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Herken BW, Wong GT, Norman TM, Gilbert LA. Environmental challenge rewires functional connections among human genes. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.08.09.552346. [PMID: 37609173 PMCID: PMC10441384 DOI: 10.1101/2023.08.09.552346] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/24/2023]
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A fundamental question in biology is how a limited number of genes combinatorially govern cellular responses to environmental changes. While the prevailing hypothesis is that relationships between genes, processes, and ontologies could be plastic to achieve this adaptability, quantitatively comparing human gene functional connections between specific environmental conditions at scale is very challenging. Therefore, it remains unclear whether and how human genetic interaction networks are rewired in response to changing environmental conditions. Here, we developed a framework for mapping context-specific genetic interactions, enabling us to measure the plasticity of human genetic architecture upon environmental challenge for ~250,000 interactions, using cell cycle interruption, genotoxic perturbation, and nutrient deprivation as archetypes. We discover large-scale rewiring of human gene relationships across conditions, highlighted by dramatic shifts in the functional connections of epigenetic regulators (TIP60), cell cycle regulators (PP2A), and glycolysis metabolism. Our study demonstrates that upon environmental perturbation, intra-complex genetic rewiring is rare while inter-complex rewiring is common, suggesting a modular and flexible evolutionary genetic strategy that allows a limited number of human genes to enable adaptation to a large number of environmental conditions.
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- Benjamin W. Herken
- Tetrad Graduate Program, University of California, San Francisco; San Francisco 94518, USA
- Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco 94518, USA
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- Biological and Medical Informatics Graduate Program, University of California, San Francisco; San Francisco 94518, USA
- Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco 94518, USA
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- Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco 94518, USA
- Department of Urology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco 94518, USA
- Innovative Genomics Institute, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco 94518, USA
- Arc Institute, Palo Alto 94305, USA
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Towards systems biology of mycotoxin regulation. Toxins (Basel) 2013; 5:675-82. [PMID: 23598563 PMCID: PMC3705286 DOI: 10.3390/toxins5040675] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2013] [Revised: 03/22/2013] [Accepted: 04/10/2013] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Systems biology is a scientific approach that integrates many scientific disciplines to develop a comprehensive understanding of biological phenomena, thus allowing the prediction and accurate simulation of complex biological behaviors. It may be presumptuous to write about toxin regulation at the level of systems biology, but the last decade of research is leading us closer than ever to this approach. Past research has delineated multiple levels of regulation in the pathways leading to the biosynthesis of secondary metabolites, including mycotoxins. At the top of this hierarchy, the global or master transcriptional regulators perceive various environmental cues such as climatic conditions, the availability of nutrients, and the developmental stages of the organism. Information accumulated from various inputs is integrated through a complex web of signalling networks to generate the eventual outcome. This review will focus on adapting techniques such as chemical and other genetic tools available in the model system Saccharomyces cerevisiae, to disentangle the various biological networks involved in the biosynthesis of mycotoxins in the Fusarium spp.
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Oh J, Fung E, Schlecht U, Davis RW, Giaever G, St. Onge RP, Deutschbauer A, Nislow C. Gene annotation and drug target discovery in Candida albicans with a tagged transposon mutant collection. PLoS Pathog 2010; 6:e1001140. [PMID: 20949076 PMCID: PMC2951378 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1001140] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2010] [Accepted: 09/08/2010] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Candida albicans is the most common human fungal pathogen, causing infections that can be lethal in immunocompromised patients. Although Saccharomyces cerevisiae has been used as a model for C. albicans, it lacks C. albicans' diverse morphogenic forms and is primarily non-pathogenic. Comprehensive genetic analyses that have been instrumental for determining gene function in S. cerevisiae are hampered in C. albicans, due in part to limited resources to systematically assay phenotypes of loss-of-function alleles. Here, we constructed and screened a library of 3633 tagged heterozygous transposon disruption mutants, using them in a competitive growth assay to examine nutrient- and drug-dependent haploinsufficiency. We identified 269 genes that were haploinsufficient in four growth conditions, the majority of which were condition-specific. These screens identified two new genes necessary for filamentous growth as well as ten genes that function in essential processes. We also screened 57 chemically diverse compounds that more potently inhibited growth of C. albicans versus S. cerevisiae. For four of these compounds, we examined the genetic basis of this differential inhibition. Notably, Sec7p was identified as the target of brefeldin A in C. albicans screens, while S. cerevisiae screens with this compound failed to identify this target. We also uncovered a new C. albicans-specific target, Tfp1p, for the synthetic compound 0136-0228. These results highlight the value of haploinsufficiency screens directly in this pathogen for gene annotation and drug target identification. Candida albicans is a normal inhabitant in our bodies, yet it can become pathogenic and cause infections that range from the superficial in healthy individuals to deadly in the immunocompromised. Comprehensive genetic analysis of C. albicans to identify mechanisms of virulence and new treatment strategies has been hampered by limited, publically accessible genomic resources. By combining the principles of Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain tagging with transposon mutagenesis to generate individually tagged mutants, we created the first entirely public resource that allows simultaneous measurement of strain fitness of ∼60% of the genome in a wide range of experimental treatments. By identifying genes that confer a fitness or growth defect when reduced in copy number, we uncovered genes whose protein products represent potential antifungal targets. Moreover, screening this strain collection with chemical compounds allowed us to identify anticandidal chemicals while concurrently gaining insight into their cellular mechanism of action. This resource, combined with straightforward screening methodology, provides powerful tools to generate hypotheses for functional annotation of the genome, and our results highlight the value of direct versus model-based pathogen studies.
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- Julia Oh
- Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, United States of America
- Stanford Genome Technology Center, Palo Alto, California, United States of America
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- Stanford Genome Technology Center, Palo Alto, California, United States of America
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- Stanford Genome Technology Center, Palo Alto, California, United States of America
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- Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, United States of America
- Stanford Genome Technology Center, Palo Alto, California, United States of America
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Banting and Best Department of Medical Research and Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Donnelley Center for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Stanford Genome Technology Center, Palo Alto, California, United States of America
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- Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, California, United States of America
- Virtual Institute for Microbial Stress and Survival, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, California, United States of America
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- Banting and Best Department of Medical Research and Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Donnelley Center for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Smith AM, Ammar R, Nislow C, Giaever G. A survey of yeast genomic assays for drug and target discovery. Pharmacol Ther 2010; 127:156-64. [PMID: 20546776 DOI: 10.1016/j.pharmthera.2010.04.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2010] [Accepted: 04/28/2010] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Over the past decade, the development and application of chemical genomic assays using the model organism Saccharomyces cerevisiae has provided powerful methods to identify the mechanism of action of known drugs and novel small molecules in vivo. These assays identify drug target candidates, genes involved in buffering drug target pathways and also help to define the general cellular response to small molecules. In this review, we examine current yeast chemical genomic assays and summarize the potential applications of each approach.
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- Andrew M Smith
- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, 1 King's College Circle, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Babu M, Musso G, Díaz-Mejía JJ, Butland G, Greenblatt JF, Emili A. Systems-level approaches for identifying and analyzing genetic interaction networks in Escherichia coli and extensions to other prokaryotes. MOLECULAR BIOSYSTEMS 2009; 5:1439-55. [PMID: 19763343 DOI: 10.1039/b907407d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Molecular interactions define the functional organization of the cell. Epistatic (genetic, or gene-gene) interactions, one of the most informative and commonly encountered forms of functional relationships, are increasingly being used to map process architecture in model eukaryotic organisms. In particular, 'systems-level' screens in yeast and worm aimed at elucidating genetic interaction networks have led to the generation of models describing the global modular organization of gene products and protein complexes within a cell. However, comparable data for prokaryotic organisms have not been available. Given its ease of growth and genetic manipulation, the Gram-negative bacterium Escherichia coli appears to be an ideal model system for performing comprehensive genome-scale examinations of genetic redundancy in bacteria. In this review, we highlight emerging experimental and computational techniques that have been developed recently to examine functional relationships and redundancy in E. coli at a systems-level, and their potential application to prokaryotes in general. Additionally, we have scanned PubMed abstracts and full-text published articles to manually curate a list of approximately 200 previously reported synthetic sick or lethal genetic interactions in E. coli derived from small-scale experimental studies.
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- Mohan Babu
- Banting and Best Department of Medical Research, Terrence Donnelly Center for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3E1
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Butland G, Babu M, Díaz-Mejía JJ, Bohdana F, Phanse S, Gold B, Yang W, Li J, Gagarinova AG, Pogoutse O, Mori H, Wanner BL, Lo H, Wasniewski J, Christopolous C, Ali M, Venn P, Safavi-Naini A, Sourour N, Caron S, Choi JY, Laigle L, Nazarians-Armavil A, Deshpande A, Joe S, Datsenko KA, Yamamoto N, Andrews BJ, Boone C, Ding H, Sheikh B, Moreno-Hagelseib G, Greenblatt JF, Emili A. eSGA: E. coli synthetic genetic array analysis. Nat Methods 2009; 5:789-95. [PMID: 18677321 DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.1239] [Citation(s) in RCA: 188] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2008] [Accepted: 06/19/2008] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Physical and functional interactions define the molecular organization of the cell. Genetic interactions, or epistasis, tend to occur between gene products involved in parallel pathways or interlinked biological processes. High-throughput experimental systems to examine genetic interactions on a genome-wide scale have been devised for Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Schizosaccharomyces pombe, Caenorhabditis elegans and Drosophila melanogaster, but have not been reported previously for prokaryotes. Here we describe the development of a quantitative screening procedure for monitoring bacterial genetic interactions based on conjugation of Escherichia coli deletion or hypomorphic strains to create double mutants on a genome-wide scale. The patterns of synthetic sickness and synthetic lethality (aggravating genetic interactions) we observed for certain double mutant combinations provided information about functional relationships and redundancy between pathways and enabled us to group bacterial gene products into functional modules.
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- Gareth Butland
- Banting and Best Department of Medical Research, Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, 160 College Street, Toronto M5S 3E1, Canada
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Predicting the behavior of living organisms is an enormous challenge given their vast complexity. Efforts to model biological systems require large datasets generated by physical binding experiments and perturbation studies. Genetic perturbations have proven important and are greatly facilitated by the advent of comprehensive mutant libraries in model organisms. Small-molecule chemical perturbagens provide a complementary approach, especially for systems that lack mutant libraries, and can easily probe the function of essential genes. Though single chemical or genetic perturbations provide crucial information associating individual components (for example, genes, proteins or small molecules) with pathways or phenotypes, functional relationships between pathways and modules of components are most effectively obtained from combined perturbation experiments. Here we review the current state of and discuss some future directions for 'combination chemical genetics', the systematic application of multiple chemical or mixed chemical and genetic perturbations, both to gain insight into biological systems and to facilitate medical discoveries.
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- Joseph Lehár
- CombinatoRx Incorporated, 245 First Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA.
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Epistasis--the essential role of gene interactions in the structure and evolution of genetic systems. Nat Rev Genet 2008; 9:855-67. [PMID: 18852697 DOI: 10.1038/nrg2452] [Citation(s) in RCA: 961] [Impact Index Per Article: 60.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Epistasis, or interactions between genes, has long been recognized as fundamentally important to understanding the structure and function of genetic pathways and the evolutionary dynamics of complex genetic systems. With the advent of high-throughput functional genomics and the emergence of systems approaches to biology, as well as a new-found ability to pursue the genetic basis of evolution down to specific molecular changes, there is a renewed appreciation both for the importance of studying gene interactions and for addressing these questions in a unified, quantitative manner.
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Yeast chemical genomics and drug discovery: an update. Trends Pharmacol Sci 2008; 29:499-504. [PMID: 18755517 DOI: 10.1016/j.tips.2008.07.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2007] [Revised: 07/09/2008] [Accepted: 07/09/2008] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The Saccharomyces cerevisiae sequencing project (the first eukaryotic genome decoded) was completed in 1995 and, subsequently, the first version of the yeast knockout collection was made available in 2002. Since then, many diverse studies have applied these resources to understand drug mechanism of action and to identify novel drug targets and target pathways. In this update of an earlier review, we present a snapshot of the current state of chemical genomic approaches in yeast, propose a set of integrated chemical genomic assays to move the field forward and consider its near-term future.
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Dror O, Schneidman-Duhovny D, Shulman-Peleg A, Nussinov R, Wolfson HJ, Sharan R. Structural similarity of genetically interacting proteins. BMC SYSTEMS BIOLOGY 2008; 2:69. [PMID: 18671848 PMCID: PMC2525628 DOI: 10.1186/1752-0509-2-69] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2008] [Accepted: 07/31/2008] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Background The study of gene mutants and their interactions is fundamental to understanding gene function and backup mechanisms within the cell. The recent availability of large scale genetic interaction networks in yeast and worm allows the investigation of the biological mechanisms underlying these interactions at a global scale. To date, less than 2% of the known genetic interactions in yeast or worm can be accounted for by sequence similarity. Results Here, we perform a genome-scale structural comparison among protein pairs in the two species. We show that significant fractions of genetic interactions involve structurally similar proteins, spanning 7–10% and 14% of all known interactions in yeast and worm, respectively. We identify several structural features that are predictive of genetic interactions and show their superiority over sequence-based features. Conclusion Structural similarity is an important property that can explain and predict genetic interactions. According to the available data, the most abundant mechanism for genetic interactions among structurally similar proteins is a common interacting partner shared by two genetically interacting proteins.
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- Oranit Dror
- School of Computer Science, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 69978, Israel.
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Ravasi T, Wells CA, Hume DA. Systems biology of transcription control in macrophages. Bioessays 2008; 29:1215-26. [PMID: 18008376 DOI: 10.1002/bies.20683] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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The study of the mammalian immune system offers many advantages to systems biologists. The cellular components of the mammalian immune system are experimentally tractable; they can be isolated or differentiated from in vivo and ex vivo sources and have an essential role in health and disease. For these reasons, the major effectors cells of the innate immune system, macrophages, have been a particular focus in international genome and transcriptome consortia. Genome-scale analysis of the transcriptome, and transcription initiation has enabled the construction of predictive models of transcription control in macrophages that identify the points of control (the major nodes of networks) and the ways in which they interact.
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- Timothy Ravasi
- Scripps NeuroAIDS Preclinical Studies Centre and Department of Bioengineering, Jacobs School of Engineering, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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Harrington ED, Jensen LJ, Bork P. Predicting biological networks from genomic data. FEBS Lett 2008; 582:1251-8. [PMID: 18294967 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2008.02.033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2008] [Accepted: 02/13/2008] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Continuing improvements in DNA sequencing technologies are providing us with vast amounts of genomic data from an ever-widening range of organisms. The resulting challenge for bioinformatics is to interpret this deluge of data and place it back into its biological context. Biological networks provide a conceptual framework with which we can describe part of this context, namely the different interactions that occur between the molecular components of a cell. Here, we review the computational methods available to predict biological networks from genomic sequence data and discuss how they relate to high-throughput experimental methods.
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- Eoghan D Harrington
- Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Meyerhofstrasse 1, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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Synthetic genetic interactions occur between two genes when the double mutant displays a phenotype much more severe than does either single mutant alone. Global networks of such interactions are now being systematically determined, spearheaded by the budding yeast genome. Genetic interactions reflect in vivo relationships between gene products. Extracting that functional information from such genetic networks is now possible by exploiting and modifying the key concept of congruence. Here, we focus on synthetic genetic interactions between pairs of null mutations in non-essential yeast genes. We summarize how to identify biological pathways from these emerging networks, using illustrative examples.
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GONG Y, ZHANG Z. Alternative Pathway Approach for Automating Analysis and Validation of Cell Perturbation Networks and Design of Perturbation Experiments. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2007; 1115:267-85. [DOI: 10.1196/annals.1407.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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