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Jia GS, Zhang WC, Liang Y, Liu XH, Rhind N, Pidoux A, Brysch-Herzberg M, Du LL. A high-quality reference genome for the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces osmophilus. G3 (BETHESDA, MD.) 2023; 13:jkad028. [PMID: 36748990 PMCID: PMC10085805 DOI: 10.1093/g3journal/jkad028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2022] [Revised: 01/23/2023] [Accepted: 01/23/2023] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Fission yeasts are an ancient group of fungal species that diverged from each other from tens to hundreds of million years ago. Among them is the preeminent model organism Schizosaccharomyces pombe, which has significantly contributed to our understandings of molecular mechanisms underlying fundamental cellular processes. The availability of the genomes of S. pombe and 3 other fission yeast species S. japonicus, S. octosporus, and S. cryophilus has enabled cross-species comparisons that provide insights into the evolution of genes, pathways, and genomes. Here, we performed genome sequencing on the type strain of the recently identified fission yeast species S. osmophilus and obtained a complete mitochondrial genome and a nuclear genome assembly with gaps only at rRNA gene arrays. A total of 5,098 protein-coding nuclear genes were annotated and orthologs for more than 95% of them were identified. Genome-based phylogenetic analysis showed that S. osmophilus is most closely related to S. octosporus and these 2 species diverged around 16 million years ago. To demonstrate the utility of this S. osmophilus reference genome, we conducted cross-species comparative analyses of centromeres, telomeres, transposons, the mating-type region, Cbp1 family proteins, and mitochondrial genomes. These analyses revealed conservation of repeat arrangements and sequence motifs in centromere cores, identified telomeric sequences composed of 2 types of repeats, delineated relationships among Tf1/sushi group retrotransposons, characterized the evolutionary origins and trajectories of Cbp1 family domesticated transposases, and discovered signs of interspecific transfer of 2 types of mitochondrial selfish elements.
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- Guo-Song Jia
- National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing 102206, China
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- National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing 102206, China
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- National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing 102206, China
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- National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing 102206, China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01605, USA
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- Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, Institute of Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3BF, Scotland, UK
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- Laboratory for Wine Microbiology, Department International Business, Heilbronn University, Heilbronn 74081, Germany
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- National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing 102206, China
- Tsinghua Institute of Multidisciplinary Biomedical Research, Tsinghua University, Beijing 102206, China
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Mating-Type Switching in Budding Yeasts, from Flip/Flop Inversion to Cassette Mechanisms. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 2022; 86:e0000721. [PMID: 35195440 PMCID: PMC8941940 DOI: 10.1128/mmbr.00007-21] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Mating-type switching is a natural but unusual genetic control process that regulates cell identity in ascomycete yeasts. It involves physically replacing one small piece of genomic DNA by another, resulting in replacement of the master regulatory genes in the mating pathway and hence a switch of cell type and mating behavior. In this review, we concentrate on recent progress that has been made on understanding the origins and evolution of mating-type switching systems in budding yeasts (subphylum Saccharomycotina). Because of the unusual nature and the complexity of the mechanism in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, mating-type switching was assumed until recently to have originated only once or twice during yeast evolution. However, comparative genomics analysis now shows that switching mechanisms arose many times independently-at least 11 times in budding yeasts and once in fission yeasts-a dramatic example of convergent evolution. Most of these lineages switch mating types by a flip/flop mechanism that inverts a section of a chromosome and is simpler than the well-characterized 3-locus cassette mechanism (MAT/HML/HMR) used by S. cerevisiae. Mating-type switching (secondary homothallism) is one of the two possible mechanisms by which a yeast species can become self-fertile. The other mechanism (primary homothallism) has also emerged independently in multiple evolutionary lineages of budding yeasts, indicating that homothallism has been favored strongly by natural selection. Recent work shows that HO endonuclease, which makes the double-strand DNA break that initiates switching at the S. cerevisiae MAT locus, evolved from an unusual mobile genetic element that originally targeted a glycolytic gene, FBA1.
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Structural insights into the evolution of the RAG recombinase. Nat Rev Immunol 2022; 22:353-370. [PMID: 34675378 DOI: 10.1038/s41577-021-00628-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/09/2021] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Adaptive immunity in jawed vertebrates relies on the assembly of antigen receptor genes by the recombination activating gene 1 (RAG1)-RAG2 (collectively RAG) recombinase in a reaction known as V(D)J recombination. Extensive biochemical and structural evidence indicates that RAG and V(D)J recombination evolved from the components of a RAG-like (RAGL) transposable element through a process known as transposon molecular domestication. This Review describes recent advances in our understanding of the functional and structural transitions that occurred during RAG evolution. We use the structures of RAG and RAGL enzymes to trace the evolutionary adaptations that yielded a RAG recombinase with exquisitely regulated cleavage activity and a multilayered array of mechanisms to suppress transposition. We describe how changes in modes of DNA binding, alterations in the dynamics of protein-DNA complexes, single amino acid mutations and a modular design likely enabled RAG family enzymes to survive and spread in the genomes of eukaryotes. These advances highlight the insight that can be gained from viewing evolution of vertebrate immunity through the lens of comparative genome analyses coupled with structural biology and biochemistry.
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Wu L, Lyu Y, Wu P, Luo T, Zeng J, Shi T, Zhou J, Yu Y, Lu H. Meiosis-Based Laboratory Evolution of the Thermal Tolerance in Kluyveromyces marxianus. Front Bioeng Biotechnol 2022; 9:799756. [PMID: 35087802 PMCID: PMC8786734 DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2021.799756] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2021] [Accepted: 12/20/2021] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Kluyveromyces marxianus is the fastest-growing eukaryote and a promising host for producing bioethanol and heterologous proteins. To perform a laboratory evolution of thermal tolerance in K. marxianus, diploid, triploid and tetraploid strains were constructed, respectively. Considering the genetic diversity caused by genetic recombination in meiosis, we established an iterative cycle of “diploid/polyploid - meiosis - selection of spores at high temperature” to screen thermotolerant strains. Results showed that the evolution of thermal tolerance in diploid strain was more efficient than that in triploid and tetraploid strains. The thermal tolerance of the progenies of diploid and triploid strains after a two-round screen was significantly improved than that after a one-round screen, while the thermal tolerance of the progenies after the one-round screen was better than that of the initial strain. After a two-round screen, the maximum tolerable temperature of Dip2-8, a progeny of diploid strain, was 3°C higher than that of the original strain. Whole-genome sequencing revealed nonsense mutations of PSR1 and PDE2 in the thermotolerant progenies. Deletion of either PSR1 or PDE2 in the original strain improved thermotolerance and two deletions displayed additive effects, suggesting PSR1 and PDE2 negatively regulated the thermotolerance of K. marxianus in parallel pathways. Therefore, the iterative cycle of “meiosis - spore screening” developed in this study provides an efficient way to perform the laboratory evolution of heat resistance in yeast.
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- Li Wu
- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Industrial Microorganisms, Shanghai, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Industrial Microorganisms, Shanghai, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Industrial Microorganisms, Shanghai, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Industrial Microorganisms, Shanghai, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Industrial Microorganisms, Shanghai, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Industrial Microorganisms, Shanghai, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Industrial Microorganisms, Shanghai, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Industrial Microorganisms, Shanghai, China
- *Correspondence: Yao Yu, ; Hong Lu,
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- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Industrial Microorganisms, Shanghai, China
- Shanghai Collaborative Innovation Center for Biomanufacturing Technology, Shanghai, China
- *Correspondence: Yao Yu, ; Hong Lu,
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Solieri L, Cassanelli S, Huff F, Barroso L, Branduardi P, Louis EJ, Morrissey JP. Insights on life cycle and cell identity regulatory circuits for unlocking genetic improvement in Zygosaccharomyces and Kluyveromyces yeasts. FEMS Yeast Res 2021; 21:foab058. [PMID: 34791177 PMCID: PMC8673824 DOI: 10.1093/femsyr/foab058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2021] [Accepted: 11/14/2021] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Evolution has provided a vast diversity of yeasts that play fundamental roles in nature and society. This diversity is not limited to genotypically homogeneous species with natural interspecies hybrids and allodiploids that blur species boundaries frequently isolated. Thus, life cycle and the nature of breeding systems have profound effects on genome variation, shaping heterozygosity, genotype diversity and ploidy level. The apparent enrichment of hybrids in industry-related environments suggests that hybridization provides an adaptive route against stressors and creates interest in developing new hybrids for biotechnological uses. For example, in the Saccharomyces genus where regulatory circuits controlling cell identity, mating competence and meiosis commitment have been extensively studied, this body of knowledge is being used to combine interesting traits into synthetic F1 hybrids, to bypass F1 hybrid sterility and to dissect complex phenotypes by bulk segregant analysis. Although these aspects are less known in other industrially promising yeasts, advances in whole-genome sequencing and analysis are changing this and new insights are being gained, especially in the food-associated genera Zygosaccharomyces and Kluyveromyces. We discuss this new knowledge and highlight how deciphering cell identity circuits in these lineages will contribute significantly to identify the genetic determinants underpinning complex phenotypes and open new avenues for breeding programmes.
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- Lisa Solieri
- Department of Life Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Via Amendola 2, 42122 Reggio Emilia, Italy
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- Department of Life Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Via Amendola 2, 42122 Reggio Emilia, Italy
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- School of Microbiology, APC Microbiome Ireland, Environmental Research Institute, University College Cork, Cork T12 K8AF, Ireland
- Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
- Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences, University of Milano Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza, 2-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences, University of Milano Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza, 2-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
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- School of Microbiology, APC Microbiome Ireland, Environmental Research Institute, University College Cork, Cork T12 K8AF, Ireland
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Maroc L, Zhou-Li Y, Boisnard S, Fairhead C. A single Ho-induced double-strand break at the MAT locus is lethal in Candida glabrata. PLoS Genet 2020; 16:e1008627. [PMID: 33057400 PMCID: PMC7591073 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008627] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2020] [Revised: 10/27/2020] [Accepted: 09/12/2020] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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Mating-type switching is a complex mechanism that promotes sexual reproduction in Saccharomycotina. In the model species Saccharomyces cerevisiae, mating-type switching is initiated by the Ho endonuclease that performs a site-specific double-strand break (DSB) at MAT, repaired by homologous recombination (HR) using one of the two silent mating-type loci, HMLalpha and HMRa. The reasons why all the elements of the mating-type switching system have been conserved in some Saccharomycotina, that do not show a sexual cycle nor mating-type switching, remain unknown. To gain insight on this phenomenon, we used the yeast Candida glabrata, phylogenetically close to S. cerevisiae, and for which no spontaneous and efficient mating-type switching has been observed. We have previously shown that expression of S. cerevisiae’s Ho (ScHo) gene triggers mating-type switching in C. glabrata, but this leads to massive cell death. In addition, we unexpectedly found, that not only MAT but also HML was cut in this species, suggesting the formation of multiple chromosomal DSBs upon HO induction. We now report that HMR is also cut by ScHo in wild-type strains of C. glabrata. To understand the link between mating-type switching and cell death in C. glabrata, we constructed strains mutated precisely at the Ho recognition sites. We find that even when HML and HMR are protected from the Ho-cut, introducing a DSB at MAT is sufficient to induce cell death, whereas one DSB at HML or HMR is not. We demonstrate that mating-type switching in C. glabrata can be triggered using CRISPR-Cas9, without high lethality. We also show that switching is Rad51-dependent, as in S. cerevisiae, but that donor preference is not conserved in C. glabrata. Altogether, these results suggest that a DSB at MAT can be repaired by HR in C. glabrata, but that repair is prevented by ScHo. Mating-type switching is one of the strategies developed by fungi to promote sexual reproduction and propagation. This mechanism enables one haploid cell to give rise to a cell of the opposite mating-type so that they can mate. It has been extensively studied in the yeast S. cerevisiae in which it relies on a programmed double-strand break performed by the Ho endonuclease at the MAT locus which determines sexual identity. Little is known about why the mating-type switching components have been conserved in species like C. glabrata, in which neither sexual reproduction nor mating-type switching is observed. We have previously shown that mating-type switching can be triggered, in C. glabrata, by expression of the HO gene from S. cerevisiae but this leads to massive cell death. In this work, we show that mating-type switching in C. glabrata can be triggered by CRISPR-Cas9 and without any high lethality. We demonstrate that the cut at MAT is only lethal when the Ho endonuclease performs the break, a situation unique to C. glabrata. Our work points to a degeneration of the mating-type switching system in C. glabrata. Further studies of this phenomenon should shed light on the evolution of mating systems in asexual yeasts.
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- Laetitia Maroc
- Université Paris-Saclay, INRAE, CNRS, AgroParisTech, GQE—Le Moulon, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, INRAE, CNRS, AgroParisTech, GQE—Le Moulon, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, INRAE, CNRS, AgroParisTech, GQE—Le Moulon, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Swiatczak B. Genomic Stress Responses Drive Lymphocyte Evolvability: An Ancient and Ubiquitous Mechanism. Bioessays 2020; 42:e2000032. [PMID: 32767393 DOI: 10.1002/bies.202000032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2020] [Revised: 07/03/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Somatic diversification of antigen receptor genes depends on the activity of enzymes whose homologs participate in a mutagenic DNA repair in unicellular species. Indeed, by engaging error-prone polymerases, gap filling molecules and altered mismatch repair pathways, lymphocytes utilize conserved components of genomic stress response systems, which can already be found in bacteria and archaea. These ancient systems of mutagenesis and repair act to increase phenotypic diversity of microbial cell populations and operate to enhance their ability to produce fit variants during stress. Coopted by lymphocytes, the ancient mutagenic processing systems retained their diversification functions instilling the adaptive immune cells with enhanced evolvability and defensive capacity to resist infection and damage. As reviewed here, the ubiquity and conserved character of specialized variation-generating mechanisms from bacteria to lymphocytes highlight the importance of these mechanisms for evolution of life in general.
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- Bartlomiej Swiatczak
- Department of History of Science and Scientific Archeology, University of Science and Technology of China, 96 Jinzhai Rd., Hefei, 230026, China
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The gene that allows budding yeast cells to switch their mating type evolved from a newly discovered family of genes named weird HO.
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- Laura N Rusche
- Department of Biological Science, University of Buffalo, The State University of New York, New York, United States
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Tsakou-Ngouafo L, Paganini J, Kaufman J, Pontarotti P. Origins of the RAG Transposome and the MHC. Trends Immunol 2020; 41:561-571. [PMID: 32467030 DOI: 10.1016/j.it.2020.05.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2020] [Revised: 05/04/2020] [Accepted: 05/06/2020] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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How innate immunity gave rise to adaptive immunity in vertebrates remains unknown. We propose an evolutionary scenario beginning with pathogen-associated molecular pattern(s) (PAMPs) being presented by molecule(s) on one cell to specific receptor(s) on other cells, much like MHC molecules and T cell receptors (TCRs). In this model, mutations in MHC-like molecule(s) that bound new PAMP(s) would not be recognized by original TCR-like molecule(s), and new MHC-like gene(s) would be lost by neutral drift. Integrating recombination activating gene (RAG) transposon(s) in a TCR-like gene would result in greater recognition diversity, with new MHC-like variants recognized and selected, along with a new RAG/TCR-like system. MHC genes would be selected to present many peptides, through multigene families, allelic polymorphism, and peptide-binding promiscuity.
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- Louis Tsakou-Ngouafo
- Aix Marseille University IRD, APHM, MEPHI, IHU Méditerranée Infection, Marseille France 3, 19-21 Boulevard Jean Moulin, 13005 Marseille, France
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- University of Cambridge, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QP, UK; University of Cambridge, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB2 0ES, UK; University of Edinburgh, Institute for Immunology and Infection Research, Charlotte Auerbach Road, Edinburgh EH9 3FL, UK.
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- Aix Marseille University IRD, APHM, MEPHI, IHU Méditerranée Infection, Marseille France 3, 19-21 Boulevard Jean Moulin, 13005 Marseille, France; SNC5039 CNRS, 19-21 Boulevard Jean Moulin, 13005 Marseilles, France.
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Martin EC, Vicari C, Tsakou-Ngouafo L, Pontarotti P, Petrescu AJ, Schatz DG. Identification of RAG-like transposons in protostomes suggests their ancient bilaterian origin. Mob DNA 2020; 11:17. [PMID: 32399063 PMCID: PMC7204232 DOI: 10.1186/s13100-020-00214-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2019] [Accepted: 04/14/2020] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Background V(D) J recombination is essential for adaptive immunity in jawed vertebrates and is initiated by the RAG1-RAG2 endonuclease. The RAG1 and RAG2 genes are thought to have evolved from a RAGL (RAG-like) transposon containing convergently-oriented RAG1-like (RAG1L) and RAG2-like (RAG2L) genes. Elements resembling this presumptive evolutionary precursor have thus far only been detected convincingly in deuterostomes, leading to the model that the RAGL transposon first appeared in an early deuterostome. Results We have identified numerous RAGL transposons in the genomes of protostomes, including oysters and mussels (phylum Mollusca) and a ribbon worm (phylum Nemertea), and in the genomes of several cnidarians. Phylogenetic analyses are consistent with vertical evolution of RAGL transposons within the Bilateria clade and with its presence in the bilaterian ancestor. Many of the RAGL transposons identified in protostomes are intact elements containing convergently oriented RAG1L and RAG2L genes flanked by terminal inverted repeats (TIRs) and target site duplications with striking similarities with the corresponding elements in deuterostomes. In addition, protostome genomes contain numerous intact RAG1L-RAG2L adjacent gene pairs that lack detectable flanking TIRs. Domains and critical active site and structural amino acids needed for endonuclease and transposase activity are present and conserved in many of the predicted RAG1L and RAG2L proteins encoded in protostome genomes. Conclusions Active RAGL transposons were present in multiple protostome lineages and many were likely transmitted vertically during protostome evolution. It appears that RAGL transposons were broadly active during bilaterian evolution, undergoing multiple duplication and loss/fossilization events, with the RAGL genes that persist in present day protostomes perhaps constituting both active RAGL transposons and domesticated RAGL genes. Our findings raise the possibility that the RAGL transposon arose earlier in evolution than previously thought, either in an early bilaterian or prior to the divergence of bilaterians and non-bilaterians, and alter our understanding of the evolutionary history of this important group of transposons.
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- Eliza C Martin
- 1Department of Bioinformatics and Structural Biochemistry, Institute of Biochemistry of the Romanian Academy, Splaiul Independentei 296, 060031 Bucharest, Romania
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- 2Evolutionary biology team, Aix Marseille Université IRD, APHM, MEPHI, IHU Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France
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- 2Evolutionary biology team, Aix Marseille Université IRD, APHM, MEPHI, IHU Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France
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- 2Evolutionary biology team, Aix Marseille Université IRD, APHM, MEPHI, IHU Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France.,SNC5039 CNRS, 19-21 Boulevard Jean Moulin, 13005 Marseille, France
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- 1Department of Bioinformatics and Structural Biochemistry, Institute of Biochemistry of the Romanian Academy, Splaiul Independentei 296, 060031 Bucharest, Romania
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- 4Department of Immunobiology, Yale School of Medicine, 300 Cedar Street, Box 208011, New Haven, CT 06520-8011 USA
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Coughlan AY, Lombardi L, Braun-Galleani S, Martos AA, Galeote V, Bigey F, Dequin S, Byrne KP, Wolfe KH. The yeast mating-type switching endonuclease HO is a domesticated member of an unorthodox homing genetic element family. eLife 2020; 9:55336. [PMID: 32338594 PMCID: PMC7282813 DOI: 10.7554/elife.55336] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2020] [Accepted: 04/24/2020] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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The mating-type switching endonuclease HO plays a central role in the natural life cycle of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, but its evolutionary origin is unknown. HO is a recent addition to yeast genomes, present in only a few genera close to Saccharomyces. Here we show that HO is structurally and phylogenetically related to a family of unorthodox homing genetic elements found in Torulaspora and Lachancea yeasts. These WHO elements home into the aldolase gene FBA1, replacing its 3' end each time they integrate. They resemble inteins but they operate by a different mechanism that does not require protein splicing. We show that a WHO protein cleaves Torulaspora delbrueckii FBA1 efficiently and in an allele-specific manner, leading to DNA repair by gene conversion or NHEJ. The DNA rearrangement steps during WHO element homing are very similar to those during mating-type switching, and indicate that HO is a domesticated WHO-like element. In the same way as a sperm from a male and an egg from a female join together to form an embryo in most animals, yeast cells have two sexes that coordinate how they reproduce. These are called “mating types” and, rather than male or female, an individual yeast cell can either be mating type “a” or “alpha”. Every yeast cell contains the genes for both mating types, and each cell’s mating type is determined by which of those genes it has active. Only one mating type gene can be ‘on’ at a time, but some yeast species can swap mating type on demand by switching the corresponding genes ‘on’ or ‘off’. This switch is unusual. Rather than simply activate one of the genes it already has, the yeast cell keeps an inactive version of each mating type gene tucked away, makes a copy of the gene it wants to be active and pastes that copy into a different location in its genome. To do all of this yeast need another gene called HO. This gene codes for an enzyme that cuts the DNA at the location of the active mating type gene. This makes an opening that allows the cell to replace the ‘a’ gene with the ‘alpha’ gene, or vice versa. This system allows yeast cells to continue mating even if all the cells in a colony start off as the same mating type. But, cutting into the DNA is risky, and can damage the health of the cell. So, why did yeast cells evolve a system that could cause them harm? To find out where the HO gene came from, Coughlan et al. searched through all the available genomes from yeast species for other genes with similar sequences and identified a cluster which they nicknamed “weird HO” genes, or WHO genes for short. Testing these genes revealed that they also code for enzymes that make cuts in the yeast genome, but the way the cell repairs the cuts is different. The WHO genes are jumping genes. When the enzyme encoded by a WHO gene makes a cut in the genome, the yeast cell copies the gene into the gap, allowing the gene to ‘jump’ from one part of the genome to another. It is possible that this was the starting point for the evolution of the HO gene. Changes to a WHO gene could have allowed it to cut into the mating type region of the yeast genome, giving the yeast an opportunity to ‘domesticate’ it. Over time, the yeast cell stopped the WHO gene from jumping into the gap and started using the cut to change its mating type. Understanding how cells adapt genes for different purposes is a key question in evolutionary biology. There are many other examples of domesticated jumping genes in other organisms, including in the human immune system. Understanding the evolution of HO not only sheds light on how yeast mating type switching evolved, but on how other species might harness and adapt their genes.
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- Aisling Y Coughlan
- UCD Conway Institute and School of Medicine, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- UCD Conway Institute and School of Medicine, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- UCD Conway Institute and School of Medicine, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- SPO, INRAE, Université Montpellier, Montpellier SupAgro, Montpellier, France
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- SPO, INRAE, Université Montpellier, Montpellier SupAgro, Montpellier, France
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- SPO, INRAE, Université Montpellier, Montpellier SupAgro, Montpellier, France
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- UCD Conway Institute and School of Medicine, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- UCD Conway Institute and School of Medicine, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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Carbon source requirements for mating and mating‐type switching in the methylotrophic yeasts
Ogataea (Hansenula) polymorpha
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Komagataella phaffii (Pichia pastoris). Yeast 2020; 37:237-245. [DOI: 10.1002/yea.3446] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2019] [Revised: 10/08/2019] [Accepted: 10/12/2019] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Dechaud C, Volff JN, Schartl M, Naville M. Sex and the TEs: transposable elements in sexual development and function in animals. Mob DNA 2019; 10:42. [PMID: 31700550 PMCID: PMC6825717 DOI: 10.1186/s13100-019-0185-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2019] [Accepted: 10/21/2019] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
Abstract
Transposable elements are endogenous DNA sequences able to integrate into and multiply within genomes. They constitute a major source of genetic innovations, as they can not only rearrange genomes but also spread ready-to-use regulatory sequences able to modify host gene expression, and even can give birth to new host genes. As their evolutionary success depends on their vertical transmission, transposable elements are intrinsically linked to reproduction. In organisms with sexual reproduction, this implies that transposable elements have to manifest their transpositional activity in germ cells or their progenitors. The control of sexual development and function can be very versatile, and several studies have demonstrated the implication of transposable elements in the evolution of sex. In this review, we report the functional and evolutionary relationships between transposable elements and sexual reproduction in animals. In particular, we highlight how transposable elements can influence expression of sexual development genes, and how, reciprocally, they are tightly controlled in gonads. We also review how transposable elements contribute to the organization, expression and evolution of sexual development genes and sex chromosomes. This underscores the intricate co-evolution between host functions and transposable elements, which regularly shift from a parasitic to a domesticated status useful to the host.
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- Corentin Dechaud
- Institut de Genomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon, Univ Lyon, CNRS UMR 5242, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 46 allee d’Italie, F-69364 Lyon, France
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- Institut de Genomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon, Univ Lyon, CNRS UMR 5242, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 46 allee d’Italie, F-69364 Lyon, France
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- Entwicklungsbiochemie, Biozentrum, Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
- The Xiphophorus Genetic Stock Center, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX USA
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- Institut de Genomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon, Univ Lyon, CNRS UMR 5242, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 46 allee d’Italie, F-69364 Lyon, France
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Fungi reproduce via both heterothallic outcrossing and homothallic selfing modes, and transitions between the two are common throughout the tree of life. A new study reports that the transition from heterothallism to homothallism is common and has repeatedly punctuated the evolutionary trajectory across a major lineage of the fungal kingdom.
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- Sheng Sun
- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30605, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.
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Krassowski T, Kominek J, Shen XX, Opulente DA, Zhou X, Rokas A, Hittinger CT, Wolfe KH. Multiple Reinventions of Mating-type Switching during Budding Yeast Evolution. Curr Biol 2019; 29:2555-2562.e8. [PMID: 31353182 PMCID: PMC6692504 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.06.056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2019] [Revised: 06/08/2019] [Accepted: 06/20/2019] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
Abstract
Cell type in budding yeasts is determined by the genotype at the mating-type (MAT) locus, but yeast species differ widely in their mating compatibility systems and life cycles. Among sexual yeasts, heterothallic species are those in which haploid strains fall into two distinct and stable mating types (MATa and MATα), whereas homothallic species are those that can switch mating types or that appear not to have distinct mating types [1, 2]. The evolutionary history of these mating compatibility systems is uncertain, particularly regarding the number and direction of transitions between homothallism and heterothallism, and regarding whether the process of mating-type switching had a single origin [3, 4, 5]. Here, we inferred the mating compatibility systems of 332 budding yeast species from their genome sequences. By reference to a robust phylogenomic tree [6], we detected evolutionary transitions between heterothallism and homothallism, and among different forms of homothallism. We find that mating-type switching has arisen independently at least 11 times during yeast evolution and that transitions from heterothallism to homothallism greatly outnumber transitions in the opposite direction (31 versus 3). Although the 3-locus MAT-HML-HMR mechanism of mating-type switching as seen in Saccharomyces cerevisiae had a single evolutionary origin in budding yeasts, simpler “flip/flop” mechanisms of switching evolved separately in at least 10 other groups of yeasts. These results point to the adaptive value of homothallism and mating-type switching to unicellular fungi. Mating-type switching by flip-flopping arose at least 10 separate times Mating-type switching by copy-and-paste arose only once in budding yeasts Transitions toward homothallism outnumber transitions away from homothallism Heterothallic species can become homothallic by DNA introgression
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Affiliation(s)
- Tadeusz Krassowski
- Conway Institute and School of Medicine, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland; Laboratory of Genetics, Genome Center of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Energy Institute, J.F. Crow Institute for the Study of Evolution, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA; DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Laboratory of Genetics, Genome Center of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Energy Institute, J.F. Crow Institute for the Study of Evolution, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA; DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235, USA
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- Laboratory of Genetics, Genome Center of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Energy Institute, J.F. Crow Institute for the Study of Evolution, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA; DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235, USA
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- Laboratory of Genetics, Genome Center of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Energy Institute, J.F. Crow Institute for the Study of Evolution, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA; DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Conway Institute and School of Medicine, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland.
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Faure G, Jézéquel K, Roisné-Hamelin F, Bitard-Feildel T, Lamiable A, Marcand S, Callebaut I. Discovery and Evolution of New Domains in Yeast Heterochromatin Factor Sir4 and Its Partner Esc1. Genome Biol Evol 2019; 11:572-585. [PMID: 30668669 PMCID: PMC6394760 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evz010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 01/20/2019] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
Abstract
Sir4 is a core component of heterochromatin found in yeasts of the Saccharomycetaceae family, whose general hallmark is to harbor a three-loci mating-type system with two silent loci. However, a large part of the Sir4 amino acid sequences has remained unexplored, belonging to the dark proteome. Here, we analyzed the phylogenetic profile of yet undescribed foldable regions present in Sir4 as well as in Esc1, an Sir4-interacting perinuclear anchoring protein. Within Sir4, we identified a new conserved motif (TOC) adjacent to the N-terminal KU-binding motif. We also found that the Esc1-interacting region of Sir4 is a Dbf4-related H-BRCT domain, only present in species possessing the HO endonuclease and in Kluveryomyces lactis. In addition, we found new motifs within Esc1 including a motif (Esc1-F) that is unique to species where Sir4 possesses an H-BRCT domain. Mutagenesis of conserved amino acids of the Sir4 H-BRCT domain, known to play a critical role in the Dbf4 function, shows that the function of this domain is separable from the essential role of Sir4 in transcriptional silencing and the protection from HO-induced cutting in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. In the more distant methylotrophic clade of yeasts, which often harbor a two-loci mating-type system with one silent locus, we also found a yet undescribed H-BRCT domain in a distinct protein, the ISWI2 chromatin-remodeling factor subunit Itc1. This study provides new insights on yeast heterochromatin evolution and emphasizes the interest of using sensitive methods of sequence analysis for identifying hitherto ignored functional regions within the dark proteome.
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- Guilhem Faure
- Sorbonne Université, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, UMR CNRS 7590, IRD, Institut de Minéralogie, de Physique des Matériaux et de Cosmochimie, IMPMC, Paris, France.,National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
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- Institut de Biologie François Jacob, IRCM/SIGRR/LTR, INSERM U1274, Université Paris-Saclay, CEA Paris-Saclay, Paris, France.,National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
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- Institut de Biologie François Jacob, IRCM/SIGRR/LTR, INSERM U1274, Université Paris-Saclay, CEA Paris-Saclay, Paris, France.,National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
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- Sorbonne Université, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, UMR CNRS 7590, IRD, Institut de Minéralogie, de Physique des Matériaux et de Cosmochimie, IMPMC, Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, UMR CNRS 7590, IRD, Institut de Minéralogie, de Physique des Matériaux et de Cosmochimie, IMPMC, Paris, France
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- Institut de Biologie François Jacob, IRCM/SIGRR/LTR, INSERM U1274, Université Paris-Saclay, CEA Paris-Saclay, Paris, France.,Sorbonne Université, UMR CNRS 7238, IBPS, Laboratoire de Biologie Computationnelle et Quantitative (LCQB), Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, UMR CNRS 7590, IRD, Institut de Minéralogie, de Physique des Matériaux et de Cosmochimie, IMPMC, Paris, France.,Sorbonne Université, UMR CNRS 7238, IBPS, Laboratoire de Biologie Computationnelle et Quantitative (LCQB), Paris, France
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The yeast Kluyveromyces marxianus grows at high temperatures and on a wide range of carbon sources, making it a promising host for industrial biotechnology to produce renewable chemicals from plant biomass feedstocks. However, major genetic engineering limitations have kept this yeast from replacing the commonly used yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae in industrial applications. Here, we describe genetic tools for genome editing and breeding K. marxianus strains, which we use to create a new thermotolerant strain with promising fatty acid production. These results open the door to using K. marxianus as a versatile synthetic biology platform organism for industrial applications. Throughout history, the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae has played a central role in human society due to its use in food production and more recently as a major industrial and model microorganism, because of the many genetic and genomic tools available to probe its biology. However, S. cerevisiae has proven difficult to engineer to expand the carbon sources it can utilize, the products it can make, and the harsh conditions it can tolerate in industrial applications. Other yeasts that could solve many of these problems remain difficult to manipulate genetically. Here, we engineered the thermotolerant yeast Kluyveromyces marxianus to create a new synthetic biology platform. Using CRISPR-Cas9 (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats with Cas9)-mediated genome editing, we show that wild isolates of K. marxianus can be made heterothallic for sexual crossing. By breeding two of these mating-type engineered K. marxianus strains, we combined three complex traits—thermotolerance, lipid production, and facile transformation with exogenous DNA—into a single host. The ability to cross K. marxianus strains with relative ease, together with CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing, should enable engineering of K. marxianus isolates with promising lipid production at temperatures far exceeding those of other fungi under development for industrial applications. These results establish K. marxianus as a synthetic biology platform comparable to S. cerevisiae, with naturally more robust traits that hold potential for the industrial production of renewable chemicals.
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Simpson MC, Coetzee MPA, van der Nest MA, Wingfield MJ, Wingfield BD. Ceratocystidaceae exhibit high levels of recombination at the mating-type (MAT) locus. Fungal Biol 2018; 122:1184-1191. [PMID: 30449356 DOI: 10.1016/j.funbio.2018.09.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2017] [Revised: 07/11/2018] [Accepted: 09/12/2018] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
Abstract
Mating is central to many fungal life cycles and is controlled by genes at the mating-type (MAT) locus. These genes determine whether the fungus will be self-sterile (heterothallic) or self-fertile (homothallic). Species in the ascomycete family Ceratocystidaceae have different mating strategies, making them interesting to consider with regards to their MAT loci. The aim of this study was to compare the composition of the MAT locus flanking regions in 11 species of Ceratocystidaceae representing four genera. Genome assemblies for each species were examined to identify the MAT locus and determine the structure of the flanking regions. Large contigs containing the MAT locus were then functionally annotated and analysed for the presence of transposable elements. Genes typically flanking the MAT locus in sordariomycetes were found to be highly conserved in the Ceratocystidaceae. The different genera in the Ceratocystidaceae displayed little synteny outside of the immediate MAT locus flanking genes. Even though species ofCeratocystis did not show much synteny outside of the immediate MAT locus flanking genes, species of Huntiella and Endoconidiophora were comparatively syntenic. Due to the high number of transposable elements present in Ceratocystis MAT flanking regions, we hypothesise that Ceratocystis species may have undergone recombination in this region.
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- Melissa C Simpson
- Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, 0002, South Africa.
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- Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, 0002, South Africa.
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- Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, 0002, South Africa.
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- Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, 0002, South Africa.
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- Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, 0002, South Africa.
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Bischerour J, Bhullar S, Denby Wilkes C, Régnier V, Mathy N, Dubois E, Singh A, Swart E, Arnaiz O, Sperling L, Nowacki M, Bétermier M. Six domesticated PiggyBac transposases together carry out programmed DNA elimination in Paramecium. eLife 2018; 7:37927. [PMID: 30223944 PMCID: PMC6143343 DOI: 10.7554/elife.37927] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2018] [Accepted: 08/29/2018] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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The domestication of transposable elements has repeatedly occurred during evolution and domesticated transposases have often been implicated in programmed genome rearrangements, as remarkably illustrated in ciliates. In Paramecium, PiggyMac (Pgm), a domesticated PiggyBac transposase, carries out developmentally programmed DNA elimination, including the precise excision of tens of thousands of gene-interrupting germline Internal Eliminated Sequences (IESs). Here, we report the discovery of five groups of distant Pgm-like proteins (PgmLs), all able to interact with Pgm and essential for its nuclear localization and IES excision genome-wide. Unlike Pgm, PgmLs lack a conserved catalytic site, suggesting that they rather have an architectural function within a multi-component excision complex embedding Pgm. PgmL depletion can increase erroneous targeting of residual Pgm-mediated DNA cleavage, indicating that PgmLs contribute to accurately position the complex on IES ends. DNA rearrangements in Paramecium constitute a rare example of a biological process jointly managed by six distinct domesticated transposases.
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- Julien Bischerour
- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Institute of Cell Biology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.,Institut de Biologie de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.,Univ Paris Diderot, Paris, France
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Institute of Cell Biology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Institute of Cell Biology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Institute of Cell Biology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Genome-wide prediction of CRISPR/Cas9 targets in Kluyveromyces marxianus and its application to obtain a stable haploid strain. Sci Rep 2018; 8:7305. [PMID: 29743485 PMCID: PMC5943413 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-25366-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2017] [Accepted: 04/17/2018] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Kluyveromyces marxianus, a probiotic yeast, is important in industrial applications because it has a broad substrate spectrum, a rapid growth rate and high thermotolerance. To date, however, there has been little effort in its genetic engineering by the CRISPR/Cas9 system. Therefore, we aimed at establishing the CRISPR/Cas9 system in K. marxianus and creating stable haploid strains, which will make genome engineering simpler. First, we predicted the genome-wide target sites of CRISPR/Cas9 that have been conserved among the eight sequenced genomes of K. marxianus strains. Second, we established the CRISPR/Cas9 system in the K. marxianus 4G5 strain, which was selected for its high thermotolerance, rapid growth, a pH range of pH3-9, utilization of xylose, cellobiose and glycerol, and toxin tolerance, and we knocked out its MATα3 to prevent mating-type switching. Finally, we used K. marxianus MATα3 knockout diploid strains to obtain stable haploid strains with a growth rate comparable to that of the diploid 4G5 strain. In summary, we present the workflow from identifying conserved CRISPR/Cas9 targets in the genome to knock out the MATα3 genes in K. marxianus to obtain a stable haploid strain, which can facilitate genome engineering applications.
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Ortiz-Merino RA, Varela JA, Coughlan AY, Hoshida H, da Silveira WB, Wilde C, Kuijpers NGA, Geertman JM, Wolfe KH, Morrissey JP. Ploidy Variation in Kluyveromyces marxianus Separates Dairy and Non-dairy Isolates. Front Genet 2018; 9:94. [PMID: 29619042 PMCID: PMC5871668 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2018.00094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2018] [Accepted: 03/05/2018] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Kluyveromyces marxianus is traditionally associated with fermented dairy products, but can also be isolated from diverse non-dairy environments. Because of thermotolerance, rapid growth and other traits, many different strains are being developed for food and industrial applications but there is, as yet, little understanding of the genetic diversity or population genetics of this species. K. marxianus shows a high level of phenotypic variation but the only phenotype that has been clearly linked to a genetic polymorphism is lactose utilisation, which is controlled by variation in the LAC12 gene. The genomes of several strains have been sequenced in recent years and, in this study, we sequenced a further nine strains from different origins. Analysis of the Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) in 14 strains was carried out to examine genome structure and genetic diversity. SNP diversity in K. marxianus is relatively high, with up to 3% DNA sequence divergence between alleles. It was found that the isolates include haploid, diploid, and triploid strains, as shown by both SNP analysis and flow cytometry. Diploids and triploids contain long genomic tracts showing loss of heterozygosity (LOH). All six isolates from dairy environments were diploid or triploid, whereas 6 out 7 isolates from non-dairy environment were haploid. This also correlated with the presence of functional LAC12 alleles only in dairy haplotypes. The diploids were hybrids between a non-dairy and a dairy haplotype, whereas triploids included three copies of a dairy haplotype.
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- Raúl A Ortiz-Merino
- School of Medicine, UCD Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- School of Microbiology, Centre for Synthetic Biology and Biotechnology, Environmental Research Institute, APC Microbiome Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
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- School of Medicine, UCD Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Sciences and Technology for Innovation, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi, Japan
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- School of Medicine, UCD Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- School of Microbiology, Centre for Synthetic Biology and Biotechnology, Environmental Research Institute, APC Microbiome Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
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Mild Telomere Dysfunction as a Force for Altering the Adaptive Potential of Subtelomeric Genes. Genetics 2017; 208:537-548. [PMID: 29242289 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.117.300607] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2017] [Accepted: 12/08/2017] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Subtelomeric regions have several unusual characteristics, including complex repetitive structures, increased rates of evolution, and enrichment for genes involved in niche adaptation. The adaptive telomere failure hypothesis suggests that certain environmental stresses can induce a low level of telomere failure, potentially leading to elevated subtelomeric recombination that could result in adaptive mutational changes within subtelomeric genes. Here, we tested a key prediction of the adaptive telomere failure hypothesis-that telomere dysfunction mild enough to have little or no overall effect on cell fitness could still lead to substantial increases in the mutation rates of subtelomeric genes. Our results show that a mutant of Kluyveromyces lactis with stably short telomeres produced a large increase in the frequency of mutations affecting the native subtelomeric β-galactosidase (LAC4) gene. All lac4 mutants examined from strains with severe telomere dysfunction underwent terminal deletion/duplication events consistent with being due to break-induced replication. In contrast, although cells with mild telomere dysfunction also exhibited similar terminal deletion and duplication events, up to 50% of lac4 mutants from this background unexpectedly contained base changes within the LAC4 coding region. This mutational bias for producing base changes demonstrates that mild telomere dysfunction can be well suited as a force for altering the adaptive potential of subtelomeric genes.
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Hanson SJ, Byrne KP, Wolfe KH. Flip/flop mating-type switching in the methylotrophic yeast Ogataea polymorpha is regulated by an Efg1-Rme1-Ste12 pathway. PLoS Genet 2017; 13:e1007092. [PMID: 29176810 PMCID: PMC5720833 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1007092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2017] [Revised: 12/07/2017] [Accepted: 10/31/2017] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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In haploid cells of Ogataea (Hansenula) polymorpha an environmental signal, nitrogen starvation, induces a reversible change in the structure of a chromosome. This process, mating-type switching, inverts a 19-kb DNA region to place either MATa or MATα genes under centromeric repression of transcription, depending on the orientation of the region. Here, we investigated the genetic pathway that controls switching. We characterized the transcriptomes of haploid and diploid O. polymorpha by RNAseq in rich and nitrogen-deficient media, and found that there are no constitutively a-specific or α-specific genes other than the MAT genes themselves. We mapped a switching defect in a sibling species (O. parapolymorpha strain DL-1) by interspecies bulk segregant analysis to a frameshift in the transcription factor EFG1, which in Candida albicans regulates filamentous growth and white-opaque switching. Gene knockout, overexpression and ChIPseq experiments show that EFG1 regulates RME1, which in turn regulates STE12, to achieve mating-type switching. All three genes are necessary both for switching and for mating. Overexpression of RME1 or STE12 is sufficient to induce switching without a nitrogen depletion signal. The homologous recombination genes RAD51 and RAD17 are also necessary for switching. The pathway controlling switching in O. polymorpha shares no components with the regulation of HO in S. cerevisiae, which does not involve any environmental signal, but it shares some components with mating-type switching in Kluyveromyces lactis and with white-opaque phenotypic switching in C. albicans. The molecular mechanisms of self-fertility (homothallism) vary enormously among fungal species. We previously found that in the yeast Ogataea polymorpha, homothallism is achieved by a novel mating-type switching mechanism that exchanges the locations of MATa and MATα genes between expression and repression contexts. Switching in this species is induced by nitrogen depletion, unlike the analogous process in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Here, we show that the upstream parts of the genetic pathway controlling the environmental induction of switching in O. polymorpha are the same as the environmental pathway that induces competence for mating in this species.
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- Sara J. Hanson
- UCD Conway Institute, School of Medicine, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland
- Department of Molecular Biology, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States of America
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- UCD Conway Institute, School of Medicine, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland
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- UCD Conway Institute, School of Medicine, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland
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Yamamoto K, Tran TNM, Takegawa K, Kaneko Y, Maekawa H. Regulation of mating type switching by the mating type genes and RME1 in Ogataea polymorpha. Sci Rep 2017; 7:16318. [PMID: 29176579 PMCID: PMC5701183 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-16284-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2017] [Accepted: 11/09/2017] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Saccharomyces cerevisiae and its closely related yeasts undergo mating type switching by replacing DNA sequences at the active mating type locus (MAT) with one of two silent mating type cassettes. Recently, a novel mode of mating type switching was reported in methylotrophic yeast, including Ogataea polymorpha, which utilizes chromosomal recombination between inverted-repeat sequences flanking two MAT loci. The inversion is highly regulated and occurs only when two requirements are met: haploidy and nutritional starvation. However, links between this information and the mechanism associated with mating type switching are not understood. Here we investigated the roles of transcription factors involved in yeast sexual development, such as mating type genes and the conserved zinc finger protein Rme1. We found that co-presence of mating type a1 and α2 genes was sufficient to prevent mating type switching, suggesting that ploidy information resides solely in the mating type locus. Additionally, RME1 deletion resulted in a reduced rate of switching, and ectopic expression of O. polymorpha RME1 overrode the requirement for starvation to induce MAT inversion. These results suggested that mating type switching in O. polymorpha is likely regulated by two distinct transcriptional programs that are linked to the ploidy and transmission of the starvation signal.
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- Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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- Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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- Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan. .,Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan. .,Centre for Promotion of International Education and Research, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
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- Kenneth H. Wolfe
- School of Medicine, Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland
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- School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science, Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland
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Dubois E, Mathy N, Régnier V, Bischerour J, Baudry C, Trouslard R, Bétermier M. Multimerization properties of PiggyMac, a domesticated piggyBac transposase involved in programmed genome rearrangements. Nucleic Acids Res 2017; 45:3204-3216. [PMID: 28104713 PMCID: PMC5389696 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkw1359] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2016] [Accepted: 12/28/2016] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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During sexual processes, the ciliate Paramecium eliminates 25–30% of germline DNA from its somatic genome. DNA elimination includes excision of ∼45 000 short, single-copy internal eliminated sequences (IESs) and depends upon PiggyMac (Pgm), a domesticated piggyBac transposase that is essential for DNA cleavage at IES ends. Pgm carries a core transposase region with a putative catalytic domain containing three conserved aspartic acids, and a downstream cysteine-rich (CR) domain. A C-terminal extension of unknown function is predicted to adopt a coiled-coil (CC) structure. To address the role of the three domains, we designed an in vivo complementation assay by expressing wild-type or mutant Pgm-GFP fusions in cells depleted for their endogenous Pgm. The DDD triad and the CR domain are essential for Pgm activity and mutations in either domain have a dominant-negative effect in wild-type cells. A mutant lacking the CC domain is partially active in the presence of limiting Pgm amounts, but inactive when Pgm is completely absent, suggesting that presence of the mutant protein increases the overall number of active complexes. We conclude that IES excision involves multiple Pgm subunits, of which at least a fraction must contain the CC domain.
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- Emeline Dubois
- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91198, Gif-sur-Yvette cedex, France
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91198, Gif-sur-Yvette cedex, France
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91198, Gif-sur-Yvette cedex, France.,Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91198, Gif-sur-Yvette cedex, France
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91198, Gif-sur-Yvette cedex, France
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91198, Gif-sur-Yvette cedex, France
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91198, Gif-sur-Yvette cedex, France
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Cell differentiation in yeast species is controlled by a reversible, programmed DNA-rearrangement process called mating-type switching. Switching is achieved by two functionally similar but structurally distinct processes in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. In both species, haploid cells possess one active and two silent copies of the mating-type locus (a three-cassette structure), the active locus is cleaved, and synthesis-dependent strand annealing is used to replace it with a copy of a silent locus encoding the opposite mating-type information. Each species has its own set of components responsible for regulating these processes. In this review, we summarize knowledge about the function and evolution of mating-type switching components in these species, including mechanisms of heterochromatin formation, MAT locus cleavage, donor bias, lineage tracking, and environmental regulation of switching. We compare switching in these well-studied species to others such as Kluyveromyces lactis and the methylotrophic yeasts Ogataea polymorpha and Komagataella phaffii. We focus on some key questions: Which cells switch mating type? What molecular apparatus is required for switching? Where did it come from? And what is the evolutionary purpose of switching?
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Dujon BA, Louis EJ. Genome Diversity and Evolution in the Budding Yeasts (Saccharomycotina). Genetics 2017; 206:717-750. [PMID: 28592505 PMCID: PMC5499181 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.116.199216] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2016] [Accepted: 04/03/2017] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Considerable progress in our understanding of yeast genomes and their evolution has been made over the last decade with the sequencing, analysis, and comparisons of numerous species, strains, or isolates of diverse origins. The role played by yeasts in natural environments as well as in artificial manufactures, combined with the importance of some species as model experimental systems sustained this effort. At the same time, their enormous evolutionary diversity (there are yeast species in every subphylum of Dikarya) sparked curiosity but necessitated further efforts to obtain appropriate reference genomes. Today, yeast genomes have been very informative about basic mechanisms of evolution, speciation, hybridization, domestication, as well as about the molecular machineries underlying them. They are also irreplaceable to investigate in detail the complex relationship between genotypes and phenotypes with both theoretical and practical implications. This review examines these questions at two distinct levels offered by the broad evolutionary range of yeasts: inside the best-studied Saccharomyces species complex, and across the entire and diversified subphylum of Saccharomycotina. While obviously revealing evolutionary histories at different scales, data converge to a remarkably coherent picture in which one can estimate the relative importance of intrinsic genome dynamics, including gene birth and loss, vs. horizontal genetic accidents in the making of populations. The facility with which novel yeast genomes can now be studied, combined with the already numerous available reference genomes, offer privileged perspectives to further examine these fundamental biological questions using yeasts both as eukaryotic models and as fungi of practical importance.
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- Bernard A Dujon
- Department Genomes and Genetics, Institut Pasteur, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR3525, 75724-CEDEX15 Paris, France
- Université Pierre et Marie Curie UFR927, 75005 Paris, France
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- Centre for Genetic Architecture of Complex Traits, University of Leicester, LE1 7RH, United Kingdom
- Department of Genetics, University of Leicester, LE1 7RH, United Kingdom
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Hamilton EP, Kapusta A, Huvos PE, Bidwell SL, Zafar N, Tang H, Hadjithomas M, Krishnakumar V, Badger JH, Caler EV, Russ C, Zeng Q, Fan L, Levin JZ, Shea T, Young SK, Hegarty R, Daza R, Gujja S, Wortman JR, Birren BW, Nusbaum C, Thomas J, Carey CM, Pritham EJ, Feschotte C, Noto T, Mochizuki K, Papazyan R, Taverna SD, Dear PH, Cassidy-Hanley DM, Xiong J, Miao W, Orias E, Coyne RS. Structure of the germline genome of Tetrahymena thermophila and relationship to the massively rearranged somatic genome. eLife 2016; 5. [PMID: 27892853 PMCID: PMC5182062 DOI: 10.7554/elife.19090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2016] [Accepted: 11/14/2016] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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The germline genome of the binucleated ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila undergoes programmed chromosome breakage and massive DNA elimination to generate the somatic genome. Here, we present a complete sequence assembly of the germline genome and analyze multiple features of its structure and its relationship to the somatic genome, shedding light on the mechanisms of genome rearrangement as well as the evolutionary history of this remarkable germline/soma differentiation. Our results strengthen the notion that a complex, dynamic, and ongoing interplay between mobile DNA elements and the host genome have shaped Tetrahymena chromosome structure, locally and globally. Non-standard outcomes of rearrangement events, including the generation of short-lived somatic chromosomes and excision of DNA interrupting protein-coding regions, may represent novel forms of developmental gene regulation. We also compare Tetrahymena's germline/soma differentiation to that of other characterized ciliates, illustrating the wide diversity of adaptations that have occurred within this phylum.
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- Eileen P Hamilton
- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, United States
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- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, United States
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- J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, United States
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- J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, United States
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- Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, United States
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- Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, United States
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- Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, United States
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- Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, United States
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- Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, United States
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- Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, United States
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- Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, United States
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- Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, United States
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- Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, United States
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- Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, United States
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- Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, United States
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- Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, United States
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, United States
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, United States
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, United States
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, United States
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- Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, United States
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- Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, United States
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- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States
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Nieuwenhuis BPS, Immler S. The evolution of mating-type switching for reproductive assurance. Bioessays 2016; 38:1141-1149. [DOI: 10.1002/bies.201600139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology; Uppsala University; Uppsala Sweden
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Idnurm A, Hood ME, Johannesson H, Giraud T. Contrasted patterns in mating-type chromosomes in fungi: hotspots versus coldspots of recombination. FUNGAL BIOL REV 2015; 29:220-229. [PMID: 26688691 PMCID: PMC4680991 DOI: 10.1016/j.fbr.2015.06.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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It is striking that, while central to sexual reproduction, the genomic regions determining sex or mating-types are often characterized by suppressed recombination that leads to a decrease in the efficiency of selection, shelters genetic load, and inevitably contributes to their genic degeneration. Research on model and lesser-explored fungi has revealed similarities in recombination suppression of the genomic regions involved in mating compatibility across eukaryotes, but fungi also provide opposite examples of enhanced recombination in the genomic regions that determine their mating types. These contrasted patterns of genetic recombination (sensu lato, including gene conversion and ectopic recombination) in regions of the genome involved in mating compatibility point to important yet complex processes occurring in their evolution. A number of pieces in this puzzle remain to be solved, in particular on the unclear selective forces that may cause the patterns of recombination, prompting theoretical developments and experimental studies. This review thus points to fungi as a fascinating group for studying the various evolutionary forces at play in the genomic regions involved in mating compatibility.
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- Alexander Idnurm
- School of BioSciences, University of Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia
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- Department of Biology, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts 01002 USA
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18D, 752 36 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Laboratoire Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution, UMR 8079 CNRS-UPS-AgroParisTech, Bâtiment 360, Université Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay cedex, France
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Genomics and the making of yeast biodiversity. Curr Opin Genet Dev 2015; 35:100-9. [PMID: 26649756 DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2015.10.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2015] [Revised: 10/28/2015] [Accepted: 10/29/2015] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Yeasts are unicellular fungi that do not form fruiting bodies. Although the yeast lifestyle has evolved multiple times, most known species belong to the subphylum Saccharomycotina (syn. Hemiascomycota, hereafter yeasts). This diverse group includes the premier eukaryotic model system, Saccharomyces cerevisiae; the common human commensal and opportunistic pathogen, Candida albicans; and over 1000 other known species (with more continuing to be discovered). Yeasts are found in every biome and continent and are more genetically diverse than angiosperms or chordates. Ease of culture, simple life cycles, and small genomes (∼10-20Mbp) have made yeasts exceptional models for molecular genetics, biotechnology, and evolutionary genomics. Here we discuss recent developments in understanding the genomic underpinnings of the making of yeast biodiversity, comparing and contrasting natural and human-associated evolutionary processes. Only a tiny fraction of yeast biodiversity and metabolic capabilities has been tapped by industry and science. Expanding the taxonomic breadth of deep genomic investigations will further illuminate how genome function evolves to encode their diverse metabolisms and ecologies.
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Boisnard S, Zhou Li Y, Arnaise S, Sequeira G, Raffoux X, Enache-Angoulvant A, Bolotin-Fukuhara M, Fairhead C. Efficient Mating-Type Switching in Candida glabrata Induces Cell Death. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0140990. [PMID: 26491872 PMCID: PMC4619647 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0140990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2015] [Accepted: 10/02/2015] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Candida glabrata is an apparently asexual haploid yeast that is phylogenetically closer to Saccharomyces cerevisiae than to Candida albicans. Its genome contains three MAT-like cassettes, MAT, which encodes either MATa or MATalpha information in different strains, and the additional loci, HML and HMR. The genome also contains an HO gene homolog, but this yeast has never been shown to switch mating-types spontaneously, as S. cerevisiae does. We have recently sequenced the genomes of the five species that, together with C. glabrata, make up the Nakaseomyces clade. All contain MAT-like cassettes and an HO gene homolog. In this work, we express the HO gene of all Nakaseomyces and of S. cerevisiae in C. glabrata. All can induce mating-type switching, but, despite the larger phylogenetic distance, the most efficient endonuclease is the one from S. cerevisiae. Efficient mating-type switching in C. glabrata is accompanied by a high cell mortality, and sometimes results in conversion of the additional cassette HML. Mortality probably results from the cutting of the HO recognition sites that are present, in HML and possibly HMR, contrary to what happens naturally in S. cerevisiae. This has implications in the life-cycle of C. glabrata, as we show that efficient MAT switching is lethal for most cells, induces chromosomal rearrangements in survivors, and that the endogenous HO is probably rarely active indeed.
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- Stéphanie Boisnard
- Institut de Génétique et Microbiologie, Université Paris-Sud, UMR8621 CNRS, F-91405, Orsay, CEDEX, France
- Génétique Quantitative et Évolution–Le Moulon, INRA–Université Paris-Sud–CNRS–AgroParisTech, Batiment 400, UFR des Sciences, F 91405, Orsay, CEDEX, France
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- Institut de Génétique et Microbiologie, Université Paris-Sud, UMR8621 CNRS, F-91405, Orsay, CEDEX, France
- Génétique Quantitative et Évolution–Le Moulon, INRA–Université Paris-Sud–CNRS–AgroParisTech, Batiment 400, UFR des Sciences, F 91405, Orsay, CEDEX, France
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- Institut de Génétique et Microbiologie, Université Paris-Sud, UMR8621 CNRS, F-91405, Orsay, CEDEX, France
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- Institut de Génétique et Microbiologie, Université Paris-Sud, UMR8621 CNRS, F-91405, Orsay, CEDEX, France
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- Génétique Quantitative et Évolution–Le Moulon, INRA–Université Paris-Sud–CNRS–AgroParisTech, Batiment 400, UFR des Sciences, F 91405, Orsay, CEDEX, France
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- Institut de Génétique et Microbiologie, Université Paris-Sud, UMR8621 CNRS, F-91405, Orsay, CEDEX, France
- Hôpital de Bicêtre, Le Kremlin Bicêtre, APHP, France
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- Institut de Génétique et Microbiologie, Université Paris-Sud, UMR8621 CNRS, F-91405, Orsay, CEDEX, France
- Génétique Quantitative et Évolution–Le Moulon, INRA–Université Paris-Sud–CNRS–AgroParisTech, Batiment 400, UFR des Sciences, F 91405, Orsay, CEDEX, France
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- Institut de Génétique et Microbiologie, Université Paris-Sud, UMR8621 CNRS, F-91405, Orsay, CEDEX, France
- Génétique Quantitative et Évolution–Le Moulon, INRA–Université Paris-Sud–CNRS–AgroParisTech, Batiment 400, UFR des Sciences, F 91405, Orsay, CEDEX, France
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Habibi L, Pedram M, AmirPhirozy A, Bonyadi K. Mobile DNA Elements: The Seeds of Organic Complexity on Earth. DNA Cell Biol 2015. [DOI: 10.1089/dna.2015.2938] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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- Laleh Habibi
- Department of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmacy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Cellular and Molecular Nutrition Department, School of Nutritional Science and Dietetics, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, School of Medicine, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, Iran
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- Department of Medical Genetics, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Medical Genetics, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Wolfe KH, Armisén D, Proux-Wera E, ÓhÉigeartaigh SS, Azam H, Gordon JL, Byrne KP. Clade- and species-specific features of genome evolution in the Saccharomycetaceae. FEMS Yeast Res 2015; 15:fov035. [PMID: 26066552 PMCID: PMC4629796 DOI: 10.1093/femsyr/fov035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 05/29/2015] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Many aspects of the genomes of yeast species in the family Saccharomycetaceae have been well conserved during evolution. They have similar genome sizes, genome contents, and extensive collinearity of gene order along chromosomes. Gene functions can often be inferred reliably by using information from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Beyond this conservative picture however, there are many instances where a species or a clade diverges substantially from the S. cerevisiae paradigm—for example, by the amplification of a gene family, or by the absence of a biochemical pathway or a protein complex. Here, we review clade-specific features, focusing on genomes sequenced in our laboratory from the post-WGD genera Naumovozyma, Kazachstania and Tetrapisispora, and from the non-WGD species Torulaspora delbrueckii. Examples include the loss of the pathway for histidine synthesis in the cockroach-associated species Tetrapisispora blattae; the presence of a large telomeric GAL gene cluster in To. delbrueckii; losses of the dynein and dynactin complexes in several independent yeast lineages; fragmentation of the MAT locus and loss of the HO gene in Kazachstania africana; and the patchy phylogenetic distribution of RNAi pathway components. The authors review species-specific evolutionary attributes of yeast genomes.
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- Kenneth H Wolfe
- UCD Conway Institute, School of Medicine and Medical Science, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland
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- Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon, ENS de Lyon - CNRS UMR 5242 - INRA USC 1370, 46 allée d'Italie, 69364 Lyon cedex 07, France
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- Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland Science for Life Laboratory, Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University, Box 1031, SE-17121 Solna, Sweden
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- Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge, CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT, UK
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- Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland
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- Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland CIRAD, UMR CMAEE, Site de Duclos, Prise d'eau, F-97170, Petit-Bourg, Guadeloupe, France
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- UCD Conway Institute, School of Medicine and Medical Science, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland
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Guérillot R, Siguier P, Gourbeyre E, Chandler M, Glaser P. The diversity of prokaryotic DDE transposases of the mutator superfamily, insertion specificity, and association with conjugation machineries. Genome Biol Evol 2015; 6:260-72. [PMID: 24418649 PMCID: PMC3942029 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evu010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Transposable elements (TEs) are major components of both prokaryotic and eukaryotic genomes and play a significant role in their evolution. In this study, we have identified new prokaryotic DDE transposase families related to the eukaryotic Mutator-like transposases. These genes were retrieved by cascade PSI-Blast using as initial query the transposase of the streptococcal integrative and conjugative element (ICE) TnGBS2. By combining secondary structure predictions and protein sequence alignments, we predicted the DDE catalytic triad and the DNA-binding domain recognizing the terminal inverted repeats. Furthermore, we systematically characterized the organization and the insertion specificity of the TEs relying on these prokaryotic Mutator-like transposases (p-MULT) for their mobility. Strikingly, two distant TE families target their integration upstream σA dependent promoters. This allowed us to identify a transposase sequence signature associated with this unique insertion specificity and to show that the dissymmetry between the two inverted repeats is responsible for the orientation of the insertion. Surprisingly, while DDE transposases are generally associated with small and simple transposons such as insertion sequences (ISs), p-MULT encoding TEs show an unprecedented diversity with several families of IS, transposons, and ICEs ranging in size from 1.1 to 52 kb.
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- Romain Guérillot
- Unité de Biologie des Bactéries pathogènes à Gram-positif, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
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Sexual reproduction is ubiquitous throughout the eukaryotic kingdom, but the capacity of pathogenic fungi to undergo sexual reproduction has been a matter of intense debate. Pathogenic fungi maintained a complement of conserved meiotic genes but the populations appeared to be clonally derived. This debate was resolved first with the discovery of an extant sexual cycle and then unisexual reproduction. Unisexual reproduction is a distinct form of homothallism that dispenses with the requirement for an opposite mating type. Pathogenic and nonpathogenic fungi previously thought to be asexual are able to undergo robust unisexual reproduction. We review here recent advances in our understanding of the genetic and molecular basis of unisexual reproduction throughout fungi and the impact of unisex on the ecology and genomic evolution of fungal species.
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- Kevin C Roach
- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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Maekawa H, Kaneko Y. Inversion of the chromosomal region between two mating type loci switches the mating type in Hansenula polymorpha. PLoS Genet 2014; 10:e1004796. [PMID: 25412462 PMCID: PMC4238957 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004796] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2014] [Accepted: 10/02/2014] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Yeast mating type is determined by the genotype at the mating type locus (MAT). In homothallic (self-fertile) Saccharomycotina such as Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Kluveromyces lactis, high-efficiency switching between a and α mating types enables mating. Two silent mating type cassettes, in addition to an active MAT locus, are essential components of the mating type switching mechanism. In this study, we investigated the structure and functions of mating type genes in H. polymorpha (also designated as Ogataea polymorpha). The H. polymorpha genome was found to harbor two MAT loci, MAT1 and MAT2, that are ∼18 kb apart on the same chromosome. MAT1-encoded α1 specifies α cell identity, whereas none of the mating type genes were required for a identity and mating. MAT1-encoded α2 and MAT2-encoded a1 were, however, essential for meiosis. When present in the location next to SLA2 and SUI1 genes, MAT1 or MAT2 was transcriptionally active, while the other was repressed. An inversion of the MAT intervening region was induced by nutrient limitation, resulting in the swapping of the chromosomal locations of two MAT loci, and hence switching of mating type identity. Inversion-deficient mutants exhibited severe defects only in mating with each other, suggesting that this inversion is the mechanism of mating type switching and homothallism. This chromosomal inversion-based mechanism represents a novel form of mating type switching that requires only two MAT loci. The mating system of Saccharomycotina has evolved from the ancestral heterothallic system as seen in Yarrowia lipolytica to homothallism as seen in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The acquisition of silent cassettes was an important step towards homothallism. However, some Saccharomycotina species that diverged from the common ancestor before the acquisition of silent cassettes are also homothallic, including Hansenula polymorpha. We investigated the structure and functions of the mating type locus (MAT) in H. polymorpha, and found two MAT loci, MAT1 and MAT2. Although MAT1 contains both a and α information, the results suggest that it functions as MATα. MATa is represented by MAT2, which is located at a distance of 18 kb from MAT1. The functional repression of MAT1 or MAT2 was required to establish a or α mating type identity in individual cells. The chromosomal location of MAT1 and MAT2 was found to influence their transcriptional status, with only one locus maintained in an active state. An inversion of the MAT intervening region resulted in the switching of the two MAT loci and hence of mating type identity, which was required for homothallism. This chromosomal inversion-based mechanism represents a novel form of mating type switching that requires two MAT loci, of which only one is expressed.
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- Hiromi Maekawa
- Yeast Genetic Resources Laboratory, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
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- Yeast Genetic Resources Laboratory, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
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Mating-type switching by chromosomal inversion in methylotrophic yeasts suggests an origin for the three-locus Saccharomyces cerevisiae system. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2014; 111:E4851-8. [PMID: 25349420 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1416014111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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Saccharomyces cerevisiae has a complex system for switching the mating type of haploid cells, requiring the genome to have three mating-type (MAT)-like loci and a mechanism for silencing two of them. How this system originated is unknown, because the three-locus system is present throughout the family Saccharomycetaceae, whereas species in the sister Candida clade have only one locus and do not switch. Here we show that yeasts in a third clade, the methylotrophs, have a simpler two-locus switching system based on reversible inversion of a section of chromosome with MATa genes at one end and MATalpha genes at the other end. In Hansenula polymorpha the 19-kb invertible region lies beside a centromere so that, depending on the orientation, either MATa or MATalpha is silenced by centromeric chromatin. In Pichia pastoris, the orientation of a 138-kb invertible region puts either MATa or MATalpha beside a telomere and represses transcription of MATa2 or MATalpha2. Both species are homothallic, and inversion of their MAT regions can be induced by crossing two strains of the same mating type. The three-locus system of S. cerevisiae, which uses a nonconservative mechanism to replace DNA at MAT, likely evolved from a conservative two-locus system that swapped genes between expression and nonexpression sites by inversion. The increasing complexity of the switching apparatus, with three loci, donor bias, and cell lineage tracking, can be explained by continuous selection to increase sporulation ability in young colonies. Our results provide an evolutionary context for the diversity of switching and silencing mechanisms.
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Domesticated transposase Kat1 and its fossil imprints induce sexual differentiation in yeast. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2014; 111:15491-6. [PMID: 25313032 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1406027111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Transposable elements (TEs) have had a major influence on shaping both prokaryotic and eukaryotic genomes, largely through stochastic events following random or near-random insertions. In the mammalian immune system, the recombination activation genes1/2 (Rag1/2) recombinase has evolved from a transposase gene, demonstrating that TEs can be domesticated by the host. In this study, we uncovered a domesticated transposase, Kluyveromyces lactis hobo/Activator/Tam3 (hAT) transposase 1 (Kat1), operating at the fossil imprints of an ancient transposon, that catalyzes the differentiation of cell type. Kat1 induces mating-type switching from mating type a (MATa) to MATα in the yeast K. lactis. Kat1 activates switching by introducing two hairpin-capped DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) in the MATa1-MATa2 intergenic region, as we demonstrate both in vivo and in vitro. The DSBs stimulate homologous recombination with the cryptic hidden MAT left alpha (HMLα) locus resulting in a switch of the cell type. The sites where Kat1 acts in the MATa locus most likely are ancient remnants of terminal inverted repeats from a long-lost TE. The KAT1 gene is annotated as a pseudogene because it contains two overlapping ORFs. We demonstrate that translation of full-length Kat1 requires a programmed -1 frameshift. The frameshift limited Kat1 activity, because restoring the zero frame causes switching to the MATα genotype. Kat1 also was transcriptionally activated by nutrient limitation via the transcription factor mating type switch 1 (Mts1). A phylogenetic analysis indicated that KAT1 was domesticated specifically in the Kluyveromyces clade of the budding yeasts. We conclude that Kat1 is a highly regulated transposase-derived endonuclease vital for sexual differentiation.
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Mehta A, Haber JE. Sources of DNA double-strand breaks and models of recombinational DNA repair. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol 2014; 6:a016428. [PMID: 25104768 PMCID: PMC4142968 DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a016428] [Citation(s) in RCA: 491] [Impact Index Per Article: 49.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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DNA is subject to many endogenous and exogenous insults that impair DNA replication and proper chromosome segregation. DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) are one of the most toxic of these lesions and must be repaired to preserve chromosomal integrity. Eukaryotes are equipped with several different, but related, repair mechanisms involving homologous recombination, including single-strand annealing, gene conversion, and break-induced replication. In this review, we highlight the chief sources of DSBs and crucial requirements for each of these repair processes, as well as the methods to identify and study intermediate steps in DSB repair by homologous recombination.
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- Anuja Mehta
- Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center, MS029 Rosenstiel Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454-9110
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- Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center, MS029 Rosenstiel Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454-9110
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Sexual reproduction is a nearly universal feature of eukaryotic organisms. Given its ubiquity and shared core features, sex is thought to have arisen once in the last common ancestor to all eukaryotes. Using the perspectives of molecular genetics and cell biology, we consider documented and hypothetical scenarios for the instantiation and evolution of meiosis, fertilization, sex determination, uniparental inheritance of organelle genomes, and speciation.
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- Ursula Goodenough
- Department of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130
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Gladieux P, Ropars J, Badouin H, Branca A, Aguileta G, Vienne DM, Rodríguez de la Vega RC, Branco S, Giraud T. Fungal evolutionary genomics provides insight into the mechanisms of adaptive divergence in eukaryotes. Mol Ecol 2014; 23:753-73. [DOI: 10.1111/mec.12631] [Citation(s) in RCA: 151] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2013] [Accepted: 12/04/2013] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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- Pierre Gladieux
- Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution UMR8079 University of Paris‐Sud Orsay 91405 France
- Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution CNRS UMR8079 Orsay 91405 France
- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology University of California Berkeley CA 94720‐3102 USA
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- Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution UMR8079 University of Paris‐Sud Orsay 91405 France
- Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution CNRS UMR8079 Orsay 91405 France
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- Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution UMR8079 University of Paris‐Sud Orsay 91405 France
- Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution CNRS UMR8079 Orsay 91405 France
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- Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution UMR8079 University of Paris‐Sud Orsay 91405 France
- Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution CNRS UMR8079 Orsay 91405 France
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- Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG) Dr, Aiguader 88 Barcelona 08003 Spain
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) Barcelona 08003 Spain
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- Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG) Dr, Aiguader 88 Barcelona 08003 Spain
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) Barcelona 08003 Spain
- Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive Université Lyon 1 CNRS UMR5558 Villeurbanne 69622 France
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- Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution UMR8079 University of Paris‐Sud Orsay 91405 France
- Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution CNRS UMR8079 Orsay 91405 France
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology University of California Berkeley CA 94720‐3102 USA
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- Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution UMR8079 University of Paris‐Sud Orsay 91405 France
- Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution CNRS UMR8079 Orsay 91405 France
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First discovered in maize by Barbara McClintock in the 1940s, transposable elements (TEs) are DNA sequences that in some cases have the ability to move along chromosomes or "transpose" in the genome. This revolutionary finding was initially met with resistance by the scientific community and viewed by some as heretical. A large body of knowledge has accumulated over the last 60 years on the biology of TEs. Indeed, it is now known that TEs can generate genomic instability and reconfigure gene expression networks both in the germline and somatic cells. This review highlights recent findings on the role of TEs in health and diseases of the CNS, which were presented at the 2013 Society for Neuroscience meeting. The work of the speakers in this symposium shows that TEs are expressed and active in the brain, challenging the dogma that neuronal genomes are static and revealing that they are susceptible to somatic genomic alterations. These new findings on TE expression and function in the CNS have major implications for understanding the neuroplasticity of the brain, which could hypothetically have a role in shaping individual behavior and contribute to vulnerability to disease.
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DNA transposases are enzymes that catalyze the movement of discrete pieces of DNA from one location in the genome to another. Transposition occurs through a series of controlled DNA strand cleavage and subsequent integration reactions that are carried out by nucleoprotein complexes known as transpososomes. Transpososomes are dynamic assemblies which must undergo conformational changes that control DNA breaks and ensure that, once started, the transposition reaction goes to completion. They provide a precise architecture within which the chemical reactions involved in transposon movement occur, but adopt different conformational states as transposition progresses. Their components also vary as they must, at some stage, include target DNA and sometimes even host-encoded proteins. A very limited number of transpososome states have been crystallographically captured, and here we provide an overview of the various structures determined to date. These structures include examples of DNA transposases that catalyze transposition by a cut-and-paste mechanism using an RNaseH-like nuclease catalytic domain, those that transpose using only single-stranded DNA substrates and targets, and the retroviral integrases that carry out an integration reaction very similar to DNA transposition. Given that there are a number of common functional requirements for transposition, it is remarkable how these are satisfied by complex assemblies that are so architecturally different.
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Vogt A, Goldman AD, Mochizuki K, Landweber LF. Transposon domestication versus mutualism in ciliate genome rearrangements. PLoS Genet 2013; 9:e1003659. [PMID: 23935529 PMCID: PMC3731211 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003659] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Ciliated protists rearrange their genomes dramatically during nuclear development via chromosome fragmentation and DNA deletion to produce a trimmer and highly reorganized somatic genome. The deleted portion of the genome includes potentially active transposons or transposon-like sequences that reside in the germline. Three independent studies recently showed that transposase proteins of the DDE/DDD superfamily are indispensible for DNA processing in three distantly related ciliates. In the spirotrich Oxytricha trifallax, high copy-number germline-limited transposons mediate their own excision from the somatic genome but also contribute to programmed genome rearrangement through a remarkable transposon mutualism with the host. By contrast, the genomes of two oligohymenophorean ciliates, Tetrahymena thermophila and Paramecium tetraurelia, encode homologous PiggyBac-like transposases as single-copy genes in both their germline and somatic genomes. These domesticated transposases are essential for deletion of thousands of different internal sequences in these species. This review contrasts the events underlying somatic genome reduction in three different ciliates and considers their evolutionary origins and the relationships among their distinct mechanisms for genome remodeling.
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- Alexander Vogt
- Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (IMBA), Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America
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- Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (IMBA), Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America
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Rodicio R, Heinisch JJ. Yeast on the milky way: genetics, physiology and biotechnology of Kluyveromyces lactis. Yeast 2013; 30:165-77. [PMID: 23576126 DOI: 10.1002/yea.2954] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2013] [Revised: 03/08/2013] [Accepted: 03/12/2013] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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The milk yeast Kluyveromyces lactis has a life cycle similar to that of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and can be employed as a model eukaryote using classical genetics, such as the combination of desired traits, by crossing and tetrad analysis. Likewise, a growing set of vectors, marker cassettes and tags for fluorescence microscopy are available for manipulation by genetic engineering and investigating its basic cell biology. We here summarize these applications, as well as the current knowledge regarding its central metabolism, glucose and extracellular stress signalling pathways. A short overview on the biotechnological potential of K. lactis concludes this review.
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- Rosaura Rodicio
- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular and Instituto Universitario de Biotecnología de Asturias, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain
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Watanabe J, Uehara K, Mogi Y. Diversity of mating-type chromosome structures in the yeast Zygosaccharomyces rouxii caused by ectopic exchanges between MAT-like loci. PLoS One 2013; 8:e62121. [PMID: 23614024 PMCID: PMC3628578 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2012] [Accepted: 03/18/2013] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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We investigated sex chromosome diversity in Zygosaccharomyces rouxii (Z. rouxii). In the current study, we show that the organization of the mating-type (MAT) locus is highly variable in the Z. rouxii population, indicating the MAT, HML, and HMR loci are translocation hotspots. Although NBRC1130 and CBS732 were originally two stocks of the type strain of the species, only NBRC1130 retains the original karyotype. A reciprocal translocation between the MAT and HMR loci appears to have occurred during the early passage culture of CBS732, which was used for genome sequencing. In NBRC1733, NBRC0686, NBRC0740 and NBRC1053, the terminal region of the chromosome containing the HMR locus was replaced with the chromosomal region to the left of the MAT or HML loci. The translocation events found in NBRC1733, NBRC0686, NBRC0740, and NBRC1053 were reconstructed under our experimental conditions using the DA2 background, and the reconstruction suggests that the frequency of this type of translocation is approximately 10(-7). These results suggest that the MAT and MAT-like loci were the susceptible regions in the genome, and the diversity of mating-type chromosome structures in Z. rouxii was caused by ectopic exchanges between MAT-like loci.
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- Jun Watanabe
- Manufacturing Division, Yamasa Corporation, Araoicho, Choshi, Chiba, Japan.
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Mating type in Saccharomyces cerevisiae is determined by two nonhomologous alleles, MATa and MATα. These sequences encode regulators of the two different haploid mating types and of the diploids formed by their conjugation. Analysis of the MATa1, MATα1, and MATα2 alleles provided one of the earliest models of cell-type specification by transcriptional activators and repressors. Remarkably, homothallic yeast cells can switch their mating type as often as every generation by a highly choreographed, site-specific homologous recombination event that replaces one MAT allele with different DNA sequences encoding the opposite MAT allele. This replacement process involves the participation of two intact but unexpressed copies of mating-type information at the heterochromatic loci, HMLα and HMRa, which are located at opposite ends of the same chromosome-encoding MAT. The study of MAT switching has yielded important insights into the control of cell lineage, the silencing of gene expression, the formation of heterochromatin, and the regulation of accessibility of the donor sequences. Real-time analysis of MAT switching has provided the most detailed description of the molecular events that occur during the homologous recombinational repair of a programmed double-strand chromosome break.
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Transposon Invasion of the Paramecium Germline Genome Countered by a Domesticated PiggyBac Transposase and the NHEJ Pathway. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY 2012; 2012:436196. [PMID: 22888464 PMCID: PMC3408717 DOI: 10.1155/2012/436196] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2012] [Accepted: 05/07/2012] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Sequences related to transposons constitute a large fraction of extant genomes, but insertions within coding sequences have generally not been tolerated during evolution. Thanks to their unique nuclear dimorphism and to their original mechanism of programmed DNA elimination from their somatic nucleus (macronucleus), ciliates are emerging model organisms for the study of the impact of transposable elements on genomes. The germline genome of the ciliate Paramecium, located in its micronucleus, contains thousands of short intervening sequences, the IESs, which interrupt 47% of genes. Recent data provided support to the hypothesis that an evolutionary link exists between Paramecium IESs and Tc1/mariner transposons. During development of the macronucleus, IESs are excised precisely thanks to the coordinated action of PiggyMac, a domesticated piggyBac transposase, and of the NHEJ double-strand break repair pathway. A PiggyMac homolog is also required for developmentally programmed DNA elimination in another ciliate, Tetrahymena. Here, we present an overview of the life cycle of these unicellular eukaryotes and of the developmentally programmed genome rearrangements that take place at each sexual cycle. We discuss how ancient domestication of a piggyBac transposase might have allowed Tc1/mariner elements to spread throughout the germline genome of Paramecium, without strong counterselection against insertion within genes.
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