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Gligorovski V, Sadeghi A, Rahi SJ. Multidimensional characterization of inducible promoters and a highly light-sensitive LOV-transcription factor. Nat Commun 2023; 14:3810. [PMID: 37369667 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-38959-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2021] [Accepted: 05/24/2023] [Indexed: 06/29/2023] Open
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The ability to independently control the expression of different genes is important for quantitative biology. Using budding yeast, we characterize GAL1pr, GALL, MET3pr, CUP1pr, PHO5pr, tetOpr, terminator-tetOpr, Z3EV, blue-light inducible optogenetic systems El222-LIP, El222-GLIP, and red-light inducible PhyB-PIF3. We report kinetic parameters, noise scaling, impact on growth, and the fundamental leakiness of each system using an intuitive unit, maxGAL1. We uncover disadvantages of widely used tools, e.g., nonmonotonic activity of MET3pr and GALL, slow off kinetics of the doxycycline- and estradiol-inducible systems tetOpr and Z3EV, and high variability of PHO5pr and red-light activated PhyB-PIF3 system. We introduce two previously uncharacterized systems: strongLOV, a more light-sensitive El222 mutant, and ARG3pr, which is induced in the absence of arginine or presence of methionine. To demonstrate fine control over gene circuits, we experimentally tune the time between cell cycle Start and mitosis, artificially simulating near-wild-type timing. All strains, constructs, code, and data ( https://promoter-benchmark.epfl.ch/ ) are made available.
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- Vojislav Gligorovski
- Laboratory of the Physics of Biological Systems, Institute of Physics, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of the Physics of Biological Systems, Institute of Physics, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of the Physics of Biological Systems, Institute of Physics, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Aguilar RR, Shen ZJ, Tyler JK. A Simple, Improved Method for Scarless Genome Editing of Budding Yeast Using CRISPR-Cas9. Methods Protoc 2022; 5:79. [PMID: 36287051 PMCID: PMC9607540 DOI: 10.3390/mps5050079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2022] [Revised: 09/29/2022] [Accepted: 09/30/2022] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Until recently, the favored method for making directed modifications to the budding yeast genome involved the introduction of a DNA template carrying the desired genetic changes along with a selectable marker, flanked by homology arms. This approach both limited the ability to make changes within genes due to disruption by the introduced selectable marker and prevented the use of that selectable marker for subsequent genomic manipulations. Following the discovery of CRISPR-Cas9-mediated genome editing, protocols were developed for modifying any DNA region of interest in a similar single transformation step without the need for a permanent selectable marker. This approach involves the generation of a DNA double-strand break (DSB) at the desired genomic location by the Cas9 nuclease, expressed on a plasmid which also expresses the guide RNA (gRNA) sequence directing the location of the DSB. The DSB is subsequently repaired via homologous recombination using a PCR-derived DNA repair template. Here, we describe in detail an improved method for incorporation of the gRNA-encoding DNA sequences into the Cas9 expression plasmid. Using Golden Gate cloning, annealed oligonucleotides bearing unique single-strand DNA overhangs are ligated into directional restriction enzyme sites. We describe the use of this CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing protocol to introduce multiple types of directed genetic changes into the yeast genome.
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- Rhiannon R. Aguilar
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA
- Weill Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan-Kettering Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA
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Alonso A, Fabritius A, Ozzello C, Andreas M, Klenchin D, Rayment I, Winey M. Yeast pericentrin/Spc110 contains multiple domains required for tethering the γ-tubulin complex to the centrosome. Mol Biol Cell 2020; 31:1437-1452. [PMID: 32374651 PMCID: PMC7359572 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e20-02-0146] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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The Saccharomyces cerevisiae spindle pole body (SPB) serves as the sole microtubule-organizing center of the cell, nucleating both cytoplasmic and nuclear microtubules. Yeast pericentrin, Spc110, binds to and activates the γ-tubulin complex via its N terminus, allowing nuclear microtubule polymerization to occur. The Spc110 C terminus links the γ-tubulin complex to the central plaque of the SPB by binding to Spc42, Spc29, and calmodulin (Cmd1). Here, we show that overexpression of the C terminus of Spc110 is toxic to cells and correlates with its localization to the SPB. Spc110 domains that are required for SPB localization and toxicity include its Spc42-, Spc29-, and Cmd1-binding sites. Overexpression of the Spc110 C terminus induces SPB defects and disrupts microtubule organization in both cycling and G2/M arrested cells. Notably, the two mitotic SPBs are affected in an asymmetric manner such that one SPB appears to be pulled away from the nucleus toward the cortex but remains attached via a thread of nuclear envelope. This SPB also contains relatively fewer microtubules and less endogenous Spc110. Our data suggest that overexpression of the Spc110 C terminus acts as a dominant-negative mutant that titrates endogenous Spc110 from the SPB causing spindle defects.
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- Annabel Alonso
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616
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- The Boulder Laboratory for 3D Electron Microscopy of Cells, Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616
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Hsieh YYP, Makrantoni V, Robertson D, Marston AL, Murray AW. Evolutionary repair: Changes in multiple functional modules allow meiotic cohesin to support mitosis. PLoS Biol 2020; 18:e3000635. [PMID: 32155147 PMCID: PMC7138332 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000635] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2019] [Revised: 04/07/2020] [Accepted: 02/21/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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The role of proteins often changes during evolution, but we do not know how cells adapt when a protein is asked to participate in a different biological function. We forced the budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, to use the meiosis-specific kleisin, recombination 8 (Rec8), during the mitotic cell cycle, instead of its paralog, Scc1. This perturbation impairs sister chromosome linkage, advances the timing of genome replication, and reduces reproductive fitness by 45%. We evolved 15 parallel populations for 1,750 generations, substantially increasing their fitness, and analyzed the genotypes and phenotypes of the evolved cells. Only one population contained a mutation in Rec8, but many populations had mutations in the transcriptional mediator complex, cohesin-related genes, and cell cycle regulators that induce S phase. These mutations improve sister chromosome cohesion and delay genome replication in Rec8-expressing cells. We conclude that changes in known and novel partners allow cells to use an existing protein to participate in new biological functions.
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- Yu-Ying Phoebe Hsieh
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- The Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- The Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- The Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Hofmann A, Falk J, Prangemeier T, Happel D, Köber A, Christmann A, Koeppl H, Kolmar H. A tightly regulated and adjustable CRISPR-dCas9 based AND gate in yeast. Nucleic Acids Res 2019; 47:509-520. [PMID: 30476163 PMCID: PMC6326796 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gky1191] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2018] [Accepted: 11/19/2018] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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The robust and precise on and off switching of one or more genes of interest, followed by expression or repression is essential for many biological circuits as well as for industrial applications. However, many regulated systems published to date influence the viability of the host cell, show high basal expression or enable only the overexpression of the target gene without the possibility of fine regulation. Herein, we describe an AND gate designed to overcome these limitations by combining the advantages of three well established systems, namely the scaffold RNA CRISPR/dCas9 platform that is controlled by Gal10 as a natural and by LexA-ER-AD as heterologous transcription factor. We hence developed a predictable and modular, versatile expression control system. The selection of a reporter gene set up combining a gene of interest (GOI) with a fluorophore by the ribosomal skipping T2A sequence allows to adapt the system to any gene of interest without losing reporter function. In order to obtain a better understanding of the underlying principles and the functioning of our system, we backed our experimental findings with the development of a mathematical model and single-cell analysis.
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- Anja Hofmann
- Institute for Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Technische Universität Darmstadt, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany
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- Institute of Condensed Matter Physics, Technische Universität Darmstadt, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Technische Universität Darmstadt, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany
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- Institute for Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Technische Universität Darmstadt, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany
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- Institute for Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Technische Universität Darmstadt, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany
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- Institute for Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Technische Universität Darmstadt, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Technische Universität Darmstadt, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany
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- Institute for Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Technische Universität Darmstadt, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany
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Kallscheuer N, Menezes R, Foito A, da Silva MH, Braga A, Dekker W, Sevillano DM, Rosado-Ramos R, Jardim C, Oliveira J, Ferreira P, Rocha I, Silva AR, Sousa M, Allwood JW, Bott M, Faria N, Stewart D, Ottens M, Naesby M, Nunes Dos Santos C, Marienhagen J. Identification and Microbial Production of the Raspberry Phenol Salidroside that Is Active against Huntington's Disease. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2019; 179:969-985. [PMID: 30397021 PMCID: PMC6393794 DOI: 10.1104/pp.18.01074] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2018] [Accepted: 10/22/2018] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Edible berries are considered to be among nature's treasure chests as they contain a large number of (poly)phenols with potentially health-promoting properties. However, as berries contain complex (poly)phenol mixtures, it is challenging to associate any interesting pharmacological activity with a single compound. Thus, identification of pharmacologically interesting phenols requires systematic analyses of berry extracts. Here, raspberry (Rubus idaeus, var Prestige) extracts were systematically analyzed to identify bioactive compounds against pathological processes of neurodegenerative diseases. Berry extracts were tested on different Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains expressing disease proteins associated with Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, or Huntington's disease, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. After identifying bioactivity against Huntington's disease, the extract was fractionated and the obtained fractions were tested in the yeast model, which revealed that salidroside, a glycosylated phenol, displayed significant bioactivity. Subsequently, a metabolic route to salidroside was reconstructed in S cerevisiae and Corynebacterium glutamicum The best-performing S cerevisiae strain was capable of producing 2.1 mm (640 mg L-1) salidroside from Glc in shake flasks, whereas an engineered C glutamicum strain could efficiently convert the precursor tyrosol to salidroside, accumulating up to 32 mm (9,700 mg L-1) salidroside in bioreactor cultivations (yield: 0.81 mol mol-1). Targeted yeast assays verified that salidroside produced by both organisms has the same positive effects as salidroside of natural origin.
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- Nicolai Kallscheuer
- Institut für Bio- und Geowissenschaften (IBG-1: Biotechnologie), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich 52428, Germany
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- Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica (iBET), 2781-901 Oeiras, Portugal
- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2780-157 Oeiras, Portugal
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- The James Hutton Institute, Invergowrie, DD2 5DA Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom
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- Biotempo, 4805-017 Guimarães, Portugal
- Centre of Biological Engineering, University of Minho, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal
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- Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, 2629 HZ Delft, The Netherlands
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- Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica (iBET), 2781-901 Oeiras, Portugal
- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2780-157 Oeiras, Portugal
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- Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica (iBET), 2781-901 Oeiras, Portugal
- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2780-157 Oeiras, Portugal
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- Biotempo, 4805-017 Guimarães, Portugal
- Centre of Biological Engineering, University of Minho, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal
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- Biotempo, 4805-017 Guimarães, Portugal
- Centre of Biological Engineering, University of Minho, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal
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- Biotempo, 4805-017 Guimarães, Portugal
- Centre of Biological Engineering, University of Minho, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal
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- Biotempo, 4805-017 Guimarães, Portugal
- Centre of Biological Engineering, University of Minho, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal
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- Biotempo, 4805-017 Guimarães, Portugal
- Centre of Biological Engineering, University of Minho, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal
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- The James Hutton Institute, Invergowrie, DD2 5DA Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom
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- Institut für Bio- und Geowissenschaften (IBG-1: Biotechnologie), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich 52428, Germany
- Bioeconomy Science Center (BioSC), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich D-52425, Germany
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- Biotempo, 4805-017 Guimarães, Portugal
- Centre of Biological Engineering, University of Minho, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal
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- The James Hutton Institute, Invergowrie, DD2 5DA Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom
- School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Institute of Mechanical, Process and Energy Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, 2629 HZ Delft, The Netherlands
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- Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica (iBET), 2781-901 Oeiras, Portugal
- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2780-157 Oeiras, Portugal
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- Institut für Bio- und Geowissenschaften (IBG-1: Biotechnologie), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich 52428, Germany
- Bioeconomy Science Center (BioSC), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich D-52425, Germany
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Yadav U, Rai TK, Sethi SC, Chandraker A, Khan MA, Komath SS. Characterising N-acetylglucosaminylphosphatidylinositol de-N-acetylase (CaGpi12), the enzyme that catalyses the second step of GPI biosynthesis in Candida albicans. FEMS Yeast Res 2018; 18:5045028. [PMID: 29945236 DOI: 10.1093/femsyr/foy067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2018] [Accepted: 06/23/2018] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Candida albicans N-acetylglucosaminylphosphatidylinositol de-N-acetylase (CaGpi12) recognises N-acetylglucosaminylphosphatidylinositol (GlcNAc-PI) from Saccharomyces cerevisiae and is able to complement ScGPI12 function. Both N- and C-terminal ends of CaGpi12 are important for its function. CaGpi12 was biochemically characterised using rough endoplasmic reticulum microsomes prepared from BWP17 strain of C. albicans. CaGpi12 is optimally active at 30°C and pH 7.5. It is a metal-dependent enzyme that is stimulated by divalent cations but shows no preference for Zn2+ unlike the mammalian homologue. It irreversibly loses activity upon incubation with a metal chelator. Two conserved motifs, HPDDE and HXXH, are both important for its function in the cell. CaGPI12 is essential for growth and viability of C. albicans. Its loss causes reduction of GlcNAc-PI de-N-acetylase activity, cell wall defects and filamentation defects. The filamentation defects could be specifically correlated to an upregulation of the HOG1 pathway.
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- Usha Yadav
- School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi-110 067, India
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- School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi-110 067, India
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- School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi-110 067, India
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- School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi-110 067, India
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- School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi-110 067, India
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Jensen MK. Design principles for nuclease-deficient CRISPR-based transcriptional regulators. FEMS Yeast Res 2018; 18:4966988. [PMID: 29726937 PMCID: PMC5932555 DOI: 10.1093/femsyr/foy039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2017] [Accepted: 04/06/2018] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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The engineering of Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)-CRISPR-associated proteins continues to expand the toolkit available for genome editing, reprogramming gene regulation, genome visualisation and epigenetic studies of living organisms. In this review, the emerging design principles on the use of nuclease-deficient CRISPR-based reprogramming of gene expression will be presented. The review will focus on the designs implemented in yeast both at the level of CRISPR proteins and guide RNA (gRNA), but will lend due credits to the seminal studies performed in other species where relevant. In addition to design principles, this review also highlights applications benefitting from the use of CRISPR-mediated transcriptional regulation and discusses the future directions to further expand the toolkit for nuclease-deficient reprogramming of genomes. As such, this review should be of general interest for experimentalists to get familiarised with the parameters underlying the power of reprogramming genomic functions by use of nuclease-deficient CRISPR technologies.
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- Michael K Jensen
- Novo Nordisk Foundation, Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Kemitorvet 220, Kgs. Lyngby 2800, Denmark
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Fukuda N, Honda S. Artificial Mating-Type Conversion and Repetitive Mating for Polyploid Generation. ACS Synth Biol 2018; 7:1413-1423. [PMID: 29641187 DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.8b00020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is one of the best-understood biological systems and can produce numerous useful compounds. Sexual hybridization (mating) can drive dramatic evolution of yeasts by the inheritance of half of the parental genomic information from each cell. Unfortunately, half of the parental genomic information is lost in individual cells in the next generation. Additionally, recombination of homologous chromosomes during meiosis gives rise to diversity in the next generation; hence, it is commonly employed to identify targets from diverse cell populations, based on the mating machinery. Here, we established a system for generating polyploids that inherit all genetic information from the parental strains via artificial mating-type conversion and repetitive mating. We prepared α-type haploid strains whose chromosomes were tagged with genes encoding fluorescent proteins or transcriptional factors. Only the mating-type locus was successfully converted from α-type to a-type sequence by the endonuclease Ho, and the resultant a-type cells mated with each α-type haploid to yield an a/α-type diploid strain with all genetic information from both parental strains. Importantly, we repeatedly converted the mating-type of polyploid cells to obtain a-type cells capable of mating with α-type cells. This approach can potentially facilitate yeast-strain development with unparalleled versatility, utilizing vast available resources.
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- Nobuo Fukuda
- Biomedical Research Institute , National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) , Higashi 1-1-1 , Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8566 , Japan
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- Biomedical Research Institute , National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) , Higashi 1-1-1 , Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8566 , Japan
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Chen K, Bennett SA, Rana N, Yousuf H, Said M, Taaseen S, Mendo N, Meltser SM, Torrente MP. Neurodegenerative Disease Proteinopathies Are Connected to Distinct Histone Post-translational Modification Landscapes. ACS Chem Neurosci 2018; 9:838-848. [PMID: 29243911 DOI: 10.1021/acschemneuro.7b00297] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and Parkinson's disease (PD) are devastating neurodegenerative diseases involving the progressive degeneration of neurons. No cure is available for patients diagnosed with these diseases. A prominent feature of both ALS and PD is the accumulation of protein inclusions in the cytoplasm of degenerating neurons; however, the particular proteins constituting these inclusions vary: the RNA-binding proteins TDP-43 and FUS are most notable in ALS, while α-synuclein aggregates into Lewy bodies in PD. In both diseases, genetic causes fail to explain the occurrence of a large proportion of cases, and thus, both are considered mostly sporadic. Despite mounting evidence for a possible role of epigenetics in the occurrence and progression of ALS and PD, epigenetic mechanisms in the context of these diseases remain mostly unexplored. Here we comprehensively delineate histone post-translational modification (PTM) profiles in ALS and PD yeast proteinopathy models. Remarkably, we find distinct changes in histone modification profiles for each. We detect the most striking changes in the context of FUS aggregation: changes in several histone marks support a global decrease in gene transcription. We also detect more modest changes in histone modifications in cells overexpressing TDP-43 or α-synuclein. Our results highlight a great need for the inclusion of epigenetic mechanisms in the study of neurodegeneration. We hope our work will pave the way for the discovery of more effective therapies to treat patients suffering from ALS, PD, and other neurodegenerative diseases.
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- Karen Chen
- Chemistry Department of Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, New York 11210, United States
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- Chemistry Department of Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, New York 11210, United States
- Graduate Program in Biochemistry, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, New York 10016, United States
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- Chemistry Department of Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, New York 11210, United States
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- Chemistry Department of Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, New York 11210, United States
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- Chemistry Department of Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, New York 11210, United States
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- Chemistry Department of Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, New York 11210, United States
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- Chemistry Department of Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, New York 11210, United States
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- Chemistry Department of Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, New York 11210, United States
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- Chemistry Department of Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, New York 11210, United States
- Ph.D. Programs in Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Biology, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, New York 10016, United States
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Pothoulakis G, Ellis T. Construction of hybrid regulated mother-specific yeast promoters for inducible differential gene expression. PLoS One 2018; 13:e0194588. [PMID: 29566038 PMCID: PMC5864024 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0194588] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2017] [Accepted: 03/06/2018] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Engineered promoters with predefined regulation are a key tool for synthetic biology that enable expression on demand and provide the logic for genetic circuits. To expand the availability of synthetic biology tools for S. cerevisiae yeast, we here used hybrid promoter engineering to construct tightly-controlled, externally-inducible promoters that only express in haploid mother cells that have contributed a daughter cell to the population. This is achieved by combining elements from the native HO promoter and from a TetR-repressible synthetic promoter, with the performance of these promoters characterized by both flow cytometry and microfluidics-based fluorescence microscopy. These new engineered promoters are provided as an enabling tool for future synthetic biology applications that seek to exploit differentiation within a yeast population.
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- Georgios Pothoulakis
- Centre for Synthetic Biology and Innovation, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.,Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Synthetic Biology and Innovation, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.,Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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Schuler D, Höll C, Grün N, Ulrich J, Dillner B, Klebl F, Ammon A, Voll LM, Kämper J. Galactose metabolism and toxicity in Ustilago maydis. Fungal Genet Biol 2018; 114:42-52. [PMID: 29580862 DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2018.03.005] [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: 11/01/2017] [Revised: 03/07/2018] [Accepted: 03/22/2018] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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In most organisms, galactose is metabolized via the Leloir pathway, which is conserved from bacteria to mammals. Utilization of galactose requires a close interplay of the metabolic enzymes, as misregulation or malfunction of individual components can lead to the accumulation of toxic intermediate compounds. For the phytopathogenic basidiomycete Ustilago maydis, galactose is toxic for wildtype strains, i.e. leads to growth repression despite the presence of favorable carbon sources as sucrose. The galactose sensitivity can be relieved by two independent modifications: (1) by disruption of Hxt1, which we identify as the major transporter for galactose, and (2) by a point mutation in the gene encoding the galactokinase Gal1, the first enzyme of the Leloir pathway. The mutation in gal1(Y67F) leads to reduced enzymatic activity of Gal1 and thus may limit the formation of putatively toxic galactose-1-phosphate. However, systematic deletions and double deletions of different genes involved in galactose metabolism point to a minor role of galactose-1-phosphate in galactose toxicity. Our results show that molecular triggers for galactose toxicity in U. maydis differ from yeast and mammals.
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- David Schuler
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Applied Biosciences, Department of Genetics, Fritz Haber Weg 4, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Applied Biosciences, Department of Genetics, Fritz Haber Weg 4, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Applied Biosciences, Department of Genetics, Fritz Haber Weg 4, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Applied Biosciences, Department of Genetics, Fritz Haber Weg 4, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Applied Biosciences, Department of Genetics, Fritz Haber Weg 4, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Department of Biology, Molecular Plant Physiology, Staudtstrasse 5, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
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- Philips-University of Marburg, Department of Biology, Plant Physiology and Photo Biology, Karl von Frisch Strasse 8, 35043 Marburg, Germany
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- Philips-University of Marburg, Department of Biology, Plant Physiology and Photo Biology, Karl von Frisch Strasse 8, 35043 Marburg, Germany
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Applied Biosciences, Department of Genetics, Fritz Haber Weg 4, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany.
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Roggenkamp E, Giersch RM, Schrock MN, Turnquist E, Halloran M, Finnigan GC. Tuning CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Drives in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. G3 (BETHESDA, MD.) 2018; 8:999-1018. [PMID: 29348295 PMCID: PMC5844318 DOI: 10.1534/g3.117.300557] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2017] [Accepted: 01/16/2018] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Control of biological populations is an ongoing challenge in many fields, including agriculture, biodiversity, ecological preservation, pest control, and the spread of disease. In some cases, such as insects that harbor human pathogens (e.g., malaria), elimination or reduction of a small number of species would have a dramatic impact across the globe. Given the recent discovery and development of the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology, a unique arrangement of this system, a nuclease-based "gene drive," allows for the super-Mendelian spread and forced propagation of a genetic element through a population. Recent studies have demonstrated the ability of a gene drive to rapidly spread within and nearly eliminate insect populations in a laboratory setting. While there are still ongoing technical challenges to design of a more optimal gene drive to be used in wild populations, there are still serious ecological and ethical concerns surrounding the nature of this powerful biological agent. Here, we use budding yeast as a safe and fully contained model system to explore mechanisms that might allow for programmed regulation of gene drive activity. We describe four conserved features of all CRISPR-based drives and demonstrate the ability of each drive component-Cas9 protein level, sgRNA identity, Cas9 nucleocytoplasmic shuttling, and novel Cas9-Cas9 tandem fusions-to modulate drive activity within a population.
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- Emily Roggenkamp
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506
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- Department of Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506
- Department of Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506
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Synthetic gene regulation for independent external induction of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae pseudohyphal growth phenotype. Commun Biol 2018; 1:7. [PMID: 30271894 PMCID: PMC6123699 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-017-0008-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2017] [Accepted: 12/04/2017] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Pseudohyphal growth is a multicellular phenotype naturally performed by wild budding yeast cells in response to stress. Unicellular yeast cells undergo gross changes in their gene regulation and elongate to form branched filament structures consisting of connected cells. Here, we construct synthetic gene regulation systems to enable external induction of pseudohyphal growth in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. By controlling the expression of the natural PHD1 and FLO8 genes we are able to trigger pseudohyphal growth in both diploid and haploid yeast, even in different types of rich media. Using this system, we also investigate how members of the BUD gene family control filamentation in haploid cells. Finally, we employ a synthetic genetic timer network to control pseudohyphal growth and further explore the reversibility of differentiation. Our work demonstrates that synthetic regulation can exert control over a complex multigene phenotype and offers opportunities for rationally modifying the resulting multicellular structure. Georgios Pothoulakis and Tom Ellis report the construction of a synthetic gene regulation system for inducing pseudohyphal growth in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. This multicellular yeast phenotype can now be switched on and off via external control in a variety of conditions.
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Rao L, Hülsemann M, Gennerich A. Combining Structure-Function and Single-Molecule Studies on Cytoplasmic Dynein. Methods Mol Biol 2018; 1665:53-89. [PMID: 28940064 PMCID: PMC5639168 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-7271-5_4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Cytoplasmic dynein is the largest and most intricate cytoskeletal motor protein. It is responsible for a vast array of biological functions, ranging from the transport of organelles and mRNAs to the movement of nuclei during neuronal migration and the formation and positioning of the mitotic spindle during cell division. Despite its megadalton size and its complex design, recent success with the recombinant expression of the dynein heavy chain has advanced our understanding of dynein's molecular mechanism through the combination of structure-function and single-molecule studies. Single-molecule fluorescence assays have provided detailed insights into how dynein advances along its microtubule track in the absence of load, while optical tweezers have yielded insights into the force generation and stalling behavior of dynein. Here, using the S. cerevisiae expression system, we provide improved protocols for the generation of dynein mutants and for the expression and purification of the mutated and/or tagged proteins. To facilitate single-molecule fluorescence and optical trapping assays, we further describe updated, easy-to-use protocols for attaching microtubules to coverslip surfaces. The presented protocols together with the recently solved crystal structures of the dynein motor domain will further simplify and accelerate hypothesis-driven mutagenesis and structure-function studies on dynein.
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- Lu Rao
- Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology and Gruss-Lipper Biophotonics Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Jack and Pearl Resnick Campus, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, NY, 10461, USA
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- Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology and Gruss-Lipper Biophotonics Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Jack and Pearl Resnick Campus, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, NY, 10461, USA
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- Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology and Gruss-Lipper Biophotonics Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Jack and Pearl Resnick Campus, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, NY, 10461, USA.
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Dossani ZY, Reider Apel A, Szmidt-Middleton H, Hillson NJ, Deutsch S, Keasling JD, Mukhopadhyay A. A combinatorial approach to synthetic transcription factor-promoter combinations for yeast strain engineering. Yeast 2017; 35:273-280. [PMID: 29084380 PMCID: PMC5873372 DOI: 10.1002/yea.3292] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2017] [Revised: 09/08/2017] [Accepted: 10/19/2017] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
Abstract
Despite the need for inducible promoters in strain development efforts, the majority of engineering in Saccharomyces cerevisiae continues to rely on a few constitutively active or inducible promoters. Building on advances that use the modular nature of both transcription factors and promoter regions, we have built a library of hybrid promoters that are regulated by a synthetic transcription factor. The hybrid promoters consist of native S. cerevisiae promoters, in which the operator regions have been replaced with sequences that are recognized by the bacterial LexA DNA binding protein. Correspondingly, the synthetic transcription factor (TF) consists of the DNA binding domain of the LexA protein, fused with the human estrogen binding domain and the viral activator domain, VP16. The resulting system with a bacterial DNA binding domain avoids the transcription of native S. cerevisiae genes, and the hybrid promoters can be induced using estradiol, a compound with no detectable impact on S. cerevisiae physiology. Using combinations of one, two or three operator sequence repeats and a set of native S. cerevisiae promoters, we obtained a series of hybrid promoters that can be induced to different levels, using the same synthetic TF and a given estradiol. This set of promoters, in combination with our synthetic TF, has the potential to regulate numerous genes or pathways simultaneously, to multiple desired levels, in a single strain.
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- Zain Y Dossani
- DOE Joint Bioenergy Institute, Emeryville, California, USA.,Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
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- DOE Joint Bioenergy Institute, Emeryville, California, USA.,Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
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- DOE Joint Bioenergy Institute, Emeryville, California, USA.,Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
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- DOE Joint Bioenergy Institute, Emeryville, California, USA.,Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA.,DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, USA.,DOE Agile BioFoundry, Emeryville, California, USA
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- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA.,DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, USA.,DOE Agile BioFoundry, Emeryville, California, USA
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- DOE Joint Bioenergy Institute, Emeryville, California, USA.,Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA.,Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.,Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Building 220 Kemitorvet, 2800Kgs, Lyngby, Denmark
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- DOE Joint Bioenergy Institute, Emeryville, California, USA.,Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
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Roggenkamp E, Giersch RM, Wedeman E, Eaton M, Turnquist E, Schrock MN, Alkotami L, Jirakittisonthon T, Schluter-Pascua SE, Bayne GH, Wasko C, Halloran M, Finnigan GC. CRISPR-UnLOCK: Multipurpose Cas9-Based Strategies for Conversion of Yeast Libraries and Strains. Front Microbiol 2017; 8:1773. [PMID: 28979241 PMCID: PMC5611381 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.01773] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2017] [Accepted: 08/31/2017] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
Abstract
Saccharomyces cerevisiae continues to serve as a powerful model system for both basic biological research and industrial application. The development of genome-wide collections of individually manipulated strains (libraries) has allowed for high-throughput genetic screens and an emerging global view of this single-celled Eukaryote. The success of strain construction has relied on the innate ability of budding yeast to accept foreign DNA and perform homologous recombination, allowing for efficient plasmid construction (in vivo) and integration of desired sequences into the genome. The development of molecular toolkits and “integration cassettes” have provided fungal systems with a collection of strategies for tagging, deleting, or over-expressing target genes; typically, these consist of a C-terminal tag (epitope or fluorescent protein), a universal terminator sequence, and a selectable marker cassette to allow for convenient screening. However, there are logistical and technical obstacles to using these traditional genetic modules for complex strain construction (manipulation of many genomic targets in a single cell) or for the generation of entire genome-wide libraries. The recent introduction of the CRISPR/Cas gene editing technology has provided a powerful methodology for multiplexed editing in many biological systems including yeast. We have developed four distinct uses of the CRISPR biotechnology to generate yeast strains that utilizes the conversion of existing, commonly-used yeast libraries or strains. We present Cas9-based, marker-less methodologies for (i) N-terminal tagging, (ii) C-terminally tagging yeast genes with 18 unique fusions, (iii) conversion of fluorescently-tagged strains into newly engineered (or codon optimized) variants, and finally, (iv) use of a Cas9 “gene drive” system to rapidly achieve a homozygous state for a hypomorphic query allele in a diploid strain. These CRISPR-based methods demonstrate use of targeting universal sequences previously introduced into a genome.
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- Emily Roggenkamp
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Kansas State UniversityManhattan, KS, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Kansas State UniversityManhattan, KS, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Kansas State UniversityManhattan, KS, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Kansas State UniversityManhattan, KS, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Kansas State UniversityManhattan, KS, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Kansas State UniversityManhattan, KS, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Kansas State UniversityManhattan, KS, United States
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- Department of Anatomy and Physiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State UniversityManhattan, KS, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Kansas State UniversityManhattan, KS, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Kansas State UniversityManhattan, KS, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Kansas State UniversityManhattan, KS, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Kansas State UniversityManhattan, KS, United States
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Dugan A, Majmudar CY, Pricer R, Niessen S, Lancia JK, Fung HYH, Cravatt BF, Mapp AK. Discovery of Enzymatic Targets of Transcriptional Activators via in Vivo Covalent Chemical Capture. J Am Chem Soc 2016; 138:12629-35. [PMID: 27611834 PMCID: PMC5217703 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b07680] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
Abstract
The network of activator protein-protein interactions (PPIs) that underpin transcription initiation is poorly defined, particularly in the cellular context. The transient nature of these contacts and the often low abundance of the participants present significant experimental hurdles. Through the coupling of in vivo covalent chemical capture and shotgun LC-MS/MS (MuDPIT) analysis, we can trap the PPIs of transcriptional activators in a cellular setting and identify the binding partners in an unbiased fashion. Using this approach, we discover that the prototypical activators Gal4 and VP16 target the Snf1 (AMPK) kinase complex via direct interactions with both the core enzymatic subunit Snf1 and the exchangeable subunit Gal83. Further, we use a tandem reversible formaldehyde and irreversible covalent chemical capture approach (TRIC) to capture the Gal4-Snf1 interaction at the Gal1 promoter in live yeast. Together, these data support a critical role for activator PPIs in both the recruitment and positioning of important enzymatic complexes at a gene promoter and represent a technical advancement in the discovery of new cellular binding targets of transcriptional activators.
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- Amanda Dugan
- Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
- Program in Chemical Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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- Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
- Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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- Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
- Program in Chemical Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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- The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology and Department of Chemical Physiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, United States
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- Program in Chemical Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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- Program in Chemical Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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- The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology and Department of Chemical Physiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, United States
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- Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
- Program in Chemical Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
- Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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Sugiyama KI, Takamune M, Furusawa H, Honma M. Human DNA methyltransferase gene-transformed yeasts display an inducible flocculation inhibited by 5-aza-2'-deoxycytidine. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2015; 456:689-94. [PMID: 25511699 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2014.12.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2014] [Accepted: 12/08/2014] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Mammalian DNA methyltransferases (DNMTs) play an important role in establishing and maintaining the proper regulation of epigenetic information. However, it remains unclear whether mammalian DNMTs can be functionally expressed in yeasts, which probably lack endogenous DNMTs. We cotransformed the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae with the human DNMT1 gene, which encodes a methylation maintenance enzyme, and the DNMT3A/3B genes, which encode de novo methylation enzymes, in an expression vector also containing the GAL1 promoter, which is induced by galactose, and examined the effects of the DNMT inhibitor 5-aza-2'-deoxycytidine (5AZ) on cell growth. Transformed yeast strains grown in galactose- and glucose-containing media showed growth inhibition, and their growth rate was unaffected by 5AZ. Conversely, 5AZ, but not 2'-deoxycytidine, dose-dependently interfered with the flocculation exhibited by DNMT-gene transformants grown in glucose-containing medium. Further investigation of the properties of this flocculation indicated that it may be dependent on the expression of a Flocculin-encoding gene, FLO1. Taken together, these findings suggest that DNMT-gene transformed yeast strains functionally express these enzymes and represent a useful tool for in vivo screening for DNMT inhibitors.
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- Kei-Ichi Sugiyama
- Division of Genetics and Mutagenesis, National Institute of Health Sciences, 1-18-1 Kamiyoga, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 158-8501, Japan.
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- Division of Genetics and Mutagenesis, National Institute of Health Sciences, 1-18-1 Kamiyoga, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 158-8501, Japan
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- Division of Genetics and Mutagenesis, National Institute of Health Sciences, 1-18-1 Kamiyoga, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 158-8501, Japan
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- Division of Genetics and Mutagenesis, National Institute of Health Sciences, 1-18-1 Kamiyoga, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 158-8501, Japan
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A genetic assay for transcription errors reveals multilayer control of RNA polymerase II fidelity. PLoS Genet 2014; 10:e1004532. [PMID: 25232834 PMCID: PMC4168980 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004532] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2013] [Accepted: 06/11/2014] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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We developed a highly sensitive assay to detect transcription errors in vivo. The assay is based on suppression of a missense mutation in the active site tyrosine in the Cre recombinase. Because Cre acts as tetramer, background from translation errors are negligible. Functional Cre resulting from rare transcription errors that restore the tyrosine codon can be detected by Cre-dependent rearrangement of reporter genes. Hence, transient transcription errors are captured as stable genetic changes. We used this Cre-based reporter to screen for mutations of Saccharomyces cerevisiae RPB1 (RPO21) that increase the level of misincorporation during transcription. The mutations are in three domains of Rpb1, the trigger loop, the bridge helix, and in sites involved in binding to TFIIS. Biochemical characterization demonstrates that these variants have elevated misincorporation, and/or ability to extend mispaired bases, or defects in TFIIS mediated editing.
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Hamperl S, Brown CR, Perez-Fernandez J, Huber K, Wittner M, Babl V, Stöckl U, Boeger H, Tschochner H, Milkereit P, Griesenbeck J. Purification of specific chromatin domains from single-copy gene loci in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Methods Mol Biol 2014; 1094:329-41. [PMID: 24163000 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-62703-706-8_26] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Most methods currently available for the analysis of chromatin in vivo rely on a priori knowledge of putative chromatin components or their posttranslational modification state. The isolation of defined native chromosomal regions provides an attractive alternative to obtain a largely unbiased molecular description of chromatin. Here, we describe a strategy combining site-specific recombination at the chromosome with an efficient tandem affinity purification protocol to isolate a single-copy gene locus from the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The method allows robust enrichment of a targeted chromatin domain, making it amenable to compositional, structural, and biochemical analyses. This technique appears to be suitable to obtain a detailed description of chromatin composition and specific posttranslational histone modification state at virtually any genomic locus in yeast.
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- Stephan Hamperl
- Biochemie-Zentrum Regensburg (BZR), Lehrstuhl Biochemie III, Universität Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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Saka K, Ide S, Ganley ARD, Kobayashi T. Cellular senescence in yeast is regulated by rDNA noncoding transcription. Curr Biol 2013; 23:1794-8. [PMID: 23993840 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.07.048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2013] [Revised: 06/05/2013] [Accepted: 07/12/2013] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Genomic instability is a conserved factor in lifespan reduction, although the molecular mechanism is not known. Studies in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae over the past 20 years have found a connection between the ribosomal RNA gene cluster (rDNA) and lifespan. The highly repetitive rDNA exhibits genomic instability, and the antiaging histone deacetylase gene SIR2 regulates this instability. We previously proposed that SIR2 governs lifespan by repressing rDNA noncoding transcription and rDNA instability, but the extent to which lifespan is affected by SIR2 acting at the rDNA versus other genomic regions, and the relationship between rDNA noncoding transcription/rDNA stability and lifespan have remained controversial. To control rDNA noncoding transcription and rDNA instability, we use a strain in which the rDNA noncoding promoter is replaced with an inducible promoter. Here, we show that repression of noncoding transcription extends lifespan and makes SIR2 dispensable for lifespan extension. These results indicate that Sir2 maintains lifespan through repression of E-pro noncoding transcription in the rDNA cluster, rather than pleiotropically at other loci. The observation of rDNA instability in other organisms, including humans, suggests that this may be a conserved aging pathway.
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- Kimiko Saka
- Division of Cytogenetics, National Institute of Genetics, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Sokendai, 1111 Yata, Mishima, Shizuoka 411-8540, Japan
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García-Oliver E, Pascual-García P, García-Molinero V, Lenstra TL, Holstege FCP, Rodríguez-Navarro S. A novel role for Sem1 and TREX-2 in transcription involves their impact on recruitment and H2B deubiquitylation activity of SAGA. Nucleic Acids Res 2013; 41:5655-68. [PMID: 23599000 PMCID: PMC3675487 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt272] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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Transcription and mRNA export are linked processes. However, the molecular mechanisms of this coordination are not clear. Sus1 (hENY2) participates in this coordination as part of two protein complexes: SAGA, a transcriptional co-activator; TREX-2, which functions in mRNA biogenesis and export. Here, we investigate the coordinated action of SAGA and TREX-2 required for gene expression. We demonstrate that TREX-2 subunit Sem1 also participates in transcription activation. Like Sus1, Sem1 is required for the induction of ARG1 and GAL1, these being SAGA-regulated genes. Chromatin immunoprecipitations show that proper recruitment of certain SAGA subunits to the GAL1 promoter depends on Sem1. Notably, both in vivo and in vitro analyses reveal that Sem1 influences SAGA-dependent histone H2B deubiquitylation. Most of these phenotypes are also found to depend on another TREX-2 subunit, Thp1. These results unveil a new role for Sem1 in the activation of the SAGA-dependent gene GAL1 and influencing H2B deubiquitylation. Our work provides insights into a novel functional relationship between Sem1 and the SAGA complex.
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- Encar García-Oliver
- Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe, Gene Expression and RNA Metabolism Laboratory, Eduardo Primo Yúfera, 3, Valencia E-46012, Spain
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Wang L, Wang X, Arkin AP, Samoilov MS. Inference of gene regulatory networks from genome-wide knockout fitness data. Bioinformatics 2012; 29:338-46. [PMID: 23271269 PMCID: PMC3562072 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bts634] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
Abstract
Motivation: Genome-wide fitness is an emerging type of high-throughput
biological data generated for individual organisms by creating libraries of knockouts,
subjecting them to broad ranges of environmental conditions, and measuring the resulting
clone-specific fitnesses. Since fitness is an organism-scale measure of gene regulatory
network behaviour, it may offer certain advantages when insights into such phenotypical
and functional features are of primary interest over individual gene expression. Previous
works have shown that genome-wide fitness data can be used to uncover novel gene
regulatory interactions, when compared with results of more conventional gene expression
analysis. Yet, to date, few algorithms have been proposed for systematically using
genome-wide mutant fitness data for gene regulatory network inference. Results: In this article, we describe a model and propose an inference
algorithm for using fitness data from knockout libraries to identify underlying gene
regulatory networks. Unlike most prior methods, the presented approach captures not only
structural, but also dynamical and non-linear nature of biomolecular systems involved. A
state–space model with non-linear basis is used for dynamically describing gene
regulatory networks. Network structure is then elucidated by estimating unknown model
parameters. Unscented Kalman filter is used to cope with the non-linearities introduced in
the model, which also enables the algorithm to run in on-line mode for practical use.
Here, we demonstrate that the algorithm provides satisfying results for both synthetic
data as well as empirical measurements of GAL network in yeast
Saccharomyces cerevisiae and TyrR–LiuR network
in bacteria Shewanella oneidensis. Availability: MATLAB code and datasets are available to download at
http://www.duke.edu/∼lw174/Fitness.zip and http://genomics.lbl.gov/supplemental/fitness-bioinf/ Contact:wangx@ee.columbia.edu or mssamoilov@lbl.gov Supplementary information:Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics
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- Liming Wang
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
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Park YN, Masison D, Eisenberg E, Greene LE. Application of the FLP/FRT system for conditional gene deletion in yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Yeast 2011; 28:673-81. [PMID: 21823166 PMCID: PMC3169912 DOI: 10.1002/yea.1895] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2011] [Accepted: 06/26/2011] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae has proved to be an excellent model organism to study the function of proteins. One of the many advantages of yeast is the many genetic tools available to manipulate gene expression, but there are still limitations. To complement the many methods used to control gene expression in yeast, we have established a conditional gene deletion system by using the FLP/FRT system on yeast vectors to conditionally delete specific yeast genes. Expression of Flp recombinase, which is under the control of the GAL1 promoter, was induced by galactose, which in turn excised FRT sites flanked genes. The efficacy of this system was examined using the FRT site-flanked genes HSP104, URA3 and GFP. The pre-excision frequency of this system, which might be caused by the basal activity of the GAL1 promoter or by spontaneous recombination between FRT sites, was detected ca. 2% under the non-selecting condition. After inducing expression of Flp recombinase, the deletion efficiency achieved ca. 96% of cells in a population within 9 h. After conditional deletion of the specific gene, protein degradation and cell division then diluted out protein that was expressed from this gene prior to its excision. Most importantly, the specific protein to be deleted could be expressed under its own promoter, so that endogenous levels of protein expression were maintained prior to excision by the Flp recombinase. Therefore, this system provides a useful tool for the conditional deletion of genes in yeast. Published in 2011 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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- Yang-Nim Park
- Laboratory of Cell Biology, NHLBI, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
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Pannala VR, Ahammed Sherief KY, Bhartiya S, Venkatesh KV. Dynamic analysis of the KlGAL regulatory system in Kluyveromyces lactis: a comparative study with Saccharomyces cerevisiae. SYSTEMS AND SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY 2011; 5:69-85. [PMID: 22654995 DOI: 10.1007/s11693-011-9082-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2010] [Revised: 04/29/2011] [Accepted: 05/18/2011] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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UNLABELLED The GAL regulatory system is highly conserved in yeast species of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Kluyveromyces lactis. While the GAL system is a well studied system in S. cerevisiae, the dynamic behavior of the KlGAL system in K. lactis has not been characterized. Here, we have characterized the GAL system in yeast K. lactis by developing a dynamic model and comparing its performance to its not-so-distant cousin S. cerevisiae. The present analysis demonstrates the significance of the autoregulatory feedbacks due to KlGal4p, KlGal80p, KlGal1p and Lac12p on the dynamic performance of the KlGAL switch. The model predicts the experimentally observed absence of bistability in the wild type strain of K. lactis, unlike the short term memory of preculturing conditions observed in S. cerevisiae. The performance of the GAL switch is distinct for the two yeast species although they share similarities in the molecular components. The analysis suggests that the whole genome duplication of S. cerevisiae, which resulted in a dedicated inducer protein, Gal3p, may be responsible for the high sensitivity of the system to galactose concentrations. On the other hand, K. lactis uses a bifunctional protein as an inducer in addition to its galactokinase activity, which restricts its regulatory role and hence higher galactose levels in the medium are needed to trigger the GAL system. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s11693-011-9082-7) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Venkat Reddy Pannala
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Powai, Mumbai, 400076 India
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Partow S, Siewers V, Bjørn S, Nielsen J, Maury J. Characterization of different promoters for designing a new expression vector in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Yeast 2010; 27:955-64. [DOI: 10.1002/yea.1806] [Citation(s) in RCA: 237] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Eswaran N, Parameswaran S, Sathram B, Anantharaman B, Kumar G RK, Tangirala SJ. Yeast functional screen to identify genetic determinants capable of conferring abiotic stress tolerance in Jatropha curcas. BMC Biotechnol 2010; 10:23. [PMID: 20302659 PMCID: PMC2851662 DOI: 10.1186/1472-6750-10-23] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2009] [Accepted: 03/20/2010] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Environmentally inflicted stresses such as salinity and drought limit the plant productivity both in natural and agricultural system. Increasing emphasis has been directed to molecular breeding strategies to enhance the intrinsic ability of plant to survive stress conditions. Functional screens in microorganisms with heterologous genes are a rapid, effective and powerful tool to identify stress tolerant genes in plants. Jatropha curcas (Physic nut) has been identified as a potential source of biodiesel plant. In order to improve its productivity under stress conditions to benefit commercial plantations, we initiated prospecting of novel genes expressed during stress in J. curcas that can be utilized to enhance stress tolerance ability of plant. RESULTS To identify genes expressed during salt tolerance, cDNA expression libraries were constructed from salt-stressed roots of J. curcas, regulated under the control of the yeast GAL1 system. Using a replica based screening, twenty thousand yeast transformants were screened to identify transformants expressing heterologous gene sequences from J. curcas with enhanced ability to tolerate stress. From the screen we obtained 32 full length genes from J. curcas [GenBank accession numbers FJ489601-FJ489611, FJ619041-FJ619057 and FJ623457-FJ623460] that can confer abiotic stress tolerance. As a part of this screen, we optimized conditions for salt stress in J. curcas, defined parameters for salt stress in yeast, as well as isolated three salt hypersensitive yeast strains shs-2, shs-6 and shs-8 generated through a process of random mutagenesis, and exhibited growth retardation beyond 750 mM NaCl. Further, we demonstrated complementation of the salt sensitive phenotypes in the shs mutants, and analyzed the expression patterns for selected J. curcas genes obtained from the screen in both leaf and root tissues after salt stress treatments. CONCLUSIONS The approach described in this report provides a rapid and universal assay system for large scale screening of genes for varied abiotic stress tolerance within a short span of time. Using this screening strategy we could isolate both genes with previously known function in stress tolerance as well as novel sequences with yet unknown function in salt stress tolerance from J. curcas. The isolated genes could be over-expressed using plant expression system to generate and evaluate transgenic plants for stress tolerance as well as be used as markers for breeding salt stress tolerance in plants.
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- Nalini Eswaran
- Plant Metabolic Engineering Group, Reliance Life Sciences Pvt Ltd, Dhirubhai Ambani Life Sciences Center, R-282, Thane- Belapur Road, Rabale, Navi Mumbai- 400 701, India
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- Plant Metabolic Engineering Group, Reliance Life Sciences Pvt Ltd, Dhirubhai Ambani Life Sciences Center, R-282, Thane- Belapur Road, Rabale, Navi Mumbai- 400 701, India
- DuPont Knowledge Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapalli, Shamirpet, Hyderabad 500 078, India
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- Plant Metabolic Engineering Group, Reliance Life Sciences Pvt Ltd, Dhirubhai Ambani Life Sciences Center, R-282, Thane- Belapur Road, Rabale, Navi Mumbai- 400 701, India
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- Plant Metabolic Engineering Group, Reliance Life Sciences Pvt Ltd, Dhirubhai Ambani Life Sciences Center, R-282, Thane- Belapur Road, Rabale, Navi Mumbai- 400 701, India
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- Plant Metabolic Engineering Group, Reliance Life Sciences Pvt Ltd, Dhirubhai Ambani Life Sciences Center, R-282, Thane- Belapur Road, Rabale, Navi Mumbai- 400 701, India
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- Plant Metabolic Engineering Group, Reliance Life Sciences Pvt Ltd, Dhirubhai Ambani Life Sciences Center, R-282, Thane- Belapur Road, Rabale, Navi Mumbai- 400 701, India
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Arnett DR, Lorimer HE, Asch DK. Catabolite repression directly affects transcription of the qa-y gene of Neurospora crassa. Fungal Genet Biol 2009; 46:377-80. [DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2009.02.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2008] [Revised: 02/10/2009] [Accepted: 02/11/2009] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Silverman GA. Building larger YACs by recombination. CURRENT PROTOCOLS IN HUMAN GENETICS 2008; Chapter 5:Unit 5.13. [PMID: 18428287 DOI: 10.1002/0471142905.hg0513s05] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Despite the relatively large cloning capacity of YACs, many genomic regions or individual genes are not cloned intact, but are represented as a collection of overlapping clones or contigs. Fortunately, the relatively high frequency and fidelity of homologous recombination in Saccharomyces cerevisiae can be used to reconstruct intact genes within a single clone by splicing together overlapping DNA segments. This unit describes two protocols for carrying out such homologous recombination; one relies on the meiotic phase of the yeast cycle, while the other utilizes the mitotic phase of the yeast life cycle. Despite the relatively large cloning capacity of YACs, many genomic regions or individual genes are not cloned intact.
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- G A Silverman
- Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Sadowski I, Su TC, Parent J. Disintegrator vectors for single-copy yeast chromosomal integration. Yeast 2007; 24:447-55. [PMID: 17315265 DOI: 10.1002/yea.1469] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Vectors were developed for two-step chromosomal integration of reporter genes or expression constructs. With these vectors, integration produces a disruption of the ADE8, LYS2, MET15, LEU2, HIS3 or FCY1 genes, and integrants can be easily identified by replica-plating on selective media. Integration using these 'disintegrator' vectors produces a single-copy integration of the construct of interest at the junction of the marker deletion, and removes the additional plasmid sequences. Importantly, the integrated constructs do not contain flanking sequence duplications, and therefore should be highly stable. Each of the vectors was shown to reliably integrate a TEF1-KAN expression cassette and/or GAL1-HIS3 and STE12-LacZ reporter genes.
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- Ivan Sadowski
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Molecular Epigenetics, Life Sciences Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
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Okada K, Ravi H, Smith EM, Goode BL. Aip1 and cofilin promote rapid turnover of yeast actin patches and cables: a coordinated mechanism for severing and capping filaments. Mol Biol Cell 2006; 17:2855-68. [PMID: 16611742 PMCID: PMC1483024 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e06-02-0135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Rapid turnover of actin structures is required for dynamic remodeling of the cytoskeleton and cell morphogenesis, but the mechanisms driving actin disassembly are poorly defined. Cofilin plays a central role in promoting actin turnover by severing/depolymerizing filaments. Here, we analyze the in vivo function of a ubiquitous actin-interacting protein, Aip1, suggested to work with cofilin. We provide the first demonstration that Aip1 promotes actin turnover in living cells. Further, we reveal an unanticipated role for Aip1 and cofilin in promoting rapid turnover of yeast actin cables, dynamic structures that are decorated and stabilized by tropomyosin. Through systematic mutagenesis of Aip1 surfaces, we identify two well-separated F-actin-binding sites, one of which contributes to actin filament binding and disassembly specifically in the presence of cofilin. We also observe a close correlation between mutations disrupting capping of severed filaments in vitro and reducing rates of actin turnover in vivo. We propose a model for balanced regulation of actin cable turnover, in which Aip1 and cofilin function together to "prune" tropomyosin-decorated cables along their lengths. Consistent with this model, deletion of AIP1 rescues the temperature-sensitive growth and loss of actin cable defects of tpm1Delta mutants.
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- Kyoko Okada
- Department of Biology and Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454
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- Department of Biology and Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454
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- Department of Biology and Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454
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- Department of Biology and Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454
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Eck R, Nguyen M, Günther J, Künkel W, Zipfel PF. The phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase Vps34p of the human pathogenic yeast Candida albicans is a multifunctional protein that interacts with the putative vacuolar H+ -ATPase subunit Vma7p. Int J Med Microbiol 2005; 295:57-66. [PMID: 15861817 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmm.2004.12.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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The phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase Vps34p of Candida albicans participates in protein transport and in virulence. In order to characterize the functional link between these two activities we searched for proteins interacting with C. albicans Vps34p and demonstrate physical interaction of Vps34p with the subunit of the vacuolar H+ -ATPase Vma7p. The interaction initially observed in a yeast two-hybrid system was confirmed in vitro with recombinant proteins. Functional assays show that the Vps34p protein is necessary for vacuolar acidification and growth at alkaline pH. In addition, the vps34 null mutant of C. albicans shows defective autophagocytosis. The relevance of these functions for virulence of C. albicans is discussed.
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- Raimund Eck
- Department of Infection Biology, Hans-Knöll-Institute for Natural Products Research, Beutenbergstrasse 11, D-07745 Jena, Germany.
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Hernandez JM, Heine GF, Irani NG, Feller A, Kim MG, Matulnik T, Chandler VL, Grotewold E. Different mechanisms participate in the R-dependent activity of the R2R3 MYB transcription factor C1. J Biol Chem 2004; 279:48205-13. [PMID: 15347654 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m407845200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The R2R3 MYB transcription factor C1 requires the basic helix-loop-helix factor R as an essential co-activator for the transcription of maize anthocyanin genes. In contrast, the R2R3 MYB protein P1 activates a subset of the C1-regulated genes independently of R. Substitution of six amino acids in P1 with the C1 amino acids results in P1(*), whose activity on C1-regulated and P1-regulated genes is R-dependent or R-enhanced, respectively. We have used P1(*) in combination with various promoters to uncover two mechanisms for R function. On synthetic promoters that contain only C1/P1 binding sites, R is an essential co-activator of C1. This function of R is unlikely to simply be the result of an increase in the C1 DNA-binding affinity, since transcriptional activity of a C1 mutant that binds DNA at a higher affinity, comparable with P1, remains R-dependent. The differential transcriptional activity of C1 fusions with the yeast Gal4 DNA-binding domain in yeast and maize cells suggests that part of the function of R is to relieve C1 from a plant-specific inhibitor. A second function of R requires cis-regulatory elements in addition to the C1/P1 DNA-binding sites for R-enhanced transcription of a1. We hypothesize that R functions in this mode by binding or recruiting additional factors to the anthocyanin regulatory element conserved in the promoters of several anthocyanin genes. Together, these findings suggest a model in which combinatorial interactions with co-activators enable R2R3 MYB factors with very similar DNA binding preferences to discriminate between target genes in vivo.
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- J Marcela Hernandez
- Ohio State Biochemistry Program, Department of Plant Cellular and Molecular Biology, and Plant Biotechnology Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
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Oliveira MA, Genu V, Salmazo AP, Carraro DM, Pereira GA. The transcription factor Snf1p is involved in a Tup1p-independent manner in the glucose regulation of the major methanol metabolism genes of Hansenula polymorpha. Genet Mol Biol 2003. [DOI: 10.1590/s1415-47572003000400017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Vanoosthuyse V, Tichtinsky G, Dumas C, Gaude T, Cock JM. Interaction of calmodulin, a sorting nexin and kinase-associated protein phosphatase with the Brassica oleracea S locus receptor kinase. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2003; 133:919-29. [PMID: 14555783 PMCID: PMC219065 DOI: 10.1104/pp.103.023846] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2003] [Revised: 04/15/2003] [Accepted: 06/23/2003] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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Recognition of self-pollen during the self-incompatibility response in Brassica oleracea is mediated by the binding of a secreted peptide (the S locus cysteine-rich protein) to the S locus receptor kinase (SRK), a member of the plant receptor kinase (PRK) superfamily. Here, we describe the characterization of three proteins that interact with the cytosolic kinase domain of SRK. A B. oleracea homolog of Arabidopsis kinase-associated protein phosphatase was shown to interact with and dephosphorylate SRK and was itself phosphorylated by SRK. Yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) two-hybrid screens identified two additional interactors, calmodulin and a sorting nexin, both of which have been implicated in receptor kinase down-regulation in animals. A calmodulin-binding site was identified in sub-domain VIa of the SRK kinase domain. The binding site is conserved and functional in several other members of the PRK family. The sorting nexin also interacted with diverse members of the PRK family, suggesting that all three of the interacting proteins described here may play a general role in signal transduction by this family of proteins.
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- Vincent Vanoosthuyse
- Reproduction et Développement des Plantes, Unité Mixte de Recherche 5667, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Université Claude Bernard Lyon, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 46 Allée d'Italie, 69364 Lyon cedex 07, France
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Leskov KS, Klokov DY, Li J, Kinsella TJ, Boothman DA. Synthesis and functional analyses of nuclear clusterin, a cell death protein. J Biol Chem 2003; 278:11590-600. [PMID: 12551933 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m209233200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 304] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Nuclear clusterin (nCLU) is an ionizing radiation (IR)-inducible protein that binds Ku70, and triggers apoptosis when overexpressed in MCF-7 cells. We demonstrate that endogenous nCLU synthesis is a product of alternative splicing. Reverse transcriptase-PCR analyses revealed that exon II, containing the first AUG and encoding the endoplasmic reticulum-targeting peptide, was omitted. Exons I and III are spliced together placing a downstream AUG in exon III as the first available translation start site. This shorter mRNA produces the 49-kDa precursor nCLU protein. Ku70 binding activity was localized to the C-terminal coiled-coil domain of nCLU. Leucine residues 357, 358, and 361 of nCLU were necessary for Ku70-nCLU interaction. The N- and C-terminal coiled-coil domains of nCLU interacted with each other, suggesting that the protein could dimerize or fold. Mutation analyses indicate that the C-terminal NLS was functional in nCLU with the same contribution from N-terminal NLS. The C-terminal coiled-coil domain of nCLU was the minimal region required for Ku binding and apoptosis. MCF-7 cells show nuclear as well as cytoplasmic expression of GFP-nCLU in apoptotic cells. Cytosolic aggregation of GFP-nCLU was found in viable cells. These results indicate that an inactive precursor of nCLU exists in the cytoplasm of non-irradiated MCF-7 cells, translocates into the nucleus following IR, and induces apoptosis.
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- Konstantin S Leskov
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Laboratory of Molecular Stress Responses, Ireland Comprehensive Cancer Center and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio 44106-4942, USA
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Carmona TA, Jiménez A, Fernández Lobato M. Analysis of the Schwanniomyces occidentalis SWA2 gene promoter in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2002; 207:69-73. [PMID: 11886753 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2002.tb11030.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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The effect of different carbon sources on the expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae of the SWA2 alpha-amylase gene from Schwanniomyces occidentalis was studied from constructs containing its 5' region (-223 to +15), which were fused in-frame to the lacZ gene coding sequence. Maximal expression was achieved with the non-fermentable substrates ethanol and/or glycerol, whereas lower levels were found with maltose or galactose. In contrast, glucose repressed it, even in the presence of any of these other carbon sources. Deletion analyses of the -233 to -85 SWA2 promoter region permitted the identification of two fragments involved in both glucose repression and ethanol activation. A possible region required for cAMP regulation was localised. The SWA2 promoter contains a MIG1-binding GC box whose deletion caused a five-fold increase in the glucose-repressed reporter expression. Despite this, expression of the SWA2 promoter was not MIG1-dependent.
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- T A Carmona
- Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa, Departamento de Biología Molecular (CSIC-UAM), Universidad Autónoma Madrid, Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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Yanagisawa S. The transcriptional activation domain of the plant-specific Dof1 factor functions in plant, animal, and yeast cells. PLANT & CELL PHYSIOLOGY 2001; 42:813-22. [PMID: 11522906 DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pce105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Maize Dof1, one of the plant-specific Dof transcription factors, is involved in light-regulated gene expression. To elucidate the molecular mechanism underlying the activity of Dof1, in vivo functional analyses were carried out using transient expression assays with maize mesophyll protoplasts. The results suggest that the Dof domain alone, the region conserved among Dof factors, can mediate interaction with DNA in vivo and distinct Dof1 activities in greening and etiolated protoplasts. A region rich in basic amino acids was identified as a nuclear localization signal. Deletion analysis defined the transcriptional activation domain of 48 amino acids located in the C-terminus of Dof1. This activation domain was also found to be functional in both human cells and yeast, implying that Dof1 may stimulate transcription through a mechanism evolutionarily conserved among eukaryotes. A computer homology search with known transcription factors revealed that the activation domain of Dof1 displayed only a limited similarity to Activation domain II of animal transcription factor GATA-4. Mutational analysis revealed the critical role of a tryptophan residue within the activation domain of Dof1, as had been shown in Activation domain II of GATA-4.
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- S Yanagisawa
- Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo, 153-8902 Japan
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Johansson M, Brooks AJ, Jans DA, Vasudevan SG. A small region of the dengue virus-encoded RNA-dependent RNA polymerase, NS5, confers interaction with both the nuclear transport receptor importin-beta and the viral helicase, NS3. J Gen Virol 2001; 82:735-745. [PMID: 11257177 DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-82-4-735] [Citation(s) in RCA: 132] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The dengue virus RNA-dependent RNA polymerase, NS5, and the protease/helicase, NS3, are multidomain proteins that have been shown to interact both in vivo and in vitro. A hyperphosphorylated form of NS5 that does not interact with NS3 has been detected in the nuclei of virus-infected cells, presumably as the result of the action of a functional nuclear localization sequence within the interdomain region of NS5 (residues 369-405). In this study, it is shown by using the yeast two-hybrid system that the C-terminal region of NS3 (residues 303-618) interacts with the N-terminal region of NS5 (residues 320-368). Further, it is shown that this same region of NS5 is also recognized by the cellular nuclear import receptor importin-beta. The interaction between NS5 and importin-beta and competition by NS3 with the latter for the same binding site on NS5 were confirmed by pull-down assays. The direct interaction of importin-beta with NS5 has implications for the mechanism by which this normally cytoplasmic protein may be targetted to the nucleus.
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- Magnus Johansson
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia1
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia1
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- Nuclear Signalling Laboratory, Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, John Curtin School of Medical Research, Canberra, Australia2
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia1
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Horecka J, Sprague GF. Use of imidazoleglycerolphosphate dehydratase (His3) as a biological reporter in yeast. Methods Enzymol 2001; 326:107-19. [PMID: 11036637 DOI: 10.1016/s0076-6879(00)26049-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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- J Horecka
- Department of Molecular Biology, NIBH, Ibaraki, Japan
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Yamaguchi M, Fabian T, Sauter M, Bhalerao RP, Schrader J, Sandberg G, Umeda M, Uchimiya H. Activation of CDK-activating kinase is dependent on interaction with H-type cyclins in plants. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2000; 24:11-20. [PMID: 11029700 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313x.2000.00846.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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cDNAs encoding cyclin H homologs were isolated from poplar (Populus tremula X tremuloides) and rice (Oryza sativa) plants, and were designated Pt;cycH;1 and Os;cycH;1, respectively. The deduced amino-acid sequences showed 40-60% similarity to human cyclin H and Schizosaccharomyces pombe Mcs2, with higher similarity in the cyclin box region. While Pt;cycH;1 and Os;cycH;1 were expressed in all tissues examined, the transcripts accumulated abundantly in dividing cells. Expression of Os;cycH;1 was abundant in the S-phase in partially synchronized suspension cells, and was induced by submergence in internodes of deepwater rice. A yeast two-hybrid assay demonstrated that both Pt;CycH;1 and Os;CycH;1 were able to interact with rice R2 kinase, which is structurally and functionally similar to cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK)-activating kinase (CAK) of vertebrates. Moreover, an in vitro pull-down assay showed that Os;CycH;1 specifically bound to R2 but not to other rice CDKs. When R2 was expressed in budding yeast CAK mutant, the suppression activity in terms of temperature-sensitivity was enhanced by co-expression with Os;cycH;1. Furthermore, in vitro kinase assay indicated that the kinase activities of R2 on CDKs and the carboxy-terminal domain (CTD) of the largest subunit of RNA polymerase II were markedly elevated by binding to Os;CycH;1. Our results suggest that cyclin H is a regulatory subunit of CAK, which positively controls CDK- and CTD-kinase activities in plant cells.
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- M Yamaguchi
- Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, The University of Tokyo, Yayoi 1-1-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0032, Japan
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Biggar SR, Crabtree GR. Chemically regulated transcription factors reveal the persistence of repressor-resistant transcription after disrupting activator function. J Biol Chem 2000; 275:25381-90. [PMID: 10801867 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m002991200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Control of gene expression often requires that transcription terminates rapidly after destruction, inactivation, or nuclear export of transcription factors. However, the role of transcription factor inactivation in terminating transcription is unclear. We have developed a means of conducting order of addition and co-occupancy experiments in living cells by rapidly exchanging proteins bound to promoters. Using this approach, we found that, following specific disruption of activator function, transcription from active promoters decayed slowly, persisting through multiple cell divisions. This persistent transcriptional activity raised the question of what mechanisms return promoters to inactive states. By exchanging or directing co-occupancy of protein complexes bound to a promoter, we found that the transcriptional inhibitor, Ssn6-Tup1, lost its effectiveness as a repressor following activator dissociation. Similar experiments with another repressor, the histone deacetylase Sin3-Rpd3, reinforced this distinction between repression in the presence and absence of an activator. These results suggest that although repressors such as Ssn6-Tup1 and Sin3-Rpd3 prevent activation of gene expression, other mechanisms of repression return promoters to inactive states following the dissociation or inactivation of a transcriptional activator.
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- S R Biggar
- Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University Medical School, CA 94305, USA
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Jabet C, Sprague ER, VanDemark AP, Wolberger C. Characterization of the N-terminal domain of the yeast transcriptional repressor Tup1. Proposal for an association model of the repressor complex Tup1 x Ssn6. J Biol Chem 2000; 275:9011-8. [PMID: 10722750 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.275.12.9011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The yeast Tup1 and Ssn6 proteins form a transcriptional repression complex that represses transcription of a broad array of genes. It has been shown that the N-terminal domain of the Tup1 protein interacts with a region of the Ssn6 protein that consists of 10 tandem copies of a tetratricopeptide motif. In this work, we use a surface plasmon resonance assay to measure the affinity of the N-terminal domain of Tup1 for a minimal 3-TPR domain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Ssn6 that is sufficient for binding to Tup1. This domain of Ssn6 binds with comparable affinity to S. cerevisiae and Candida albicans Tup1, but with 100-fold lower affinity to Tup1 protein containing a point mutation that gives rise to a defect in repression in vivo. Results from studies using analytical ultracentrifugation, CD spectroscopy, limited proteolysis, and (1)H NMR show that this domain of Tup1 is primarily alpha-helical and forms a stable tetramer that is highly nonglobular in shape. X-ray diffraction recorded from poorly ordered crystals of the Tup1 tetramerization domain contains fiber diffraction typical of a coiled coil. Our results are used to propose a model for the structure of the N-terminal domain of Tup1 and its interaction with the Ssn6 protein.
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- C Jabet
- Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
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Iontcheva I, Oppenheim FG, Offner GD, Troxler RF. Molecular mapping of statherin- and histatin-binding domains in human salivary mucin MG1 (MUC5B) by the yeast two-hybrid system. J Dent Res 2000; 79:732-9. [PMID: 10728974 DOI: 10.1177/00220345000790020601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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MGI is a high-molecular-weight mucin secreted by mucous acinar cells in human submandibular and sublingual glands. We have recently shown that the tracheobronchial mucin MUC5B is a major component of MG1. MUC5B is organized into cysteine-rich N- and C-terminal regions that flank a central tandem-repeat region containing cysteine-rich subdomains and imperfect 29-residue tandem repeats. In earlier work, we have shown that this mucin selectively forms heterotypic complexes with amylase, proline-rich proteins, statherin, and histatins in salivary secretions, and the aim of this study was to identify specific binding domains within MUC5B using the yeast two-hybrid system. Interactions of cysteine-rich domains in the tandem-repeat region (Cys1-Cys4) and C-terminal region (Cys8a, Cys8b, Cys8c) of MUC5B with statherin and histatins were investigated. These studies indicated that histatin 1 selectively bound to Cysl and Cys2, whereas statherin and histatin 1, 3, and 5 selectively bound to Cys8a. Analysis of the primary sequences of the identified binding domains suggests that these domains most probably can fold into globular-like structures in the native mucin. A ProDom blast search revealed that sequences in Cys1, Cys2, and Cys8a exhibit similarity to domains in evolutionarily diverse extracellular proteins known to participate in a wide variety of protein-protein interactions.
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- I Iontcheva
- Department of Biochemistry, Boston University School of Medicine, MA 02118, USA
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The two-hybrid system has proved to be a facile method for detecting and analyzing protein-protein interactions. An expanded application of this system, protein linkage mapping, provides a means of identifying interactions on a global scale and should prove a powerful tool in analyzing whole genomes as their sequences become available. To overcome some of the inherent difficulties in such a large-scale approach, we have constructed a set of new strains and vectors that will allow for more efficient screening. The strains contain a GAL1-URA3 reporter for positive and negative selection, as well as a UAS(G)-lacZ reporter. The strains are of opposite mating types, permitting libraries present in one strain to be easily screened against a second library in the companion strain. We also constructed a family of CEN-based vectors for expression of both Gal4 DNA-binding and activation domain fusions. These plasmids include a hemagglutinin epitope tag and different polylinkers to increase the ease of subcloning. CEN-based vectors are maintained at 1-2 copies per cell, limiting the number of individual cells containing multiple plasmids that can confuse further analyses, and ensuring that fusions are not expressed at toxic levels. Using these vectors, both homo- and heterodimeric interactions resulted in up to 10-fold higher reporter gene transcription than obtained with 2micro;-based plasmids, despite significantly lower protein levels. In addition to protein linkage mapping, these reagents should be generally useful in standard two-hybrid applications.
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- T Durfee
- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
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Kartasheva NN, Kuchin SV, Benevolensky SV. Genetic aspects of carbon catabolite repression of the STA2 glucoamylase gene in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Yeast 1998. [DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0061(199610)12:13<1297::aid-yea13>3.0.co;2-u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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A major mediator of glucose repression in yeast is Mig1, a zinc finger protein that binds to a GC-rich recognition sequence found upstream of many glucose-repressible genes. Because these Mig1 sites are found upstream of genes under different modes of regulation, we studied regulation of transcription mediated by an isolated Mig1 site placed upstream of a reporter gene under control of UAS(CYC1). The Mig1 site responded appropriately to glucose control and regulatory mutations, including snf1, reg1, cyc8, and tup1, mimicking the behavior of the SUC2 gene. Deletion of the MIG1-coding gene reduced but did not eliminate glucose repression mediated by the Mig1 site. Complete loss of repression was seen in a mig1 mig2 double mutant. When the UAS(CYC1) was replaced by UAS(ADH1) in the reporter plasmid, the Mig1 site activated transcription under most conditions. Mutations of the two Mig1 binding sites in the SUC2 promoter resulted in loss of activation of SUC2 expression. These results suggest the presence of an unknown activator or activators that binds to the Mig1 site. The activator is not any of the proteins previously proposed to bind to this site, including Mig1, Mig2, Msn2, or Msn4. Band shift assays showed that Mig1 is the major protein in yeast cell extracts that binds to the Mig1 site in vitro. This binding is not regulated by glucose or mutations in CYC8 or TUP1.
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- J Wu
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical College of Ohio, Toledo 43699-0008, USA
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Haluska P, Saleem A, Edwards TK, Rubin EH. Interaction between the N-terminus of human topoisomerase I and SV40 large T antigen. Nucleic Acids Res 1998; 26:1841-7. [PMID: 9512561 PMCID: PMC147454 DOI: 10.1093/nar/26.7.1841] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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We have attempted to identify human topoisomerase I-binding proteins in order to gain information regarding the cellular roles of this protein and the cytotoxic mechanisms of the anticancer drug camptothecin, which specifically targets topoisomerase I. In the course of this work we identified an interaction between the N-terminus of human topoisomerase I and the SV40 T antigen that is detectable in vitro using both affinity chromatography and co-immunoprecipitation. Additional results indicate that this interaction does not require intermediary DNA or stoichiometric quantities of other proteins. Furthermore, the interaction is detectable in vivo using a yeast two-hybrid assay. Two binding sites for T antigen are apparent on the topoisomerase I protein: one consisting of amino acids 1-139, the other present in the 383-765 region of the protein. Interestingly, nucleolin, which binds the 166-210 region of topoisomerase I, is able to bind an N-terminal fragment of topoisomerase I concurrently with T antigen. Taken together with our prior identification of nucleolin as a topoisomerase I-binding protein, the current results suggest that helicase-binding is a major role of the N-terminus of human topoisomerase I and that the resultant helicase-topoisomerase complex may function as a eukaryotic gyrase.
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MESH Headings
- Antigens, Polyomavirus Transforming/chemistry
- Antigens, Polyomavirus Transforming/isolation & purification
- Antigens, Polyomavirus Transforming/metabolism
- Binding Sites
- Chromatography, Affinity
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA/biosynthesis
- DNA/chemistry
- DNA Helicases/chemistry
- DNA Helicases/metabolism
- DNA Replication
- DNA Topoisomerases, Type I/chemistry
- DNA Topoisomerases, Type I/isolation & purification
- DNA Topoisomerases, Type I/metabolism
- DNA-Directed DNA Polymerase/chemistry
- DNA-Directed DNA Polymerase/metabolism
- Genes, Reporter
- Humans
- Models, Genetic
- Models, Molecular
- Nucleic Acid Conformation
- Protein Conformation
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/chemistry
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/metabolism
- Simian virus 40/metabolism
- beta-Galactosidase/biosynthesis
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- P Haluska
- Department of Pharmacology, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and the Cancer Institute of New Jersey, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
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Flick JS, Thorner J. An essential function of a phosphoinositide-specific phospholipase C is relieved by inhibition of a cyclin-dependent protein kinase in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Genetics 1998; 148:33-47. [PMID: 9475719 PMCID: PMC1459775 DOI: 10.1093/genetics/148.1.33] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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The PLC1 gene product of Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a homolog of the delta isoform of mammalian phosphoinositide-specific phospholipase C (PI-PLC). We found that two genes (SPL1 and SPL2), when overexpressed, can bypass the temperature-sensitive growth defect of a plc1delta cell. SPL1 is identical to the PHO81 gene, which encodes an inhibitor of a cyclin (Pho80p)-dependent protein kinase (Pho85p) complex (Cdk). In addition to overproduction of Pho81p, two other conditions that inactivate this Cdk, a cyclin (pho80delta) mutation and growth on low-phosphate medium, also permitted growth of plc1delta cells at the restrictive temperature. Suppression of the temperature sensitivity of plc1delta cells by pho80delta does not depend upon the Pho4p transcriptional regulator, the only known substrate of the Pho80p/Pho85p Cdk. The second suppressor, SPL2, encodes a small (17-kD) protein that bears similarity to the ankyrin repeat regions present in Pho81p and in other known Cdk inhibitors. Both pho81delta and spl2delta show a synthetic phenotype in combination with plc1delta. Unlike single mutants, plc1delta pho81delta and plc1delta spl2delta double mutants were unable to grow on synthetic complete medium, but were able to grow on rich medium.
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- J S Flick
- Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee 37232-0146, USA.
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