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de Mello FDSB, Maneira C, Suarez FUL, Nagamatsu S, Vargas B, Vieira C, Secches T, Coradini ALV, Silvello MADC, Goldbeck R, Pereira GAG, Teixeira GS. Rational engineering of industrial S. cerevisiae: towards xylitol production from sugarcane straw. J Genet Eng Biotechnol 2022; 20:80. [PMID: 35612634 PMCID: PMC9133290 DOI: 10.1186/s43141-022-00359-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2021] [Accepted: 05/02/2022] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Background Sugarcane hemicellulosic material is a compelling source of usually neglected xylose that could figure as feedstock to produce chemical building blocks of high economic value, such as xylitol. In this context, Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains typically used in the Brazilian bioethanol industry are a robust chassis for genetic engineering, given their robustness towards harsh operational conditions and outstanding fermentation performance. Nevertheless, there are no reports on the use of these strains for xylitol production using sugarcane hydrolysate. Results Potential single-guided RNA off-targets were analyzed in two preeminent industrial strains (PE-2 and SA-1), providing a database of 5′-NGG 20 nucleotide sequences and guidelines for the fast and cost-effective CRISPR editing of such strains. After genomic integration of a NADPH-preferring xylose reductase (XR), FMYX (SA-1 hoΔ::xyl1) and CENPKX (CEN.PK-122 hoΔ::xyl1) were tested in varying cultivation conditions for xylitol productivity to infer influence of the genetic background. Near-theoretical yields were achieved for all strains; however, the industrial consistently outperformed the laboratory strain. Batch fermentation of raw sugarcane straw hydrolysate with remaining solid particles represented a challenge for xylose metabolization, and 3.65 ± 0.16 g/L xylitol titer was achieved by FMYX. Finally, quantification of NADPH — cofactor implied in XR activity — revealed that FMYX has 33% more available cofactors than CENPKX. Conclusions Although widely used in several S. cerevisiae strains, this is the first report of CRISPR-Cas9 editing major yeast of the Brazilian bioethanol industry. Fermentative assays of xylose consumption revealed that NADPH availability is closely related to mutant strains’ performance. We also pioneer the use of sugarcane straw as a substrate for xylitol production. Finally, we demonstrate how industrial background SA-1 is a compelling chassis for the second-generation industry, given its inhibitor tolerance and better redox environment that may favor production of reduced sugars. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s43141-022-00359-8.
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution, Microbiology, and Immunology, Institute of Biology, University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution, Microbiology, and Immunology, Institute of Biology, University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.,School of Basic Sciences, University of Pamplona, Pamplona, Colombia
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution, Microbiology, and Immunology, Institute of Biology, University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution, Microbiology, and Immunology, Institute of Biology, University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution, Microbiology, and Immunology, Institute of Biology, University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution, Microbiology, and Immunology, Institute of Biology, University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution, Microbiology, and Immunology, Institute of Biology, University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
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- School of Food Engineering, University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution, Microbiology, and Immunology, Institute of Biology, University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution, Microbiology, and Immunology, Institute of Biology, University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.,School of Food Engineering, University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
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Coughlan AY, Lombardi L, Braun-Galleani S, Martos AA, Galeote V, Bigey F, Dequin S, Byrne KP, Wolfe KH. The yeast mating-type switching endonuclease HO is a domesticated member of an unorthodox homing genetic element family. eLife 2020; 9:55336. [PMID: 32338594 PMCID: PMC7282813 DOI: 10.7554/elife.55336] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2020] [Accepted: 04/24/2020] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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The mating-type switching endonuclease HO plays a central role in the natural life cycle of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, but its evolutionary origin is unknown. HO is a recent addition to yeast genomes, present in only a few genera close to Saccharomyces. Here we show that HO is structurally and phylogenetically related to a family of unorthodox homing genetic elements found in Torulaspora and Lachancea yeasts. These WHO elements home into the aldolase gene FBA1, replacing its 3' end each time they integrate. They resemble inteins but they operate by a different mechanism that does not require protein splicing. We show that a WHO protein cleaves Torulaspora delbrueckii FBA1 efficiently and in an allele-specific manner, leading to DNA repair by gene conversion or NHEJ. The DNA rearrangement steps during WHO element homing are very similar to those during mating-type switching, and indicate that HO is a domesticated WHO-like element. In the same way as a sperm from a male and an egg from a female join together to form an embryo in most animals, yeast cells have two sexes that coordinate how they reproduce. These are called “mating types” and, rather than male or female, an individual yeast cell can either be mating type “a” or “alpha”. Every yeast cell contains the genes for both mating types, and each cell’s mating type is determined by which of those genes it has active. Only one mating type gene can be ‘on’ at a time, but some yeast species can swap mating type on demand by switching the corresponding genes ‘on’ or ‘off’. This switch is unusual. Rather than simply activate one of the genes it already has, the yeast cell keeps an inactive version of each mating type gene tucked away, makes a copy of the gene it wants to be active and pastes that copy into a different location in its genome. To do all of this yeast need another gene called HO. This gene codes for an enzyme that cuts the DNA at the location of the active mating type gene. This makes an opening that allows the cell to replace the ‘a’ gene with the ‘alpha’ gene, or vice versa. This system allows yeast cells to continue mating even if all the cells in a colony start off as the same mating type. But, cutting into the DNA is risky, and can damage the health of the cell. So, why did yeast cells evolve a system that could cause them harm? To find out where the HO gene came from, Coughlan et al. searched through all the available genomes from yeast species for other genes with similar sequences and identified a cluster which they nicknamed “weird HO” genes, or WHO genes for short. Testing these genes revealed that they also code for enzymes that make cuts in the yeast genome, but the way the cell repairs the cuts is different. The WHO genes are jumping genes. When the enzyme encoded by a WHO gene makes a cut in the genome, the yeast cell copies the gene into the gap, allowing the gene to ‘jump’ from one part of the genome to another. It is possible that this was the starting point for the evolution of the HO gene. Changes to a WHO gene could have allowed it to cut into the mating type region of the yeast genome, giving the yeast an opportunity to ‘domesticate’ it. Over time, the yeast cell stopped the WHO gene from jumping into the gap and started using the cut to change its mating type. Understanding how cells adapt genes for different purposes is a key question in evolutionary biology. There are many other examples of domesticated jumping genes in other organisms, including in the human immune system. Understanding the evolution of HO not only sheds light on how yeast mating type switching evolved, but on how other species might harness and adapt their genes.
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- Aisling Y Coughlan
- UCD Conway Institute and School of Medicine, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- UCD Conway Institute and School of Medicine, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- UCD Conway Institute and School of Medicine, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- SPO, INRAE, Université Montpellier, Montpellier SupAgro, Montpellier, France
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- SPO, INRAE, Université Montpellier, Montpellier SupAgro, Montpellier, France
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- SPO, INRAE, Université Montpellier, Montpellier SupAgro, Montpellier, France
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- UCD Conway Institute and School of Medicine, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- UCD Conway Institute and School of Medicine, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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Derrer CP, Mancini R, Vallotton P, Huet S, Weis K, Dultz E. The RNA export factor Mex67 functions as a mobile nucleoporin. J Cell Biol 2019; 218:3967-3976. [PMID: 31753862 PMCID: PMC6891080 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201909028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2019] [Revised: 11/01/2019] [Accepted: 11/04/2019] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Derrer et al. show that the mRNA export factor Mex67 can perform its essential function when stably tethered to the nuclear pore complex. The RNA export factor Mex67 is essential for the transport of mRNA through the nuclear pore complex (NPC) in yeast, but the molecular mechanism of this export process remains poorly understood. Here, we use quantitative fluorescence microscopy techniques in live budding yeast cells to investigate how Mex67 facilitates mRNA export. We show that Mex67 exhibits little interaction with mRNA in the nucleus and localizes to the NPC independently of mRNA, occupying a set of binding sites offered by FG repeats in the NPC. The ATPase Dbp5, which is thought to remove Mex67 from transcripts, does not affect the interaction of Mex67 with the NPC. Strikingly, we find that the essential function of Mex67 is spatially restricted to the NPC since a fusion of Mex67 to the nucleoporin Nup116 rescues a deletion of MEX67. Thus, Mex67 functions as a mobile NPC component, which receives mRNA export substrates in the central channel of the NPC to facilitate their translocation to the cytoplasm.
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- Université de Rennes, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut de génétique et développement de Rennes - UMR 6290, Rennes, France
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- Institute of Biochemistry, ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Biochemistry, ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Xie ZX, Mitchell LA, Liu HM, Li BZ, Liu D, Agmon N, Wu Y, Li X, Zhou X, Li B, Xiao WH, Ding MZ, Wang Y, Yuan YJ, Boeke JD. Rapid and Efficient CRISPR/Cas9-Based Mating-Type Switching of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. G3 (BETHESDA, MD.) 2018; 8:173-183. [PMID: 29150593 PMCID: PMC5765346 DOI: 10.1534/g3.117.300347] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2017] [Accepted: 11/06/2017] [Indexed: 12/02/2022]
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Rapid and highly efficient mating-type switching of Saccharomyces cerevisiae enables a wide variety of genetic manipulations, such as the construction of strains, for instance, isogenic haploid pairs of both mating-types, diploids and polyploids. We used the CRISPR/Cas9 system to generate a double-strand break at the MAT locus and, in a single cotransformation, both haploid and diploid cells were switched to the specified mating-type at ∼80% efficiency. The mating-type of strains carrying either rod or ring chromosome III were switched, including those lacking HMLα and HMR a cryptic mating loci. Furthermore, we transplanted the synthetic yeast chromosome V to build a haploid polysynthetic chromosome strain by using this method together with an endoreduplication intercross strategy. The CRISPR/Cas9 mating-type switching method will be useful in building the complete synthetic yeast (Sc2.0) genome. Importantly, it is a generally useful method to build polyploids of a defined genotype and generally expedites strain construction, for example, in the construction of fully a/a/α/α isogenic tetraploids.
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MESH Headings
- CRISPR-Cas Systems
- Cell Engineering/methods
- Chromosomes, Artificial/chemistry
- DNA Breaks, Double-Stranded
- DNA, Fungal/genetics
- DNA, Fungal/metabolism
- Gene Editing/methods
- Genes, Mating Type, Fungal
- Genetic Loci
- Genome, Fungal
- Plasmids/chemistry
- Plasmids/metabolism
- Ploidies
- RNA, Guide, CRISPR-Cas Systems/genetics
- RNA, Guide, CRISPR-Cas Systems/metabolism
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae/genetics
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae/metabolism
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- Ze-Xiong Xie
- Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, 300072, China
- SynBio Research Platform, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin), Tianjin University, 300072, China
- Institute for Systems Genetics, NYU Langone Health, New York 10016
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology NYU Langone Health, New York 10016
- Institute for Systems Genetics, NYU Langone Health, New York 10016
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- Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, 300072, China
- SynBio Research Platform, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin), Tianjin University, 300072, China
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- Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, 300072, China
- SynBio Research Platform, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin), Tianjin University, 300072, China
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- Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, 300072, China
- SynBio Research Platform, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin), Tianjin University, 300072, China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology NYU Langone Health, New York 10016
- Institute for Systems Genetics, NYU Langone Health, New York 10016
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- Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, 300072, China
- SynBio Research Platform, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin), Tianjin University, 300072, China
- Institute for Systems Genetics, NYU Langone Health, New York 10016
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- Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, 300072, China
- SynBio Research Platform, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin), Tianjin University, 300072, China
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- Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, 300072, China
- SynBio Research Platform, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin), Tianjin University, 300072, China
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- Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, 300072, China
- SynBio Research Platform, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin), Tianjin University, 300072, China
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- Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, 300072, China
- SynBio Research Platform, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin), Tianjin University, 300072, China
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- Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, 300072, China
- SynBio Research Platform, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin), Tianjin University, 300072, China
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- Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, 300072, China
- SynBio Research Platform, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin), Tianjin University, 300072, China
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- Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, 300072, China
- SynBio Research Platform, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin), Tianjin University, 300072, China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology NYU Langone Health, New York 10016
- Institute for Systems Genetics, NYU Langone Health, New York 10016
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Kozak BU, van Rossum HM, Niemeijer MS, van Dijk M, Benjamin K, Wu L, Daran JMG, Pronk JT, van Maris AJA. Replacement of the initial steps of ethanol metabolism in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by ATP-independent acetylating acetaldehyde dehydrogenase. FEMS Yeast Res 2016; 16:fow006. [PMID: 26818854 PMCID: PMC5815134 DOI: 10.1093/femsyr/fow006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2015] [Accepted: 01/25/2016] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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In Saccharomyces cerevisiae ethanol dissimilation is initiated by its oxidation and activation to cytosolic acetyl-CoA. The associated consumption of ATP strongly limits yields of biomass and acetyl-CoA-derived products. Here, we explore the implementation of an ATP-independent pathway for acetyl-CoA synthesis from ethanol that, in theory, enables biomass yield on ethanol that is up to 40% higher. To this end, all native yeast acetaldehyde dehydrogenases (ALDs) were replaced by heterologous acetylating acetaldehyde dehydrogenase (A-ALD). Engineered Ald− strains expressing different A-ALDs did not immediately grow on ethanol, but serial transfer in ethanol-grown batch cultures yielded growth rates of up to 70% of the wild-type value. Mutations in ACS1 were identified in all independently evolved strains and deletion of ACS1 enabled slow growth of non-evolved Ald− A-ALD strains on ethanol. Acquired mutations in A-ALD genes improved affinity—Vmax/Km for acetaldehyde. One of five evolved strains showed a significant 5% increase of its biomass yield in ethanol-limited chemostat cultures. Increased production of acetaldehyde and other by-products was identified as possible cause for lower than theoretically predicted biomass yields. This study proves that the native yeast pathway for conversion of ethanol to acetyl-CoA can be replaced by an engineered pathway with the potential to improve biomass and product yields. This manuscript investigates a metabolic engineering strategy to improve the use of ethanol as a feedstock for production of bio-based fuels and chemicals with yeast.
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- Barbara U Kozak
- Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, Julianalaan 67, 2628 BC Delft, the Netherlands
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- Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, Julianalaan 67, 2628 BC Delft, the Netherlands
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- Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, Julianalaan 67, 2628 BC Delft, the Netherlands
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- Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, Julianalaan 67, 2628 BC Delft, the Netherlands
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- Amyris Inc, 5885 Hollis Street, Ste. 100, Emeryville, CA94608, USA
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- DSM Biotechnology Center, Alexander Fleminglaan 1, 2613 AX Delft, the Netherlands
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- Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, Julianalaan 67, 2628 BC Delft, the Netherlands
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- Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, Julianalaan 67, 2628 BC Delft, the Netherlands
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- Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, Julianalaan 67, 2628 BC Delft, the Netherlands
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Alexander WG, Peris D, Pfannenstiel BT, Opulente DA, Kuang M, Hittinger CT. Efficient engineering of marker-free synthetic allotetraploids of Saccharomyces. Fungal Genet Biol 2015; 89:10-17. [PMID: 26555931 DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2015.11.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2015] [Revised: 11/02/2015] [Accepted: 11/03/2015] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Saccharomyces interspecies hybrids are critical biocatalysts in the fermented beverage industry, including in the production of lager beers, Belgian ales, ciders, and cold-fermented wines. Current methods for making synthetic interspecies hybrids are cumbersome and/or require genome modifications. We have developed a simple, robust, and efficient method for generating allotetraploid strains of prototrophic Saccharomyces without sporulation or nuclear genome manipulation. S. cerevisiae×S. eubayanus, S. cerevisiae×S. kudriavzevii, and S. cerevisiae×S. uvarum designer hybrid strains were created as synthetic lager, Belgian, and cider strains, respectively. The ploidy and hybrid nature of the strains were confirmed using flow cytometry and PCR-RFLP analysis, respectively. This method provides an efficient means for producing novel synthetic hybrids for beverage and biofuel production, as well as for constructing tetraploids to be used for basic research in evolutionary genetics and genome stability.
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- William G Alexander
- Laboratory of Genetics, Genome Center of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Energy Institute, J. F. Crow Institute for the Study of Evolution, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, United States; DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, United States
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- Laboratory of Genetics, Genome Center of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Energy Institute, J. F. Crow Institute for the Study of Evolution, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, United States; DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, United States
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- Laboratory of Genetics, Genome Center of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Energy Institute, J. F. Crow Institute for the Study of Evolution, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, United States
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- Laboratory of Genetics, Genome Center of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Energy Institute, J. F. Crow Institute for the Study of Evolution, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, United States
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- Laboratory of Genetics, Genome Center of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Energy Institute, J. F. Crow Institute for the Study of Evolution, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, United States; Graduate Program in Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, United States
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- Laboratory of Genetics, Genome Center of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Energy Institute, J. F. Crow Institute for the Study of Evolution, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, United States; DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, United States; Graduate Program in Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, United States.
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Solis-Escalante D, van den Broek M, Kuijpers NGA, Pronk JT, Boles E, Daran JM, Daran-Lapujade P. The genome sequence of the popular hexose-transport-deficient Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain EBY.VW4000 reveals LoxP/Cre-induced translocations and gene loss. FEMS Yeast Res 2015; 15:fou004. [PMID: 25673752 DOI: 10.1093/femsyr/fou004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Saccharomyces cerevisiae harbours a large group of tightly controlled hexose transporters with different characteristics. Construction and characterization of S. cerevisiae EBY.VW4000, a strain devoid of glucose import, was a milestone in hexose-transporter research. This strain has become a widely used platform for discovery and characterization of transporters from a wide range of organisms. To abolish glucose uptake, 21 genes were knocked out, involving 16 successive deletion rounds with the LoxP/Cre system. Although such intensive modifications are known to increase the risk of genome alterations, the genome of EBY.VW4000 has hitherto not been characterized. Based on a combination of whole genome sequencing, karyotyping and molecular confirmation, the present study reveals that construction of EBY.VW4000 resulted in gene losses and chromosomal rearrangements. Recombinations between the LoxP scars have led to the assembly of four neo-chromosomes, truncation of two chromosomes and loss of two subtelomeric regions. Furthermore, sporulation and spore germination are severely impaired in EBY.VW4000. Karyotyping of the EBY.VW4000 lineage retraced its current chromosomal architecture to four translocations events occurred between the 6th and the 12th rounds of deletion. The presented data facilitate further studies on EBY.VW4000 and highlight the risks of genome alterations associated with repeated use of the LoxP/Cre system.
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- Daniel Solis-Escalante
- Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology Julianalaan 67, 2628 BC Delft, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology Julianalaan 67, 2628 BC Delft, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology Julianalaan 67, 2628 BC Delft, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology Julianalaan 67, 2628 BC Delft, The Netherlands Platform Green Synthetic Biology, Julianalaan 67, 2628 BC Delft, The Netherlands
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- Institute for Molecular Biosciences, Goethe-University, Max-von-Laue-Str. 9, D-60438 Frankfurt, Germany
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- Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology Julianalaan 67, 2628 BC Delft, The Netherlands Platform Green Synthetic Biology, Julianalaan 67, 2628 BC Delft, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology Julianalaan 67, 2628 BC Delft, The Netherlands
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Vicent I, Navarro A, Mulet JM, Sharma S, Serrano R. Uptake of inorganic phosphate is a limiting factor for Saccharomyces cerevisiae during growth at low temperatures. FEMS Yeast Res 2015; 15:fov008. [DOI: 10.1093/femsyr/fov008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 02/23/2015] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Pinel D, Colatriano D, Jiang H, Lee H, Martin VJJ. Deconstructing the genetic basis of spent sulphite liquor tolerance using deep sequencing of genome-shuffled yeast. BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR BIOFUELS 2015; 8:53. [PMID: 25866561 PMCID: PMC4393574 DOI: 10.1186/s13068-015-0241-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2014] [Accepted: 03/17/2015] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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BACKGROUND Identifying the genetic basis of complex microbial phenotypes is currently a major barrier to our understanding of multigenic traits and our ability to rationally design biocatalysts with highly specific attributes for the biotechnology industry. Here, we demonstrate that strain evolution by meiotic recombination-based genome shuffling coupled with deep sequencing can be used to deconstruct complex phenotypes and explore the nature of multigenic traits, while providing concrete targets for strain development. RESULTS We determined genomic variations found within Saccharomyces cerevisiae previously evolved in our laboratory by genome shuffling for tolerance to spent sulphite liquor. The representation of these variations was backtracked through parental mutant pools and cross-referenced with RNA-seq gene expression analysis to elucidate the importance of single mutations and key biological processes that play a role in our trait of interest. Our findings pinpoint novel genes and biological determinants of lignocellulosic hydrolysate inhibitor tolerance in yeast. These include the following: protein homeostasis constituents, including Ubp7p and Art5p, related to ubiquitin-mediated proteolysis; stress response transcriptional repressor, Nrg1p; and NADPH-dependent glutamate dehydrogenase, Gdh1p. Reverse engineering a prominent mutation in ubiquitin-specific protease gene UBP7 in a laboratory S. cerevisiae strain effectively increased spent sulphite liquor tolerance. CONCLUSIONS This study advances understanding of yeast tolerance mechanisms to inhibitory substrates and biocatalyst design for a biomass-to-biofuel/biochemical industry, while providing insights into the process of mutation accumulation that occurs during genome shuffling.
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- Dominic Pinel
- />Department of Biology, Centre for Structural and Functional Genomics, Concordia University, 7141 Sherbrooke Street West, Montréal, Québec H4B 1R6 Canada
- />Current address: Energy Biosciences Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94704 USA
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- />Department of Biology, Centre for Structural and Functional Genomics, Concordia University, 7141 Sherbrooke Street West, Montréal, Québec H4B 1R6 Canada
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- />Department of Biology, Centre for Structural and Functional Genomics, Concordia University, 7141 Sherbrooke Street West, Montréal, Québec H4B 1R6 Canada
- />Current address: Crabtree Nutrition Laboratories, McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1A1 Canada
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- />School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2 W1 Canada
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- />Department of Biology, Centre for Structural and Functional Genomics, Concordia University, 7141 Sherbrooke Street West, Montréal, Québec H4B 1R6 Canada
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Lu SW, Yun SH, Lee T, Turgeon BG. Altering sexual reproductive mode by interspecific exchange of MAT loci. Fungal Genet Biol 2011; 48:714-24. [PMID: 21514396 DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2011.04.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2010] [Revised: 02/27/2011] [Accepted: 04/08/2011] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Sexual fungi can be self-sterile (heterothallic, requiring genetically distinct partners) or self-fertile (homothallic, no partner required). In most ascomycetes, a single mating type locus (MAT) controls the ability to reproduce sexually. In the genus Cochliobolus, all heterothallic species have either MAT1-1 or MAT1-2 (but never both) in different individuals whereas all homothallic species carry both MAT1-1 and MAT1-2 in the same nucleus of an individual. It has been demonstrated, previously, that a MAT gene from homothallic Cochliobolus luttrellii can confer self-mating ability on a mat-deleted strain of its heterothallic relative, Cochliobolus heterostrophus. In this reciprocal study, we expressed, separately, the heterothallic C. heterostrophus MAT1-1-1 and MAT1-2-1 genes in a mat-deleted homothallic C. luttrellii strain and asked if this converts homothallic C. luttrellii to heterothallism. We report that: (1) A C. luttrellii transgenic strain carrying C. heterostrophus MAT1-1-1 and a C. luttrellii transgenic strain carrying C. heterostrophus MAT1-2-1 can mate in a heterothallic manner and the fertility of the cross is similar to that of a wild type C. luttrellii self. Full tetrads are always found. (2) A C. luttrellii transgenic strain carrying C. heterostrophus MAT1-1-1 can mate with the parental wild type C. luttrellii MAT1-1;MAT1-2 strain, indicating the latter is able to outcross, a result which was expected but has not been demonstrated previously. (3) A C. luttrellii transgenic strain carrying C. heterostrophus MAT1-2-1 cannot mate with the parental wild type C. luttrellii MAT1-1;MAT1-2 strain, indicating outcrossing specificity. (4) Each transgenic C. luttrellii strain, carrying only a single C. heterostrophus MAT gene, is able to self, although all pseudothecia produced are smaller than those of wild type and fertility is low (about 4-15% of the number of wild type asci). These data support the argument that in Cochliobolus spp., the primary determinant of reproductive mode is MAT itself, and that a heterothallic strain can be made homothallic or a homothallic strain can be made heterothallic by exchange of MAT genes. The selfing ability of transgenic C. luttrellii strains also suggests that both MAT1-1-1 and MAT1-2-1 genes of C. heterostrophus carry equivalent transcription regulatory activities, each capable of promoting sexual development when alone, in a suitable genetic background.
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- Shun-Wen Lu
- Department of Plant Pathology & Plant-Microbe Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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Benjaphokee S, Koedrith P, Auesukaree C, Asvarak T, Sugiyama M, Kaneko Y, Boonchird C, Harashima S. CDC19 encoding pyruvate kinase is important for high-temperature tolerance in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. N Biotechnol 2011; 29:166-76. [PMID: 21459167 DOI: 10.1016/j.nbt.2011.03.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2011] [Revised: 03/19/2011] [Accepted: 03/24/2011] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Use of thermotolerant strains is a promising way to reduce the cost of maintaining optimum temperatures in the fermentation process. Here we investigated genetically a Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain showing a high-temperature (41°C) growth (Htg(+)) phenotype and the result suggested that the Htg(+) phenotype of this Htg(+) strain is dominant and under the control of most probably six genes, designated HTG1 to HTG6. As compared with a Htg(-) strain, the Htg(+) strain showed a higher survival rate after exposure to heat shock at 48°C. Moreover, the Htg(+) strain exhibited a significantly high content of trehalose when cultured at high temperature and stronger resistance to Congo Red, an agent that interferes with cell wall construction. These results suggest that a strengthened cell wall in combination with increased trehalose accumulation can support growth at high temperature. The gene CDC19, encoding pyruvate kinase, was cloned as the HTG2 gene. The CDC19 allele from the Htg(+) strain possessed five base changes in its upstream region, and two base changes resulting in silent mutations in its coding region. Interestingly, the latter base changes are probably responsible for the increased pyruvate kinase activity of the Htg(+) strain. The possible mechanism leading to this increased activity and to the Htg(+) phenotype, which may lead to the activation of energy metabolism to maintain cellular homeostasis, is discussed.
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- Suthee Benjaphokee
- Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamadaoka, Suita-shi, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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de Melo Pereira GV, Ramos CL, Galvão C, Souza Dias E, Schwan RF. Use of specific PCR primers to identify three important industrial species of Saccharomyces genus: Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Saccharomyces bayanus and Saccharomyces pastorianus. Lett Appl Microbiol 2010; 51:131-7. [PMID: 20536703 DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-765x.2010.02868.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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AIM To develop species-specific primers capable of distinguishing between three important yeast species in alcoholic fermentation: Saccharomyces bayanus, Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Saccharomyces pastorianus. METHODS AND RESULTS Two sets of primers with sequences complementary to the HO genes from Saccharomyces sensu stricto species were used. The use of the ScHO primers produced a single amplificon of c. 400 or 300 bp with species S. cerevisiae and S. pastorianus, respectively. The second pair of primers (LgHO) was also constructed, within the HO gene, composed of perfectly conserved sequences common for S. bayanus species, which generate amplicon with 700 bp. No amplification product was observed in the DNA samples from non-Saccharomyces yeasts. Saccharomyces species have also been characterized via electrophoretic karyotyping using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis to demonstrate chromosomal polymorphisms and to determine the evolutionary distances between these species. CONCLUSIONS We conclude that our novel species-specific primers could be used to rapidly and accurately identify of the Saccharomyces species most commonly involved in fermentation processes using a PCR-based assay. SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPACT OF THE STUDY The method may be used for routine identification of the most common Saccharomyces sensu stricto yeasts involved in industrial fermentation processes in less than 3 h.
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A simple yeast-based system for analyzing inhibitor resistance in the human cancer drug targets Hsp90alpha/beta. Biochem Pharmacol 2010; 79:1581-8. [PMID: 20138026 DOI: 10.1016/j.bcp.2010.01.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2009] [Revised: 01/24/2010] [Accepted: 01/26/2010] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90), a highly conserved molecular chaperone, is one of the most promising targets for cancer drug development. Whether any resistance to these Hsp90 inhibitor drugs could arise by Hsp90 mutation is still unknown. Yeast is readily engineered so that its essential Hsp90 function is provided by either isoform of the human cytosolic Hsp90, Hsp90alpha or Hsp90beta. However, its high intrinsic resistance to most drugs poses a major obstacle to the use of such Hsp90alpha- or Hsp90beta-expressing yeast cells as a model system to analyse whether drug resistance might arise by Hsp90 mutation. In order to overcome this problem, we have generated a strain that is both hypersensitive to Hsp90 inhibitors as it lacks multiple drug resistance genes, and in which different heterologous and mutant Hsp90s can be expressed by plasmid exchange. It is not rendered appreciably stress sensitive when made to express Hsp90alpha or Hsp90beta as its sole form of Hsp90. Should there be any development of resistance to the Hsp90 drugs now in cancer clinic trials, this system can provide a rapid initial test of whether any single nucleotide polymorphism appearing within the coding regions of Hsp90alpha or Hsp90beta could be a contributory factor in this resistance. We have used this strain to demonstrate that significant levels of resistance to the Hsp90 inhibitors radicicol and 17-allylamino-demethoxygeldanamycin (17-AAG) are generated as a result of the same single point mutation within the native Hsp90 of yeast (A107N), the human Hsp90alpha (A121N) and the human Hsp90beta (A116N).
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Katz Ezov T, Chang SL, Frenkel Z, Segrè AV, Bahalul M, Murray AW, Leu JY, Korol A, Kashi Y. Heterothallism in Saccharomyces cerevisiae isolates from nature: effect of HO locus on the mode of reproduction. Mol Ecol 2009; 19:121-31. [PMID: 20002587 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294x.2009.04436.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Understanding the evolution of sex and recombination, key factors in the evolution of life, is a major challenge in biology. Studies of reproduction strategies of natural populations are important to complement the theoretical and experimental models. Fungi with both sexual and asexual life cycles are an interesting system for understanding the evolution of sex. In a study of natural populations of yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, we found that the isolates are heterothallic, meaning their mating type is stable, while the general belief is that natural S. cerevisiae strains are homothallic (can undergo mating-type switching). Mating-type switching is a gene-conversion process initiated by a site-specific endonuclease HO; this process can be followed by mother-daughter mating. Heterothallic yeast can mate with unrelated haploids (amphimixis), or undergo mating between spores from the same tetrad (intratetrad mating, or automixis), but cannot undergo mother-daughter mating as homothallic yeasts can. Sequence analysis of HO gene in a panel of natural S. cerevisiae isolates revealed multiple mutations. Good correspondence was found in the comparison of population structure characterized using 19 microsatellite markers spread over eight chromosomes and the HO sequence. Experiments that tested whether the mating-type switching pathway upstream and downstream of HO is functional, together with the detected HO mutations, strongly suggest that loss of function of HO is the cause of heterothallism. Furthermore, our results support the hypothesis that clonal reproduction and intratetrad mating may predominate in natural yeast populations, while mother-daughter mating might not be as significant as was considered.
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- Tal Katz Ezov
- Department of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel
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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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Sarver A, DeRisi J. Fzf1p regulates an inducible response to nitrosative stress in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mol Biol Cell 2005; 16:4781-91. [PMID: 16014606 PMCID: PMC1237083 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e05-05-0436] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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The mechanisms by which microorganisms sense and detoxify nitric oxide (*NO) are of particular interest due to the central role this molecule plays in innate immunity. We investigated the genetic basis of inducible nitric oxide (*NO) detoxification in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by characterizing the genome-wide transcriptional response to exogenously supplied *NO. Exposure to the *NO-generating compound dipropylenetriamine NONOate resulted in both a general stress response as well as a specific response characterized by the induction of a small set of genes, including the yeast flavohemoglobin YHB1, SSU1, and three additional uncharacterized open reading frames. Transcriptional induction of SSU1, which encodes a putative sulfite transporter, has previously been shown to require the zinc finger transcription factor Fzf1p. Deletion of Fzf1p eliminated the nitrosative stress-specific transcriptional response, whereas overexpression of Fzf1p recapitulated this response in the absence of exogenously supplied *NO. A cis-acting sequence unique to the promoter regions of Fzf1p-dependent genes was found to be sufficient to activate reporter gene activity in an *NO- and Fzf1p-dependent manner. Our results suggest that the presence of *NO or *NO derivatives activates Fzf1p leading to transcriptional induction of a discrete set of target genes that function to protect the cell from *NO-mediated stress.
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- Aaron Sarver
- Chemistry and Chemical Biology Graduate Program, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
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Sarai A, Siebers J, Selvaraj S, Gromiha MM, Kono H. Integration of bioinformatics and computational biology to understand protein-DNA recognition mechanism. J Bioinform Comput Biol 2005; 3:169-83. [PMID: 15751119 DOI: 10.1142/s0219720005000965] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2004] [Revised: 06/25/2004] [Accepted: 07/10/2004] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Transcription factors play essential role in the gene regulation in higher organisms, binding to multiple target sequences and regulating multiple genes in a complex manner. In order to decipher the mechanism of gene regulation, it is important to understand the molecular mechanism of protein-DNA recognition. Here we describe a strategy to approach this problem, using various methods in bioinformatics and computational biology. We have used a knowledge-based approach, utilizing rapidly increasing structural data of protein-DNA complexes, to derive empirical potential functions for the specific interactions between bases and amino acids as well as for DNA conformation, from the statistical analyses on the structural data. Then these statistical potentials are used to quantify the specificity of protein-DNA recognition. The quantification of specificity has enabled us to establish the structure-function analysis of transcription factors, such as the effects of binding cooperativity on target recognition. The method is also applied to real genome sequences, predicting potential target sites. We are also using computer simulations of protein-DNA interactions and DNA conformation in order to complement the empirical method. The integration of these approaches together will provide deeper insight into the mechanism of protein-DNA recognition and improve the target prediction of transcription factors.
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- Akinori Sarai
- Department of Bioscience and Bioinformatics, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Iizuka, Japan.
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Ohnishi K, Ono BI. Inverted repeat of a large segment unveiled on the right arm ofSaccharomyces cerevisiae chromosome II. Yeast 2005; 22:321-36. [PMID: 15789350 DOI: 10.1002/yea.1213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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By means of gene disruption analyses, Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain YPH499 was shown to have two, and only two, copies of ATP3 that encodes the gamma-subunit of H+-dependent ATP synthase and locates on the right arm of chromosome II. Linkage analyses of the two distinguishably marked copies of ATP3 indicated that the distance between them was about 43 cM. Since YBR030W, an ORF proximal to ATP3 by a distance of 17 kbp, was also found to be duplicated, we marked them with two distinguishable nutritional markers, which were also distinguishable from those used for marking the two copies of ATP3, and achieved four-point linkage analyses; CEN2 marked with an appropriate nutritional marker gene was included as a reference point. And, the following linkage map was deduced: CEN2- [11 cM]-YBR030Wa- [8 cM]-ATP3a-[47 cM]-ATP3b- [55 cM]-YBR030Wb. From this map, we suspected that a segment spanning at least YBR030W-ATP3 would be inversely duplicated on the right arm of chromosome II. We then carried out chromosome fragmentation analyses, using several laboratory strains including YPH499, and obtained data in accord with our speculation for all strains, although the distance between the two copies of ATP3 varied from 48 kbp to 192 kbp among the strains examined.
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- Katsunori Ohnishi
- Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, 1-1-1 Noji-Higashi, Kusatsu 525-8577, Shiga, Japan
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Bakhrat A, Jurica MS, Stoddard BL, Raveh D. Homology modeling and mutational analysis of Ho endonuclease of yeast. Genetics 2004; 166:721-8. [PMID: 15020462 PMCID: PMC1470740 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.166.2.721] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Ho endonuclease is a LAGLIDADG homing endonuclease that initiates mating-type interconversion in yeast. Ho is encoded by a free-standing gene but shows 50% primary sequence similarity to the intein (protein-intron encoded) PI-SceI. Ho is unique among LAGLIDADG endonucleases in having a 120-residue C-terminal putative zinc finger domain. The crystal structure of PI-SceI revealed a bipartite enzyme with a protein-splicing domain (Hint) and intervening endonuclease domain. We made a homology model for Ho on the basis of the PI-SceI structure and performed mutational analysis of putative critical residues, using a mating-type switch as a bioassay for activity and GFP-fusion proteins to detect nuclear localization. We found that residues of the N-terminal sequence of the Hint domain are important for Ho activity, in particular the DNA recognition region. C-terminal residues of the Hint domain are dispensable for Ho activity; however, the C-terminal putative zinc finger domain is essential. Mutational analysis indicated that residues in Ho that are conserved relative to catalytic, active-site residues in PI-SceI and other related homing endonucleases are essential for Ho activity. Our results indicate that in addition to the conserved catalytic residues, Hint domain residues and the zinc finger domain have evolved a critical role in Ho activity.
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- Anya Bakhrat
- Department of Life Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheva, 84105 Israel
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Pruyne D, Gao L, Bi E, Bretscher A. Stable and dynamic axes of polarity use distinct formin isoforms in budding yeast. Mol Biol Cell 2004; 15:4971-89. [PMID: 15371545 PMCID: PMC524755 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e04-04-0296] [Citation(s) in RCA: 129] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Bud growth in yeast is guided by myosin-driven delivery of secretory vesicles from the mother cell to the bud. We find transport occurs along two sets of actin cables assembled by two formin isoforms. The Bnr1p formin assembles cables that radiate from the bud neck into the mother, providing a stable mother-bud axis. These cables also depend on septins at the neck and are required for efficient transport from the mother to the bud. The Bni1p formin assembles cables that line the bud cortex and target vesicles to varying locations in the bud. Loss of these cables results in morphological defects as vesicles accumulate at the neck. Assembly of these cables depends on continued polarized secretion, suggesting vesicular transport provides a positive feedback signal for Bni1p activation, possibly by rho-proteins. By coupling different formin isoforms to unique cortical landmarks, yeast uses common cytoskeletal elements to maintain stable and dynamic axes in the same cell.
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- David Pruyne
- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-2703, USA
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Early pseudohyphal growth of Saccharomyces cerevisiae is well described, and is known to be subject to a complex web of developmental regulation. In maturing filaments, young cells differ significantly from their pseudohyphal progenitors, in their shape, and in their timing and direction of cell division. The changes that occur during filament maturation result in round and oval cells surrounding and covering the pseudohyphal filament. In a screen for mutants that affect this process, a vacuolar protein sorting gene, MOS10 (VPS60), and a gene encoding an alpha subunit of the proteasome core, PRE9, were isolated. Characterization of the mos10/mos10 phenotype showed that the process of filament maturation is regulated differently from early filamentous growth, and that the requirement for Mos10 is limited to the maturation stage of pseudohyphal development. The mos10/mos10 phenotype is unlikely to be an unspecific effect of disruption of endocytosis or vacuolar protein sorting, because it is not recapitulated by mutants in other genes required for these processes. Disruption of homologues of MOS10, which act as components of the ESCRT-III complex in targeting proteins for vacuolar degradation, results in abnormal early pseudohyphal growth, not in the filament maturation defect seen in mos10/mos10. Thus, Mos10 may function in targeting of specific cargo proteins for degradation, under conditions particular to maturing filaments.
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- Julia R Köhler
- Division of Infectious Disease, Children's Hospital, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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Ruiz C, Escribano V, Morgado E, Molina M, Mazón MJ. Cell-type-dependent repression of yeast a-specific genes requires Itc1p, a subunit of the Isw2p-Itc1p chromatin remodelling complex. MICROBIOLOGY (READING, ENGLAND) 2003; 149:341-351. [PMID: 12624196 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.25920-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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In Saccharomyces cerevisiae MATa haploid cells, the a-specific genes are expressed, whereas in the MATalpha haploid and MATa/alpha diploid cell types their transcription is repressed. It is shown in this report that Itc1p, a component of the ATP-dependent Isw2p-Itc1p chromatin remodelling complex, is required for the repression of a-specific genes. It has previously been reported that disruption of the ITC1 gene leads, in MATalpha cells, to an aberrant cell morphology resembling the polarized mating projection of cells responding to pheromone. The activation of the pheromone signalling pathway in itc1 mutants of both mating types was examined and found to be constitutively active in MATalpha itc1 but not in MATa itc1 cells. Furthermore, unlike the wild-type, MATalpha itc1 and MATa/alpha itc1/itc1 cells secrete a-factor and express significant levels of other a-specific genes. The results indicate that the inappropriate a-factor production in a MATalpha context, due to the derepression of the a-specific genes, produces an autocrine signalling loop that leads to the aberrant morphology displayed by MATalpha itc1 cells. It is suggested that the Isw2p-Itc1p complex contributes to maintain the repressive chromatin structure described for the asg operator present in the promoters of a-specific genes.
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- Cristina Ruiz
- Departamento de Microbiología II, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas Alberto Sols, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, C/Arturo Duperier 4, 28029 Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas Alberto Sols, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, C/Arturo Duperier 4, 28029 Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Microbiología II, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas Alberto Sols, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, C/Arturo Duperier 4, 28029 Madrid, Spain
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MICHINAKA YASUNARI, SHIMAUCHI TOSHITSUGU, AKI TSUNEHIRO, NAKAJIMA TOSHIAKI, KAWAMOTO SEIJI, SHIGETA SEIKO, SUZUKI OSAMU, ONO KAZUHISA. Extracellular Secretion of Free Fatty Acids by Disruption of a Fatty Acyl-CoA Synthetase Gene in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. J Biosci Bioeng 2003. [DOI: 10.1263/jbb.95.435] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Hua Z, Fatheddin P, Graham TR. An essential subfamily of Drs2p-related P-type ATPases is required for protein trafficking between Golgi complex and endosomal/vacuolar system. Mol Biol Cell 2002; 13:3162-77. [PMID: 12221123 PMCID: PMC124150 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e02-03-0172] [Citation(s) in RCA: 196] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2002] [Revised: 05/23/2002] [Accepted: 06/05/2002] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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The Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome contains five genes encoding P-type ATPases that are potential aminophospholipid translocases (APTs): DRS2, NEO1, and three uncharacterized open reading frames that we have named DNF1, DNF2, and DNF3 for DRS2/NEO1 family. NEO1 is the only essential gene in APT family and seems to be functionally distinct from the DRS2/DNF genes. The drs2Delta dnf1Delta dnf2Delta dnf3Delta quadruple mutant is inviable, although any one member of this group can maintain viability, indicating that there is a substantial functional overlap between the encoded proteins. We have previously implicated Drs2p in clathrin function at the trans-Golgi network. In this study, we constructed strains carrying all possible viable combinations of null alleles from this group and analyzed them for defects in protein transport. The drs2Delta dnf1Delta mutant grows slowly, massively accumulates intracellular membranes, and exhibits a substantial defect in the transport of alkaline phosphatase to the vacuole. Transport of carboxypeptidase Y to the vacuole is also perturbed, but to a lesser extent. In addition, the dnf1Delta dnf2Delta dnf3Delta mutant exhibits a defect in recycling of GFP-Snc1p in the early endocytic-late secretory pathways. Drs2p and Dnf3p colocalize with the trans-Golgi network marker Kex2p, whereas Dnf1p and Dnf2p seem to localize to the plasma membrane and late exocytic or early endocytic membranes. We propose that eukaryotes express multiple APT subfamily members to facilitate protein transport in multiple pathways.
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- Zhaolin Hua
- Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235-1634, USA
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- Steffen Rupp
- Department of Molecular Biotechnology, Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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Shanks RM, Kamieniecki RJ, Dawson DS. The Kar3-interacting protein Cik1p plays a critical role in passage through meiosis I in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Genetics 2001; 159:939-51. [PMID: 11729143 PMCID: PMC1461869 DOI: 10.1093/genetics/159.3.939] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Meiosis I in Saccharomyces cerevisiae is dependent upon the motor protein Kar3. Absence of Kar3p in meiosis results in an arrest in prophase I. Cik1p and Vik1p are kinesin-associated proteins known to modulate the function of Kar3p in the microtubule-dependent processes of karyogamy and mitosis. Experiments were performed to determine whether Cik1p and Vik1p are also important for the function of Kar3p during meiosis. The meiotic phenotypes of a cik1 mutant were found to be similar to those of kar3 mutants. Cells without Cik1p exhibit a meiotic defect in homologous recombination and synaptonemal complex formation. Most cik1 mutant cells, like kar3 mutants, arrest in meiotic prophase; however, in cik1 mutants this arrest is less severe. These data are consistent with the model that Cik1p is necessary for some, but not all, of the roles of Kar3p in meiosis I. vik1 mutants sporulate at wild-type levels, but have reduced spore viability. This loss in viability is partially attributable to vegetative chromosome loss in vik1 diploids. Cellular localization experiments reveal that Kar3p, Cik1p, and Vik1p are present throughout meiosis and are consistent with Cik1p and Vik1p having different meiotic roles.
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- R M Shanks
- Department of Molecular Microbiology, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts 02111, USA
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Kobayashi A, Miyake T, Ohyama Y, Kawaichi M, Kokubo T. Mutations in the TATA-binding protein, affecting transcriptional activation, show synthetic lethality with the TAF145 gene lacking the TAF N-terminal domain in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:395-405. [PMID: 11035037 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m008208200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The general transcription factor TFIID, which is composed of the TATA box-binding protein (TBP) and a set of TBP-associated factors (TAFs), is crucial for both basal and regulated transcription by RNA polymerase II. The N-terminal small segment of yeast TAF145 (yTAF145) binds to TBP and thereby inhibits TBP function. To understand the physiological role of this inhibitory domain, which is designated as TAND (TAF N-terminal domain), we screened mutations, synthetically lethal with the TAF145 gene lacking TAND (taf145 Delta TAND), in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by exploiting a red/white colony-sectoring assay. Our screen yielded several recessive nsl (Delta TAND synthetic lethal) mutations, two of which, nsl1-1 and nsl1-2, define the same complementation group. The NSL1 gene was found to be identical to the SPT15 gene encoding TBP. Interestingly, both temperature-sensitive nsl1/spt15 alleles, which harbor the single amino acid substitutions, S118L and P65S, respectively, were defective in transcriptional activation in vivo. Several other previously characterized activation-deficient spt15 alleles also displayed synthetic lethal interactions with taf145 Delta TAND, indicating that TAND and TBP carry an overlapping but as yet unidentified function that is specifically required for transcriptional regulation.
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- A Kobayashi
- Division of Gene Function in Animals, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5 Takayama, Ikoma, Nara 630-0101, Japan
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Tamai Y, Tanaka K, Umemoto N, Tomizuka K, Kaneko Y. Diversity of the HO gene encoding an endonuclease for mating-type conversion in the bottom fermenting yeast Saccharomyces pastorianus. Yeast 2000; 16:1335-43. [PMID: 11015730 DOI: 10.1002/1097-0061(200010)16:14<1335::aid-yea623>3.0.co;2-p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Two types of HO gene were cloned, sequenced and characterized from the bottom fermenting yeast Saccharomyces pastorianus. The HO gene present on the 1500 kb chromosome was designated Sc-HO (S. cerevisiae-type HO), because the nucleotide sequence of its promoter region and the open reading frame (ORF) was almost identical to that of the S. cerevisiae laboratory strain HO gene (Lab-HO). The other HO gene, designated Lg-HO (Lager-fermenting-yeast specific HO), showed 64% and 83% homology with the promoter and ORF of the Lab-HO at the nucleotide sequence level, respectively, and was located on the 1100 kb chromosome. Analysis of the 4 kb DNA fragment amplified from S. bayanus type strain indicated that the nucleotide sequence of S. bayanus-HO is almost identical to that of the Lg-HO. The SSB1 gene located downstream of the HO gene in S. cerevisiae was also found in the 3' distal region of the Sc-HO, Lg-HO and S. bayanus HO genes. These results showed that the genetic arrangement around the HO loci both of S. pastorianus and S. bayanus is identical to S. cerevisiae. Southern analysis has revealed that Saccharomyces sensu stricto contain four types of HO genes; S. paradoxus-type HO, the Sc-HO, the Lg-HO and S. uvarum-type HO genes. This HO gene diversity provides useful information for the classification of strains belonging to Saccharomyces sensu stricto. The S. pastorianus Sc-HO, Lg-HO and S. bayanus-HO Accession Nos in the DDBJ Nucleotide Sequence Database are AB027449, AB027450 and AB027451, respectively.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Base Sequence
- Blotting, Southern
- Cloning, Molecular
- Conserved Sequence
- DNA, Fungal/genetics
- Deoxyribonucleases, Type II Site-Specific/chemistry
- Deoxyribonucleases, Type II Site-Specific/genetics
- Fermentation
- Fungal Proteins/genetics
- Gene Expression Regulation, Fungal
- Genes, Fungal
- Genes, Mating Type, Fungal
- Genetic Variation
- HSP70 Heat-Shock Proteins/genetics
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Polymorphism, Genetic
- Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid
- Saccharomyces/genetics
- Saccharomyces/metabolism
- Saccharomyces/physiology
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins
- Transformation, Genetic
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- Y Tamai
- Central Laboratories for Key Technology, Kirin Brewery Co. Ltd, 1-13-5, Fukuura, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa 236-0004, Japan.
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Nicolás AL, Munz PL, Falck-Pedersen E, Young CS. Creation and repair of specific DNA double-strand breaks in vivo following infection with adenovirus vectors expressing Saccharomyces cerevisiae HO endonuclease. Virology 2000; 266:211-24. [PMID: 10612676 DOI: 10.1006/viro.1999.0062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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To study DNA double-strand break (DSB) repair in mammalian cells, the Saccharomyces cerevisiae HO endonuclease gene, or its recognition site, was cloned into the adenovirus E3 or E1 regions. Analysis of DNA from human A549 cells coinfected with the E3::HO gene and site viruses showed that HO endonuclease was active and that broken viral genomes were detectable 12 h postinfection, increasing with time up to approximately 30% of the available HO site genomes. Leftward fragments of approximately 30 kbp, which contain the packaging signal, but not rightward fragments of approximately 6 kbp, were incorporated into virions, suggesting that broken genomes were not held together tightly after cleavage. There was no evidence for DSB repair in E3::HO virus coinfections. In contrast, such evidence was obtained in E1::HO virus coinfections of nonpermissive cells, suggesting that adenovirus proteins expressed in the permissive E3::HO coinfection can inhibit mammalian DSB repair. To test the inhibitory role of E4 proteins, known to suppress genome concatemer formation late in infection (Weiden and Ginsberg, 1994), A549 cells were coinfected with E3::HO viruses lacking the E4 region. The results strongly suggest that the E4 protein(s) inhibits DSB repair.
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- A L Nicolás
- Department of Microbiology, Columbia University, New York, New York, 10032, USA
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Raymond RK, Kastanos EK, Appling DR. Saccharomyces cerevisiae expresses two genes encoding isozymes of methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase. Arch Biochem Biophys 1999; 372:300-8. [PMID: 10600168 DOI: 10.1006/abbi.1999.1498] [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: 11/22/2022]
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The identification, expression, and assay of two Saccharomyces cerevisiae genes encoding methylenetetrahydrofolate reductases (MTHFR) is described. MTHFR catalyzes the reduction of 5, 10-methylenetetrahydrofolate to 5-methyltetrahydrofolate, used to methylate homocysteine in methionine synthesis. The MET12 gene is located on chromosome XVI and encodes a protein of 657 amino acids. The MET13 gene is located on chromosome VII and encodes a protein of 599 amino acids. The deduced amino acid sequences of these two genes are 34% identical to each other and 32-37% identical to the human MTHFR. A phenotype for the single disruption of MET12 was not observed, however, single disruption of MET13 resulted in methionine auxotrophy. Double disruption of both MET12 and MET13 also resulted in methionine auxotrophy. Growth of the methionine auxotrophs was supported by both methionine and S-adenosylmethionine. Transcripts of both MET12 and MET13 were detected in total RNA from wild type cells grown in the presence or absence of methionine. The methionine requirement of the met12 met13 double disruptant was complemented by plasmid-borne MET13, but not MET12 even when a multicopy plasmid was used. Furthermore, overexpression of the human MTHFR in the met12 met13 double disruptant complemented the methionine auxotrophy of this strain. In contrast, overexpression of the Escherichia coli metF gene did not complement the methionine requirement of met12 met13 cells. Assays for MTHFR in crude extracts and expression of the yeast proteins in Escherichia coli verified that both MET12 and MET13 encode functional MTHFR isozymes.
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- R K Raymond
- The Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, 78712, USA
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Wilson TE, Lieber MR. Efficient processing of DNA ends during yeast nonhomologous end joining. Evidence for a DNA polymerase beta (Pol4)-dependent pathway. J Biol Chem 1999; 274:23599-609. [PMID: 10438542 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.274.33.23599] [Citation(s) in RCA: 160] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Repair of DNA double strand breaks by nonhomologous end joining (NHEJ) requires enzymatic processing beyond simple ligation when the terminal bases are damaged or not fully compatible. We transformed yeast with a series of linearized plasmids to examine the role of Pol4 (Pol IV, DNA polymerase beta) in repair at a variety of end configurations. Mutation of POL4 did not impair DNA polymerase-independent religation of fully compatible ends and led to at most a 2-fold reduction in the frequency of joins that require only DNA polymerization. In contrast, the frequency of joins that also required removal of a 5'- or 3'-terminal mismatch was markedly reduced in pol4 (but not rev3, exo1, apn1, or rad1) yeast. In a chromosomal double strand break assay, pol4 mutation conferred a marked increase in sensitivity to HO endonuclease in a rad52 background, due primarily to loss of an NHEJ event that anneals with a 3'-terminal mismatch. The NHEJ activity of Pol4 was dependent on its nucleotidyl transferase function, as well as its unique amino terminus. Paradoxically, in vitro analyses with oligonucleotide substrates demonstrated that although Pol4 fills gaps with displacement of mismatched but not matched 5' termini, it lacks both 5'- and 3'-terminal nuclease activities. Pol4 is thus specifically recruited to perform gap-filling in an NHEJ pathway that must also involve as yet unidentified nucleases.
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- T E Wilson
- Department of Pathology, Division of Laboratory Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110, USA.
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Chen W, Islas-Osuna MA, Dieckmann CL. Suppressor analysis of mutations in the 5'-untranslated region of COB mRNA identifies components of general pathways for mitochondrial mRNA processing and decay in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Genetics 1999; 151:1315-25. [PMID: 10101159 PMCID: PMC1460556 DOI: 10.1093/genetics/151.4.1315] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The cytochrome b gene in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, COB, is encoded by the mitochondrial genome. Nuclear-encoded Cbp1 protein is required specifically for COB mRNA stabilization. Cbp1 interacts with a CCG element in a 64-nucleotide sequence in the 5'-untranslated region of COB mRNA. Mutation of any nucleotide in the CCG causes the same phenotype as cbp1 mutations, i.e., destabilization of both COB precursor and mature message. In this study, eleven nuclear suppressors of single-nucleotide mutations in CCG were isolated and characterized. One dominant suppressor is in CBP1, while the other 10 semidominant suppressors define five distinct linkage groups. One group of four mutations is in PET127, which is required for 5' end processing of several mitochondrial mRNAs. Another mutation is linked to DSS1, which is a subunit of mitochondrial 3' --> 5' exoribonuclease. A mutation linked to the SOC1 gene, previously defined by recessive mutations that suppress cbp1 ts alleles and stabilize many mitochondrial mRNAs, was also isolated. We hypothesize that the products of the two uncharacterized genes also affect mitochondrial RNA turnover.
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- W Chen
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
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In the past decade, site-specific chromosomal DNA cleavage mediated by DNA endonucleases has been used to examine diverse aspects of chromosome structure and function in eukaryotes, such as DNA topology, replication, transcription, recombination, and repair. Here we describe a method with which chromosomes can be linearized at any predefined position in vivo. Yeast homothallic switching endonuclease (HO endo), a sequence-specific double-strand nuclease involved in mating-type switching, is employed for targeting DNA cleavage. HO endo contains discrete functional domains: a N-terminal nuclease and a C-terminal DNA-binding domain, thereby allowing construction of a chimeric nuclease with the cutting site distinct from the original HO recognition sequence. The expression of the nuclease is engineered to be controlled by a tightly regulated, inducible promoter. The cut sites recognized by HO endo or its derivatives are introduced specifically at desired positions in the yeast genome by homologous recombination. Here we present experimental procedures and review some applications based on this approach in yeast and other biological systems.
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- C P Liang
- Department of Molecular Biology and Oncology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, 6000 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, Texas 75235-9140, USA
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Dickson RC, Nagiec EE, Wells GB, Nagiec MM, Lester RL. Synthesis of mannose-(inositol-P)2-ceramide, the major sphingolipid in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, requires the IPT1 (YDR072c) gene. J Biol Chem 1997; 272:29620-5. [PMID: 9368028 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.272.47.29620] [Citation(s) in RCA: 146] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Knowledge of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae genes and proteins necessary for sphingolipid biosynthesis is far from complete. Such information should expedite studies of pathway regulation and sphingolipid functions. Using the Aur1 protein sequence, recently identified as necessary for synthesis of the sphingolipid inositol-P-ceramide (IPC), we show that a homolog (open reading frame YDR072c), termed Ipt1 (inositolphosphotransferase 1) is necessary for synthesis of mannose-(inositol-P)2-ceramide (M(IP)2C), the most abundant and complex sphingolipid in S. cerevisiae. This conclusion is based upon analysis of an ipt1-deletion strain, which fails to accumulate M(IP)2C and instead accumulates increased amounts of the precursor mannose-inositol-P-ceramide. The mutant also fails to incorporate radioactive precursors into M(IP)2C, and membranes prepared from it do not incorporate [3H-inositol]phosphatidylinositol into M(IP)2C, indicating a lack of M(IP)2C synthase activity (putatively phosphatidylinositol:mannose-inositol-P-ceramide phosphoinositol transferase). M(IP)2C synthase activity is inhibited in the micromolar range by aureobasidin A, but drug sensitivity is over 1000-fold lower than reported for IPC synthase activity. An ipt1-deletion mutant has no severe phenotypic effects but is slightly more resistant to growth inhibition by calcium ions. Identification of the IPT1 gene should be helpful in determining the function of the M(IP)2C sphingolipid and in determining the catalytic mechanism of IPC and M(IP)2C synthases.
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- R C Dickson
- Department of Biochemistry and the Lucille P. Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky Medical Center, Lexington, Kentucky 40536-0084, USA.
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Nagiec MM, Nagiec EE, Baltisberger JA, Wells GB, Lester RL, Dickson RC. Sphingolipid synthesis as a target for antifungal drugs. Complementation of the inositol phosphorylceramide synthase defect in a mutant strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae by the AUR1 gene. J Biol Chem 1997; 272:9809-17. [PMID: 9092515 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.272.15.9809] [Citation(s) in RCA: 301] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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We have identified a Saccharomyces cerevisiae gene necessary for the step in sphingolipid synthesis in which inositol phosphate is added to ceramide to form inositol-P-ceramide, a reaction catalyzed by phosphatidylinositol:ceramide phosphoinositol transferase (IPC synthase). This step should be an effective target for antifungal drugs. A key element in our experiments was the development of a procedure for isolating mutants defective in steps in sphingolipid synthesis downstream from the first step including a mutant defective in IPC synthase. An IPC synthase defect is supported by data showing a failure of the mutant strain to incorporate radioactive inositol or N-acetylsphinganine into sphingolipids and, by using an improved assay, a demonstration that the mutant strain lacks enzyme activity. Furthermore, the mutant accumulates ceramide when fed exogenous phytosphingosine as expected for a strain lacking IPC synthase activity. Ceramide accumulation is accompanied by cell death, suggesting the presence of a ceramide-activated death response in yeast. A gene, AUR1 (YKL004w), that complements the IPC synthase defect and restores enzyme activity and sphingolipid synthesis was isolated. Mutations in AUR1 had been shown previously to give resistance to the antifungal drug aureobasidin A, leading us to predict that the drug should inhibit IPC synthase activity. Our data show that the drug is a potent inhibitor of IPC synthase with an IC50 of about 0.2 nM. Fungal pathogens are an increasing threat to human health. Now that IPC synthase has been shown to be the target for aureobasidin A, it should be possible to develop high throughput screens to identify new inhibitors of IPC synthase to combat fungal diseases.
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- M M Nagiec
- Department of Biochemistry and the Lucille P. Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky Medical Center, Lexington, Kentucky 40536-0084, USA
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Jin Y, Binkowski G, Simon LD, Norris D. Ho endonuclease cleaves MAT DNA in vitro by an inefficient stoichiometric reaction mechanism. J Biol Chem 1997; 272:7352-9. [PMID: 9054434 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.272.11.7352] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Mating type switching in Saccharomyces cerevisiae initiates when Ho endonuclease makes a double-stranded DNA break at the yeast MAT locus. In this report, we characterize the fundamental biochemical properties of Ho. Using an assay that monitors cleavage of a MAT plasmid, we define an optimal in vitro reaction, showing in particular that the enzyme has a stringent requirement for zinc ions. This suggests that zinc finger motifs present in Ho are important for cleavage. The most unexpected feature of Ho, however, is its extreme inefficiency. Maximal cleavage occurs when Ho is present at a concentration of 1 molecule/3 base pairs of substrate DNA. Even under these conditions, complete digestion requires >2 h. This inefficiency results from two characteristics of Ho. First, Ho recycles slowly from cleaved product to new substrate, in part because the enzyme has an affinity for one end of its double strand break product. Second, high levels of cleavage in the in vitro reaction correlate with the appearance of large protein-DNA aggregates. At optimal Ho concentrations, these latter aggregates, referred to as "florettes," have an ordered structure consisting of a densely staining central region and loops of radiating DNA. These unusual properties may indicate that Ho plays a role in other aspects of mating type switching subsequent to double strand break formation.
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- Y Jin
- Waksman Institute, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey 08855-0759, USA
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Chiurazzi M, Ray A, Viret JF, Perera R, Wang XH, Lloyd AM, Signer ER. Enhancement of somatic intrachromosomal homologous recombination in Arabidopsis by the HO endonuclease. THE PLANT CELL 1996; 8:2057-66. [PMID: 8953770 PMCID: PMC161334 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.8.11.2057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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The HO endonuclease promotes gene conversion between mating-type alleles in yeast by a DNA double-strand break at the site of conversion (the MAT-Y/Z site). As a first step toward understanding the molecular basis of homologous recombination in higher plants, we demonstrate that expression of HO in Arabidopsis enhances intrachromosomal recombination between inverted repeats of two defective beta-glucuronidase (gus) genes (GUS- test construct). One of these genes has the Y/Z site. The two genes share 2.5 kb of DNA sequence homology around the HO cut site. Somatic recombination between the two repeats was determined by using a histochemical assay of GUS activity. The frequency of Gus+ sectors in leaves of F1 plants from a cross between parents homozygous for the GUS- test construct and HO, respectively, was 10-fold higher than in F1 plants from a cross between the same plant containing the GUS- test construct and a wild-type parent. Polymerase chain reaction analysis showed restoration of the 5' end of the GUS gene in recombinant sectors. The induction of intrachromosomal gene conversion in Arabidopsis by HO reveals the general utility of site-specific DNA endonucleases in producing targeted homologous recombination in plant genomes.
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- M Chiurazzi
- Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02138, USA
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Goodrich-Blair H, Shub DA. Beyond homing: competition between intron endonucleases confers a selective advantage on flanking genetic markers. Cell 1996; 84:211-21. [PMID: 8565067 DOI: 10.1016/s0092-8674(00)80976-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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The closely related B. subtilis bacteriophages SPO1 and SP82 have similar introns inserted into a conserved domain of their DNA polymerase genes. These introns encode endonucleases with unique properties. Other intron-encoded "homing" endonucleases cleave both strands of intronless DNA; subsequent repair results in unidirectional gene conversion to the intron-containing allele. In contrast, the enzymes described here cleave one strand on both intron-containing and intronless targets at different distances from their common intron insertion site. Most surprisingly, each enzyme prefers DNA of the heterologous phage. The SP82-encoded endonuclease is responsible for exclusion of the SPO1 intron and flanking genetic markers from the progeny of mixed infections, a novel selective advantage imparted by an intron to the genome in which it resides.
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- H Goodrich-Blair
- Department of Biological Sciences, State University of New York at Albany 12222, USA
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Schricker R, Magdolen V, Strobel G, Bogengruber E, Breitenbach M, Bandlow W. Strain-dependent occurrence of functional GTP:AMP phosphotransferase (AK3) in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. J Biol Chem 1995; 270:31103-10. [PMID: 8537371 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.270.52.31103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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The gene for yeast GTP:AMP phosphotransferase (PAK3) was found to encode a nonfunctional protein in 10 laboratory strains and one brewers' strain. The protein product showed high similarity to vertebrate AK3 and was located exclusively in the mitochondrial matrix. The deduced amino acid sequence revealed a protein that was shorter at the carboxyl terminus than all other known adenylate kinases. Introduction of a +1 frameshift into the 3'-terminal region of the gene extended homology of the deduced amino acid sequence to other members of the adenylate kinase family including vertebrate AK3. Frameshift mutations obtained after in vitro and in vivo mutagenesis were capable of complementing the adk1 temperature-conditional deficiency in Escherichia coli, indicating that the frameshift led to the expression of a protein that could phosphorylate AMP. Some yeasts, however, including strain D273-10B, two wine yeasts, and two more distantly related yeast genera, harbored an active allele, named AKY3, which contained a +1 frameshift close to the carboxyl terminus as compared with the laboratory strains. The encoded protein exhibited GTP:AMP and ITP:AMP phosphotransferase activities but did not accept ATP as phosphate donor. Although single copy in the haploid genome, disruption of the AKY3 allele displayed no phenotype, excluding the possibility that laboratory and brewers' strains had collected second site suppressors. It must be concluded that yeast mitochondria can completely dispense with GTP:AMP phosphotransferase activity.
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- R Schricker
- Institut für Genetik und Mikrobiologie, Universität München, Germany
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Meiron H, Nahon E, Raveh D. Identification of the heterothallic mutation in HO-endonuclease of S. cerevisiae using HO/ho chimeric genes. Curr Genet 1995; 28:367-73. [PMID: 8590483 DOI: 10.1007/bf00326435] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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HO-endonuclease initiates a mating-type switch in the yeast S. cerevisiae by making a double-strand cleavage in the DNA of the mating-type gene, MAT. Heterothallic strains of yeast have a stable mating type and contain a recessive ho allele. Here we report the sequence of the ho allele; ho has four point mutations all of which encode for substitute amino acids. The fourth mutation is a leucine to histidine substitution within a presumptive zinc finger. Chimeric HO/ho genes were constructed in vivo by converting different parts of the sequence of the genomic ho allele to the HO sequence by gene conversion. HO activity was assessed by three bioassays: a mating-type switch, extinction of expression of an a-specific reporter gene, and the appearance of Canr Ade- papillae resulting from excision of an engineered Ty element containing the HO-endonuclease target site and a SUP4 degrees gene. We found that the replacement of the fourth point mutation in ho to the HO sequence restored HO activity to the chimeric endonuclease.
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- H Meiron
- Department of Life Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel
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McBroom LD, Sadowski PD. Functional analysis of the ABF1-binding sites within the Ya regions of the MATa and HMRa loci of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Curr Genet 1995; 28:1-11. [PMID: 8536307 DOI: 10.1007/bf00311875] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Cell type in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is determined by information present at the MAT locus. Cells can switch mating types when cell-type information located at a silent locus, HML or HMR, is transposed to the MAT locus. The HML and HMR loci are kept silent through the action of a number of proteins, one of which is the DNA-binding protein, ABF1. We have identified a binding site for ABF1 within the Ya region of MATa and HMRa. In order to examine the function of this ABF1-binding site, we have constructed strains that lack the site in the MATa or HMRa loci. Consistent with the idea that ABF1 plays a redundant role in silencing, it was found that a triple deletion of the ABF1-binding sites at HMRE, Ya and I did not permit the expression of HMRa. We have also shown that chromosomal deletion of the binding site at MATYa had no effect on the level of cutting by the HO endonuclease nor on the amount of mating-type switching observed. Similarly, chromosomal deletion of all three ABF1-binding sites at HMRa had no effect on the directionality of mating-type switching.
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- L D McBroom
- Department of Molecular and Medical Genetics, University of Toronto, Canada
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[11] Physical monitoring of mitotic and meiotic recombination in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1995. [DOI: 10.1016/s1067-2389(06)80014-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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All proteins encoded by mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) are dependent on proteins encoded by nuclear genes for their synthesis and function. Recent developments in the identification of these genes and the elucidation of the roles their products play at various stages of mitochondrial gene expression are covered in this review, which focuses mainly on work with the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The high degree of evolutionary conservation of many cellular processes between this yeast and higher eukaryotes, the ease with which mitochondrial biogenesis can be manipulated both genetically and physiologically, and the fact that it will be the first organism for which a complete genomic sequence will be available within the next 2 to 3 years makes it the organism of choice for drawing up an inventory of all nuclear genes involved in mitochondrial biogenesis and for the identification of their counterparts in other organisms.
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- L A Grivell
- Department of Molecular Cell Biology, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Pietrokovski S. Conserved sequence features of inteins (protein introns) and their use in identifying new inteins and related proteins. Protein Sci 1994; 3:2340-50. [PMID: 7756989 PMCID: PMC2142770 DOI: 10.1002/pro.5560031218] [Citation(s) in RCA: 140] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Inteins (protein introns) are internal portions of protein sequences that are posttranslationally excised while the flanking regions are spliced together, making an additional protein product. Inteins have been found in a number of homologous genes in yeast, mycobacteria, and extreme thermophile archaebacteria. The inteins are probably multifunctional, autocatalyzing their own splicing, and some were also shown to be DNA endonucleases. The splice junction regions and two regions similar to homing endonucleases were thought to be the only common sequence features of inteins. This work analyzed all published intein sequences with recently developed methods for detecting weak, conserved sequence features. The methods complemented each other in the identification and assessment of several patterns characterizing the intein sequences. New intein conserved features are discovered and the known ones are quantitatively described and localized. The general sequence description of all the known inteins is derived from the motifs and their relative positions. The intein sequence description is used to search the sequence databases for intein-like proteins. A sequence region in a mycobacterial open reading frame possessing all of the intein motifs and absent from sequences homologous to both of its flanking sequences is identified as an intein. A newly discovered putative intein in red algae chloroplasts is found not to contain the endonuclease motifs present in all other inteins. The yeast HO endonuclease is found to have an overall intein-like structure and a few viral polyprotein cleavage sites are found to be significantly similar to the inteins amino-end splice junction motif. The intein features described may serve for detection of intein sequences.
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- S Pietrokovski
- Department of Structural Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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Clausen M, Lamb CJ, Megnet R, Doerner PW. PAD1 encodes phenylacrylic acid decarboxylase which confers resistance to cinnamic acid in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Gene 1994; 142:107-12. [PMID: 8181743 DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(94)90363-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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The yeast enzyme phenylacrylic acid decarboxylase (PAD) confers resistance to phenylacrylic acids. Cinnamic acid (CA)-sensitive mutants lacking PAD activity were isolated and the PAD1 gene was cloned by phenotypic complementation. The nucleotide sequence of the smallest complementing fragment was determined. The predicted 242-amino-acid PAD polypeptide is 48.6% identical to the product of dedF of Escherichia coli. PAD activity and CA resistance, but not steady-state PAD1 mRNA levels, are influenced by mitochondrial genotype. PAD1 is a single-copy gene in the yeast genome and not essential for viability. The PAD1 locus was physically mapped to a position approx. 140 kb from the left end of chromosome IV.
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- M Clausen
- Plant Biology Laboratory, Salk Institute, San Diego, CA 92186-5800
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Yorihuzi T, Ohsumi Y. Saccharomyces cerevisiae MATa mutant cells defective in pointed projection formation in response to alpha-factor at high concentrations. Yeast 1994; 10:579-94. [PMID: 7941743 DOI: 10.1002/yea.320100503] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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We have isolated Saccharomyces cerevisiae MATa mutant cells that do not form a pointed projection but elongate in response to alpha-factor at high concentrations. Complementation tests defined three genes, PPF1, PPF2, and PPF3 (for pointed projection formation), necessary for pointed projection formation. Allelism tests with genes known to be needed for projection formation revealed that PPF1 is identical to SPA2, while PPF2 and PPF3 are not allelic to SST2, STE2, SPA2, BEM1 or SLK1/SSP31/BCK1. The morphology of MATa ppf mutants treated with high concentrations of alpha-factor is similar to that of MATa PPF cells treated with alpha-factor at low concentrations. Quantitative mating tests showed that PPF2 and PPF3 are not essential for mating in either MATa or MAT alpha background. Monitoring of division arrest and expression of an alpha-factor-inducible gene revealed that mutations in the PPF genes do not affect the responses of MATa cells to low concentrations of alpha-factor. Unlike wild-type cells, the ppf mutants exhibited early recovery from alpha-factor-induced division arrest. Furthermore, vegetatively growing ppf3-1 cells are slightly defective in cell separation of mother and daughter cells and in selection of the correct bud sites in all cell types. These results indicate that PPF2 and PPF3 are involved in the response to alpha-factor at high concentrations and that PPF3 is also required for proper establishment of polarity in vegetative growth.
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- T Yorihuzi
- Department of Biology, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan
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Ludwig DL, Ugolini S, Bruschi CV. High-level heterologous gene expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae from a stable 2 microns plasmid system. Gene 1993; 132:33-40. [PMID: 8406040 DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(93)90511-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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The best candidate for a high-copy-number and mitotic stability expression system in yeast is the endogenous 2 microns plasmid. Nevertheless, derivatives of the 2 microns plasmid typically exhibit lower copy numbers and require selection for adequate maintenance within cells. We report the construction and utilization of an efficient heterologous gene expression system containing a 4.5-kb inducible expression cassette inserted into the 2 microns plasmid and selected in cells utilizing a carrier plasmid which is subsequently lost via FRT/Flp recombination. The non-selectable 2 micron plasmid, containing the cassette, was found to be stably maintained in cells, without selection, at high copy number. The dynamics of resolution and partitioning of this plasmid were analyzed during the course of 50 generations of growth under non-selective conditions. The heterologous lacZ reporter gene coding for beta-galactosidase (beta Gal) is driven by the hybrid, galactose-inducible promoter GAL10::pMF alpha 1. Upon induction, beta Gal was secreted into the periplasm and culture supernatant at levels which could be detected directly from Coomassie blue-stained SDS-PAGE. Furthermore, plasmid-containing cells could be maintained directly on rich YPD medium and identified either by utilizing XGal or by observing inhibition of colony growth on YPGal solid medium. The cassette was designed for direct, high-level, inducible expression of cloned genes downstream from the MF alpha 1 signal sequence, with or without a C-terminal lacZ fusion. This vector represents the first demonstration of a non-selectable, mitotically stable, episomal plasmid system capable of expressing recombinant proteins at high levels.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- D L Ludwig
- Microbiology Department, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Trieste, Italy
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Bilanchone VW, Claypool JA, Kinsey PT, Sandmeyer SB. Positive and negative regulatory elements control expression of the yeast retrotransposon Ty3. Genetics 1993; 134:685-700. [PMID: 8394262 PMCID: PMC1205508 DOI: 10.1093/genetics/134.3.685] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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We report the results of an analysis of Ty3 transcription and identification of Ty3 regions that mediate pheromone and mating-type regulation to coordinate its expression with the yeast life cycle. A set of strains was constructed which was isogenic except for the number of Ty3 elements, which varied from zero to three. Analysis of Ty3 expression in these strains showed that each of the three elements was transcribed and that each element was regulated. Dissection of the long terminal repeat regulatory region by Northern blot analysis of deletion mutants and reporter gene analysis showed that the upstream junction of Ty3 with flanking chromosomal sequences contained a negative control region. A 19-bp fragment (positions 56-74) containing one consensus copy and one 7 of 8-bp match to the pheromone response element (PRE) consensus was sufficient to mediate pheromone induction in either haploid cell type. Deletion of this region, however, did not abolish expression, indicating that other sequences also activate transcription. A 24-bp block immediately downstream of the PRE region contained a sequence similar to the a1-alpha 2 consensus that conferred mating-type control. A single base pair mutation in the region separating the PRE and a1-alpha 2 sequences blocked pheromone induction, but not mating-type control. Thus, the long terminal repeat of Ty3 is a compact, highly regulated, mobile promoter which is responsive to cell type and mating.
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MESH Headings
- Base Sequence
- Cell Cycle/drug effects
- DNA Transposable Elements
- DNA, Fungal
- Gene Expression Regulation, Fungal
- Mating Factor
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutagenesis, Site-Directed
- Peptides/genetics
- Pheromones/pharmacology
- RNA, Fungal/drug effects
- RNA, Transfer, Cys/metabolism
- Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid
- Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae/genetics
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Sequence Deletion
- Transcription, Genetic
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- V W Bilanchone
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Irvine 92717
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Gilliquet V, Berben G. Positive and negative regulators of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae 'PHO system' participate in several cell functions. FEMS Microbiol Lett 1993; 108:333-9. [PMID: 8099891 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.1993.tb06124.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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The yeast PHO regulatory genes are indispensable for the transcriptional control of structural genes involved in phosphate metabolism. Some of these regulatory genes have pleiotropic functions apparently independent of phosphate metabolism. Our results point to an involvement in the life cycle of the PHO2 activator and the PHO85-negative factor and to a reduced ability of the negative pho regulatory mutants, pho80 and pho85, to grow on non-fermentable carbon sources.
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- V Gilliquet
- Unité de Microbiologie, Faculté des Sciences agronomiques, Gembloux, Belgium
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