 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2121-8-47] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2007] [Accepted: 11/09/2007] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Background Since S. cerevisiae undergoes closed mitosis, the nuclear envelope of the daughter nucleus is continuous with that of the maternal nucleus at anaphase. Nevertheless, several constitutents of the maternal nucleus are not present in the daughter nucleus. The present study aims to identify proteins which impact the shape of the yeast nucleus and to learn whether modifications of shape are passed on to the next mitotic generation. The Esc1p protein of S. cerevisiae localizes to the periphery of the nucleoplasm, can anchor chromatin, and has been implicated in targeted silencing both at telomeres and at HMR. Results Upon increased Esc1p expression, cell division continues and dramatic elaborations of the nuclear envelope extend into the cytoplasm. These "escapades" include nuclear pores and associate with the nucleolus, but exclude chromatin. Escapades are not inherited by daughter nuclei. This exclusion reflects their relative immobility, which we document in studies of prezygotes. Moreover, excess Esc1p affects the levels of multiple transcripts, not all of which originate at telomere-proximal loci. Unlike Esc1p and the colocalizing protein, Mlp1p, overexpression of selected proteins of the inner nuclear membrane is toxic. Conclusion Esc1p is the first non-membrane protein of the nuclear periphery which – like proteins of the nuclear lamina of higher eukaryotes – can modify the shape of the yeast nucleus. The elaborations of the nuclear envelope ("escapades") which appear upon induction of excess Esc1p are not inherited during mitotic growth. The lack of inheritance of such components could help sustain cell growth when parental nuclei have acquired potentially deleterious characteristics.
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- Thomas Hattier
- Cell Biology Program, Case Western Reserve University, 10700 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH, 44106 USA.
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Liko D, Slattery MG, Heideman W. Stb3 binds to ribosomal RNA processing element motifs that control transcriptional responses to growth in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. J Biol Chem 2007; 282:26623-8. [PMID: 17616518 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m704762200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Transfer of quiescent Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells to fresh medium rapidly induces hundreds of genes needed for growth. A large subset of these genes is regulated via a DNA sequence motif known as the ribosomal RNA processing element (RRPE). However, no RRPE-binding proteins have been identified. We screened a panel of 6144 glutathione S-transferase-open reading frame fusions for RRPE-binding proteins and identified Stb3 as a specific RRPE-binding protein, both in vitro and in vivo. Chromatin immunoprecipitation experiments showed that glucose increases Stb3 binding to RRPE-containing promoters. Microarray experiments demonstrated that the loss of Stb3 inhibits the transcriptional response to fresh glucose, especially for genes with RRPE motifs. However, these experiments also showed that not all genes containing RRPEs were dependent on Stb3 for expression. Overall our data support a model in which Stb3 plays an important but not exclusive role in the transcriptional response to growth conditions.
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- Dritan Liko
- Department of Biomolecular Chemistry, School of Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53705, USA
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Galeote VA, Alexandre H, Bach B, Delobel P, Dequin S, Blondin B. Sfl1p acts as an activator of the HSP30 gene in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Curr Genet 2007; 52:55-63. [PMID: 17594096 DOI: 10.1007/s00294-007-0136-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2006] [Revised: 05/22/2007] [Accepted: 05/23/2007] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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In the yeast, environmental challenges are known to induce both specific and general stress response. The HSP30 gene is strongly induced when cells are exposed to various stresses but this activation is largely independent of the major stress-related transcription factor Hsf1p and partly independent from Msn2p/Msn4p. In order to identify new potential regulators of HSP30 we isolated insertion mutants affected in HSP30 expression. We identified SFL1 gene encoding a protein previously shown to repress several genes. We show that Sfl1 is involved in the transcriptional activation of HSP30. Mutation of sfl1 reduces HSP30-lacZ expression under both basal and stress-induced conditions. We also show, using site-directed mutagenesis, that HSL motifs (Heat-Shock-Like putative DNA binding sequence) located in HSP30 promoter are required for HSP30 activation. Finally, a genome-wide analysis of the effects of SFL1 deletion on gene expression revealed that Sfl1p controls the expression of a small number of genes, with some being activated by the protein and others repressed. As a whole our data show that Sfl1p is a key component of the transcriptional control of the stress responsive gene HSP30. Moreover, we show that Sfl1, which was previously described as being a transcriptional repressor, can also act as an activator.
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Holloway DT, Kon M, DeLisi C. Machine learning for regulatory analysis and transcription factor target prediction in yeast. SYSTEMS AND SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY 2007; 1:25-46. [PMID: 19003435 PMCID: PMC2533145 DOI: 10.1007/s11693-006-9003-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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High throughput technologies, including array-based chromatin immunoprecipitation, have rapidly increased our knowledge of transcriptional maps-the identity and location of regulatory binding sites within genomes. Still, the full identification of sites, even in lower eukaryotes, remains largely incomplete. In this paper we develop a supervised learning approach to site identification using support vector machines (SVMs) to combine 26 different data types. A comparison with the standard approach to site identification using position specific scoring matrices (PSSMs) for a set of 104 Saccharomyces cerevisiae regulators indicates that our SVM-based target classification is more sensitive (73 vs. 20%) when specificity and positive predictive value are the same. We have applied our SVM classifier for each transcriptional regulator to all promoters in the yeast genome to obtain thousands of new targets, which are currently being analyzed and refined to limit the risk of classifier over-fitting. For the purpose of illustration we discuss several results, including biochemical pathway predictions for Gcn4 and Rap1. For both transcription factors SVM predictions match well with the known biology of control mechanisms, and possible new roles for these factors are suggested, such as a function for Rap1 in regulating fermentative growth. We also examine the promoter melting temperature curves for the targets of YJR060W, and show that targets of this TF have potentially unique physical properties which distinguish them from other genes. The SVM output automatically provides the means to rank dataset features to identify important biological elements. We use this property to rank classifying k-mers, thereby reconstructing known binding sites for several TFs, and to rank expression experiments, determining the conditions under which Fhl1, the factor responsible for expression of ribosomal protein genes, is active. We can see that targets of Fhl1 are differentially expressed in the chosen conditions as compared to the expression of average and negative set genes. SVM-based classifiers provide a robust framework for analysis of regulatory networks. Processing of classifier outputs can provide high quality predictions and biological insight into functions of particular transcription factors. Future work on this method will focus on increasing the accuracy and quality of predictions using feature reduction and clustering strategies. Since predictions have been made on only 104 TFs in yeast, new classifiers will be built for the remaining 100 factors which have available binding data.
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- Dustin T. Holloway
- Molecular Biology Cell Biology and Biochemistry, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215 USA
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- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215 USA
- Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215 USA
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- Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215 USA
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van Vugt JJFA, Ranes M, Campsteijn C, Logie C. The ins and outs of ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling in budding yeast: biophysical and proteomic perspectives. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007; 1769:153-71. [PMID: 17395283 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbaexp.2007.01.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2006] [Revised: 01/22/2007] [Accepted: 01/29/2007] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling is performed by multi-subunit protein complexes. Over the last years, the identity of these factors has been unveiled in yeast and many parallels have been drawn with animal and plant systems, indicating that sophisticated chromatin transactions evolved prior to their divergence. Here we review current knowledge pertaining to the molecular mode of action of ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling, from single molecule studies to genome-wide genetic and proteomic studies. We focus on the budding yeast versions of SWI/SNF, RSC, DDM1, ISWI, CHD1, INO80 and SWR1.
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- Joke J F A van Vugt
- Department of Molecular Biology, NCMLS, Radboud University, P.O. Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Garbett KA, Tripathi MK, Cencki B, Layer JH, Weil PA. Yeast TFIID serves as a coactivator for Rap1p by direct protein-protein interaction. Mol Cell Biol 2007; 27:297-311. [PMID: 17074814 PMCID: PMC1800639 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.01558-06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2006] [Revised: 09/06/2006] [Accepted: 10/13/2006] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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In vivo studies have previously shown that Saccharomyces cerevisiae ribosomal protein (RP) gene expression is controlled by the transcription factor repressor activator protein 1 (Rap1p) in a TFIID-dependent fashion. Here we have tested the hypothesis that yeast TFIID serves as a coactivator for RP gene transcription by directly interacting with Rap1p. We have found that purified recombinant Rap1p specifically interacts with purified TFIID in pull-down assays, and we have mapped the domains of Rap1p and subunits of TFIID responsible. In vitro transcription of a UAS(RAP1) enhancer-driven reporter gene requires both Rap1p and TFIID and is independent of the Fhl1p-Ifh1p coregulator. UAS(RAP1) enhancer-driven transactivation in extracts depleted of both Rap1p and TFIID is efficiently rescued by addition of physiological amounts of these two purified factors but not TATA-binding protein. We conclude that Rap1p and TFIID directly interact and that this interaction contributes importantly to RP gene transcription.
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- Krassimira A Garbett
- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University, School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232-0615, USA
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