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Chen L, Yu K, Ma A, Zhu W, Wang H, Tang X, Tang Y, Li Y, Li J. Enhanced Thermostability of Nattokinase by Computation-Based Rational Redesign of Flexible Regions. JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY 2024. [PMID: 38864682 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.4c02335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2024]
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Nattokinase is a nutrient in healthy food natto that has the function of preventing and treating blood thrombus. However, its low thermostability and fibrinolytic activity limit its application in food and pharmaceuticals. In this study, we used bioinformatics analysis to identify two loops (loop10 and loop12) in the flexible region of nattokinase rAprY. Using this basis, we screened the G131S-S161T variant, which showed a 2.38-fold increase in half-life at 55 °C, and the M3 variant, which showed a 2.01-fold increase in activity, by using a thermostability prediction algorithm. Bioinformatics analysis revealed that the enhanced thermostability of the G131S-S161T variant was due to the increased rigidity and structural shrinkage of the overall structure. Additionally, the increased rigidity of the local region surrounding the active center and its mutated sites helps maintain its normal conformation in high-temperature environments. The increased catalytic activity of the M3 variant may be due to its more efficient substrate binding mechanism. We investigated strategies to improve the thermostability and fibrinolytic activity of nattokinase, and the resulting variants show promise for industrial production and application.
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- Liangqi Chen
- Institute of Materia Medica, College of Pharmacy, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830017, China
- Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Biological Resources and Genetic Engineering, College of Life Science and Technology, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830017, China
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- Institute of Materia Medica, College of Pharmacy, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830017, China
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- Institute of Materia Medica, College of Pharmacy, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830017, China
- Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Biological Resources and Genetic Engineering, College of Life Science and Technology, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830017, China
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- Institute of Materia Medica, College of Pharmacy, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830017, China
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- Institute of Materia Medica, College of Pharmacy, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830017, China
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- Institute of Materia Medica, College of Pharmacy, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830017, China
- Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Biological Resources and Genetic Engineering, College of Life Science and Technology, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830017, China
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- Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Biological Resources and Genetic Engineering, College of Life Science and Technology, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830017, China
- The Third People's Hospital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Urumqi 830000, China
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- Institute of Materia Medica, College of Pharmacy, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830017, China
- Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Biological Resources and Genetic Engineering, College of Life Science and Technology, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830017, China
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- Institute of Materia Medica, College of Pharmacy, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830017, China
- Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Biological Resources and Genetic Engineering, College of Life Science and Technology, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830017, China
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McDiarmid CS, Hooper DM, Stier A, Griffith SC. Mitonuclear interactions impact aerobic metabolism in hybrids and may explain mitonuclear discordance in young, naturally hybridizing bird lineages. Mol Ecol 2024; 33:e17374. [PMID: 38727686 DOI: 10.1111/mec.17374] [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: 12/22/2023] [Revised: 02/26/2024] [Accepted: 03/20/2024] [Indexed: 06/07/2024]
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Understanding genetic incompatibilities and genetic introgression between incipient species are major goals in evolutionary biology. Mitochondrial genes evolve rapidly and exist in dense gene networks with coevolved nuclear genes, suggesting that mitochondrial respiration may be particularly susceptible to disruption in hybrid organisms. Mitonuclear interactions have been demonstrated to contribute to hybrid dysfunction between deeply divergent taxa crossed in the laboratory, but there are few empirical examples of mitonuclear interactions between younger lineages that naturally hybridize. Here, we use controlled hybrid crosses and high-resolution respirometry to provide the first experimental evidence in a bird that inter-lineage mitonuclear interactions impact mitochondrial aerobic metabolism. Specifically, respiration capacity of the two mitodiscordant backcrosses (with mismatched mitonuclear combinations) differs from one another, although they do not differ significantly from the parental groups or mitoconcordant backcrosses as we would expect of mitonuclear disruptions. In the wild hybrid zone between these subspecies, the mitochondrial cline centre is shifted west of the nuclear cline centre, which is consistent with the direction of our experimental results. Our results therefore demonstrate asymmetric mitonuclear interactions that impact the capacity of cellular mitochondrial respiration and may help to explain the geographic discordance between mitochondrial and nuclear genomes observed in the wild.
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- Callum S McDiarmid
- School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Institute for Comparative Genomics and Richard Gilder Graduate School, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
- Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien, UMR7178, Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, Strasbourg, France
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- School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Gonzales J, Kim I, Hwang W, Cho JH. Evolutionary rewiring of the dynamic network underpinning allosteric epistasis in NS1 of influenza A virus. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2024.05.24.595776. [PMID: 38826371 PMCID: PMC11142230 DOI: 10.1101/2024.05.24.595776] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2024]
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Viral proteins frequently mutate to evade or antagonize host innate immune responses, yet the impact of these mutations on the molecular energy landscape remains unclear. Epistasis, the intramolecular communications between mutations, often renders the combined mutational effects unpredictable. Nonstructural protein 1 (NS1) is a major virulence factor of the influenza A virus (IAV) that activates host PI3K by binding to its p85β subunit. Here, we present the deep analysis for the impact of evolutionary mutations in NS1 that emerged between the 1918 pandemic IAV strain and its descendant PR8 strain. Our analysis reveal how the mutations rewired inter-residue communications which underlies long-range allosteric and epistatic networks in NS1. Our findings show that PR8 NS1 binds to p85β with approximately 10-fold greater affinity than 1918 NS1 due to allosteric mutational effects. Notably, these mutations also exhibited long-range epistatic effects. NMR chemical shift perturbation and methyl-axis order parameter analyses revealed that the mutations induced long-range structural and dynamic changes in PR8 NS1, enhancing its affinity to p85β. Complementary MD simulations and graph-based network analysis uncover how these mutations rewire dynamic residue interaction networks, which underlies the long-range epistasis and allosteric effects on p85β-binding affinity. Significantly, we find that conformational dynamics of residues with high betweenness centrality play a crucial role in communications between network communities and are highly conserved across influenza A virus evolution. These findings advance our mechanistic understanding of the allosteric and epistatic communications between distant residues and provides insight into their role in the molecular evolution of NS1.
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Li Y, Tang X, Chen L, Ma A, Zhu W, Huang W, Li J. Improvement of the fibrinolytic activity, acid resistance and thermostability of nattokinase by surface charge engineering. Int J Biol Macromol 2023; 253:127373. [PMID: 37839602 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2023.127373] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2023] [Revised: 09/12/2023] [Accepted: 10/09/2023] [Indexed: 10/17/2023]
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Nattokinase is a promising thrombolytic drug due to its powerful fibrinolytic effect and few side effects. However, the low fibrinolytic activity and stability of nattokinase have limited its industrial production and oral application. In this study, the basic and neutral amino acid residues on the surface of recombinant nattokinase AprY from Bacillus mojavensis LY-06 (rAprY) were mutated to acidic amino acid residues by surface charge engineering strategy, and two variants K12D and N109D with 92.6 % and 8.4 % increased fibrinolytic activity were obtained. The R45E variant with enhanced acid stability and thermostability was also screened, its acid stability at pH 4 and t1/2 at 55 °C were 3.7-fold and 1.8-fold higher than that of wild type rAprY, respectively. Bioinformatics analysis showed that the increased activities of K12D and N109D variants were related to the increased flexibility of the region around their active centers. The increased rigidity of 97-103 amino acid residues around the active center of R45E may be the reason for its enhanced stability and reduced catalytic activity. The multipoint mutation K12D-N109D (M2)'s catalytic activity did not increase cumulatively, but its pH stability did. The nattokinase variants generated in this study have potential for industrial production and application.
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- Yuan Li
- Institute of Materia Medica, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830017, China
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- Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Biological Resources and Genetic Engineering, College of Life Science and Technology, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830017, China
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- Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Biological Resources and Genetic Engineering, College of Life Science and Technology, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830017, China
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- Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Biological Resources and Genetic Engineering, College of Life Science and Technology, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830017, China
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- Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Biological Resources and Genetic Engineering, College of Life Science and Technology, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830017, China
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- Institute of Materia Medica, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830017, China; Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Biological Resources and Genetic Engineering, College of Life Science and Technology, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830017, China.
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Cellier MFM. Slc11 Synapomorphy: A Conserved 3D Framework Articulating Carrier Conformation Switch. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:15076. [PMID: 37894758 PMCID: PMC10606218 DOI: 10.3390/ijms242015076] [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: 08/15/2023] [Revised: 10/05/2023] [Accepted: 10/07/2023] [Indexed: 10/29/2023] Open
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Transmembrane carriers of the Slc11 family catalyze proton (H+)-dependent uptake of divalent metal ions (Me2+) such as manganese and iron-vital elements coveted during infection. The Slc11 mechanism of high-affinity Me2+ cell import is selective and conserved between prokaryotic (MntH) and eukaryotic (Nramp) homologs, though processes coupling the use of the proton motive force to Me2+ uptake evolved repeatedly. Adding bacterial piracy of Nramp genes spread in distinct environmental niches suggests selective gain of function that may benefit opportunistic pathogens. To better understand Slc11 evolution, Alphafold (AF2)/Colabfold (CF) 3D predictions for bacterial sequences from sister clades of eukaryotic descent (MCb and MCg) were compared using both native and mutant templates. AF2/CF model an array of native MCb intermediates spanning the transition from outwardly open (OO) to inwardly open (IO) carriers. In silico mutagenesis targeting (i) a set of (evolutionarily coupled) sites that may define Slc11 function (putative synapomorphy) and (ii) residues from networked communities evolving during MCb transition indicates that Slc11 synapomorphy primarily instructs a Me2+-selective conformation switch which unlocks carrier inner gate and contributes to Me2+ binding site occlusion and outer gate locking. Inner gate opening apparently proceeds from interaction between transmembrane helix (h) h5, h8 and h1a. MCg1 xenologs revealed marked differences in carrier shape and plasticity, owing partly to an altered intramolecular H+ network. Yet, targeting Slc11 synapomorphy also converted MCg1 IO models to an OO state, apparently mobilizing the same residues to control gates. But MCg1 response to mutagenesis differed, with extensive divergence within this clade correlating with MCb-like modeling properties. Notably, MCg1 divergent epistasis marks the emergence of the genus Bordetella-Achromobacter. Slc11 synapomorphy localizes to the 3D areas that deviate least among MCb and MCg1 models (either IO or OO) implying that it constitutes a 3D network of residues articulating a Me2+-selective carrier conformation switch which is maintained in fast-evolving clades at the cost of divergent epistatic interactions impacting carrier shape and dynamics.
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- Mathieu F M Cellier
- Centre Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Laval, QC H7V 1B7, Canada
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Wonderlick DR, Widom JR, Harms MJ. Disentangling contact and ensemble epistasis in a riboswitch. Biophys J 2023; 122:1600-1612. [PMID: 36710492 PMCID: PMC10183321 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2023.01.033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2022] [Revised: 01/09/2023] [Accepted: 01/24/2023] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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Mutations introduced into macromolecules often exhibit epistasis, where the effect of one mutation alters the effect of another. Knowing the mechanisms that lead to epistasis is important for understanding how macromolecules work and evolve, as well as for effective macromolecular engineering. Here, we investigate the interplay between "contact epistasis" (epistasis arising from physical interactions between mutated residues) and "ensemble epistasis" (epistasis that occurs when a mutation redistributes the conformational ensemble of a macromolecule, thus changing the effect of the second mutation). We argue that the two mechanisms can be distinguished in allosteric macromolecules by measuring epistasis at differing allosteric effector concentrations. Contact epistasis manifests as nonadditivity in the microscopic equilibrium constants describing the conformational ensemble. This epistatic effect is independent of allosteric effector concentration. Ensemble epistasis manifests as nonadditivity in thermodynamic observables-such as ligand binding-that are determined by the distribution of ensemble conformations. This epistatic effect strongly depends on allosteric effector concentration. Using this framework, we experimentally investigated the origins of epistasis in three pairwise mutant cycles introduced into the adenine riboswitch aptamer domain by measuring ligand binding as a function of allosteric effector concentration. We found evidence for both contact and ensemble epistasis in all cycles. Furthermore, we found that the two mechanisms of epistasis could interact with each other. For example, in one mutant cycle we observed 6 kcal/mol of contact epistasis in a microscopic equilibrium constant. In that same cycle, the maximum epistasis in ligand binding was only 1.5 kcal/mol: shifts in the ensemble masked the contribution of contact epistasis. Finally, our work yields simple heuristics for identifying contact and ensemble epistasis based on measurements of a biochemical observable as a function of allosteric effector concentration.
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- Daria R Wonderlick
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon; Institute for Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon; Oregon Center for Optical, Molecular, & Quantum Science, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon; Institute for Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon.
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Queiroz JPF, Lourenzoni MR, Rocha BAM. Structural evolution of an amphibian-specific globin: A computational evolutionary biochemistry approach. COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY. PART D, GENOMICS & PROTEOMICS 2023; 45:101055. [PMID: 36566682 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbd.2022.101055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2022] [Revised: 12/14/2022] [Accepted: 12/15/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Studies on the globin family are continuously revealing insights into the mechanisms of gene and protein evolution. The rise of a new globin gene type in Pelobatoidea and Neobatrachia (Amphibia:Anura) from an α-globin precursor provides the opportunity to investigate the genetic and physical mechanisms underlying the origin of new protein structural and functional properties. This amphibian-specific globin (globin A/GbA) discovered in the heart of Rana catesbeiana is a monomer. As the ancestral oligomeric state of α-globins is a homodimer, we inferred that the ancestral state was lost somewhere in the GbA lineage. Here, we combined computational molecular evolution with structural bioinformatics to determine the extent to which the loss of the homodimeric state is pervasive in the GbA clade. We also characterized the loci of GbA genes in Bufo bufo. We found two GbA clades in Neobatrachia. One was deleted in Ranidae, but retained and expanded to yield a new globin cluster in Bufonidae species. Loss of the ancestral oligomeric state seems to be pervasive in the GbA clade. However, a taxonomic sampling that includes more Pelobatoidea, as well as early Neobatrachia, lineages would be necessary to determine the oligomeric state of the last common ancestor of all GbA. The evidence presented here points out a possible loss of oligomerization in Pelobatoidea GbA as a result of amino acid substitutions that weaken the homodimeric state. In contrast, the loss of oligomerization in both Neobatrachia GbA clades was linked to independent deletions that disrupted many packing contacts at the homodimer interface.
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- João Pedro Fernandes Queiroz
- Laboratorio de Biocristalografia - LABIC, Departamento de Bioquimica e Biologia Molecular, Universidade Federal do Ceara, Campus do Pici s.n., bloco 907, Av. Mister Hull, Fortaleza, Ceara, 60440-970, Brazil.
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- Protein Engineering and Health Solutions Group - GEPeSS Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz - Ceara, Eusébio, Ceara, 60175-047, Brazil.
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- Laboratorio de Biocristalografia - LABIC, Departamento de Bioquimica e Biologia Molecular, Universidade Federal do Ceara, Campus do Pici s.n., bloco 907, Av. Mister Hull, Fortaleza, Ceara, 60440-970, Brazil.
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Wei Q, Liu J, Guo F, Wang Z, Zhang X, Yuan L, Ali K, Qiang F, Wen Y, Li W, Zheng B, Bai Q, Li G, Ren H, Wu G. Kinase regulators evolved into two families by gain and loss of ability to bind plant steroid receptors. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2023; 191:1167-1185. [PMID: 36494097 PMCID: PMC9922406 DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiac568] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2022] [Accepted: 11/29/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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All biological functions evolve by fixing beneficial mutations and removing deleterious ones. Therefore, continuously fixing and removing the same essential function to separately diverge monophyletic gene families sounds improbable. Yet, here we report that brassinosteroid insensitive1 kinase inhibitor1 (BKI1)/membrane-associated kinase regulators (MAKRs) regulating a diverse function evolved into BKI1 and MAKR families from a common ancestor by respectively enhancing and losing ability to bind brassinosteroid receptor brassinosteroid insensitive1 (BRI1). The BKI1 family includes BKI1, MAKR1/BKI1-like (BKL) 1, and BKL2, while the MAKR family contains MAKR2-6. Seedless plants contain only BKL2. In seed plants, MAKR1/BKL1 and MAKR3, duplicates of BKL2, gained and lost the ability to bind BRI1, respectively. In angiosperms, BKL2 lost the ability to bind BRI1 to generate MAKR2, while BKI1 and MAKR6 were duplicates of MAKR1/BKL1 and MAKR3, respectively. In dicots, MAKR4 and MAKR5 were duplicates of MAKR3 and MAKR2, respectively. Importantly, BKI1 localized in the plasma membrane, but BKL2 localized to the nuclei while MAKR1/BKL1 localized throughout the whole cell. Importantly, BKI1 strongly and MAKR1/BKL1 weakly inhibited plant growth, but BKL2 and the MAKR family did not inhibit plant growth. Functional study of the chimeras of their N- and C-termini showed that only the BKI1 family was partially reconstructable, supporting stepwise evolution by a seesaw mechanism between their C- and N-termini to alternately gain an ability to bind and inhibit BRI1, respectively. Nevertheless, the C-terminal BRI1-interacting motif best defines the divergence of BKI1/MAKRs. Therefore, BKI1 and MAKR families evolved by gradually gaining and losing the same function, respectively, extremizing divergent evolution and adding insights into gene (BKI1/MAKR) duplication and divergence.
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Miton CM, Tokuriki N. Insertions and Deletions (Indels): A Missing Piece of the Protein Engineering Jigsaw. Biochemistry 2023; 62:148-157. [PMID: 35830609 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.2c00188] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Over the years, protein engineers have studied nature and borrowed its tricks to accelerate protein evolution in the test tube. While there have been considerable advances, our ability to generate new proteins in the laboratory is seemingly limited. One explanation for these shortcomings may be that insertions and deletions (indels), which frequently arise in nature, are largely overlooked during protein engineering campaigns. The profound effect of indels on protein structures, by way of drastic backbone alterations, could be perceived as "saltation" events that bring about significant phenotypic changes in a single mutational step. Should we leverage these effects to accelerate protein engineering and gain access to unexplored regions of adaptive landscapes? In this Perspective, we describe the role played by indels in the functional diversification of proteins in nature and discuss their untapped potential for protein engineering, despite their often-destabilizing nature. We hope to spark a renewed interest in indels, emphasizing that their wider study and use may prove insightful and shape the future of protein engineering by unlocking unique functional changes that substitutions alone could never achieve.
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- Charlotte M Miton
- Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, V6T 1Z4 BC, Canada
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- Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, V6T 1Z4 BC, Canada
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Mohammadi S, Özdemir Hİ, Ozbek P, Sumbul F, Stiller J, Deng Y, Crawford AJ, Rowland HM, Storz JF, Andolfatto P, Dobler S. Epistatic Effects Between Amino Acid Insertions and Substitutions Mediate Toxin resistance of Vertebrate Na+,K+-ATPases. Mol Biol Evol 2022; 39:6874786. [PMID: 36472530 PMCID: PMC9778839 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msac258] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2022] [Revised: 11/10/2022] [Accepted: 11/14/2022] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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The recurrent evolution of resistance to cardiotonic steroids (CTS) across diverse animals most frequently involves convergent amino acid substitutions in the H1-H2 extracellular loop of Na+,K+-ATPase (NKA). Previous work revealed that hystricognath rodents (e.g., chinchilla) and pterocliform birds (sandgrouse) have convergently evolved amino acid insertions in the H1-H2 loop, but their functional significance was not known. Using protein engineering, we show that these insertions have distinct effects on CTS resistance in homologs of each of the two species that strongly depend on intramolecular interactions with other residues. Removing the insertion in the chinchilla NKA unexpectedly increases CTS resistance and decreases NKA activity. In the sandgrouse NKA, the amino acid insertion and substitution Q111R both contribute to an augmented CTS resistance without compromising ATPase activity levels. Molecular docking simulations provide additional insight into the biophysical mechanisms responsible for the context-specific mutational effects on CTS insensitivity of the enzyme. Our results highlight the diversity of genetic substrates that underlie CTS insensitivity in vertebrate NKA and reveal how amino acid insertions can alter the phenotypic effects of point mutations at key sites in the same protein domain.
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- Shabnam Mohammadi
- Molecular Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Cell and Systems Biology of Animals, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg 20146, Germany.,Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Research Group Predators and Toxic Prey, Jena 07745, Germany
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- Department of Bioengineering, Marmara University, Göztepe, İstanbul 34722, Turkey
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- INSERM, Aix-Marseille Université, Inserm, CNRS, Marseille 13009, France
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- Villum Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2100, Denmark
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- Villum Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2100, Denmark.,BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518083, China
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Research Group Predators and Toxic Prey, Jena 07745, Germany
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY
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- Molecular Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Cell and Systems Biology of Animals, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg 20146, Germany
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Wittmund M, Cadet F, Davari MD. Learning Epistasis and Residue Coevolution Patterns: Current Trends and Future Perspectives for Advancing Enzyme Engineering. ACS Catal 2022. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.2c01426] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- Marcel Wittmund
- Department of Bioorganic Chemistry, Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Weinberg 3, 06120 Halle, Germany
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- Laboratory of Excellence LABEX GR, DSIMB, Inserm UMR S1134, University of Paris city & University of Reunion, Paris 75014, France
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- Department of Bioorganic Chemistry, Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Weinberg 3, 06120 Halle, Germany
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Azbukina N, Zharikova A, Ramensky V. Intragenic compensation through the lens of deep mutational scanning. Biophys Rev 2022; 14:1161-1182. [PMID: 36345285 PMCID: PMC9636336 DOI: 10.1007/s12551-022-01005-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2022] [Accepted: 09/26/2022] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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A significant fraction of mutations in proteins are deleterious and result in adverse consequences for protein function, stability, or interaction with other molecules. Intragenic compensation is a specific case of positive epistasis when a neutral missense mutation cancels effect of a deleterious mutation in the same protein. Permissive compensatory mutations facilitate protein evolution, since without them all sequences would be extremely conserved. Understanding compensatory mechanisms is an important scientific challenge at the intersection of protein biophysics and evolution. In human genetics, intragenic compensatory interactions are important since they may result in variable penetrance of pathogenic mutations or fixation of pathogenic human alleles in orthologous proteins from related species. The latter phenomenon complicates computational and clinical inference of an allele's pathogenicity. Deep mutational scanning is a relatively new technique that enables experimental studies of functional effects of thousands of mutations in proteins. We review the important aspects of the field and discuss existing limitations of current datasets. We reviewed ten published DMS datasets with quantified functional effects of single and double mutations and described rates and patterns of intragenic compensation in eight of them. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s12551-022-01005-w.
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- Nadezhda Azbukina
- Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 1-73, Leninskie Gory, 119991 Moscow, Russia
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- Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 1-73, Leninskie Gory, 119991 Moscow, Russia
- National Medical Research Center for Therapy and Preventive Medicine, Petroverigsky per., 10, Bld.3, 101000 Moscow, Russia
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- Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 1-73, Leninskie Gory, 119991 Moscow, Russia
- National Medical Research Center for Therapy and Preventive Medicine, Petroverigsky per., 10, Bld.3, 101000 Moscow, Russia
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One core goal of genetics is to systematically understand the mapping between the DNA sequence of an organism (genotype) and its measurable characteristics (phenotype). Understanding this mapping is often challenging because of interactions between mutations, where the result of combining several different mutations can be very different than the sum of their individual effects. Here we provide a statistical framework for modeling complex genetic interactions of this type. The key idea is to ask how fast the effects of mutations change when introducing the same mutation in increasingly distant genetic backgrounds. We then propose a model for phenotypic prediction that takes into account this tendency for the effects of mutations to be more similar in nearby genetic backgrounds. Contemporary high-throughput mutagenesis experiments are providing an increasingly detailed view of the complex patterns of genetic interaction that occur between multiple mutations within a single protein or regulatory element. By simultaneously measuring the effects of thousands of combinations of mutations, these experiments have revealed that the genotype–phenotype relationship typically reflects not only genetic interactions between pairs of sites but also higher-order interactions among larger numbers of sites. However, modeling and understanding these higher-order interactions remains challenging. Here we present a method for reconstructing sequence-to-function mappings from partially observed data that can accommodate all orders of genetic interaction. The main idea is to make predictions for unobserved genotypes that match the type and extent of epistasis found in the observed data. This information on the type and extent of epistasis can be extracted by considering how phenotypic correlations change as a function of mutational distance, which is equivalent to estimating the fraction of phenotypic variance due to each order of genetic interaction (additive, pairwise, three-way, etc.). Using these estimated variance components, we then define an empirical Bayes prior that in expectation matches the observed pattern of epistasis and reconstruct the genotype–phenotype mapping by conducting Gaussian process regression under this prior. To demonstrate the power of this approach, we present an application to the antibody-binding domain GB1 and also provide a detailed exploration of a dataset consisting of high-throughput measurements for the splicing efficiency of human pre-mRNA 5′ splice sites, for which we also validate our model predictions via additional low-throughput experiments.
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Prediction of infectivity of SARS-CoV-2 virus based on Spike-hACE-2 interaction. Virusdisease 2022; 33:244-250. [PMID: 35965884 PMCID: PMC9362045 DOI: 10.1007/s13337-022-00781-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2021] [Accepted: 06/21/2022] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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The COVID-19 pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 results almost 3 M death worldwide and till continuing in spite of having several vaccine against the virus. One of the main reasons is the mutations occur in the virus to cope with the environment. Detail study of genomics and proteomics level of each components may help to combat the situation. Spike (S) protein that covers the surface of the virus helps in entry by encountering the host receptor Human Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme-2 (hACE-2) with other different roles. In this study, we accomplish our work with the mutations in receptor binding domain (RBD) of Spike (S) protein considering different aspects like the hACE-2 variants in human populations to get an idea about the varying infectivity of different strains for different population. Several other parameters affecting the viral infectivity and in different diseased condition were also studied which may guide to a better insight in developing future therapeutics.
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Mohammadi S, Herrera-Álvarez S, Yang L, Rodríguez-Ordoñez MDP, Zhang K, Storz JF, Dobler S, Crawford AJ, Andolfatto P. Constraints on the evolution of toxin-resistant Na,K-ATPases have limited dependence on sequence divergence. PLoS Genet 2022; 18:e1010323. [PMID: 35972957 DOI: 10.1101/2021.11.29.470343] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2022] [Revised: 09/09/2022] [Accepted: 07/04/2022] [Indexed: 05/25/2023] Open
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A growing body of theoretical and experimental evidence suggests that intramolecular epistasis is a major determinant of rates and patterns of protein evolution and imposes a substantial constraint on the evolution of novel protein functions. Here, we examine the role of intramolecular epistasis in the recurrent evolution of resistance to cardiotonic steroids (CTS) across tetrapods, which occurs via specific amino acid substitutions to the α-subunit family of Na,K-ATPases (ATP1A). After identifying a series of recurrent substitutions at two key sites of ATP1A that are predicted to confer CTS resistance in diverse tetrapods, we then performed protein engineering experiments to test the functional consequences of introducing these substitutions onto divergent species backgrounds. In line with previous results, we find that substitutions at these sites can have substantial background-dependent effects on CTS resistance. Globally, however, these substitutions also have pleiotropic effects that are consistent with additive rather than background-dependent effects. Moreover, the magnitude of a substitution's effect on activity does not depend on the overall extent of ATP1A sequence divergence between species. Our results suggest that epistatic constraints on the evolution of CTS-resistant forms of Na,K-ATPase likely depend on a small number of sites, with little dependence on overall levels of protein divergence. We propose that dependence on a limited number sites may account for the observation of convergent CTS resistance substitutions observed among taxa with highly divergent Na,K-ATPases (See S1 Text for Spanish translation).
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- Shabnam Mohammadi
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America
- Molecular Evolutionary Biology, Institut für Zell- und Systembiologie der Tiere, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America
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- Molecular Evolutionary Biology, Institut für Zell- und Systembiologie der Tiere, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York city, New York, United States of America
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Mohammadi S, Herrera-Álvarez S, Yang L, Rodríguez-Ordoñez MDP, Zhang K, Storz JF, Dobler S, Crawford AJ, Andolfatto P. Constraints on the evolution of toxin-resistant Na,K-ATPases have limited dependence on sequence divergence. PLoS Genet 2022; 18:e1010323. [PMID: 35972957 PMCID: PMC9462791 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1010323] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2022] [Revised: 09/09/2022] [Accepted: 07/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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A growing body of theoretical and experimental evidence suggests that intramolecular epistasis is a major determinant of rates and patterns of protein evolution and imposes a substantial constraint on the evolution of novel protein functions. Here, we examine the role of intramolecular epistasis in the recurrent evolution of resistance to cardiotonic steroids (CTS) across tetrapods, which occurs via specific amino acid substitutions to the α-subunit family of Na,K-ATPases (ATP1A). After identifying a series of recurrent substitutions at two key sites of ATP1A that are predicted to confer CTS resistance in diverse tetrapods, we then performed protein engineering experiments to test the functional consequences of introducing these substitutions onto divergent species backgrounds. In line with previous results, we find that substitutions at these sites can have substantial background-dependent effects on CTS resistance. Globally, however, these substitutions also have pleiotropic effects that are consistent with additive rather than background-dependent effects. Moreover, the magnitude of a substitution’s effect on activity does not depend on the overall extent of ATP1A sequence divergence between species. Our results suggest that epistatic constraints on the evolution of CTS-resistant forms of Na,K-ATPase likely depend on a small number of sites, with little dependence on overall levels of protein divergence. We propose that dependence on a limited number sites may account for the observation of convergent CTS resistance substitutions observed among taxa with highly divergent Na,K-ATPases (See S1 Text for Spanish translation). Individual amino acids within a protein work in concert to produce a functionally coherent structure that must be maintained as a protein diverges over time. Given this structure-function relationship, we expect the effects of new mutations to depend on amino acid states at other sites throughout the protein (i.e., background dependence) and that identical mutations will have more similar effects in more closely-related species, for which orthologous proteins will be less diverged. We tested this hypothesis by performing protein-engineering experiments on ATP1A, a protein that mediates resistance to toxins known as cardiotonic steroids (CTS), to reveal the extent of background-dependence across representative tetrapods. We find that, while the effects of mutations at two key sites implicated in CTS-resistance are indeed often background-dependent, the magnitude of these effects does not correlate with overall levels of ATP1A divergence. Our results instead suggest that background-dependent effects are determined by amino acid states at a small number of sites throughout the protein. Evolutionary constraints imposed by relatively few sites may explain the frequent occurrence of identical or similar CTS-resistance substitutions among ATP1A proteins of highly divergent animals (See S1 Text for Spanish translation).
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- Shabnam Mohammadi
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America
- Molecular Evolutionary Biology, Institut für Zell- und Systembiologie der Tiere, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America
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- Molecular Evolutionary Biology, Institut für Zell- und Systembiologie der Tiere, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York city, New York, United States of America
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Compensatory substitutions happen when one mutation is advantageously selected because it restores the loss of fitness induced by a previous deleterious mutation. How frequent such mutations occur in evolution and what is the structural and functional context permitting their emergence remain open questions. We built an atlas of intra-protein compensatory substitutions using a phylogenetic approach and a dataset of 1,630 bacterial protein families for which high-quality sequence alignments and experimentally derived protein structures were available. We identified more than 51,000 positions coevolving by the mean of predicted compensatory mutations. Using the evolutionary and structural properties of the analyzed positions, we demonstrate that compensatory mutations are scarce (typically only a few in the protein history) but widespread (the majority of proteins experienced at least one). Typical coevolving residues are evolving slowly, are located in the protein core outside secondary structure motifs, and are more often in contact than expected by chance, even after accounting for their evolutionary rate and solvent exposure. An exception to this general scheme is residues coevolving for charge compensation, which are evolving faster than noncoevolving sites, in contradiction with predictions from simple coevolutionary models, but similar to stem pairs in RNA. While sites with a significant pattern of coevolution by compensatory mutations are rare, the comparative analysis of hundreds of structures ultimately permits a better understanding of the link between the three-dimensional structure of a protein and its fitness landscape.
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- Shilpi Chaurasia
- RG Molecular Systems Evolution, Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, August-Thienemann-Straße 2, 24306 Plön, Germany.,Excelra Knowledge Solutions Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad, India
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- RG Molecular Systems Evolution, Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, August-Thienemann-Straße 2, 24306 Plön, Germany.,Institute of Evolution Sciences of Montpellier (ISEM), CNRS, University of Montpellier, IRD, EPHE, 34095 Montpellier, France
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Qi S, Gao B, Zhu S. A Fungal Defensin Inhibiting Bacterial Cell-Wall Biosynthesis with Non-Hemolysis and Serum Stability. J Fungi (Basel) 2022; 8:jof8020174. [PMID: 35205928 PMCID: PMC8877149 DOI: 10.3390/jof8020174] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2022] [Revised: 02/07/2022] [Accepted: 02/08/2022] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Defensins are a class of cationic disulfide-bridged antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) present in many eukaryotic organisms and even in bacteria. They primarily include two distinct but evolutionarily related superfamilies (cis and trans). Defensins in fungi belong to the members of the cis-superfamily with the cysteine-stabilized α-helical and β-sheet fold. To date, many fungal defensin-like peptides (fDLPs) have been found through gene mining of the genome resource, but only a few have been experimentally characterized. Here, we report the structural and functional characterization of Pyronesin4 (abbreviated as Py4), a fDLP previously identified by genomic sequencing of the basal filamentous ascomycete Pyronema confluens. Chemically, synthetic Py4 adopts a native-like structure and exhibits activity on an array of Gram-positive bacteria including some clinical isolates of Staphylococcus and Staphylococcus warneri, a conditioned pathogen inhabiting in human skin. Py4 markedly altered the bacterial morphology and caused cytoplasmic accumulation of the cell-wall synthesis precursor through binding to the membrane-bound Lipid II, indicating that it works as an inhibitor of cell-wall biosynthesis. Py4 showed no hemolysis and high mammalian serum stability. This work identified a new fungal defensin with properties relevant to drug exploration. Intramolecular epistasis between mutational sites of fDLPs is also discussed.
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- Sudong Qi
- Group of Peptide Biology and Evolution, State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1 Beichen West Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China; (S.Q.); (B.G.)
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Group of Peptide Biology and Evolution, State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1 Beichen West Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China; (S.Q.); (B.G.)
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- Group of Peptide Biology and Evolution, State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1 Beichen West Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China; (S.Q.); (B.G.)
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +86-010-6480-7112
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SpeedyGenesXL: an Automated, High-Throughput Platform for the Preparation of Bespoke Ultralarge Variant Libraries for Directed Evolution. Methods Mol Biol 2022; 2461:67-83. [PMID: 35727444 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2152-3_5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Directed evolution of proteins is a highly effective strategy for tailoring biocatalysts to a particular application, and is capable of engineering improvements such as kcat, thermostability and organic solvent tolerance. It is recognized that large and systematic libraries are required to navigate a protein's vast and rugged sequence landscape effectively, yet their preparation is nontrivial and commercial libraries are extremely costly. To address this, we have developed SpeedyGenesXL, an automated, high-throughput platform for the production of wild-type genes, Boolean OR, combinatorial, or combinatorial-OR-type libraries based on the SpeedyGenes methodology. Together this offers a flexible platform for library synthesis, capable of generating many different bespoke, diverse libraries simultaneously.
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Currin A, Parker S, Robinson CJ, Takano E, Scrutton NS, Breitling R. The evolving art of creating genetic diversity: From directed evolution to synthetic biology. Biotechnol Adv 2021; 50:107762. [PMID: 34000294 PMCID: PMC8299547 DOI: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2021.107762] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2020] [Revised: 04/21/2021] [Accepted: 04/25/2021] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The ability to engineer biological systems, whether to introduce novel functionality or improved performance, is a cornerstone of biotechnology and synthetic biology. Typically, this requires the generation of genetic diversity to explore variations in phenotype, a process that can be performed at many levels, from single molecule targets (i.e., in directed evolution of enzymes) to whole organisms (e.g., in chassis engineering). Recent advances in DNA synthesis technology and automation have enhanced our ability to create variant libraries with greater control and throughput. This review highlights the latest developments in approaches to create such a hierarchy of diversity from the enzyme level to entire pathways in vitro, with a focus on the creation of combinatorial libraries that are required to navigate a target's vast design space successfully to uncover significant improvements in function.
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- Andrew Currin
- Manchester Centre for Synthetic Biology of Fine and Speciality Chemicals (SYNBIOCHEM), Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, The University of Manchester, Manchester M1 7DN, United Kingdom.
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- Manchester Centre for Synthetic Biology of Fine and Speciality Chemicals (SYNBIOCHEM), Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, The University of Manchester, Manchester M1 7DN, United Kingdom
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- Manchester Centre for Synthetic Biology of Fine and Speciality Chemicals (SYNBIOCHEM), Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, The University of Manchester, Manchester M1 7DN, United Kingdom
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- Manchester Centre for Synthetic Biology of Fine and Speciality Chemicals (SYNBIOCHEM), Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, The University of Manchester, Manchester M1 7DN, United Kingdom
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- Manchester Centre for Synthetic Biology of Fine and Speciality Chemicals (SYNBIOCHEM), Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, The University of Manchester, Manchester M1 7DN, United Kingdom
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- Manchester Centre for Synthetic Biology of Fine and Speciality Chemicals (SYNBIOCHEM), Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, The University of Manchester, Manchester M1 7DN, United Kingdom.
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Park J, Wang HH. Systematic dissection of σ 70 sequence diversity and function in bacteria. Cell Rep 2021; 36:109590. [PMID: 34433066 PMCID: PMC8716302 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109590] [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: 05/18/2020] [Revised: 04/19/2021] [Accepted: 08/02/2021] [Indexed: 10/29/2022] Open
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Primary σ70 factors are key conserved bacterial regulatory proteins that interact with regulatory DNA to control gene expression. It is, however, poorly understood whether σ70 sequence diversity in different bacteria reflects functional differences. Here, we employ comparative and functional genomics to explore the sequence and function relationship of primary σ70. Using multiplex automated genome engineering and deep sequencing (MAGE-seq), we generate a saturation mutagenesis library and high-resolution fitness map of E. coli σ70 in domains 2-4. Mapping natural σ70 sequence diversity to the E. coli σ70 fitness landscape reveals significant predicted fitness deficits across σ70 orthologs. Interestingly, these predicted deficits are larger than observed fitness changes for 15 σ70 orthologs introduced into E. coli. Finally, we use a multiplexed transcriptional reporter assay and RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) to explore functional differences of several σ70 orthologs. This work provides an in-depth analysis of σ70 sequence and function to improve efforts to understand the evolution and engineering potential of this global regulator.
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- Jimin Park
- Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA; Integrated Program in Cellular, Molecular and Biomedical Studies, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
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- Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA; Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
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The adaptive landscape of a metallo-enzyme is shaped by environment-dependent epistasis. Nat Commun 2021; 12:3867. [PMID: 34162839 PMCID: PMC8222346 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-23943-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2020] [Accepted: 05/18/2021] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Enzymes can evolve new catalytic activity when environmental changes present them with novel substrates. Despite this seemingly straightforward relationship, factors other than the direct catalytic target can also impact adaptation. Here, we characterize the catalytic activity of a recently evolved bacterial methyl-parathion hydrolase for all possible combinations of the five functionally relevant mutations under eight different laboratory conditions (in which an alternative divalent metal is supplemented). The resultant adaptive landscapes across this historical evolutionary transition vary in terms of both the number of “fitness peaks” as well as the genotype(s) at which they are found as a result of genotype-by-environment interactions and environment-dependent epistasis. This suggests that adaptive landscapes may be fluid and molecular adaptation is highly contingent not only on obvious factors (such as catalytic targets), but also on less obvious secondary environmental factors that can direct it towards distinct outcomes. The metaphor of an adaptive landscape is presented quantitatively by looking at molecular adaptations and their catalytic consequences in a recently evolved bacterial enzyme. The study identifies both genotype-by-environment interactions and environment-dependent epistasis as factors that can alter the fitness of functional mutations.
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Miton CM, Buda K, Tokuriki N. Epistasis and intramolecular networks in protein evolution. Curr Opin Struct Biol 2021; 69:160-168. [PMID: 34077895 DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2021.04.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2021] [Revised: 04/01/2021] [Accepted: 04/21/2021] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Proteins are molecular machines composed of complex, highly connected amino acid networks. Their functional optimization requires the reorganization of these intramolecular networks by evolution. In this review, we discuss the mechanisms by which epistasis, that is, the dependence of the effect of a mutation on the genetic background, rewires intramolecular interactions to alter protein function. Deciphering the biophysical basis of epistasis is crucial to our understanding of evolutionary dynamics and the elucidation of sequence-structure-function relationships. We featured recent studies that provide insights into the molecular mechanisms giving rise to epistasis, particularly at the structural level. These studies illustrate the convoluted and fascinating nature of the intramolecular networks co-opted by epistasis during the evolution of protein function.
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- Charlotte M Miton
- Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, V6T 1Z4, BC, Canada
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- Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, V6T 1Z4, BC, Canada
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- Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, V6T 1Z4, BC, Canada.
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Global Genomic Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 RNA Dependent RNA Polymerase Evolution and Antiviral Drug Resistance. Microorganisms 2021; 9:microorganisms9051094. [PMID: 34069681 PMCID: PMC8160703 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms9051094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2021] [Revised: 05/09/2021] [Accepted: 05/15/2021] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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A variety of antiviral treatments for COVID-19 have been investigated, involving many repurposed drugs. Currently, the SARS-CoV-2 RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp, encoded by nsp12-nsp7-nsp8) has been targeted by numerous inhibitors, e.g., remdesivir, the only provisionally approved treatment to-date, although the clinical impact of these interventions remains inconclusive. However, the potential emergence of antiviral resistance poses a threat to the efficacy of any successful therapies on a wide scale. Here, we propose a framework to monitor the emergence of antiviral resistance, and as a proof of concept, we address the interaction between RdRp and remdesivir. We show that SARS-CoV-2 RdRp is under purifying selection, that potential escape mutations are rare in circulating lineages, and that those mutations, where present, do not destabilise RdRp. In more than 56,000 viral genomes from 105 countries from the first pandemic wave, we found negative selective pressure affecting nsp12 (Tajima’s D = −2.62), with potential antiviral escape mutations in only 0.3% of sequenced genomes. Potential escape mutations included known key residues, such as Nsp12:Val473 and Nsp12:Arg555. Of the potential escape mutations involved globally, in silico structural models found that they were unlikely to be associated with loss of stability in RdRp. No potential escape mutation was found in a local cohort of remdesivir treated patients. Collectively, these findings indicate that RdRp is a suitable drug target, and that remdesivir does not seem to exert high selective pressure. We anticipate our framework to be the starting point of a larger effort for a global monitoring of drug resistance throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Talavera-Aguilar LG, Murrieta RA, Kiem S, Cetina-Trejo RC, Baak-Baak CM, Ebel GD, Blitvich BJ, Machain-Williams C. Infection, dissemination, and transmission efficiencies of Zika virus in Aedes aegypti after serial passage in mosquito or mammalian cell lines or alternating passage in both cell types. Parasit Vectors 2021; 14:261. [PMID: 34006306 PMCID: PMC8130322 DOI: 10.1186/s13071-021-04726-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2021] [Accepted: 04/16/2021] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Background Zika virus (ZIKV) is an arthropod-borne virus (arbovirus) with an urban transmission cycle that primarily involves humans and Aedes aegypti. Evidence suggests that the evolution of some arboviruses is constrained by their dependency on alternating between disparate (vertebrate and invertebrate) hosts. The goals of this study are to compare the genetic changes that occur in ZIKV after serial passaging in mosquito or vertebrate cell lines or alternate passaging in both cell types and to compare the replication, dissemination, and transmission efficiencies of the cell culture-derived viruses in Ae. aegypti. Methods An isolate of ZIKV originally acquired from a febrile patient in Yucatan, Mexico, was serially passaged six times in African green monkey kidney (Vero) cells or Aedes albopictus (C6/36) cells or both cell types by alternating passage. A colony of Ae. aegypti from Yucatan was established, and mosquitoes were challenged with the cell-adapted viruses. Midguts, Malpighian tubules, ovaries, salivary glands, wings/legs and saliva were collected at various times after challenge and tested for evidence of virus infection. Results Genome sequencing revealed the presence of two non-synonymous substitutions in the premembrane and NS1 regions of the mosquito cell-adapted virus and two non-synonymous substitutions in the capsid and NS2A regions of both the vertebrate cell-adapted and alternate-passaged viruses. Additional genetic changes were identified by intrahost variant frequency analysis. Virus maintained by continuous C6/36 cell passage was significantly more infectious in Ae. aegypti than viruses maintained by alternating passage and consecutive Vero cell passage. Conclusions Mosquito cell-adapted ZIKV displayed greater in vivo fitness in Ae. aegypti compared to the other viruses, indicating that obligate cycling between disparate hosts carries a fitness cost. These data increase our understanding of the factors that drive ZIKV adaptation and evolution and underscore the important need to consider the in vivo passage histories of flaviviruses to be evaluated in vector competence studies. Graphical abstract ![]()
Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13071-021-04726-1.
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- Lourdes G Talavera-Aguilar
- Laboratorio de Arbovirología, Centro de Investigaciones Regionales "Dr. Hideyo Noguchi", Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mérida, México
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Department of Infectious Diseases in Internal Medicine, Sejong Chungnam National University Hospital, School of Medicine, Chungnam National University, Sejong, Korea
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- Laboratorio de Arbovirología, Centro de Investigaciones Regionales "Dr. Hideyo Noguchi", Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mérida, México
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- Laboratorio de Arbovirología, Centro de Investigaciones Regionales "Dr. Hideyo Noguchi", Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mérida, México
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA
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- Laboratorio de Arbovirología, Centro de Investigaciones Regionales "Dr. Hideyo Noguchi", Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mérida, México.
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Labourel F, Rajon E. Resource uptake and the evolution of moderately efficient enzymes. Mol Biol Evol 2021; 38:3938-3952. [PMID: 33964160 PMCID: PMC8382906 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msab132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Enzymes speed up reactions that would otherwise be too slow to sustain the metabolism of selfreplicators. Yet, most enzymes seem only moderately efficient, exhibiting kinetic parameters orders of magnitude lower than their expected physically achievable maxima and spanning over surprisingly large ranges of values. Here, we question how these parameters evolve using a mechanistic model where enzyme efficiency is a key component of individual competition for resources. We show that kinetic parameters are under strong directional selection only up to a point, above which enzymes appear to evolve under near-neutrality, thereby confirming the qualitative observation of other modeling approaches. While the existence of a large fitness plateau could potentially explain the extensive variation in enzyme features reported, we show using a population genetics model that such a widespread distribution is an unlikely outcome of evolution on a common landscape, as mutation–selection–drift balance occupy a narrow area even when very moderate biases towards lower efficiency are considered. Instead, differences in the evolutionary context encountered by each enzyme should be involved, such that each evolves on an individual, unique landscape. Our results point to drift and effective population size playing an important role, along with the kinetics of nutrient transporters, the tolerance to high concentrations of intermediate metabolites, and the reversibility of reactions. Enzyme concentration also shapes selection on kinetic parameters, but we show that the joint evolution of concentration and efficiency does not yield extensive variance in evolutionary outcomes when documented costs to protein expression are applied.
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- Florian Labourel
- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS, Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive UMR5558, Villeurbanne, F-69622, France
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS, Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive UMR5558, Villeurbanne, F-69622, France
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Yang C, Zhou Y, Marcus S, Formenti G, Bergeron LA, Song Z, Bi X, Bergman J, Rousselle MMC, Zhou C, Zhou L, Deng Y, Fang M, Xie D, Zhu Y, Tan S, Mountcastle J, Haase B, Balacco J, Wood J, Chow W, Rhie A, Pippel M, Fabiszak MM, Koren S, Fedrigo O, Freiwald WA, Howe K, Yang H, Phillippy AM, Schierup MH, Jarvis ED, Zhang G. Evolutionary and biomedical insights from a marmoset diploid genome assembly. Nature 2021; 594:227-233. [PMID: 33910227 PMCID: PMC8189906 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03535-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2020] [Accepted: 04/12/2021] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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The accurate and complete assembly of both haplotype sequences of a diploid organism is essential to understanding the role of variation in genome functions, phenotypes and diseases1. Here, using a trio-binning approach, we present a high-quality, diploid reference genome, with both haplotypes assembled independently at the chromosome level, for the common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus), an primate model system that is widely used in biomedical research2,3. The full spectrum of heterozygosity between the two haplotypes involves 1.36% of the genome-much higher than the 0.13% indicated by the standard estimation based on single-nucleotide heterozygosity alone. The de novo mutation rate is 0.43 × 10-8 per site per generation, and the paternal inherited genome acquired twice as many mutations as the maternal. Our diploid assembly enabled us to discover a recent expansion of the sex-differentiation region and unique evolutionary changes in the marmoset Y chromosome. In addition, we identified many genes with signatures of positive selection that might have contributed to the evolution of Callithrix biological features. Brain-related genes were highly conserved between marmosets and humans, although several genes experienced lineage-specific copy number variations or diversifying selection, with implications for the use of marmosets as a model system.
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- Chentao Yang
- BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China.,Villum Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, Section for Ecology and Evolution, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Laboratory of Neurogenetics of Language, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
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- Laboratory of Neurogenetics of Language, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA.,Vertebrate Genome Laboratory, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
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- Villum Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, Section for Ecology and Evolution, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Bioinformatics Research Centre, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China.,Villum Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, Section for Ecology and Evolution, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China
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- Vertebrate Genome Laboratory, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
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- Vertebrate Genome Laboratory, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
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- Genome Informatics Section, Computational and Statistical Genomics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany.,Center for Systems Biology, Dresden, Germany
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- Genome Informatics Section, Computational and Statistical Genomics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Vertebrate Genome Laboratory, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
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- Laboratory of Neural Systems, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA.,Center for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM), The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
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- BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China.,University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.,James D. Watson Institute of Genome Sciences, Hangzhou, China.,Guangdong Provincial Academician Workstation of BGI Synthetic Genomics, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China
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- Genome Informatics Section, Computational and Statistical Genomics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Laboratory of Neurogenetics of Language, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA.,Vertebrate Genome Laboratory, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD, USA
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- Villum Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, Section for Ecology and Evolution, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. .,State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China. .,China National GeneBank, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China. .,Center for Excellence in Animal Evolution and Genetics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China.
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Chaudhuri D, Majumder S, Datta J, Giri K. In Silico Study of Mutational Stability of SARS-CoV-2 Proteins. Protein J 2021; 40:328-340. [PMID: 33890205 PMCID: PMC8061876 DOI: 10.1007/s10930-021-09988-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/12/2021] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), an enveloped RNA virus transmits by droplet infection thus affects the respiratory system. Different genomes have been reported globally for SARS-CoV-2 with moderate level of mutation which makes it harder to combat the virus. Mutational profiling and the relevant evolutionary aspect of coronavirus proteins namely spike glycoprotein, membrane protein, envelope protein, nucleoprotein, ORF1ab, ORF3a, ORF6, ORF7a, ORF7b and ORF8 were studied by in silico experiments. Clustering of the protein sequences and calculation of residue relative abundance were done to get an idea about the protein conservancy as well as finding out some representative sequences for phylogenetic and ancestral reconstruction. By mutational profiling and mutation analysis, the effect of mutations on the protein stability and their functional implication were studied. This study indicates the mutational effect on the proteins and their relevance in evolution, which directs us towards a better understanding of these variations and diversification of SARS-CoV-2 for useful future therapeutic study and thus aid in designing therapeutic agents keeping the highly variable regions in mind.
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- Dwaipayan Chaudhuri
- Department of Life Sciences, Presidency University, 86/1 College Street, Kolkata, 700073, India
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- Department of Life Sciences, Presidency University, 86/1 College Street, Kolkata, 700073, India
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- Department of Life Sciences, Presidency University, 86/1 College Street, Kolkata, 700073, India
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- Department of Life Sciences, Presidency University, 86/1 College Street, Kolkata, 700073, India.
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High-altitude deer mouse hypoxia-inducible factor-2α shows defective interaction with CREB-binding protein. J Biol Chem 2021; 296:100461. [PMID: 33639161 PMCID: PMC8024697 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2021.100461] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2020] [Revised: 02/16/2021] [Accepted: 02/23/2021] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Numerous mammalian species have adapted to the chronic hypoxia of high altitude. Recent genomic studies have identified evidence for natural selection of genes and associated genetic changes in these species. A major gap in our knowledge is an understanding of the functional significance, if any, of these changes. Deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus) live at both low and high altitudes in North America, providing an opportunity to identify functionally important genetic changes. High-altitude deer mice show evidence of natural selection on the Epas1 gene, which encodes for hypoxia-inducible factor-2α (Hif-2α), a central transcription factor of the hypoxia-inducible factor pathway. An SNP encoding for a T755M change in the Hif-2α protein is highly enriched in high-altitude deer mice, but its functional significance is unknown. Here, using coimmunoprecipitation and transcriptional activity assays, we show that the T755M mutation produces a defect in the interaction of Hif-2α with the transcriptional coactivator CREB-binding protein. This results in a loss of function because of decreased transcriptional activity. Intriguingly, the effect of this mutation depends on the amino acid context. Interchanges between methionine and threonine at the corresponding position in house mouse (Mus musculus) Hif-2α are without effects on CREB-binding protein binding. Furthermore, transfer of a set of deer mouse–specific Hif-2α amino acids to house mouse Hif-2α is sufficient to confer sensitivity of house mouse Hif-2α to the T755M substitution. These findings provide insight into high-altitude adaptation in deer mice and evolution at the Epas1 locus.
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Neverov AD, Popova AV, Fedonin GG, Cheremukhin EA, Klink GV, Bazykin GA. Episodic evolution of coadapted sets of amino acid sites in mitochondrial proteins. PLoS Genet 2021; 17:e1008711. [PMID: 33493156 PMCID: PMC7861529 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008711] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2020] [Revised: 02/04/2021] [Accepted: 12/07/2020] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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The rate of evolution differs between protein sites and changes with time. However, the link between these two phenomena remains poorly understood. Here, we design a phylogenetic approach for distinguishing pairs of amino acid sites that evolve concordantly, i.e., such that substitutions at one site trigger subsequent substitutions at the other; and also pairs of sites that evolve discordantly, so that substitutions at one site impede subsequent substitutions at the other. We distinguish groups of amino acid sites that undergo coordinated evolution and evolve discordantly from other such groups. In mitochondrion-encoded proteins of metazoans and fungi, we show that concordantly evolving sites are clustered in protein structures. By analysing the phylogenetic patterns of substitutions at concordantly and discordantly evolving site pairs, we find that concordant evolution has two distinct causes: epistatic interactions between amino acid substitutions and episodes of selection independently affecting substitutions at different sites. The rate of substitutions at concordantly evolving groups of protein sites changes in the course of evolution, indicating episodes of selection limited to some of the lineages. The phylogenetic positions of these changes are consistent between proteins, suggesting common selective forces underlying them. The mode and rate of evolution of a protein site depends on the effect of its mutations on protein fitness. The fitness effect of a mutation itself can change in the course of evolution for at least two reasons. First, it can be modulated by substitutions occurring at other sites, a phenomenon called epistasis. Second, changes in selection can be non-epistatic, affecting sites independently of one another. Here, we analyse substitutions accumulated by the evolving lineages of the five proteins encoded by the mitochondrial genomes of thousands of species of metazoans and fungi. We show that substitutions at different amino acid sites occur in a coordinated fashion, and this coordination is caused both by epistasis and by episodes of selection affecting groups of sites. We partition each protein into several groups of concordantly evolving sites such that evolution of sites from different groups is discordant, and show that the proteins encoded by the mitochondrial genome consist of coevolving structural blocks. Some of these blocks have a clear functional specialization, e.g. are associated with interfaces between proteins composing respiratory complexes. Together, our results reveal a previously unrecognized complexity in the causes of variation in evolutionary rates between protein sites.
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- Alexey D. Neverov
- Department of Molecular Diagnostics, Central Research Institute for Epidemiology, Moscow, Russia
- * E-mail:
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- Department of Molecular Diagnostics, Central Research Institute for Epidemiology, Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Molecular Diagnostics, Central Research Institute for Epidemiology, Moscow, Russia
- Institute for Information Transmission Problems (Kharkevich Institute), Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
- Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudny, Moscow region, Russia
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- Institute for Information Transmission Problems (Kharkevich Institute), Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Institute for Information Transmission Problems (Kharkevich Institute), Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
- Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Skolkovo, Russia
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Yang G, Miton CM, Tokuriki N. A mechanistic view of enzyme evolution. Protein Sci 2020; 29:1724-1747. [PMID: 32557882 PMCID: PMC7380680 DOI: 10.1002/pro.3901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2020] [Revised: 06/14/2020] [Accepted: 06/16/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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New enzyme functions often evolve through the recruitment and optimization of latent promiscuous activities. How do mutations alter the molecular architecture of enzymes to enhance their activities? Can we infer general mechanisms that are common to most enzymes, or does each enzyme require a unique optimization process? The ability to predict the location and type of mutations necessary to enhance an enzyme's activity is critical to protein engineering and rational design. In this review, via the detailed examination of recent studies that have shed new light on the molecular changes underlying the optimization of enzyme function, we provide a mechanistic perspective of enzyme evolution. We first present a global survey of the prevalence of activity-enhancing mutations and their distribution within protein structures. We then delve into the molecular solutions that mediate functional optimization, specifically highlighting several common mechanisms that have been observed across multiple examples. As distinct protein sequences encounter different evolutionary bottlenecks, different mechanisms are likely to emerge along evolutionary trajectories toward improved function. Identifying the specific mechanism(s) that need to be improved upon, and tailoring our engineering efforts to each sequence, may considerably improve our chances to succeed in generating highly efficient catalysts in the future.
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- Gloria Yang
- Michael Smith LaboratoriesUniversity of British ColumbiaVancouverBritish ColumbiaCanada
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- Michael Smith LaboratoriesUniversity of British ColumbiaVancouverBritish ColumbiaCanada
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- Michael Smith LaboratoriesUniversity of British ColumbiaVancouverBritish ColumbiaCanada
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Fodor A, Abate BA, Deák P, Fodor L, Gyenge E, Klein MG, Koncz Z, Muvevi J, Ötvös L, Székely G, Vozik D, Makrai L. Multidrug Resistance (MDR) and Collateral Sensitivity in Bacteria, with Special Attention to Genetic and Evolutionary Aspects and to the Perspectives of Antimicrobial Peptides-A Review. Pathogens 2020; 9:pathogens9070522. [PMID: 32610480 PMCID: PMC7399985 DOI: 10.3390/pathogens9070522] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2020] [Revised: 06/23/2020] [Accepted: 06/23/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Antibiotic poly-resistance (multidrug-, extreme-, and pan-drug resistance) is controlled by adaptive evolution. Darwinian and Lamarckian interpretations of resistance evolution are discussed. Arguments for, and against, pessimistic forecasts on a fatal “post-antibiotic era” are evaluated. In commensal niches, the appearance of a new antibiotic resistance often reduces fitness, but compensatory mutations may counteract this tendency. The appearance of new antibiotic resistance is frequently accompanied by a collateral sensitivity to other resistances. Organisms with an expanding open pan-genome, such as Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Klebsiella pneumoniae, can withstand an increased number of resistances by exploiting their evolutionary plasticity and disseminating clonally or poly-clonally. Multidrug-resistant pathogen clones can become predominant under antibiotic stress conditions but, under the influence of negative frequency-dependent selection, are prevented from rising to dominance in a population in a commensal niche. Antimicrobial peptides have a great potential to combat multidrug resistance, since antibiotic-resistant bacteria have shown a high frequency of collateral sensitivity to antimicrobial peptides. In addition, the mobility patterns of antibiotic resistance, and antimicrobial peptide resistance, genes are completely different. The integron trade in commensal niches is fortunately limited by the species-specificity of resistance genes. Hence, we theorize that the suggested post-antibiotic era has not yet come, and indeed might never come.
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- András Fodor
- Department of Genetics, University of Szeged, H-6726 Szeged, Hungary;
- Correspondence: or (A.F.); (L.M.); Tel.: +36-(30)-490-9294 (A.F.); +36-(30)-271-2513 (L.M.)
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- Ethiopian Biotechnology Institute, Agricultural Biotechnology Directorate, Addis Ababa 5954, Ethiopia;
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- Department of Genetics, University of Szeged, H-6726 Szeged, Hungary;
- Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Centre, H-6726 Szeged, Hungary
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- Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of Veterinary Medicine, P.O. Box 22, H-1581 Budapest, Hungary;
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- Hungarian Department of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Biology and Geology, Babeș-Bolyai University, 5-7 Clinicilor St., 400006 Cluj-Napoca, Romania; (E.G.); (G.S.)
- Institute for Research-Development-Innovation in Applied Natural Sciences, Babeș-Bolyai University, 30 Fântânele St., 400294 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Department of Entomology, The Ohio State University, 1680 Madison Ave., Wooster, OH 44691, USA;
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- Max-Planck Institut für Pflanzenzüchtungsforschung, Carl-von-Linné-Weg 10, D-50829 Köln, Germany;
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- OLPE, LLC, Audubon, PA 19403-1965, USA;
- Institute of Medical Microbiology, Semmelweis University, H-1085 Budapest, Hungary
- Arrevus, Inc., Raleigh, NC 27612, USA
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- Hungarian Department of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Biology and Geology, Babeș-Bolyai University, 5-7 Clinicilor St., 400006 Cluj-Napoca, Romania; (E.G.); (G.S.)
- Institute for Research-Development-Innovation in Applied Natural Sciences, Babeș-Bolyai University, 30 Fântânele St., 400294 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- Centre for Systems Biology, Biodiversity and Bioresources, Babeș-Bolyai University, 5-7 Clinicilor St., 400006 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Research Institute on Bioengineering, Membrane Technology and Energetics, Faculty of Engineering, University of Veszprem, H-8200 Veszprém, Hungary; or or
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- Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of Veterinary Medicine, P.O. Box 22, H-1581 Budapest, Hungary;
- Correspondence: or (A.F.); (L.M.); Tel.: +36-(30)-490-9294 (A.F.); +36-(30)-271-2513 (L.M.)
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Pei J, Kinch LN, Otwinowski Z, Grishin NV. Mutation severity spectrum of rare alleles in the human genome is predictive of disease type. PLoS Comput Biol 2020; 16:e1007775. [PMID: 32413045 PMCID: PMC7255613 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007775] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2019] [Revised: 05/28/2020] [Accepted: 03/06/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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The human genome harbors a variety of genetic variations. Single-nucleotide changes that alter amino acids in protein-coding regions are one of the major causes of human phenotypic variation and diseases. These single-amino acid variations (SAVs) are routinely found in whole genome and exome sequencing. Evaluating the functional impact of such genomic alterations is crucial for diagnosis of genetic disorders. We developed DeepSAV, a deep-learning convolutional neural network to differentiate disease-causing and benign SAVs based on a variety of protein sequence, structural and functional properties. Our method outperforms most stand-alone programs, and the version incorporating population and gene-level information (DeepSAV+PG) has similar predictive power as some of the best available. We transformed DeepSAV scores of rare SAVs in the human population into a quantity termed "mutation severity measure" for each human protein-coding gene. It reflects a gene's tolerance to deleterious missense mutations and serves as a useful tool to study gene-disease associations. Genes implicated in cancer, autism, and viral interaction are found by this measure as intolerant to mutations, while genes associated with a number of other diseases are scored as tolerant. Among known disease-associated genes, those that are mutation-intolerant are likely to function in development and signal transduction pathways, while those that are mutation-tolerant tend to encode metabolic and mitochondrial proteins.
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- Jimin Pei
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America
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- Departments of Biophysics and Biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America
- Departments of Biophysics and Biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America
- * E-mail:
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Minimum epistasis interpolation for sequence-function relationships. Nat Commun 2020; 11:1782. [PMID: 32286265 PMCID: PMC7156698 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15512-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2019] [Accepted: 03/12/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Massively parallel phenotyping assays have provided unprecedented insight into how multiple mutations combine to determine biological function. While such assays can measure phenotypes for thousands to millions of genotypes in a single experiment, in practice these measurements are not exhaustive, so that there is a need for techniques to impute values for genotypes whose phenotypes have not been directly assayed. Here, we present an imputation method based on inferring the least epistatic possible sequence-function relationship compatible with the data. In particular, we infer the reconstruction where mutational effects change as little as possible across adjacent genetic backgrounds. The resulting models can capture complex higher-order genetic interactions near the data, but approach additivity where data is sparse or absent. We apply the method to high-throughput transcription factor binding assays and use it to explore a fitness landscape for protein G.
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Hill GE. Mitonuclear Compensatory Coevolution. Trends Genet 2020; 36:403-414. [PMID: 32396834 DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2020.03.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2019] [Revised: 02/27/2020] [Accepted: 03/08/2020] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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In bilaterian animals, the mitochondrial genome is small, haploid, does not typically recombine, and is subject to accumulation of deleterious alleles via Muller's ratchet. These basic features of the genomic architecture present a paradox: mutational erosion of these genomes should lead to decline in mitochondrial function over time, yet no such decline is observed. Compensatory coevolution, whereby the nuclear genome evolves to compensate for the deleterious alleles in the mitochondrial genome, presents a potential solution to the paradox of Muller's ratchet without loss of function. Here, I review different proposed forms of mitonuclear compensatory coevolution. Empirical evidence from diverse eukaryotic taxa supports the mitonuclear compensatory coevolution hypothesis, but the ubiquity and importance of such compensatory coevolution remains a topic of debate.
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- Geoffrey E Hill
- Department of Biological Science, 331 Funchess Hall, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849-5414, USA.
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Miton CM, Chen JZ, Ost K, Anderson DW, Tokuriki N. Statistical analysis of mutational epistasis to reveal intramolecular interaction networks in proteins. Methods Enzymol 2020; 643:243-280. [DOI: 10.1016/bs.mie.2020.07.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Daane JM, Giordano D, Coppola D, di Prisco G, Detrich HW, Verde C. Adaptations to environmental change: Globin superfamily evolution in Antarctic fishes. Mar Genomics 2019; 49:100724. [PMID: 31735579 DOI: 10.1016/j.margen.2019.100724] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2019] [Revised: 10/27/2019] [Accepted: 11/01/2019] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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The ancient origins and functional versatility of globins make them ideal subjects for studying physiological adaptation to environmental change. Our goals in this review are to describe the evolution of the vertebrate globin gene superfamily and to explore the structure/function relationships of hemoglobin, myoglobin, neuroglobin and cytoglobin in teleost fishes. We focus on the globins of Antarctic notothenioids, emphasizing their adaptive features as inferred from comparisons with human proteins. We dedicate this review to Guido di Prisco, our co-author, colleague, friend, and husband of C.V. Ever thoughtful, creative, and enthusiastic, Guido spearheaded study of the structure, function, and evolution of the hemoglobins of polar fishes - this review is testimony to his wide-ranging contributions. Throughout his career, Guido inspired younger scientists to embrace polar biological research, and he challenged researchers of all ages to explore evolutionary adaptation in the context of global climate change. Beyond his scientific contributions, we will miss his warmth, his culture, and his great intellect. Guido has left an outstanding legacy, one that will continue to inspire us and our research.
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- Jacob M Daane
- Department of Marine and Environmental Sciences, Northeastern University Marine Science Center, Nahant, MA 01908, USA
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- Institute of Biosciences and BioResources (IBBR), CNR, Via Pietro Castellino 111, 80131 Napoli, Italy; Department of Marine Biotechnology, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Villa Comunale, 80121 Napoli, Italy
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- Institute of Biosciences and BioResources (IBBR), CNR, Via Pietro Castellino 111, 80131 Napoli, Italy; Department of Marine Biotechnology, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Villa Comunale, 80121 Napoli, Italy
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- Institute of Biosciences and BioResources (IBBR), CNR, Via Pietro Castellino 111, 80131 Napoli, Italy
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- Department of Marine and Environmental Sciences, Northeastern University Marine Science Center, Nahant, MA 01908, USA
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- Institute of Biosciences and BioResources (IBBR), CNR, Via Pietro Castellino 111, 80131 Napoli, Italy; Department of Marine Biotechnology, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Villa Comunale, 80121 Napoli, Italy.
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Learning the pattern of epistasis linking genotype and phenotype in a protein. Nat Commun 2019; 10:4213. [PMID: 31527666 PMCID: PMC6746860 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-12130-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2018] [Accepted: 08/19/2019] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Understanding the pattern of epistasis-the non-independence of mutations-is critical for relating genotype and phenotype. However, the combinatorial complexity of potential epistatic interactions has severely limited the analysis of this problem. Using new mutational approaches, we report a comprehensive experimental study of all 213 mutants that link two phenotypically distinct variants of the Entacmaea quadricolor fluorescent protein-an opportunity to examine epistasis up to the 13th order. The data show the existence of many high-order epistatic interactions between mutations, but also reveal extraordinary sparsity, enabling novel experimental and computational strategies for learning the relevant epistasis. We demonstrate that such information, in turn, can be used to accurately predict phenotypes in practical situations where the number of measurements is limited. Finally, we show how the observed epistasis shapes the solution space of single-mutation trajectories between the parental fluorescent proteins, informative about the protein's evolutionary potential. This work provides conceptual and experimental strategies to profoundly characterize epistasis in a protein, relevant to both natural and laboratory evolution.
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Tomala K, Zrebiec P, Hartl DL. Limits to Compensatory Mutations: Insights from Temperature-Sensitive Alleles. Mol Biol Evol 2019; 36:1874-1883. [PMID: 31058959 PMCID: PMC6735812 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msz110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Previous experiments with temperature-sensitive mutants of the yeast enzyme orotidine 5'-phosphate decarboxylase (encoded in gene URA3) yielded the unexpected result that reversion occurs only through exact reversal of the original mutation (Jakubowska A, Korona R. 2009. Lack of evolutionary conservation at positions important for thermal stability in the yeast ODCase protein. Mol Biol Evol. 26(7):1431-1434.). We recreated a set of these mutations in which the codon had two nucleotide substitutions, making exact reversion much less likely. We screened these double mutants for reversion and obtained a number of compensatory mutations occurring at alternative sites in the molecule. None of these compensatory mutations fully restored protein performance. The mechanism of partial compensation is consistent with a model in which protein stabilization is additive, as the same secondary mutations can compensate different primary alternations. The distance between primary and compensatory residues precludes direct interaction between the sites. Instead, most of the compensatory mutants were clustered in proximity to the catalytic center. All of the second-site compensatory substitutions occurred at relatively conserved sites, and the amino acid replacements were to residues found at these sites in a multispecies alignment of the protein. Based on the estimated distribution of changes in Gibbs free energy among a large number of amino acid replacements, we estimate that, for most proteins, the probability that a second-site mutation would have a sufficiently large stabilizing effect to offset a temperature-sensitive mutation in the order of 10-4 or less. Hence compensation is likely to take place only for slightly destabilizing mutations because highly stabilizing mutations are exceeding rare.
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- Katarzyna Tomala
- Institute of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
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- Institute of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
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Taverner AM, Yang L, Barile ZJ, Lin B, Peng J, Pinharanda AP, Rao AS, Roland BP, Talsma AD, Wei D, Petschenka G, Palladino MJ, Andolfatto P. Adaptive substitutions underlying cardiac glycoside insensitivity in insects exhibit epistasis in vivo. eLife 2019; 8:48224. [PMID: 31453806 PMCID: PMC6733596 DOI: 10.7554/elife.48224] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2019] [Accepted: 08/24/2019] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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Predicting how species will respond to selection pressures requires understanding the factors that constrain their evolution. We use genome engineering of Drosophila to investigate constraints on the repeated evolution of unrelated herbivorous insects to toxic cardiac glycosides, which primarily occurs via a small subset of possible functionally-relevant substitutions to Na+,K+-ATPase. Surprisingly, we find that frequently observed adaptive substitutions at two sites, 111 and 122, are lethal when homozygous and adult heterozygotes exhibit dominant neural dysfunction. We identify a phylogenetically correlated substitution, A119S, that partially ameliorates the deleterious effects of substitutions at 111 and 122. Despite contributing little to cardiac glycoside-insensitivity in vitro, A119S, like substitutions at 111 and 122, substantially increases adult survivorship upon cardiac glycoside exposure. Our results demonstrate the importance of epistasis in constraining adaptive paths. Moreover, by revealing distinct effects of substitutions in vitro and in vivo, our results underscore the importance of evaluating the fitness of adaptive substitutions and their interactions in whole organisms.
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- Andrew M Taverner
- Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, United States
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, United States
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- Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, United States.,Pittsburgh Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases (PIND), University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, United States
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- Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, United States.,Pittsburgh Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases (PIND), University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, United States
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- Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, United States
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, United States
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, United States
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- Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, United States.,Pittsburgh Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases (PIND), University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, United States
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- Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, United States.,Pittsburgh Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases (PIND), University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, United States
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- Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, United States.,Pittsburgh Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases (PIND), University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, United States
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- Institute for Insect Biotechnology, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Hesse, Germany
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- Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, United States.,Pittsburgh Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases (PIND), University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, United States
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, United States
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Signore AV, Paijmans JLA, Hofreiter M, Fago A, Weber RE, Springer MS, Campbell KL. Emergence of a Chimeric Globin Pseudogene and Increased Hemoglobin Oxygen Affinity Underlie the Evolution of Aquatic Specializations in Sirenia. Mol Biol Evol 2019; 36:1134-1147. [PMID: 30828717 PMCID: PMC6526914 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msz044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2018] [Revised: 02/13/2019] [Accepted: 02/27/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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As limits on O2 availability during submergence impose severe constraints on aerobic respiration, the oxygen binding globin proteins of marine mammals are expected to have evolved under strong evolutionary pressures during their land-to-sea transition. Here, we address this question for the order Sirenia by retrieving, annotating, and performing detailed selection analyses on the globin repertoire of the extinct Steller’s sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas), dugong (Dugong dugon), and Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris) in relation to their closest living terrestrial relatives (elephants and hyraxes). These analyses indicate most loci experienced elevated nucleotide substitution rates during their transition to a fully aquatic lifestyle. While most of these genes evolved under neutrality or strong purifying selection, the rate of nonsynonymous/synonymous replacements increased in two genes (Hbz-T1 and Hba-T1) that encode the α-type chains of hemoglobin (Hb) during each stage of life. Notably, the relaxed evolution of Hba-T1 is temporally coupled with the emergence of a chimeric pseudogene (Hba-T2/Hbq-ps) that contributed to the tandemly linked Hba-T1 of stem sirenians via interparalog gene conversion. Functional tests on recombinant Hb proteins from extant and ancestral sirenians further revealed that the molecular remodeling of Hba-T1 coincided with increased Hb–O2 affinity in early sirenians. Available evidence suggests that this trait evolved to maximize O2 extraction from finite lung stores and suppress tissue O2 offloading, thereby facilitating the low metabolic intensities of extant sirenians. In contrast, the derived reduction in Hb–O2 affinity in (sub)Arctic Steller’s sea cows is consistent with fueling increased thermogenesis by these once colossal marine herbivores.
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- Anthony V Signore
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.,School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Germany
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- Department of Bioscience, Zoophysiology, Aarhus University, Denmark
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- Department of Bioscience, Zoophysiology, Aarhus University, Denmark
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- Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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Domingo J, Baeza-Centurion P, Lehner B. The Causes and Consequences of Genetic Interactions (Epistasis). Annu Rev Genomics Hum Genet 2019; 20:433-460. [PMID: 31082279 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-genom-083118-014857] [Citation(s) in RCA: 124] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The same mutation can have different effects in different individuals. One important reason for this is that the outcome of a mutation can depend on the genetic context in which it occurs. This dependency is known as epistasis. In recent years, there has been a concerted effort to quantify the extent of pairwise and higher-order genetic interactions between mutations through deep mutagenesis of proteins and RNAs. This research has revealed two major components of epistasis: nonspecific genetic interactions caused by nonlinearities in genotype-to-phenotype maps, and specific interactions between particular mutations. Here, we provide an overview of our current understanding of the mechanisms causing epistasis at the molecular level, the consequences of genetic interactions for evolution and genetic prediction, and the applications of epistasis for understanding biology and determining macromolecular structures.
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- Júlia Domingo
- Systems Biology Program, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, 08003 Barcelona, Spain; , ,
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- Systems Biology Program, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, 08003 Barcelona, Spain; , ,
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- Systems Biology Program, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, 08003 Barcelona, Spain; , , .,Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 08003 Barcelona, Spain.,Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), 08010 Barcelona, Spain
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Zhong Z, Liu CC. Probing pathways of adaptation with continuous evolution. CURRENT OPINION IN SYSTEMS BIOLOGY 2019; 14:18-24. [PMID: 31608311 PMCID: PMC6788780 DOI: 10.1016/j.coisb.2019.02.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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- Ziwei Zhong
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
- Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
- Lead Contact
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Jendroszek A, Malte H, Overgaard CB, Beedholm K, Natarajan C, Weber RE, Storz JF, Fago A. Allosteric mechanisms underlying the adaptive increase in hemoglobin-oxygen affinity of the bar-headed goose. J Exp Biol 2018; 221:jeb185470. [PMID: 30026237 PMCID: PMC6176913 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.185470] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2018] [Accepted: 07/16/2018] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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The high blood-O2 affinity of the bar-headed goose (Anser indicus) is an integral component of the biochemical and physiological adaptations that allow this hypoxia-tolerant species to undertake migratory flights over the Himalayas. The high blood-O2 affinity of this species was originally attributed to a single amino acid substitution of the major hemoglobin (Hb) isoform, HbA, which was thought to destabilize the low-affinity T state, thereby shifting the T-R allosteric equilibrium towards the high-affinity R state. Surprisingly, this mechanistic hypothesis has never been addressed using native proteins purified from blood. Here, we report a detailed analysis of O2 equilibria and kinetics of native major HbA and minor HbD isoforms from bar-headed goose and greylag goose (Anser anser), a strictly lowland species, to identify and characterize the mechanistic basis for the adaptive change in Hb function. We find that HbA and HbD of bar-headed goose have consistently higher O2 affinities than those of the greylag goose. The corresponding Hb isoforms of the two species are equally responsive to physiological allosteric cofactors and have similar Bohr effects. Thermodynamic analyses of O2 equilibrium curves according to the two-state Monod-Wyman-Changeaux model revealed higher R-state O2 affinities in the bar-headed goose Hbs, associated with lower O2 dissociation rates, compared with the greylag goose. Conversely, the T state was not destabilized and the T-R allosteric equilibrium was unaltered in bar-headed goose Hbs. The physiological implication of these results is that increased R-state affinity allows for enhanced O2 saturation in the lungs during hypoxia, but without impairing O2 delivery to tissues.
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- Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA
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- Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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Posfai A, Zhou J, Plotkin JB, Kinney JB, McCandlish DM. Selection for Protein Stability Enriches for Epistatic Interactions. Genes (Basel) 2018; 9:E423. [PMID: 30134605 PMCID: PMC6162820 DOI: 10.3390/genes9090423] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2018] [Revised: 07/30/2018] [Accepted: 08/14/2018] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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A now classical argument for the marginal thermodynamic stability of proteins explains the distribution of observed protein stabilities as a consequence of an entropic pull in protein sequence space. In particular, most sequences that are sufficiently stable to fold will have stabilities near the folding threshold. Here, we extend this argument to consider its predictions for epistatic interactions for the effects of mutations on the free energy of folding. Although there is abundant evidence to indicate that the effects of mutations on the free energy of folding are nearly additive and conserved over evolutionary time, we show that these observations are compatible with the hypothesis that a non-additive contribution to the folding free energy is essential for observed proteins to maintain their native structure. In particular, through both simulations and analytical results, we show that even very small departures from additivity are sufficient to drive this effect.
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- Anna Posfai
- Simons Center for Quantitative Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, USA.
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- Simons Center for Quantitative Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, USA.
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- Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
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- Simons Center for Quantitative Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, USA.
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- Simons Center for Quantitative Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, USA.
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Mesa-Torres N, Betancor-Fernández I, Oppici E, Cellini B, Salido E, Pey AL. Evolutionary Divergent Suppressor Mutations in Conformational Diseases. Genes (Basel) 2018; 9:E352. [PMID: 30011855 PMCID: PMC6071075 DOI: 10.3390/genes9070352] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2018] [Revised: 07/09/2018] [Accepted: 07/11/2018] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Neutral and adaptive mutations are key players in the evolutionary dynamics of proteins at molecular, cellular and organismal levels. Conversely, largely destabilizing mutations are rarely tolerated by evolution, although their occurrence in diverse human populations has important roles in the pathogenesis of conformational diseases. We have recently proposed that divergence at certain sites from the consensus (amino acid) state during mammalian evolution may have rendered some human proteins more vulnerable towards disease-associated mutations, primarily by decreasing their conformational stability. We herein extend and refine this hypothesis discussing results from phylogenetic and structural analyses, structure-based energy calculations and structure-function studies at molecular and cellular levels. As proof-of-principle, we focus on different mammalian orthologues of the NQO1 (NAD(P)H:quinone oxidoreductase 1) and AGT (alanine:glyoxylate aminotransferase) proteins. We discuss the different loss-of-function pathogenic mechanisms associated with diseases involving the two enzymes, including enzyme inactivation, accelerated degradation, intracellular mistargeting, and aggregation. Last, we take into account the potentially higher robustness of mammalian orthologues containing certain consensus amino acids as suppressors of human disease, and their relation with different intracellular post-translational modifications and protein quality control capacities, to be discussed as sources of phenotypic variability between human and mammalian models of disease and as tools for improving current therapeutic approaches.
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- Noel Mesa-Torres
- Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Granada, 18010 Granada, Spain.
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- Hospital Universitario de Canarias, Center for Rare Diseases (CIBERER), University of La Laguna, 38320 Tenerife, Spain.
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- Department of Neurosciences, Biomedicine and Movement Sciences, Section of Biological Chemistry, University of Verona, 37134 Verona, Italy.
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- Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Perugia, 06132 Perugia, Italy.
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- Hospital Universitario de Canarias, Center for Rare Diseases (CIBERER), University of La Laguna, 38320 Tenerife, Spain.
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- Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Granada, 18010 Granada, Spain.
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Directed evolution (DE) is a powerful tool for optimizing an enzyme's properties toward a particular objective, such as broader substrate scope, greater thermostability, or increased kcat. A successful DE project requires the generation of genetic diversity and subsequent screening or selection to identify variants with improved fitness. In contrast to random methods (error-prone PCR or DNA shuffling), site-directed mutagenesis enables the rational design of variant libraries and provides control over the nature and frequency of the encoded mutations. Knowledge of protein structure, dynamics, enzyme mechanisms, and natural evolution demonstrates that multiple (combinatorial) mutations are required to discover the most improved variants. To this end, we describe an experimentally straightforward and low-cost method for the preparation of combinatorial variant libraries. Our approach employs a two-step PCR protocol, first producing mutagenic megaprimers, which can then be combined in a "mix-and-match" fashion to generate diverse sets of combinatorial variant libraries both quickly and accurately.
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