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Dong G, Nakai T, Matsuzaki T. A novel plasmid-based experimental system in Saccharomyces cerevisiae that enables the introduction of 10 different plasmids into cells. FEBS Open Bio 2024. [PMID: 39387713 DOI: 10.1002/2211-5463.13893] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2024] [Revised: 08/04/2024] [Accepted: 08/28/2024] [Indexed: 10/15/2024] Open
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The budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is commonly used as an expression platform for the production of valuable compounds. Yeast-based genetic research can uniquely utilize auxotrophy in transformant selection: auxotrophic complementation by an auxotrophic marker gene on exogenous DNA (such as plasmids). However, the number of required auxotrophic nutrients restricts the number of plasmids maintained by the cells. We, therefore, developed novel Δ10 strains that are auxotrophic for 10 different nutrients and new plasmids with two multiple cloning sites and auxotrophic markers for use in Δ10 strains. We confirmed that Δ10 strains were able to maintain 10 types of plasmids. Using plasmids encoding model proteins, we detected the co-expression of 17 different genes in Δ10 cell lines. We also constructed Δ9 strains that exhibited auxotrophy for nine nutrients and increased growth compared to Δ10. This study opens a new avenue for the co-expression of a large number of genes in eukaryotic cells.
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- Geyao Dong
- Department of Neuropsychopharmacology and Hospital Pharmacy, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
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- Department of Neuropsychopharmacology and Hospital Pharmacy, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
- Department of Pharmacotherapeutics and Informatics, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Toyoake, Japan
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- Department of Neuropsychopharmacology and Hospital Pharmacy, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
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Fehrmann S, Bottin-Duplus H, Leonidou A, Mollereau E, Barthelaix A, Wei W, Steinmetz LM, Yvert G. Natural sequence variants of yeast environmental sensors confer cell-to-cell expression variability. Mol Syst Biol 2013; 9:695. [PMID: 24104478 PMCID: PMC3817403 DOI: 10.1038/msb.2013.53] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2013] [Accepted: 09/06/2013] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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DNA polymorphisms that change cell-to-cell variability in gene expression are identified in a screen for ‘Probabilistic Trait Loci' in yeast. By modifying transmembrane transporter genes, these natural variants modulate intraclonal phenotypic diversification. ![]()
We mapped genetic loci affecting cell–cell variability in gene expression. One variant enhanced both expression of a transporter and variability in a metabolic pathway. A sequence change in another transporter also increased pathway variability. The study invites to apprehend complex traits from a nondeterministic angle.
Living systems may have evolved probabilistic bet hedging strategies that generate cell-to-cell phenotypic diversity in anticipation of environmental catastrophes, as opposed to adaptation via a deterministic response to environmental changes. Evolution of bet hedging assumes that genotypes segregating in natural populations modulate the level of intraclonal diversity, which so far has largely remained hypothetical. Using a fluorescent Pmet17-GFP reporter, we mapped four genetic loci conferring to a wild yeast strain an elevated cell-to-cell variability in the expression of MET17, a gene regulated by the methionine pathway. A frameshift mutation in the Erc1p transmembrane transporter, probably resulting from a release of laboratory strains from negative selection, reduced Pmet17-GFP expression variability. At a second locus, cis-regulatory polymorphisms increased mean expression of the Mup1p methionine permease, causing increased expression variability in trans. These results demonstrate that an expression quantitative trait locus (eQTL) can simultaneously have a deterministic effect in cis and a probabilistic effect in trans. Our observations indicate that the evolution of transmembrane transporter genes can tune intraclonal variation and may therefore be implicated in both reactive and anticipatory strategies of adaptation.
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- Steffen Fehrmann
- Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire de la Cellule, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS, Université Lyon 1, Lyon, France
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In this work, we have studied the effect of amplifying different alleles involved in the threonine biosynthesis on the amino acid production by Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The genes used were wild-type HOM3, HOM2, HOM6, THR1, and THR4, and two mutant alleles of HOM3 (namely HOM3-R2 and HOM3-R6), that code for feedback-insensitive aspartate kinases. The results show that only the amplification of the HOM3 alleles leads to threonine and, in some instances, to homoserine overproduction. In terms of the regulation of the pathway, the data indicate that the main control is exerted by inhibition of the aspartate kinase and that, probably, a second and less important regulation takes place at the level of the homoserine kinase, the THR1 gene product. However, amplification of THR1 in two related Hom3-R2 strains does not increase the amount of threonine but, in one of them, it does induce accumulation of more homoserine. This result probably reflects differences between these strains in some undetermined genetic factor/s related with threonine metabolism. In general, the data indicate that the common laboratory yeast strains are genetically rather heterogeneous and, thus, extrapolation of conclusions must be done carefully. (c) 1996 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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- M J Farfán
- Departamento de Genética, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Sevilla, Ap. 1095, E-41080 Sevilla, Spain
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Genome-wide identification of genes that play a role in boron stress response in yeast. Genomics 2011; 97:106-11. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2010.10.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2010] [Revised: 10/21/2010] [Accepted: 10/22/2010] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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van Damme M, Zeilmaker T, Elberse J, Andel A, de Sain-van der Velden M, van den Ackerveken G. Downy mildew resistance in Arabidopsis by mutation of HOMOSERINE KINASE. THE PLANT CELL 2009; 21:2179-89. [PMID: 19622802 PMCID: PMC2729605 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.109.066811] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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Plant disease resistance is commonly triggered by early pathogen recognition and activation of immunity. An alternative form of resistance is mediated by recessive downy mildew resistant 1 (dmr1) alleles in Arabidopsis thaliana. Map-based cloning revealed that DMR1 encodes homoserine kinase (HSK). Six independent dmr1 mutants each carry a different amino acid substitution in the HSK protein. Amino acid analysis revealed that dmr1 mutants contain high levels of homoserine that is undetectable in wild-type plants. Surprisingly, the level of amino acids downstream in the aspartate (Asp) pathway was not reduced in dmr1 mutants. Exogenous homoserine does not directly affect pathogen growth but induces resistance when infiltrated in Arabidopsis. We provide evidence that homoserine accumulation in the chloroplast triggers a novel form of downy mildew resistance that is independent of known immune responses.
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- Mireille van Damme
- Plant-Microbe Interactions, Department of Biology, Utrecht University, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Dunn CD, Lee MS, Spencer FA, Jensen RE. A genomewide screen for petite-negative yeast strains yields a new subunit of the i-AAA protease complex. Mol Biol Cell 2005; 17:213-26. [PMID: 16267274 PMCID: PMC1345660 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e05-06-0585] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Unlike many other organisms, the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae can tolerate the loss of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). Although a few proteins have been identified that are required for yeast cell viability without mtDNA, the mechanism of mtDNA-independent growth is not completely understood. To probe the relationship between the mitochondrial genome and cell viability, we conducted a microarray-based, genomewide screen for mitochondrial DNA-dependent yeast mutants. Among the several genes that we discovered is MGR1, which encodes a novel subunit of the i-AAA protease complex located in the mitochondrial inner membrane. mgr1Delta mutants retain some i-AAA protease activity, yet mitochondria lacking Mgr1p contain a misassembled i-AAA protease and are defective for turnover of mitochondrial inner membrane proteins. Our results highlight the importance of the i-AAA complex and proteolysis at the inner membrane in cells lacking mitochondrial DNA.
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- Cory D Dunn
- Department of Cell Biology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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Krishna SS, Zhou T, Daugherty M, Osterman A, Zhang H. Structural basis for the catalysis and substrate specificity of homoserine kinase. Biochemistry 2001; 40:10810-8. [PMID: 11535056 DOI: 10.1021/bi010851z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Homoserine kinase (HSK), the fourth enzyme in the aspartate pathway of amino acid biosynthesis, catalyzes the phosphorylation of L-homoserine (Hse) to L-homoserine phosphate, an intermediate in the production of L-threonine, L-isoleucine, and in higher plants, L-methionine. The high-resolution structures of Methanococcus jannaschii HSK ternary complexes with its amino acid substrate and ATP analogues have been determined by X-ray crystallography. These structures reveal the structural determinants of the tight and highly specific binding of Hse, which is coupled with local conformational changes that enforce the sequestration of the substrate. The delta-hydroxyl group of bound Hse is only 3.4 A away from the gamma-phosphate of the bound nucleotide, poised for the in-line attack at the gamma-phosphorus. The bound nucleotides are flexible at the triphosphate tail. Nevertheless, a Mg(2+) was located in one of the complexes that binds between the beta- and gamma-phosphates of the nucleotide with good ligand geometry and is coordinated by the side chain of Glu130. No strong nucleophile (base) can be located near the phosphoryl acceptor hydroxyl group. Therefore, we propose that the catalytic mechanism of HSK does not involve a catalytic base for activating the phosphoryl acceptor hydroxyl but instead is mediated via a transition state stabilization mechanism.
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- S S Krishna
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, Texas 75390-9038, USA
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Azevedo RA, Arruda P, Turner WL, Lea PJ. The biosynthesis and metabolism of the aspartate derived amino acids in higher plants. PHYTOCHEMISTRY 1997; 46:395-419. [PMID: 9332022 DOI: 10.1016/s0031-9422(97)00319-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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The essential amino acids lysine, threonine, methionine and isoleucine are synthesised in higher plants via a common pathway starting with aspartate. The regulation of the pathway is discussed in detail, and the properties of the key enzymes described. Recent data obtained from studies of regulation at the gene level and information derived from mutant and transgenic plants are also discussed. The herbicide target enzyme acetohydroxyacid synthase involved in the synthesis of the branched chain amino acids is reviewed.
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- R A Azevedo
- Departamento de Genética, Universidade de São Paulo, Piracicaba, SP, Brasil
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Martínez-Force E, Benítez T. Regulation of aspartate-derived amino acid biosynthesis in the yeastSaccharomyces cerevisiae. Curr Microbiol 1993. [DOI: 10.1007/bf01576262] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Bork P, Sander C, Valencia A. Convergent evolution of similar enzymatic function on different protein folds: the hexokinase, ribokinase, and galactokinase families of sugar kinases. Protein Sci 1993; 2:31-40. [PMID: 8382990 PMCID: PMC2142297 DOI: 10.1002/pro.5560020104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 301] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Kinases that catalyze phosphorylation of sugars, called here sugar kinases, can be divided into at least three distinct nonhomologous families. The first is the hexokinase family, which contains many prokaryotic and eukaryotic sugar kinases with diverse specificities, including a new member, rhamnokinase from Salmonella typhimurium. The three-dimensional structure of hexokinase is known and can be used to build models of functionally important regions of other kinases in this family. The second is the ribokinase family, of unknown three-dimensional structure, and comprises pro- and eukaryotic ribokinases, bacterial fructokinases, the minor 6-phosphofructokinase 2 from Escherichia coli, 6-phosphotagatokinase, 1-phosphofructokinase, and, possibly, inosine-guanosine kinase. The third family, also of unknown three-dimensional structure, contains several bacterial and yeast galactokinases and eukaryotic mevalonate and phosphomevalonate kinases and may have a substrate binding region in common with homoserine kinases. Each of the three families of sugar kinases appears to have a distinct three-dimensional fold, since conserved sequence patterns are strikingly different for the three families. Yet each catalyzes chemically equivalent reactions on similar or identical substrates. The enzymatic function of sugar phosphorylation appears to have evolved independently on the three distinct structural frameworks, by convergent evolution. In addition, evolutionary trees reveal that (1) fructokinase specificity has evolved independently in both the hexokinase and ribokinase families and (2) glucose specificity has evolved independently in different branches of the hexokinase family. These are examples of independent Darwinian adaptation of a structure to the same substrate at different evolutionary times. The flexible combination of active sites and three-dimensional folds observed in nature can be exploited by protein engineers in designing and optimizing enzymatic function.
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- P Bork
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
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Mountain HA, Byström AS, Larsen JT, Korch C. Four major transcriptional responses in the methionine/threonine biosynthetic pathway of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Yeast 1991; 7:781-803. [PMID: 1789001 DOI: 10.1002/yea.320070804] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Genes encoding enzymes in the threonine/methionine biosynthetic pathway were cloned and used to investigate their transcriptional response to signals known to affect gene expression on the basis of enzyme specific-activities. Four major responses were evident: strong repression by methionine of MET3, MET5 and MET14, as previously described for MET3, MET2 and MET25; weak repression by methionine of MET6; weak stimulation by methionine but no response to threonine was seen for THR1, HOM2 and HOM3; no response to any of the signals tested, for HOM6 and MES1. In a BOR3 mutant, THR1, HOM2 and HOM3 mRNA levels were increased slightly. The stimulation of transcription by methionine for HOM2, HOM3 and THR1 is mediated by the GCN4 gene product and hence these genes are under the general amino acid control. In addition to the strong repression by methionine, MET5 is also regulated by the general control.
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- H A Mountain
- Department of Microbiology, University of Umeå, Sweden
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Ramos C, Delgado MA, Calderon IL. Inhibition by different amino acids of the aspartate kinase and the homoserine kinase of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. FEBS Lett 1991; 278:123-6. [PMID: 1847111 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(91)80098-n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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In this paper, we describe a simple method to measure the yeast homoserine kinase and aspartate kinase activities, independently but in the same extract. With this method, we have determined some kinetic parameters for the physiological substrates of both enzymes, and investigated the inhibition exerted by different amino acids on these activities. Of all natural amino acids tested, only threonine inhibits effectively both enzymatic activities, although to a different degree. We did not find the reported inhibition by L-homoserine over the aspartate kinase. Altogether the data point to the aspartate kinase and to the threonine as the key factors in the regulation of this route.
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- C Ramos
- Departamento de Genética y Biotecnia, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
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