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Tsouris A, Fournier T, Friedrich A, Hou J, Dunham MJ, Schacherer J. Species-wide survey of the expressivity and complexity spectrum of traits in yeast. PLoS Genet 2024; 20:e1011119. [PMID: 38236897 PMCID: PMC10826966 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1011119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2023] [Revised: 01/30/2024] [Accepted: 01/02/2024] [Indexed: 01/31/2024] Open
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Assessing the complexity and expressivity of traits at the species level is an essential first step to better dissect the genotype-phenotype relationship. As trait complexity behaves dynamically, the classic dichotomy between monogenic and complex traits is too simplistic. However, no systematic assessment of this complexity spectrum has been carried out on a population scale to date. In this context, we generated a large diallel hybrid panel composed of 190 unique hybrids coming from 20 natural isolates representative of the S. cerevisiae genetic diversity. For each of these hybrids, a large progeny of 160 individuals was obtained, leading to a total of 30,400 offspring individuals. Their mitotic growth was evaluated on 38 conditions inducing various cellular stresses. We developed a classification algorithm to analyze the phenotypic distributions of offspring and assess the trait complexity. We clearly found that traits are mainly complex at the population level. On average, we found that 91.2% of cross/trait combinations exhibit high complexity, while monogenic and oligogenic cases accounted for only 4.1% and 4.7%, respectively. However, the complexity spectrum is very dynamic, trait specific and tightly related to genetic backgrounds. Overall, our study provided greater insight into trait complexity as well as the underlying genetic basis of its spectrum in a natural population.
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- Andreas Tsouris
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, GMGM UMR 7156, Strasbourg, France
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, GMGM UMR 7156, Strasbourg, France
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, GMGM UMR 7156, Strasbourg, France
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, GMGM UMR 7156, Strasbourg, France
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- Genome Sciences Department, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, GMGM UMR 7156, Strasbourg, France
- Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), Paris, France
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Sun YH, Wu YL, Liao BY. Phenotypic heterogeneity in human genetic diseases: ultrasensitivity-mediated threshold effects as a unifying molecular mechanism. J Biomed Sci 2023; 30:58. [PMID: 37525275 PMCID: PMC10388531 DOI: 10.1186/s12929-023-00959-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2023] [Accepted: 07/26/2023] [Indexed: 08/02/2023] Open
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Phenotypic heterogeneity is very common in genetic systems and in human diseases and has important consequences for disease diagnosis and treatment. In addition to the many genetic and non-genetic (e.g., epigenetic, environmental) factors reported to account for part of the heterogeneity, we stress the importance of stochastic fluctuation and regulatory network topology in contributing to phenotypic heterogeneity. We argue that a threshold effect is a unifying principle to explain the phenomenon; that ultrasensitivity is the molecular mechanism for this threshold effect; and discuss the three conditions for phenotypic heterogeneity to occur. We suggest that threshold effects occur not only at the cellular level, but also at the organ level. We stress the importance of context-dependence and its relationship to pleiotropy and edgetic mutations. Based on this model, we provide practical strategies to study human genetic diseases. By understanding the network mechanism for ultrasensitivity and identifying the critical factor, we may manipulate the weak spot to gently nudge the system from an ultrasensitive state to a stable non-disease state. Our analysis provides a new insight into the prevention and treatment of genetic diseases.
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- Y Henry Sun
- Institute of Molecular and Genomic Medicine, National Health Research Institute, Zhunan, Miaoli, Taiwan.
- Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
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- Institute of Molecular and Genomic Medicine, National Health Research Institute, Zhunan, Miaoli, Taiwan
- Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Wei-Gong Memorial Hospital, Miaoli, Taiwan
- Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
- TMU Research Center of Urology and Kidney, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei City, Taiwan
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- Institute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institute, Zhunan, Miaoli, Taiwan
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New malic acid producer strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae for preserving wine acidity during alcoholic fermentation. Food Microbiol 2023; 112:104209. [PMID: 36906297 DOI: 10.1016/j.fm.2022.104209] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2022] [Revised: 12/07/2022] [Accepted: 12/14/2022] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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In the context of climate change, the chemical composition of wines is characterized by a massive drop of malic acid concentration in grape berries. Then wine professionals have to find out physical and/or microbiological solutions to manage wine acidity. The aim of this study is to develop wine Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains able to produce significant amount of malic acid during the alcoholic fermentation. By applying a large phenotypic survey in small scale fermentations, the production level of malic acid in seven grape juices confirmed the importance of the grape juice in the production of malic acid during the alcoholic fermentation. Beside the grape juice effect, our results demonstrated that extreme individuals able to produce up to 3 g/L of malic acid can be selected by crossing together appropriate parental strains. A multivariate analysis of the dataset generated illustrate that the initial the amount of malic acid produced by yeast is a determining exogenous factor for controlling the final pH of wine. Interestingly most of the acidifying strains selected are particularly enriched in alleles that have been previously reported for increasing the level of malic acid at the end of the alcoholic fermentation. A small set of acidifying strains were compared with strains able to consume a large amount of malic acid previously selected. The total acidity of resulting wines was statistically different and a panelist of 28 judges was able to discriminate the two groups of strains during a free sorting task analysis.
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Brown AJP. Fungal resilience and host-pathogen interactions: Future perspectives and opportunities. Parasite Immunol 2023; 45:e12946. [PMID: 35962618 PMCID: PMC10078341 DOI: 10.1111/pim.12946] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2022] [Revised: 08/08/2022] [Accepted: 08/10/2022] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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We are constantly exposed to the threat of fungal infection. The outcome-clearance, commensalism or infection-depends largely on the ability of our innate immune defences to clear infecting fungal cells versus the success of the fungus in mounting compensatory adaptive responses. As each seeks to gain advantage during these skirmishes, the interactions between host and fungal pathogen are complex and dynamic. Nevertheless, simply compromising the physiological robustness of fungal pathogens reduces their ability to evade antifungal immunity, their virulence, and their tolerance against antifungal therapy. In this article I argue that this physiological robustness is based on a 'Resilience Network' which mechanistically links and controls fungal growth, metabolism, stress resistance and drug tolerance. The elasticity of this network probably underlies the phenotypic variability of fungal isolates and the heterogeneity of individual cells within clonal populations. Consequently, I suggest that the definition of the fungal Resilience Network represents an important goal for the future which offers the clear potential to reveal drug targets that compromise drug tolerance and synergise with current antifungal therapies.
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- Alistair J P Brown
- Medical Research Council Centre for Medical Mycology at the University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
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Loss-of-function mutation survey revealed that genes with background-dependent fitness are rare and functionally related in yeast. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2022; 119:e2204206119. [PMID: 36067306 PMCID: PMC9478683 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2204206119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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In different individuals, the same mutation can lead to different phenotypes due to genetic background effects. This is commonly observed in various systems, including many human diseases. While isolated examples of such background effects have been observed, a systematic view across a large number of individuals is still lacking. Here, we surveyed genetic background effects associated with gene loss-of-function mutations across a population of natural isolates of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. We found that ∼15% of genes can display a background-dependent fitness change. Genes related to mitochondrial functions are significantly overrepresented, and showed reversed patterns of fitness gain or loss with genes involved in transcription and chromatin remodeling as well as in nuclear–cytoplasmic transport, suggesting a potential functional rewiring. In natural populations, the same mutation can lead to different phenotypic outcomes due to the genetic variation that exists among individuals. Such genetic background effects are commonly observed, including in the context of many human diseases. However, systematic characterization of these effects at the species level is still lacking to date. Here, we sought to comprehensively survey background-dependent traits associated with gene loss-of-function (LoF) mutations in 39 natural isolates of Saccharomyces cerevisiae using a transposon saturation strategy. By analyzing the modeled fitness variability of a total of 4,469 genes, we found that 15% of them, when impacted by a LoF mutation, exhibited a significant gain- or loss-of-fitness phenotype in certain natural isolates compared with the reference strain S288C. Out of these 632 genes with predicted background-dependent fitness effects, around 2/3 impact multiple backgrounds with a gradient of predicted fitness change while 1/3 are specific to a single genetic background. Genes related to mitochondrial function are significantly overrepresented in the set of genes showing a continuous variation and display a potential functional rewiring with other genes involved in transcription and chromatin remodeling as well as in nuclear–cytoplasmic transport. Such rewiring effects are likely modulated by both the genetic background and the environment. While background-specific cases are rare and span diverse cellular processes, they can be functionally related at the individual level. All genes with background-dependent fitness effects tend to have an intermediate connectivity in the global genetic interaction network and have shown relaxed selection pressure at the population level, highlighting their potential evolutionary characteristics.
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Mendel's laws of heredity on his 200th birthday: What have we learned by considering exceptions? Heredity (Edinb) 2022; 129:1-3. [PMID: 35778507 DOI: 10.1038/s41437-022-00552-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2022] [Accepted: 06/10/2022] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Peter J, Friedrich A, Liti G, Schacherer J. Extensive simulations assess the performance of genome-wide association mapping in various
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
subpopulations. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2022; 377:20200514. [PMID: 35634920 PMCID: PMC9149792 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0514] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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With the advent of high throughput sequencing technologies, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have become a powerful paradigm for dissecting the genetic origins of the observed phenotypic variation. We recently completely sequenced the genome of 1011 Saccharomyces cerevisiae isolates, laying a strong foundation for GWAS. To assess the feasibility and the limits of this approach, we performed extensive simulations using five selected subpopulations as well as the total set of 1011 genomes. We measured the ability to detect the causal genetic variants involved in Mendelian and more complex traits using a linear mixed model approach. The results showed that population structure is well accounted for and is not the main problem when the sample size is high enough. While the genetic determinant of a Mendelian trait is easily mapped in all studied subpopulations, discrepancies are seen between datasets when performing GWAS on a complex trait in terms of detection, false positive and false negative rate. Finally, we performed GWAS on the different defined subpopulations using a real quantitative trait (resistance to copper sulfate) and showed the feasibility of this approach. The performance of each dataset depends simultaneously on several factors such as sample size, relatedness and population evolutionary history. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Genetic basis of adaptation and speciation: from loci to causative mutations’.
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- Jackson Peter
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, GMGM UMR 7156, Strasbourg, France
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, GMGM UMR 7156, Strasbourg, France
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- Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, INSERM, IRCAN, Nice, France
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, GMGM UMR 7156, Strasbourg, France
- Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), Paris, France
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Okubo K, Kaneko K. Evolution of dominance in gene expression pattern associated with phenotypic robustness. BMC Ecol Evol 2021; 21:110. [PMID: 34092214 PMCID: PMC8182915 DOI: 10.1186/s12862-021-01841-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2021] [Accepted: 05/27/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Background Mendelian inheritance is a fundamental law of genetics. When we consider two genomes in a diploid cell, a heterozygote’s phenotype is dominated by a particular homozygote according to the law of dominance. Classical Mendelian dominance is concerned with which proteins are dominant, and is usually based on simple genotype–phenotype relationship in which one gene regulates one phenotype. However, in reality, some interactions between genes can exist, resulting in deviations from Mendelian dominance. Whether and how Mendelian dominance is generalized to the phenotypes of gene expression determined by gene regulatory networks (GRNs) remains elusive. Results Here, by using the numerical evolution of diploid GRNs, we discuss whether the dominance of phenotype evolves beyond the classical Mendelian case of one-to-one genotype–phenotype relationship. We examine whether complex genotype–phenotype relationship can achieve Mendelian dominance at the expression level by a pair of haplotypes through the evolution of the GRN with interacting genes. This dominance is defined via a pair of haplotypes that differ from each other but have a common phenotype given by the expression of target genes. We numerically evolve the GRN model for a diploid case, in which two GRN matrices are added to give gene expression dynamics and simulate evolution with meiosis and recombination. Our results reveal that group Mendelian dominance evolves even under complex genotype–phenotype relationship. Calculating the degree of dominance shows that it increases through the evolution, correlating closely with the decrease in phenotypic fluctuations and the increase in robustness to initial noise. We also demonstrate that the dominance of gene expression patterns evolves concurrently. This evolution of group Mendelian dominance and pattern dominance is associated with phenotypic robustness against meiosis-induced genome mixing, whereas sexual recombination arising from the mixing of genomes from the parents further enhances dominance and robustness. Due to this dominance, the robustness to genetic differences increases, while optimal fitness is sustained to a significant difference between the two genomes. Conclusion Group Mendelian dominance and gene-expression pattern dominance are achieved associated with the increase in phenotypic robustness to noise. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12862-021-01841-6.
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- Kenji Okubo
- Department of Basic Science, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Komaba 3-8-1, Tokyo, 153-8902, Japan
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- Department of Basic Science, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Komaba 3-8-1, Tokyo, 153-8902, Japan. .,Center for Complex Systems Research, Universal Biology Institute, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
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Fournier T, Abou Saada O, Hou J, Peter J, Caudal E, Schacherer J. Extensive impact of low-frequency variants on the phenotypic landscape at population-scale. eLife 2019; 8:49258. [PMID: 31647416 PMCID: PMC6892612 DOI: 10.7554/elife.49258] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2019] [Accepted: 10/23/2019] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) allow to dissect complex traits and map genetic variants, which often explain relatively little of the heritability. One potential reason is the preponderance of undetected low-frequency variants. To increase their allele frequency and assess their phenotypic impact in a population, we generated a diallel panel of 3025 yeast hybrids, derived from pairwise crosses between natural isolates and examined a large number of traits. Parental versus hybrid regression analysis showed that while most phenotypic variance is explained by additivity, a third is governed by non-additive effects, with complete dominance having a key role. By performing GWAS on the diallel panel, we found that associated variants with low frequency in the initial population are overrepresented and explain a fraction of the phenotypic variance as well as an effect size similar to common variants. Overall, we highlighted the relevance of low-frequency variants on the phenotypic variation.
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- Téo Fournier
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, GMGM UMR 7156, Strasbourg, France
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, GMGM UMR 7156, Strasbourg, France
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, GMGM UMR 7156, Strasbourg, France
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, GMGM UMR 7156, Strasbourg, France
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, GMGM UMR 7156, Strasbourg, France
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Hua B, Springer M. Widespread Cumulative Influence of Small Effect Size Mutations on Yeast Quantitative Traits. Cell Syst 2019; 7:590-600.e6. [PMID: 30579728 DOI: 10.1016/j.cels.2018.11.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2017] [Revised: 05/28/2017] [Accepted: 11/19/2018] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Quantitative traits are influenced by pathways that have traditionally been defined through genes that have a large loss- or gain-of-function effect. However, in theory, a large number of small effect size genes could cumulatively play a substantial role in pathway function. Here, we determine the number, strength, and identity of all non-essential test genes that affect two quantitative galactose-responsive traits in addition to re-analyzing two previously screened quantitative traits. We find that over a quarter of assayed genes have a detectable, quantitative effect on phenotype. Despite their ubiquity, these genes are enriched in core cellular processes in a trait-specific manner. In a simulated population with 50% frequency of all-or-none alleles, we show that small effect size alleles are capable of contributing more to trait variation than alleles in a canonical, large effect size pathway. In total, by demonstrating that the genes effecting quantitative traits can be highly distributed and interconnected, this work challenges the concept of pathways as modular and independent.
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- Bo Hua
- Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Systems Biology Graduate Program, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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Peltier E, Friedrich A, Schacherer J, Marullo P. Quantitative Trait Nucleotides Impacting the Technological Performances of Industrial Saccharomyces cerevisiae Strains. Front Genet 2019; 10:683. [PMID: 31396264 PMCID: PMC6664092 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2019.00683] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2019] [Accepted: 07/01/2019] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is certainly the prime industrial microorganism and is related to many biotechnological applications including food fermentations, biofuel production, green chemistry, and drug production. A noteworthy characteristic of this species is the existence of subgroups well adapted to specific processes with some individuals showing optimal technological traits. In the last 20 years, many studies have established a link between quantitative traits and single-nucleotide polymorphisms found in hundreds of genes. These natural variations constitute a pool of QTNs (quantitative trait nucleotides) that modulate yeast traits of economic interest for industry. By selecting a subset of genes functionally validated, a total of 284 QTNs were inventoried. Their distribution across pan and core genome and their frequency within the 1,011 Saccharomyces cerevisiae genomes were analyzed. We found that 150 of the 284 QTNs have a frequency lower than 5%, meaning that these variants would be undetectable by genome-wide association studies (GWAS). This analysis also suggests that most of the functional variants are private to a subpopulation, possibly due to their adaptive role to specific industrial environment. In this review, we provide a literature survey of their phenotypic impact and discuss the opportunities and the limits of their use for industrial strain selection.
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- Emilien Peltier
- Department Sciences du vivant et de la sante, Université de Bordeaux, UR Œnologie EA 4577, Bordeaux, France
- Biolaffort, Bordeaux, France
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- Department Micro-organismes, Génomes, Environnement, Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, GMGM UMR 7156, Strasbourg, France
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- Department Micro-organismes, Génomes, Environnement, Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, GMGM UMR 7156, Strasbourg, France
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- Department Sciences du vivant et de la sante, Université de Bordeaux, UR Œnologie EA 4577, Bordeaux, France
- Biolaffort, Bordeaux, France
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Marín Ò, Aguirre J, de la Cruz X. Compensated pathogenic variants in coagulation factors VIII and IX present complex mapping between molecular impact and hemophilia severity. Sci Rep 2019; 9:9538. [PMID: 31267011 PMCID: PMC6606640 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-45916-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2018] [Accepted: 06/18/2019] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Compensated pathogenic deviations (CPDs) are sequence variants that are pathogenic in humans but neutral in other species. In recent years, our molecular understanding of CPDs has advanced substantially. For example, it is known that their impact on human proteins is generally milder than that of average pathogenic mutations and that their impact is suppressed in non-human carriers by compensatory mutations. However, prior studies have ignored the evolutionarily relevant relationship between molecular impact and organismal phenotype. Here, we explore this topic using CPDs from FVIII and FIX and data concerning carriers' hemophilia severity. We find that, regardless of their molecular impact, these mutations can be associated with either mild or severe disease phenotypes. Only a weak relationship is found between protein stability changes and severity. We also characterize the population variability of hemostasis proteins, which constitute the genetic background of FVIII and FIX, using data from the 1000 Genome project. We observe that genetic background can vary substantially between individuals in terms of both the amount and nature of genetic variants. Finally, we discuss how these results highlight the need to include new terms in present models of protein evolution to explain the origin of CPDs.
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- Òscar Marín
- Research Unit in Clinical and Translational Bioinformatics, Vall d'Hebron Institute of Research (VHIR), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, P/Vall d'Hebron, 119-129, 08035, Barcelona, Spain
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- Research Unit in Clinical and Translational Bioinformatics, Vall d'Hebron Institute of Research (VHIR), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, P/Vall d'Hebron, 119-129, 08035, Barcelona, Spain
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- Research Unit in Clinical and Translational Bioinformatics, Vall d'Hebron Institute of Research (VHIR), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, P/Vall d'Hebron, 119-129, 08035, Barcelona, Spain. .,ICREA, Barcelona, Spain.
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Genetic background impacts the phenotypic outcome of a mutation in different individuals; however, the underlying molecular mechanisms are often unclear. We characterized genes exhibiting conditional essentiality when mutated in two genetically distinct yeast strains. Hybrid crosses and whole-genome sequencing revealed that conditional essentiality can be associated with nonchromosomal elements or a single-modifier locus, but most involve a complex set of modifier loci. Detailed analysis of the cysteine biosynthesis pathway showed that independent, rare, single-gene modifiers, related to both up- and downstream pathway functions, can arise in multiple allelic forms from separate lineages. For several genes, we also resolved complex sets of modifying loci underlying conditional essentiality, revealing specific genetic interactions that drive an individual strain’s background effect. The phenotypic consequence of a given mutation can be influenced by the genetic background. For example, conditional gene essentiality occurs when the loss of function of a gene causes lethality in one genetic background but not another. Between two individual Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains, S288c and Σ1278b, ∼1% of yeast genes were previously identified as “conditional essential.” Here, in addition to confirming that some conditional essential genes are modified by a nonchromosomal element, we show that most cases involve a complex set of genomic modifiers. From tetrad analysis of S288C/Σ1278b hybrid strains and whole-genome sequencing of viable hybrid spore progeny, we identified complex sets of multiple genomic regions underlying conditional essentiality. For a smaller subset of genes, including CYS3 and CYS4, each of which encodes components of the cysteine biosynthesis pathway, we observed a segregation pattern consistent with a single modifier associated with conditional essentiality. In natural yeast isolates, we found that the CYS3/CYS4 conditional essentiality can be caused by variation in two independent modifiers, MET1 and OPT1, each with roles associated with cellular cysteine physiology. Interestingly, the OPT1 allelic variation appears to have arisen independently from separate lineages, with rare allele frequencies below 0.5%. Thus, while conditional gene essentiality is usually driven by genetic interactions associated with complex modifier architectures, our analysis also highlights the role of functionally related, genetically independent, and rare variants.
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Genetic Network Complexity Shapes Background-Dependent Phenotypic Expression. Trends Genet 2018; 34:578-586. [PMID: 29903533 DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2018.05.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2017] [Revised: 05/09/2018] [Accepted: 05/17/2018] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The phenotypic consequences of a given mutation can vary across individuals. This so-called background effect is widely observed, from mutant fitness of loss-of-function variants in model organisms to variable disease penetrance and expressivity in humans; however, the underlying genetic basis often remains unclear. Taking insights gained from recent large-scale surveys of genetic interaction and suppression analyses in yeast, we propose that the genetic network context for a given mutation may shape its propensity of exhibiting background-dependent phenotypes. We argue that further efforts in systematically mapping the genetic interaction networks beyond yeast will provide not only key insights into the functional properties of genes, but also a better understanding of the background effects and the (un)predictability of traits in a broader context.
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Peter J, De Chiara M, Friedrich A, Yue JX, Pflieger D, Bergström A, Sigwalt A, Barre B, Freel K, Llored A, Cruaud C, Labadie K, Aury JM, Istace B, Lebrigand K, Barbry P, Engelen S, Lemainque A, Wincker P, Liti G, Schacherer J. Genome evolution across 1,011 Saccharomyces cerevisiae isolates. Nature 2018; 556:339-344. [PMID: 29643504 PMCID: PMC6784862 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0030-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 585] [Impact Index Per Article: 97.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2017] [Accepted: 01/09/2018] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Large-scale population genomic surveys are essential to explore the phenotypic diversity of natural populations. Here we report the whole-genome sequencing and phenotyping of 1,011 Saccharomyces cerevisiae isolates, which together provide an accurate evolutionary picture of the genomic variants that shape the species-wide phenotypic landscape of this yeast. Genomic analyses support a single 'out-of-China' origin for this species, followed by several independent domestication events. Although domesticated isolates exhibit high variation in ploidy, aneuploidy and genome content, genome evolution in wild isolates is mainly driven by the accumulation of single nucleotide polymorphisms. A common feature is the extensive loss of heterozygosity, which represents an essential source of inter-individual variation in this mainly asexual species. Most of the single nucleotide polymorphisms, including experimentally identified functional polymorphisms, are present at very low frequencies. The largest numbers of variants identified by genome-wide association are copy-number changes, which have a greater phenotypic effect than do single nucleotide polymorphisms. This resource will guide future population genomics and genotype-phenotype studies in this classic model system.
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- Jackson Peter
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, GMGM UMR 7156, Strasbourg, France
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, GMGM UMR 7156, Strasbourg, France
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- Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, INSERM, IRCAN, Nice, France
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, GMGM UMR 7156, Strasbourg, France
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- Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, INSERM, IRCAN, Nice, France
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, GMGM UMR 7156, Strasbourg, France
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- Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, INSERM, IRCAN, Nice, France
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- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA), Genoscope, Institut de Biologie François-Jacob, Evry, France
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- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA), Genoscope, Institut de Biologie François-Jacob, Evry, France
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- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA), Genoscope, Institut de Biologie François-Jacob, Evry, France
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- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA), Genoscope, Institut de Biologie François-Jacob, Evry, France
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- Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, IPMC, Sophia Antipolis, Valbonne, France
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- Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, IPMC, Sophia Antipolis, Valbonne, France
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- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA), Genoscope, Institut de Biologie François-Jacob, Evry, France
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- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA), Genoscope, Institut de Biologie François-Jacob, Evry, France
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- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA), Genoscope, Institut de Biologie François-Jacob, Evry, France.,CNRS UMR 8030, Université d'Evry Val d'Essonne, Evry, France
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- Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, INSERM, IRCAN, Nice, France.
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Yadav A, Sinha H. Gene-gene and gene-environment interactions in complex traits in yeast. Yeast 2018; 35:403-416. [PMID: 29322552 DOI: 10.1002/yea.3304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2017] [Revised: 12/11/2017] [Accepted: 12/23/2017] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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One of the fundamental questions in biology is how the genotype regulates the phenotype. An increasing number of studies indicate that, in most cases, the effect of a genetic locus on the phenotype is context-dependent, i.e. it is influenced by the genetic background and the environment in which the phenotype is measured. Still, the majority of the studies, in both model organisms and humans, that map the genetic regulation of phenotypic variation in complex traits primarily identify additive loci with independent effects. This does not reflect an absence of the contribution of genetic interactions to phenotypic variation, but instead is a consequence of the technical limitations in mapping gene-gene interactions (GGI) and gene-environment interactions (GEI). Yeast, with its detailed molecular understanding, diverse population genomics and ease of genetic manipulation, is a unique and powerful resource to study the contributions of GGI and GEI in the regulation of phenotypic variation. Here we review studies in yeast that have identified GGI and GEI that regulate phenotypic variation, and discuss the contribution of these findings in explaining missing heritability of complex traits, and how observations from these GGI and GEI studies enhance our understanding of the mechanisms underlying genetic robustness and adaptability that shape the architecture of the genotype-phenotype map.
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- Anupama Yadav
- Center for Cancer Systems Biology, and Cancer Biology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, 02215, USA.,Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Department of Biotechnology, Bhupat and Jyoti Mehta School of Biosciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, 600036, India.,Initiative for Biological Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, 600036, India.,Robert Bosch Centre for Data Sciences and Artificial Intelligence, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, 600036, India
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Natural Variation in SER1 and ENA6 Underlie Condition-Specific Growth Defects in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. G3-GENES GENOMES GENETICS 2018; 8:239-251. [PMID: 29138237 PMCID: PMC5765352 DOI: 10.1534/g3.117.300392] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Despite their ubiquitous use in laboratory strains, naturally occurring loss-of-function mutations in genes encoding core metabolic enzymes are relatively rare in wild isolates of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Here, we identify a naturally occurring serine auxotrophy in a sake brewing strain from Japan. Through a cross with a honey wine (white tecc) brewing strain from Ethiopia, we map the minimal medium growth defect to SER1, which encodes 3-phosphoserine aminotransferase and is orthologous to the human disease gene, PSAT1. To investigate the impact of this polymorphism under conditions of abundant external nutrients, we examine growth in rich medium alone or with additional stresses, including the drugs caffeine and rapamycin and relatively high concentrations of copper, salt, and ethanol. Consistent with studies that found widespread effects of different auxotrophies on RNA expression patterns in rich media, we find that the SER1 loss-of-function allele dominates the quantitative trait locus (QTL) landscape under many of these conditions, with a notable exacerbation of the effect in the presence of rapamycin and caffeine. We also identify a major-effect QTL associated with growth on salt that maps to the gene encoding the sodium exporter, ENA6. We demonstrate that the salt phenotype is largely driven by variation in the ENA6 promoter, which harbors a deletion that removes binding sites for the Mig1 and Nrg1 transcriptional repressors. Thus, our results identify natural variation associated with both coding and regulatory regions of the genome that underlie strong growth phenotypes.
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Fournier T, Schacherer J. Genetic backgrounds and hidden trait complexity in natural populations. Curr Opin Genet Dev 2017; 47:48-53. [PMID: 28915487 PMCID: PMC5716861 DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2017.08.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2017] [Revised: 08/09/2017] [Accepted: 08/31/2017] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Dissecting the genetic basis of natural phenotypic variation is a major goal in biology. We know that most traits are strongly heritable. However, their genetic architecture is a long-standing question, which is unfortunately confounded by the lack of complete knowledge of the genetic components as well as their phenotypic effect in a specific genetic background. Many genetic variants are known to affect phenotypes but the same functional variant can have a different effect on the phenotype in different individuals of the same species. Understanding the impact of genetic background on the expressivity of a given phenotype is essential because this effect complicates our ability to predict phenotype from genotype. Here, we briefly review recent progress on the exploration of the effect of genetic background and we discuss how a deeper characterization of the inheritance, expressivity and genetic interactions hidden behind the phenotypic landscape of natural variation could provide a better understanding of the relationship between genotype and phenotype.
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- Téo Fournier
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, GMGM UMR 7156, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, GMGM UMR 7156, F-67000 Strasbourg, France.
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Matsui T, Lee JT, Ehrenreich IM. Genetic suppression: Extending our knowledge from lab experiments to natural populations. Bioessays 2017; 39. [PMID: 28471485 DOI: 10.1002/bies.201700023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Many mutations have deleterious phenotypic effects that can be alleviated by suppressor mutations elsewhere in the genome. High-throughput approaches have facilitated the large-scale identification of these suppressors and have helped shed light on core functional mechanisms that give rise to suppression. Following reports that suppression occurs naturally within species, it is important to determine how our understanding of this phenomenon based on lab experiments extends to genetically diverse natural populations. Although suppression is typically mediated by individual genetic changes in lab experiments, recent studies have shown that suppression in natural populations can involve combinations of genetic variants. This difference in complexity suggests that sets of variants can exhibit similar functional effects to individual suppressors found in lab experiments. In this review, we discuss how characterizing the way in which these variants jointly lead to suppression could provide important insights into the genotype-phenotype map that are relevant to evolution and health.
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- Takeshi Matsui
- Molecular and Computational Biology Section, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Molecular and Computational Biology Section, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Molecular and Computational Biology Section, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Roberts CA, Miller JH, Atkinson PH. The genetic architecture in Saccharomyces cerevisiae that contributes to variation in drug response to the antifungals benomyl and ketoconazole. FEMS Yeast Res 2017; 17:3787663. [DOI: 10.1093/femsyr/fox027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2017] [Accepted: 04/29/2017] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Cubillos FA. Exploiting budding yeast natural variation for industrial processes. Curr Genet 2016; 62:745-751. [PMID: 27085523 DOI: 10.1007/s00294-016-0602-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2016] [Revised: 04/04/2016] [Accepted: 04/06/2016] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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For the last two decades, the natural variation of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae has been massively exploited with the aim of understanding ecological and evolutionary processes. As a result, many new genetic variants have been uncovered, providing a large catalogue of alleles underlying complex traits. These alleles represent a rich genetic resource with the potential to provide new strains that can cope with the growing demands of industrial fermentation processes. When surveyed in detail, several of these variants have proven useful in wine and beer industries by improving nitrogen utilisation, fermentation kinetics, ethanol production, sulphite resistance and aroma production. Here, I illustrate how allele-specific expression and polymorphisms within the coding region of GDB1 underlie fermentation kinetic differences in synthetic wine must. Nevertheless, the genetic basis of how GDB1 variants and other natural alleles interact in foreign genetic backgrounds remains unclear. Further studies in large sets of strains, recombinant hybrids and multiple parental pairs will broaden our knowledge of the molecular and genetic basis of trait adaptation for utilisation in applied and industrial processes.
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- Francisco A Cubillos
- Centro de Estudios en Ciencia y Tecnología de Alimentos (CECTA), Universidad de Santiago de Chile (USACH), Santiago, Chile. .,Millennium Nucleus for Fungal Integrative and Synthetic Biology (MN-FISB), Santiago, Chile. .,Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Química y Biología, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
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