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Longan ER, Fay JC. The distribution of beneficial mutational effects between two sister yeast species poorly explains natural outcomes of vineyard adaptation. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2024.06.03.597243. [PMID: 38895255 PMCID: PMC11185594 DOI: 10.1101/2024.06.03.597243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/21/2024]
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Domesticated strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae have adapted to resist copper and sulfite, two chemical stressors commonly used in winemaking. S. paradoxus, has not adapted to these chemicals despite being consistently present in sympatry with S. cerevisiae in vineyards. This contrast represents a case of apparent evolutionary constraints favoring greater adaptive capacity in S. cerevisiae. In this study, we used a comparative mutagenesis approach to test whether S. paradoxus is mutationally constrained with respect to acquiring greater copper and sulfite resistance. For both species, we assayed the rate, effect size, and pleiotropic costs of resistance mutations and sequenced a subset of 150 mutants isolated from our screen. We found that the distributions of mutational effects displayed by the two species were very similar and poorly explained the natural pattern. We also found that chromosome VIII aneuploidy and loss of function mutations in PMA1 confer copper resistance in both species, whereas loss of function mutations in REG1 were only a viable route to copper resistance in S. cerevisiae. We also observed a single de novo duplication of the CUP1 gene in S. paradoxus but none in S. cerevisiae. For sulfite, loss of function mutations in RTS1 and KSP1 confer resistance in both species, but mutations in RTS1 have larger average effects in S. paradoxus. Our results show that even when the distributions of mutational effects are largely similar, species can differ in the adaptive paths available to them. They also demonstrate that assays of the distribution of mutational effects may lack predictive insight concerning adaptive outcomes.
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- Emery R. Longan
- University of Rochester, Department of Biology, Rochester, NY, 14620 USA
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- University of Rochester, Department of Biology, Rochester, NY, 14620 USA
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Antunes M, Mota MN, Sá-Correia I. Cell envelope and stress-responsive pathways underlie an evolved oleaginous Rhodotorula toruloides strain multi-stress tolerance. BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR BIOFUELS AND BIOPRODUCTS 2024; 17:71. [PMID: 38807231 PMCID: PMC11134681 DOI: 10.1186/s13068-024-02518-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2024] [Accepted: 05/14/2024] [Indexed: 05/30/2024]
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BACKGROUND The red oleaginous yeast Rhodotorula toruloides is a promising cell factory to produce microbial oils and carotenoids from lignocellulosic hydrolysates (LCH). A multi-stress tolerant strain towards four major inhibitory compounds present in LCH and methanol, was derived in our laboratory from strain IST536 (PYCC 5615) through adaptive laboratory evolution (ALE) under methanol and high glycerol selective pressure. RESULTS Comparative genomic analysis suggested the reduction of the original strain ploidy from triploid to diploid, the occurrence of 21,489 mutations, and 242 genes displaying copy number variants in the evolved strain. Transcriptomic analysis identified 634 genes with altered transcript levels (465 up, 178 down) in the multi-stress tolerant strain. Genes associated with cell surface biogenesis, integrity, and remodelling and involved in stress-responsive pathways exhibit the most substantial alterations at the genome and transcriptome levels. Guided by the suggested stress responses, the multi-stress tolerance phenotype was extended to osmotic, salt, ethanol, oxidative, genotoxic, and medium-chain fatty acid-induced stresses. CONCLUSIONS The comprehensive analysis of this evolved strain provided the opportunity to get mechanistic insights into the acquisition of multi-stress tolerance and a list of promising genes, pathways, and regulatory networks, as targets for synthetic biology approaches applied to promising cell factories, toward more robust and superior industrial strains. This study lays the foundations for understanding the mechanisms underlying tolerance to multiple stresses in R. toruloides, underscoring the potential of ALE for enhancing the robustness of industrial yeast strains.
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- Miguel Antunes
- iBB - Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001, Lisbon, Portugal
- Department of Bioengineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001, Lisbon, Portugal
- Associate Laboratory i4HB - Institute for Health and Bioeconomy, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001, Lisbon, Portugal
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- iBB - Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001, Lisbon, Portugal
- Department of Bioengineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001, Lisbon, Portugal
- Associate Laboratory i4HB - Institute for Health and Bioeconomy, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001, Lisbon, Portugal
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- iBB - Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001, Lisbon, Portugal.
- Department of Bioengineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001, Lisbon, Portugal.
- Associate Laboratory i4HB - Institute for Health and Bioeconomy, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001, Lisbon, Portugal.
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Tong K, Datta S, Cheng V, Haas DJ, Gourisetti S, Yopp HL, Day TC, Lac DT, Conlin PL, Bozdag GO, Ratcliff WC. Whole-genome duplication in the Multicellularity Long Term Evolution Experiment. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2024.04.18.588554. [PMID: 38659912 PMCID: PMC11042302 DOI: 10.1101/2024.04.18.588554] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/26/2024]
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Whole-genome duplication (WGD) is widespread across eukaryotes and can promote adaptive evolution1-4. However, given the instability of newly-formed polyploid genomes5-7, understanding how WGDs arise in a population, persist, and underpin adaptations remains a challenge. Using our ongoing Multicellularity Long Term Evolution Experiment (MuLTEE)8, we show that diploid snowflake yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) under selection for larger multicellular size rapidly undergo spontaneous WGD. From its origin within the first 50 days of the experiment, tetraploids persist for the next 950 days (nearly 5,000 generations, the current leading edge of our experiment) in ten replicate populations, despite being genomically unstable. Using synthetic reconstruction, biophysical modeling, and counter-selection experiments, we found that tetraploidy evolved because it confers immediate fitness benefits in this environment, by producing larger, longer cells that yield larger clusters. The same selective benefit also maintained tetraploidy over long evolutionary timescales, inhibiting the reversion to diploidy that is typically seen in laboratory evolution experiments. Once established, tetraploidy facilitated novel genetic routes for adaptation, playing a key role in the evolution of macroscopic multicellular size via the origin of evolutionarily conserved aneuploidy. These results provide unique empirical insights into the evolutionary dynamics and impacts of WGD, showing how it can initially arise due to its immediate adaptive benefits, be maintained by selection, and fuel long-term innovations by creating additional dimensions of heritable genetic variation.
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- Kai Tong
- School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
- Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Quantitative Biosciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
- Biological Design Center, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
- Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Quantitative Biosciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
- School of Integrative Biology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
- Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
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Mahilkar A, Nagendra P, Venkataraman P, Deshmukh S, Saini S. Rapid evolution of pre-zygotic reproductive barriers in allopatric populations. Microbiol Spectr 2023; 11:e0195023. [PMID: 37787555 PMCID: PMC10714765 DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.01950-23] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2023] [Accepted: 08/14/2023] [Indexed: 10/04/2023] Open
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IMPORTANCE A population diversifies into two or more species-such a process is known as speciation. In sexually reproducing microorganisms, which barriers arise first-pre-mating or post-mating? In this work, we quantify the relative strengths of these barriers and demonstrate that pre-mating barriers arise first in allopatrically evolving populations of yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae. These defects arise because of the altered kinetics of mating of the participating groups. Thus, our work provides an understanding of how adaptive changes can lead to diversification among microbial populations.
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- Anjali Mahilkar
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, Powai, Maharashtra, India
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, Powai, Maharashtra, India
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, Powai, Maharashtra, India
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, Powai, Maharashtra, India
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, Powai, Maharashtra, India
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Sandell L, König SG, Otto SP. Schrödinger's yeast: the challenge of using transformation to compare fitness among Saccharomyces cerevisiae that differ in ploidy or zygosity. PeerJ 2023; 11:e16547. [PMID: 38077443 PMCID: PMC10704993 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.16547] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2023] [Accepted: 11/08/2023] [Indexed: 12/18/2023] Open
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How the number of genome copies modifies the effect of random mutations remains poorly known. In yeast, researchers have investigated these effects for knock-out or other large-effect mutations, but have not accounted for differences at the mating-type locus. We set out to compare fitness differences among strains that differ in ploidy and/or zygosity using a panel of spontaneously arising mutations acquired in haploid yeast from a previous study. To ensure no genetic differences, even at the mating-type locus, we embarked on a series of transformations, which first sterilized and then temporarily introduced plasmid-borne mating types. Despite these attempts to equalize the haplotypes, fitness variation introduced during transformation swamped the differences among the original mutation-accumulation lines. While colony size looked normal, we observed a bi-modality in the maximum growth rate of our transformed yeast and determined that many of the slow growing lines were respiratory deficient ("petite"). Not previously reported, we found that yeast that were TID1/RDH54 knockouts were less likely to become petite. Even for lines with the same petite status, however, we found no correlation in fitness between the two replicate transformations performed. These results pose a challenge for any study using transformation to measure the fitness effect of genetic differences among strains. By attempting to hold haplotypes constant, we introduced more mutations that overwhelmed our ability to measure fitness differences between the genetic states. In this study, we transformed over one hundred different lines of yeast, using two independent transformations, and found that this common laboratory procedure can cause large changes to the microbe studied. Our study provides a cautionary tale of the need to use multiple transformants in fitness assays.
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- Linnea Sandell
- Department of Zoology and Biodiversity Research Center, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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- Department of Zoology and Biodiversity Research Center, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
- Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Zoology and Biodiversity Research Center, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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Busoms S, Fischer S, Yant L. Chasing the mechanisms of ecologically adaptive salinity tolerance. PLANT COMMUNICATIONS 2023; 4:100571. [PMID: 36883005 PMCID: PMC10721451 DOI: 10.1016/j.xplc.2023.100571] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2022] [Revised: 02/12/2023] [Accepted: 03/03/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Plants adapted to challenging environments offer fascinating models of evolutionary change. Importantly, they also give information to meet our pressing need to develop resilient, low-input crops. With mounting environmental fluctuation-including temperature, rainfall, and soil salinity and degradation-this is more urgent than ever. Happily, solutions are hiding in plain sight: the adaptive mechanisms from natural adapted populations, once understood, can then be leveraged. Much recent insight has come from the study of salinity, a widespread factor limiting productivity, with estimates of 20% of all cultivated lands affected. This is an expanding problem, given increasing climate volatility, rising sea levels, and poor irrigation practices. We therefore highlight recent benchmark studies of ecologically adaptive salt tolerance in plants, assessing macro- and microevolutionary mechanisms, and the recently recognized role of ploidy and the microbiome on salinity adaptation. We synthesize insight specifically on naturally evolved adaptive salt-tolerance mechanisms, as these works move substantially beyond traditional mutant or knockout studies, to show how evolution can nimbly "tweak" plant physiology to optimize function. We then point to future directions to advance this field that intersect evolutionary biology, abiotic-stress tolerance, breeding, and molecular plant physiology.
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- Silvia Busoms
- Plant Physiology Laboratory, Bioscience Faculty, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Barcelona E-08193, Spain
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- Future Food Beacon of Excellence, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK; School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK
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- Future Food Beacon of Excellence, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK; School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK.
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Crandall JG, Fisher KJ, Sato TK, Hittinger CT. Ploidy evolution in a wild yeast is linked to an interaction between cell type and metabolism. PLoS Biol 2023; 21:e3001909. [PMID: 37943740 PMCID: PMC10635434 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001909] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2022] [Accepted: 10/06/2023] [Indexed: 11/12/2023] Open
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Ploidy is an evolutionarily labile trait, and its variation across the tree of life has profound impacts on evolutionary trajectories and life histories. The immediate consequences and molecular causes of ploidy variation on organismal fitness are frequently less clear, although extreme mating type skews in some fungi hint at links between cell type and adaptive traits. Here, we report an unusual recurrent ploidy reduction in replicate populations of the budding yeast Saccharomyces eubayanus experimentally evolved for improvement of a key metabolic trait, the ability to use maltose as a carbon source. We find that haploids have a substantial, but conditional, fitness advantage in the absence of other genetic variation. Using engineered genotypes that decouple the effects of ploidy and cell type, we show that increased fitness is primarily due to the distinct transcriptional program deployed by haploid-like cell types, with a significant but smaller contribution from absolute ploidy. The link between cell-type specification and the carbon metabolism adaptation can be traced to the noncanonical regulation of a maltose transporter by a haploid-specific gene. This study provides novel mechanistic insight into the molecular basis of an environment-cell type fitness interaction and illustrates how selection on traits unexpectedly linked to ploidy states or cell types can drive karyotypic evolution in fungi.
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- Johnathan G. Crandall
- Laboratory of Genetics, Wisconsin Energy Institute, J. F. Crow Institute for the Study of Evolution, Center for Genomic Science Innovation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
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- Laboratory of Genetics, Wisconsin Energy Institute, J. F. Crow Institute for the Study of Evolution, Center for Genomic Science Innovation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
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- DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
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- Laboratory of Genetics, Wisconsin Energy Institute, J. F. Crow Institute for the Study of Evolution, Center for Genomic Science Innovation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
- DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
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Wang Y, Li X, Feng Y, Wang J, Zhang J, Liu Z, Wang H, Chen T, He W, Wu Z, Lin Y, Zhang Y, Li M, Chen Q, Zhang Y, Luo Y, Tang H, Wang X. Autotetraploid Origin of Chinese Cherry Revealed by Chromosomal Karyotype and In Situ Hybridization of Seedling Progenies. PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 12:3116. [PMID: 37687365 PMCID: PMC10490022 DOI: 10.3390/plants12173116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2023] [Revised: 08/10/2023] [Accepted: 08/29/2023] [Indexed: 09/10/2023]
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Polyploidy is considered a driving force in plant evolution and diversification. Chinese cherry [Cerasus pseudocerasus (Lindl.) G.Don], an economically important fruit crop native to China, has evolved at the tetraploid level, with a few pentaploid and hexaploid populations. However, its auto- or allo-polyploid origin remains unclear. To address this issue, we analyzed the ploidy levels and rDNA chromosomal distribution in self- and open-pollinated seedling progenies of tetraploid and hexaploid Chinese cherry. Genomic in situ hybridization (GISH) analysis was conducted to reveal the genomic relationships between Chinese cherry and diploid relatives from the genus Cerasus. Both self- and open-pollinated progenies of tetraploid Chinese cherry exhibited tetraploids, pentaploids, and hexaploids, with tetraploids being the most predominant. In the seedling progenies of hexaploid Chinese cherry, the majority of hexaploids and a few pentaploids were observed. A small number of aneuploids were also observed in the seedling progenies. Chromosome 1, characterized by distinct length characteristics, could be considered the representative chromosome of Chinese cherry. The basic Chinese cherry genome carried two 5S rDNA signals with similar intensity, and polyploids had the expected multiples of this copy number. The 5S rDNA sites were located at the per-centromeric regions of the short arm on chromosomes 4 and 5. Three 45S rDNA sites were detected on chr. 3, 4 and 7 in the haploid complement of Chinese cherry. Tetraploids exhibited 12 signals, while pentaploids and hexaploids showed fewer numbers than expected multiples. Based on the GISH signals, Chinese cherry demonstrated relatively close relationships with C. campanulata and C. conradinae, while being distantly related to another fruiting cherry, C. avium. In combination with the above results, our findings suggested that Chinese cherry likely originated from autotetraploidy.
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- Yan Wang
- College of Horticulture, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China; (Y.W.); (X.L.); (Y.F.); (J.W.); (J.Z.); (Z.L.); (H.W.); (W.H.); (Z.W.); (Y.L.); (Y.Z.); (M.L.); (Q.C.); (Y.Z.); (Y.L.); (H.T.)
- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Bioinformatics, Ministry of Education, Chengdu 611130, China
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- College of Horticulture, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China; (Y.W.); (X.L.); (Y.F.); (J.W.); (J.Z.); (Z.L.); (H.W.); (W.H.); (Z.W.); (Y.L.); (Y.Z.); (M.L.); (Q.C.); (Y.Z.); (Y.L.); (H.T.)
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- College of Horticulture, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China; (Y.W.); (X.L.); (Y.F.); (J.W.); (J.Z.); (Z.L.); (H.W.); (W.H.); (Z.W.); (Y.L.); (Y.Z.); (M.L.); (Q.C.); (Y.Z.); (Y.L.); (H.T.)
- Rural Revitalization Service Center, Agricultural and Rural Bureau of Cuiping District Yibin City, Yibin 644000, China
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- College of Horticulture, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China; (Y.W.); (X.L.); (Y.F.); (J.W.); (J.Z.); (Z.L.); (H.W.); (W.H.); (Z.W.); (Y.L.); (Y.Z.); (M.L.); (Q.C.); (Y.Z.); (Y.L.); (H.T.)
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- College of Horticulture, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China; (Y.W.); (X.L.); (Y.F.); (J.W.); (J.Z.); (Z.L.); (H.W.); (W.H.); (Z.W.); (Y.L.); (Y.Z.); (M.L.); (Q.C.); (Y.Z.); (Y.L.); (H.T.)
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- College of Horticulture, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China; (Y.W.); (X.L.); (Y.F.); (J.W.); (J.Z.); (Z.L.); (H.W.); (W.H.); (Z.W.); (Y.L.); (Y.Z.); (M.L.); (Q.C.); (Y.Z.); (Y.L.); (H.T.)
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- College of Horticulture, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China; (Y.W.); (X.L.); (Y.F.); (J.W.); (J.Z.); (Z.L.); (H.W.); (W.H.); (Z.W.); (Y.L.); (Y.Z.); (M.L.); (Q.C.); (Y.Z.); (Y.L.); (H.T.)
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- College of Life Sciences, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya’an 625014, China;
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- College of Horticulture, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China; (Y.W.); (X.L.); (Y.F.); (J.W.); (J.Z.); (Z.L.); (H.W.); (W.H.); (Z.W.); (Y.L.); (Y.Z.); (M.L.); (Q.C.); (Y.Z.); (Y.L.); (H.T.)
- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Bioinformatics, Ministry of Education, Chengdu 611130, China
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- College of Horticulture, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China; (Y.W.); (X.L.); (Y.F.); (J.W.); (J.Z.); (Z.L.); (H.W.); (W.H.); (Z.W.); (Y.L.); (Y.Z.); (M.L.); (Q.C.); (Y.Z.); (Y.L.); (H.T.)
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- College of Horticulture, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China; (Y.W.); (X.L.); (Y.F.); (J.W.); (J.Z.); (Z.L.); (H.W.); (W.H.); (Z.W.); (Y.L.); (Y.Z.); (M.L.); (Q.C.); (Y.Z.); (Y.L.); (H.T.)
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- College of Horticulture, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China; (Y.W.); (X.L.); (Y.F.); (J.W.); (J.Z.); (Z.L.); (H.W.); (W.H.); (Z.W.); (Y.L.); (Y.Z.); (M.L.); (Q.C.); (Y.Z.); (Y.L.); (H.T.)
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- College of Horticulture, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China; (Y.W.); (X.L.); (Y.F.); (J.W.); (J.Z.); (Z.L.); (H.W.); (W.H.); (Z.W.); (Y.L.); (Y.Z.); (M.L.); (Q.C.); (Y.Z.); (Y.L.); (H.T.)
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- College of Horticulture, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China; (Y.W.); (X.L.); (Y.F.); (J.W.); (J.Z.); (Z.L.); (H.W.); (W.H.); (Z.W.); (Y.L.); (Y.Z.); (M.L.); (Q.C.); (Y.Z.); (Y.L.); (H.T.)
- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Bioinformatics, Ministry of Education, Chengdu 611130, China
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- College of Horticulture, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China; (Y.W.); (X.L.); (Y.F.); (J.W.); (J.Z.); (Z.L.); (H.W.); (W.H.); (Z.W.); (Y.L.); (Y.Z.); (M.L.); (Q.C.); (Y.Z.); (Y.L.); (H.T.)
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- College of Horticulture, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China; (Y.W.); (X.L.); (Y.F.); (J.W.); (J.Z.); (Z.L.); (H.W.); (W.H.); (Z.W.); (Y.L.); (Y.Z.); (M.L.); (Q.C.); (Y.Z.); (Y.L.); (H.T.)
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- College of Horticulture, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China; (Y.W.); (X.L.); (Y.F.); (J.W.); (J.Z.); (Z.L.); (H.W.); (W.H.); (Z.W.); (Y.L.); (Y.Z.); (M.L.); (Q.C.); (Y.Z.); (Y.L.); (H.T.)
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- College of Horticulture, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China; (Y.W.); (X.L.); (Y.F.); (J.W.); (J.Z.); (Z.L.); (H.W.); (W.H.); (Z.W.); (Y.L.); (Y.Z.); (M.L.); (Q.C.); (Y.Z.); (Y.L.); (H.T.)
- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Bioinformatics, Ministry of Education, Chengdu 611130, China
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Wu B, Guan X, Deng T, Yang X, Li J, Zhou M, Wang C, Wang S, Yan Q, Shu L, He Q, He Z. Synthetic Denitrifying Communities Reveal a Positive and Dynamic Biodiversity-Ecosystem Functioning Relationship during Experimental Evolution. Microbiol Spectr 2023; 11:e0452822. [PMID: 37154752 PMCID: PMC10269844 DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.04528-22] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2022] [Accepted: 04/04/2023] [Indexed: 05/10/2023] Open
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Biodiversity is vital for ecosystem functions and services, and many studies have reported positive, negative, or neutral biodiversity-ecosystem functioning (BEF) relationships in plant and animal systems. However, if the BEF relationship exists and how it evolves remains elusive in microbial systems. Here, we selected 12 Shewanella denitrifiers to construct synthetic denitrifying communities (SDCs) with a richness gradient spanning 1 to 12 species, which were subjected to approximately 180 days (with 60 transfers) of experimental evolution with generational changes in community functions continuously tracked. A significant positive correlation was observed between community richness and functions, represented by productivity (biomass) and denitrification rate, however, such a positive correlation was transient, only significant in earlier days (0 to 60) during the evolution experiment (180 days). Also, we found that community functions generally increased throughout the evolution experiment. Furthermore, microbial community functions with lower richness exhibited greater increases than those with higher richness. Biodiversity effect analysis revealed positive BEF relationships largely attributable to complementary effects, which were more pronounced in communities with lower richness than those with higher richness. This study is one of the first studies that advances our understanding of BEF relationships and their evolutionary mechanisms in microbial systems, highlighting the crucial role of evolution in predicting the BEF relationship in microbial systems. IMPORTANCE Despite the consensus that biodiversity supports ecosystem functioning, not all experimental models of macro-organisms support this notion with positive, negative, or neutral biodiversity-ecosystem functioning (BEF) relationships reported. The fast-growing, metabolically versatile, and easy manipulation nature of microbial communities allows us to explore well the BEF relationship and further interrogate if the BEF relationship remains constant during long-term community evolution. Here, we constructed multiple synthetic denitrifying communities (SDCs) by randomly selecting species from a candidate pool of 12 Shewanella denitrifiers. These SDCs differ in species richness, spanning 1 to 12 species, and were monitored continuously for community functional shifts during approximately 180-day parallel cultivation. We demonstrated that the BEF relationship was dynamic with initially (day 0 to 60) greater productivity and denitrification among SDCs of higher richness. However, such pattern was reversed thereafter with greater productivity and denitrification increments in lower-richness SDCs, likely due to a greater accumulation of beneficial mutations during the experimental evolution.
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- Bo Wu
- Environmental Microbiomics Research Center, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Environmental Microbiomics Research Center, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Environmental Microbiomics Research Center, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Environmental Microbiomics Research Center, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- College of Agronomy, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, China
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- Environmental Microbiomics Research Center, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Environmental Microbiomics Research Center, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Environmental Microbiomics Research Center, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Environmental Microbiomics Research Center, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Environmental Microbiomics Research Center, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
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- Environmental Microbiomics Research Center, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
- College of Agronomy, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, China
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Todd RT, Soisangwan N, Peters S, Kemp B, Crooks T, Gerstein A, Selmecki A. Antifungal Drug Concentration Impacts the Spectrum of Adaptive Mutations in Candida albicans. Mol Biol Evol 2023; 40:6989826. [PMID: 36649220 PMCID: PMC9887641 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msad009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2022] [Revised: 12/06/2022] [Accepted: 01/04/2023] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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Invasive fungal infections are a leading global cause of human mortality. Only three major classes of antifungal drugs are widely used, and resistance to all three classes can arise rapidly. The most widely prescribed antifungal drug, fluconazole, disseminates rapidly and reaches a wide range of concentrations throughout the body. The impact of drug concentration on the spectrum and effect of mutations acquired during adaptation is not known for any fungal pathogen, and how the specific level of a given stress influences the distribution of beneficial mutations has been poorly explored in general. We evolved 144 lineages from three genetically distinct clinical isolates of Candida albicans to four concentrations of fluconazole (0, 1, 8, and 64 μg/ml) and performed comprehensive phenotypic and genomic comparisons of ancestral and evolved populations. Adaptation to different fluconazole concentrations resulted in distinct adaptive trajectories. In general, lineages evolved to drug concentrations close to their MIC50 (the level of drug that reduces growth by 50% in the ancestor) tended to rapidly evolve an increased MIC50 and acquired distinct segmental aneuploidies and copy number variations. By contrast, lineages evolved to drug concentrations above their ancestral MIC50 tended to acquire a different suite of mutational changes and increased in drug tolerance (the ability of a subpopulation of cells to grow slowly above their MIC50). This is the first evidence that different concentrations of drug can select for different genotypic and phenotypic outcomes in vitro and may explain observed in vivo drug response variation.
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- Robert T Todd
- Present address: Department of Biology, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Department of Microbiology, The University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada,Department of Statistics, The University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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Mahilkar A, Nagendra P, Alugoju P, E R, Saini S. Public good-driven release of heterogeneous resources leads to genotypic diversification of an isogenic yeast population. Evolution 2022; 76:2811-2828. [PMID: 36181481 PMCID: PMC7614384 DOI: 10.1111/evo.14646] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2022] [Accepted: 09/22/2022] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Understanding the basis of biological diversity remains a central problem in evolutionary biology. Using microbial systems, adaptive diversification has been studied in (a) spatially heterogeneous environments, (b) temporally segregated resources, and (c) resource specialization in a homogeneous environment. However, it is not well understood how adaptive diversification can take place in a homogeneous environment containing a single resource. Starting from an isogenic population of yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, we report rapid adaptive diversification, when propagated in an environment containing melibiose as the carbon source. The diversification is driven due to a public good enzyme α-galactosidase, which hydrolyzes melibiose into glucose and galactose. The diversification is driven by mutations at a single locus, in the GAL3 gene in the S. cerevisiae GAL/MEL regulon. We show that metabolic co-operation involving public resources could be an important mode of generating biological diversity. Our study demonstrates sympatric diversification of yeast starting from an isogenic population and provides detailed mechanistic insights into the factors and conditions responsible for generating and maintaining the population diversity.
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- Anjali Mahilkar
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, 400076, India
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, 400076, India
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, 400076, India
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, 400076, India
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, 400076, India
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Avramovska O, Smith AC, Rego E, Hickman MA. Tetraploidy accelerates adaptation under drug selection in a fungal pathogen. FRONTIERS IN FUNGAL BIOLOGY 2022; 3:984377. [PMID: 37746235 PMCID: PMC10512305 DOI: 10.3389/ffunb.2022.984377] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2022] [Accepted: 09/06/2022] [Indexed: 09/26/2023]
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Baseline ploidy significantly impacts evolutionary trajectories and, specifically, tetraploidy is associated with higher rates of adaptation relative to haploidy and diploidy. While the majority of experimental evolution studies investigating ploidy use the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerivisiae, the fungal pathogen Candida albicans is a powerful system to investigate ploidy dynamics, particularly in the context of acquiring antifungal drug resistance. C. albicans laboratory and clinical strains are predominantly diploid, but have been isolated as haploid and polyploid. Here, we evolved diploid and tetraploid C. albicans for ~60 days in the antifungal drug caspofungin. Tetraploid-evolved lines adapted faster than diploid-evolved lines and reached higher levels of caspofungin resistance. While diploid-evolved lines generally maintained their initial genome size, tetraploid-evolved lines rapidly underwent genome-size reductions and did so prior to caspofungin adaptation. While clinical resistance was largely due to mutations in FKS1, these mutations were caused by substitutions in diploid, and indels in tetraploid isolates. Furthermore, fitness costs in the absence of drug selection were significantly less in tetraploid-evolved lines compared to the diploid-evolved lines. Taken together, this work supports a model of adaptation in which the tetraploid state is transient but its ability to rapidly transition ploidy states improves adaptive outcomes and may drive drug resistance in fungal pathogens.
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- Ognenka Avramovska
- Department of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
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- Department of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States
- Division of Viral Disease, CDC Foundation, Atlanta, GA, United States
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- Department of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States
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Yahya G, Menges P, Amponsah PS, Ngandiri DA, Schulz D, Wallek A, Kulak N, Mann M, Cramer P, Savage V, Räschle M, Storchova Z. Sublinear scaling of the cellular proteome with ploidy. Nat Commun 2022; 13:6182. [PMID: 36261409 PMCID: PMC9581932 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-33904-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2021] [Accepted: 10/05/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Ploidy changes are frequent in nature and contribute to evolution, functional specialization and tumorigenesis. Analysis of model organisms of different ploidies revealed that increased ploidy leads to an increase in cell and nuclear volume, reduced proliferation, metabolic changes, lower fitness, and increased genomic instability, but the underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood. To investigate how gene expression changes with cellular ploidy, we analyzed isogenic series of budding yeasts from 1N to 4N. We show that mRNA and protein abundance scales allometrically with ploidy, with tetraploid cells showing only threefold increase in protein abundance compared to haploids. This ploidy-dependent sublinear scaling occurs via decreased rRNA and ribosomal protein abundance and reduced translation. We demonstrate that the activity of Tor1 is reduced with increasing ploidy, which leads to diminished rRNA gene repression via a Tor1-Sch9-Tup1 signaling pathway. mTORC1 and S6K activity are also reduced in human tetraploid cells and the concomitant increase of the Tup1 homolog Tle1 downregulates the rDNA transcription. Our results suggest that the mTORC1-Sch9/S6K-Tup1/TLE1 pathway ensures proteome remodeling in response to increased ploidy.
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- G. Yahya
- grid.7645.00000 0001 2155 0333Department of Molecular Genetics, TU Kaiserslautern, Paul-Ehrlich Str. 24, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany ,grid.31451.320000 0001 2158 2757Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Pharmacy, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt
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- grid.7645.00000 0001 2155 0333Department of Molecular Genetics, TU Kaiserslautern, Paul-Ehrlich Str. 24, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany
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- grid.7645.00000 0001 2155 0333Department of Molecular Genetics, TU Kaiserslautern, Paul-Ehrlich Str. 24, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany
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- grid.7645.00000 0001 2155 0333Department of Molecular Genetics, TU Kaiserslautern, Paul-Ehrlich Str. 24, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany
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- grid.7400.30000 0004 1937 0650Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- grid.418615.f0000 0004 0491 845XMax Planck Institute of Biochemistry, 82152 Martinsried, Germany
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- grid.418615.f0000 0004 0491 845XMax Planck Institute of Biochemistry, 82152 Martinsried, Germany
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- grid.418615.f0000 0004 0491 845XMax Planck Institute of Biochemistry, 82152 Martinsried, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen, Germany
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- grid.19006.3e0000 0000 9632 6718Department of Biomathematics, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA
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- grid.7645.00000 0001 2155 0333Department of Molecular Genetics, TU Kaiserslautern, Paul-Ehrlich Str. 24, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany
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- grid.7645.00000 0001 2155 0333Department of Molecular Genetics, TU Kaiserslautern, Paul-Ehrlich Str. 24, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany
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Bozdag GO, Ono J. Evolution and molecular bases of reproductive isolation. Curr Opin Genet Dev 2022; 76:101952. [PMID: 35849861 PMCID: PMC10210581 DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2022.101952] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2022] [Revised: 05/31/2022] [Accepted: 06/14/2022] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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The most challenging problem in speciation research is disentangling the relative strength and order in which different reproductive barriers evolve. Here, we review recent developments in the study of reproductive isolation in yeasts. With over a thousand genome-sequenced isolates readily available for testing the viability, sterility, and fitness of both intraspecies and interspecies hybrid crosses, Saccharomyces yeasts are an ideal model to study such fundamental questions. Our survey demonstrates that, while chromosomal-level mutations are widespread at the intraspecific level, anti-recombination-driven chromosome missegregation is the primary reproductive barrier between species. Finally, despite their strength, all of these postzygotic barriers can be resolved through the asexual life history of hybrids.
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- G Ozan Bozdag
- School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA. https://twitter.com/ozan_g_b
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- Centre for Life's Origins and Evolution, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
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Swamy KBS, Lee HY, Ladra C, Liu CFJ, Chao JC, Chen YY, Leu JY. Proteotoxicity caused by perturbed protein complexes underlies hybrid incompatibility in yeast. Nat Commun 2022; 13:4394. [PMID: 35906261 PMCID: PMC9338014 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-32107-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2021] [Accepted: 07/18/2022] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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Dobzhansky–Muller incompatibilities represent a major driver of reproductive isolation between species. They are caused when interacting components encoded by alleles from different species cannot function properly when mixed. At incipient stages of speciation, complex incompatibilities involving multiple genetic loci with weak effects are frequently observed, but the underlying mechanisms remain elusive. Here we show perturbed proteostasis leading to compromised mitosis and meiosis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae hybrid lines carrying one or two chromosomes from Saccharomyces bayanus var. uvarum. Levels of proteotoxicity are correlated with the number of protein complexes on replaced chromosomes. Proteomic approaches reveal that multi-protein complexes with subunits encoded by replaced chromosomes tend to be unstable. Furthermore, hybrid defects can be alleviated or aggravated, respectively, by up- or down-regulating the ubiquitin-proteasomal degradation machinery, suggesting that destabilized complex subunits overburden the proteostasis machinery and compromise hybrid fitness. Our findings reveal the general role of impaired protein complex assembly in complex incompatibilities. Hybrid incompatibility can be an important element of reproductive isolation and speciation. Using chromosome replacement lines of yeast, the authors show that perturbed proteostasis caused by destabilized hybrid protein complexes may represent a general mechanism of hybrid incompatibility.
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- Krishna B S Swamy
- Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan.,Division of Biological and Life Sciences, School of Arts and Sciences, Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad, 380009, India
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- Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan
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- Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan
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- Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan
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- Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan
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- Institute of Biological Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan
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- Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan.
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Breeding and domestication have generated widely exploited crops, animals and microbes. However, many Saccharomyces cerevisiae industrial strains have complex polyploid genomes and are sterile, preventing genetic improvement strategies based on breeding. Here, we present a strain improvement approach based on the budding yeasts' property to promote genetic recombination when meiosis is interrupted and cells return-to-mitotic-growth (RTG). We demonstrate that two unrelated sterile industrial strains with complex triploid and tetraploid genomes are RTG-competent and develop a visual screening for easy and high-throughput identification of recombined RTG clones based on colony phenotypes. Sequencing of the evolved clones reveal unprecedented levels of RTG-induced genome-wide recombination. We generate and extensively phenotype a RTG library and identify clones with superior biotechnological traits. Thus, we propose the RTG-framework as a fully non-GMO workflow to rapidly improve industrial yeasts that can be easily brought to the market.
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Aggeli D, Marad DA, Liu X, Buskirk SW, Levy SF, Lang GI. Overdominant and partially dominant mutations drive clonal adaptation in diploid Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Genetics 2022; 221:6569837. [PMID: 35435209 PMCID: PMC9157133 DOI: 10.1093/genetics/iyac061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2021] [Accepted: 04/06/2022] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Identification of adaptive targets in experimental evolution typically relies on extensive replication and genetic reconstruction. An alternative approach is to directly assay all mutations in an evolved clone by generating pools of segregants that contain random combinations of evolved mutations. Here, we apply this method to six Saccharomyces cerevisiae clones isolated from four diploid populations that were clonally evolved for 2,000 generations in rich glucose medium. Each clone contains 17-26 mutations relative to the ancestor. We derived intermediate genotypes between the founder and the evolved clones by bulk mating sporulated cultures of the evolved clones to a barcoded haploid version of the ancestor. We competed the resulting barcoded diploids en masse and quantified fitness in the experimental and alternative environments by barcode sequencing. We estimated average fitness effects of evolved mutations using barcode-based fitness assays and whole genome sequencing for a subset of segregants. In contrast to our previous work with haploid evolved clones, we find that diploids carry fewer beneficial mutations, with modest fitness effects (up to 5.4%) in the environment in which they arose. In agreement with theoretical expectations, reconstruction experiments show that all mutations with a detectable fitness effect manifest some degree of dominance over the ancestral allele, and most are overdominant. Genotypes with lower fitness effects in alternative environments allowed us to identify conditions that drive adaptation in our system.
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- Dimitra Aggeli
- Department of Biological Sciences, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA18015, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA18015, USA
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- Joint Initiative for Metrology in Biology, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA94025, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA18015, USA.,Department of Biology, West Chester University, West Chester, PA19383, USA
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- Joint Initiative for Metrology in Biology, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA94025, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA18015, USA
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Rajeshkannan, Mahilkar A, Saini S. GAL Regulon in the Yeast S. cerevisiae is Highly Evolvable via Acquisition in the Coding Regions of the Regulatory Elements of the Network. Front Mol Biosci 2022; 9:801011. [PMID: 35372523 PMCID: PMC8964464 DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2022.801011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2021] [Accepted: 02/22/2022] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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GAL network in the yeast S. cerevisiae is one of the most well-characterized regulatory network. Expression of GAL genes is contingent on exposure to galactose, and an appropriate combination of the alleles of the regulatory genes GAL3, GAL1, GAL80, and GAL4. The presence of multiple regulators in the GAL network makes it unique, as compared to the many sugar utilization networks studied in bacteria. For example, utilization of lactose is controlled by a single regulator LacI, in E. coli’s lac operon. Moreover, recent work has demonstrated that multiple alleles of these regulatory proteins are present in yeast isolated from ecological niches. In this work, we develop a mathematical model, and demonstrate via deterministic and stochastic runs of the model, that behavior/gene expression patterns of the cells (at a population level, and at a single-cell resolution) can be modulated by altering the binding affinities between the regulatory proteins. This adaptability is likely the key to explaining the multiple GAL regulatory alleles discovered in ecological isolates in recent years.
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Solieri L, Cassanelli S, Huff F, Barroso L, Branduardi P, Louis EJ, Morrissey JP. Insights on life cycle and cell identity regulatory circuits for unlocking genetic improvement in Zygosaccharomyces and Kluyveromyces yeasts. FEMS Yeast Res 2021; 21:foab058. [PMID: 34791177 PMCID: PMC8673824 DOI: 10.1093/femsyr/foab058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2021] [Accepted: 11/14/2021] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Evolution has provided a vast diversity of yeasts that play fundamental roles in nature and society. This diversity is not limited to genotypically homogeneous species with natural interspecies hybrids and allodiploids that blur species boundaries frequently isolated. Thus, life cycle and the nature of breeding systems have profound effects on genome variation, shaping heterozygosity, genotype diversity and ploidy level. The apparent enrichment of hybrids in industry-related environments suggests that hybridization provides an adaptive route against stressors and creates interest in developing new hybrids for biotechnological uses. For example, in the Saccharomyces genus where regulatory circuits controlling cell identity, mating competence and meiosis commitment have been extensively studied, this body of knowledge is being used to combine interesting traits into synthetic F1 hybrids, to bypass F1 hybrid sterility and to dissect complex phenotypes by bulk segregant analysis. Although these aspects are less known in other industrially promising yeasts, advances in whole-genome sequencing and analysis are changing this and new insights are being gained, especially in the food-associated genera Zygosaccharomyces and Kluyveromyces. We discuss this new knowledge and highlight how deciphering cell identity circuits in these lineages will contribute significantly to identify the genetic determinants underpinning complex phenotypes and open new avenues for breeding programmes.
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- Lisa Solieri
- Department of Life Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Via Amendola 2, 42122 Reggio Emilia, Italy
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- Department of Life Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Via Amendola 2, 42122 Reggio Emilia, Italy
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- School of Microbiology, APC Microbiome Ireland, Environmental Research Institute, University College Cork, Cork T12 K8AF, Ireland
- Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
- Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences, University of Milano Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza, 2-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences, University of Milano Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza, 2-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
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- School of Microbiology, APC Microbiome Ireland, Environmental Research Institute, University College Cork, Cork T12 K8AF, Ireland
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Fumasoni M, Murray AW. Ploidy and recombination proficiency shape the evolutionary adaptation to constitutive DNA replication stress. PLoS Genet 2021; 17:e1009875. [PMID: 34752451 PMCID: PMC8604288 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1009875] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2021] [Revised: 11/19/2021] [Accepted: 10/13/2021] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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In haploid budding yeast, evolutionary adaptation to constitutive DNA replication stress alters three genome maintenance modules: DNA replication, the DNA damage checkpoint, and sister chromatid cohesion. We asked how these trajectories depend on genomic features by comparing the adaptation in three strains: haploids, diploids, and recombination deficient haploids. In all three, adaptation happens within 1000 generations at rates that are correlated with the initial fitness defect of the ancestors. Mutations in individual genes are selected at different frequencies in populations with different genomic features, but the benefits these mutations confer are similar in the three strains, and combinations of these mutations reproduce the fitness gains of evolved populations. Despite the differences in the selected mutations, adaptation targets the same three functional modules in strains with different genomic features, revealing a common evolutionary response to constitutive DNA replication stress.
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- Marco Fumasoni
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Seven Years at High Salinity-Experimental Evolution of the Extremely Halotolerant Black Yeast Hortaea werneckii. J Fungi (Basel) 2021; 7:jof7090723. [PMID: 34575761 PMCID: PMC8468603 DOI: 10.3390/jof7090723] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2021] [Revised: 08/30/2021] [Accepted: 09/02/2021] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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The experimental evolution of microorganisms exposed to extreme conditions can provide insight into cellular adaptation to stress. Typically, stress-sensitive species are exposed to stress over many generations and then examined for improvements in their stress tolerance. In contrast, when starting with an already stress-tolerant progenitor there may be less room for further improvement, it may still be able to tweak its cellular machinery to increase extremotolerance, perhaps at the cost of poorer performance under non-extreme conditions. To investigate these possibilities, a strain of extremely halotolerant black yeast Hortaea werneckii was grown for over seven years through at least 800 generations in a medium containing 4.3 M NaCl. Although this salinity is well above the optimum (0.8–1.7 M) for the species, the growth rate of the evolved H. werneckii did not change in the absence of salt or at high concentrations of NaCl, KCl, sorbitol, or glycerol. Other phenotypic traits did change during the course of the experimental evolution, including fewer multicellular chains in the evolved strains, significantly narrower cells, increased resistance to caspofungin, and altered melanisation. Whole-genome sequencing revealed the occurrence of multiple aneuploidies during the experimental evolution of the otherwise diploid H. werneckii. A significant overrepresentation of several gene groups was observed in aneuploid regions. Taken together, these changes suggest that long-term growth at extreme salinity led to alterations in cell wall and morphology, signalling pathways, and the pentose phosphate cycle. Although there is currently limited evidence for the adaptive value of these changes, they offer promising starting points for future studies of fungal halotolerance.
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Changes in the distribution of fitness effects and adaptive mutational spectra following a single first step towards adaptation. Nat Commun 2021; 12:5193. [PMID: 34465770 PMCID: PMC8408183 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-25440-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2020] [Accepted: 08/11/2021] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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Historical contingency and diminishing returns epistasis have been typically studied for relatively divergent genotypes and/or over long evolutionary timescales. Here, we use Saccharomyces cerevisiae to study the extent of diminishing returns and the changes in the adaptive mutational spectra following a single first adaptive mutational step. We further evolve three clones that arose under identical conditions from a common ancestor. We follow their evolutionary dynamics by lineage tracking and determine adaptive outcomes using fitness assays and whole genome sequencing. We find that diminishing returns manifests as smaller fitness gains during the 2nd step of adaptation compared to the 1st step, mainly due to a compressed distribution of fitness effects. We also find that the beneficial mutational spectra for the 2nd adaptive step are contingent on the 1st step, as we see both shared and diverging adaptive strategies. Finally, we find that adaptive loss-of-function mutations, such as nonsense and frameshift mutations, are less common in the second step of adaptation than in the first step. Analyses of both natural and experimental evolution suggest that adaptation depends on the evolutionary past and adaptive potential decreases over time. Here, by tracking yeast adaptation with DNA barcoding, the authors show that such evolutionary phenomena can be observed even after a single adaptive step.
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Tung S, Bakerlee CW, Phillips AM, Nguyen Ba AN, Desai MM. The genetic basis of differential autodiploidization in evolving yeast populations. G3 GENES|GENOMES|GENETICS 2021; 11:6291244. [PMID: 34849811 PMCID: PMC8496219 DOI: 10.1093/g3journal/jkab192] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2021] [Accepted: 05/26/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Spontaneous whole-genome duplication, or autodiploidization, is a common route to adaptation in experimental evolution of haploid budding yeast populations. The rate at which autodiploids fix in these populations appears to vary across strain backgrounds, but the genetic basis of these differences remains poorly characterized. Here, we show that the frequency of autodiploidization differs dramatically between two closely related laboratory strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, BY4741 and W303. To investigate the genetic basis of this difference, we crossed these strains to generate hundreds of unique F1 segregants and tested the tendency of each segregant to autodiplodize across hundreds of generations of laboratory evolution. We find that variants in the SSD1 gene are the primary genetic determinant of differences in autodiploidization. We then used multiple laboratory and wild strains of S. cerevisiae to show that clonal populations of strains with a functional copy of SSD1 autodiploidize more frequently in evolution experiments, while knocking out this gene or replacing it with the W303 allele reduces autodiploidization propensity across all genetic backgrounds tested. These results suggest a potential strategy for modifying rates of spontaneous whole-genome duplications in laboratory evolution experiments in haploid budding yeast. They may also have relevance to other settings in which eukaryotic genome stability plays an important role, such as biomanufacturing and the treatment of pathogenic fungal diseases and cancers.
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- Sudipta Tung
- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
- The Lakshmi Mittal And Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
- Quantitative Biology Initiative, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
- NSF-Simons Center for Mathematical and Statistical Analysis of Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
- Quantitative Biology Initiative, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
- NSF-Simons Center for Mathematical and Statistical Analysis of Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
- Quantitative Biology Initiative, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
- NSF-Simons Center for Mathematical and Statistical Analysis of Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
- Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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Pentz JT, Lind PA. Forecasting of phenotypic and genetic outcomes of experimental evolution in Pseudomonas protegens. PLoS Genet 2021; 17:e1009722. [PMID: 34351900 PMCID: PMC8370652 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1009722] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2021] [Revised: 08/17/2021] [Accepted: 07/16/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Experimental evolution with microbes is often highly repeatable under identical conditions, suggesting the possibility to predict short-term evolution. However, it is not clear to what degree evolutionary forecasts can be extended to related species in non-identical environments, which would allow testing of general predictive models and fundamental biological assumptions. To develop an extended model system for evolutionary forecasting, we used previous data and models of the genotype-to-phenotype map from the wrinkly spreader system in Pseudomonas fluorescens SBW25 to make predictions of evolutionary outcomes on different biological levels for Pseudomonas protegens Pf-5. In addition to sequence divergence (78% amino acid and 81% nucleotide identity) for the genes targeted by mutations, these species also differ in the inability of Pf-5 to make cellulose, which is the main structural basis for the adaptive phenotype in SBW25. The experimental conditions were changed compared to the SBW25 system to test if forecasts were extendable to a non-identical environment. Forty-three mutants with increased ability to colonize the air-liquid interface were isolated, and the majority had reduced motility and was partly dependent on the Pel exopolysaccharide as a structural component. Most (38/43) mutations are expected to disrupt negative regulation of the same three diguanylate cyclases as in SBW25, with a smaller number of mutations in promoter regions, including an uncharacterized polysaccharide synthase operon. A mathematical model developed for SBW25 predicted the order of the three main pathways and the genes targeted by mutations, but differences in fitness between mutants and mutational biases also appear to influence outcomes. Mutated regions in proteins could be predicted in most cases (16/22), but parallelism at the nucleotide level was low and mutational hot spot sites were not conserved. This study demonstrates the potential of short-term evolutionary forecasting in experimental populations and provides testable predictions for evolutionary outcomes in other Pseudomonas species.
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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van Leeuwen J, Pons C, Tan G, Wang JZ, Hou J, Weile J, Gebbia M, Liang W, Shuteriqi E, Li Z, Lopes M, Ušaj M, Dos Santos Lopes A, van Lieshout N, Myers CL, Roth FP, Aloy P, Andrews BJ, Boone C. Systematic analysis of bypass suppression of essential genes. Mol Syst Biol 2021; 16:e9828. [PMID: 32939983 PMCID: PMC7507402 DOI: 10.15252/msb.20209828] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2020] [Revised: 08/11/2020] [Accepted: 08/13/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Essential genes tend to be highly conserved across eukaryotes, but, in some cases, their critical roles can be bypassed through genetic rewiring. From a systematic analysis of 728 different essential yeast genes, we discovered that 124 (17%) were dispensable essential genes. Through whole-genome sequencing and detailed genetic analysis, we investigated the genetic interactions and genome alterations underlying bypass suppression. Dispensable essential genes often had paralogs, were enriched for genes encoding membrane-associated proteins, and were depleted for members of protein complexes. Functionally related genes frequently drove the bypass suppression interactions. These gene properties were predictive of essential gene dispensability and of specific suppressors among hundreds of genes on aneuploid chromosomes. Our findings identify yeast's core essential gene set and reveal that the properties of dispensable essential genes are conserved from yeast to human cells, correlating with human genes that display cell line-specific essentiality in the Cancer Dependency Map (DepMap) project.
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- Jolanda van Leeuwen
- Center for Integrative Genomics, Bâtiment Génopode, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.,Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), The Barcelona Institute for Science and Technology, Barcelona, Spain
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- Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.,Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.,Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.,Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.,Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Center for Integrative Genomics, Bâtiment Génopode, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Center for Integrative Genomics, Bâtiment Génopode, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.,Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.,Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.,Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, Toronto, ON, Canada.,Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), The Barcelona Institute for Science and Technology, Barcelona, Spain.,Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain
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- Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.,Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.,Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Dandage R, Berger CM, Gagnon-Arsenault I, Moon KM, Stacey RG, Foster LJ, Landry CR. Frequent Assembly of Chimeric Complexes in the Protein Interaction Network of an Interspecies Yeast Hybrid. Mol Biol Evol 2021; 38:1384-1401. [PMID: 33252673 PMCID: PMC8042767 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msaa298] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Hybrids between species often show extreme phenotypes, including some that take place at the molecular level. In this study, we investigated the phenotypes of an interspecies diploid hybrid in terms of protein–protein interactions inferred from protein correlation profiling. We used two yeast species, Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Saccharomyces uvarum, which are interfertile, but yet have proteins diverged enough to be differentiated using mass spectrometry. Most of the protein–protein interactions are similar between hybrid and parents, and are consistent with the assembly of chimeric complexes, which we validated using an orthogonal approach for the prefoldin complex. We also identified instances of altered protein–protein interactions in the hybrid, for instance, in complexes related to proteostasis and in mitochondrial protein complexes. Overall, this study uncovers the likely frequent occurrence of chimeric protein complexes with few exceptions, which may result from incompatibilities or imbalances between the parental proteomes.
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- Rohan Dandage
- Département de Biochimie, Microbiologie et Bio-informatique, Faculté des Sciences et de Génie, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada.,PROTEO, Le Réseau Québécois de Recherche sur la Fonction, la Structure et L'ingénierie des Protéines, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada.,Centre de Recherche en Données Massives (CRDM), Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada.,Département de Biologie, Faculté des Sciences et de Génie, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada
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- Département de Biochimie, Microbiologie et Bio-informatique, Faculté des Sciences et de Génie, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada.,PROTEO, Le Réseau Québécois de Recherche sur la Fonction, la Structure et L'ingénierie des Protéines, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada.,Centre de Recherche en Données Massives (CRDM), Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada.,Département de Biologie, Faculté des Sciences et de Génie, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada
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- Département de Biochimie, Microbiologie et Bio-informatique, Faculté des Sciences et de Génie, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada.,PROTEO, Le Réseau Québécois de Recherche sur la Fonction, la Structure et L'ingénierie des Protéines, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada.,Centre de Recherche en Données Massives (CRDM), Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada.,Département de Biologie, Faculté des Sciences et de Génie, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, and Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, and Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, and Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Département de Biochimie, Microbiologie et Bio-informatique, Faculté des Sciences et de Génie, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada.,PROTEO, Le Réseau Québécois de Recherche sur la Fonction, la Structure et L'ingénierie des Protéines, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada.,Centre de Recherche en Données Massives (CRDM), Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada.,Département de Biologie, Faculté des Sciences et de Génie, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada
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Wing KM, Phillips MA, Baker AR, Burke MK. Consequences of Cryopreservation in Diverse Natural Isolates of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Genome Biol Evol 2021; 12:1302-1312. [PMID: 32609330 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evaa121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/08/2020] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Experimental evolution allows the observation of change over time as laboratory populations evolve in response to novel, controlled environments. Microbial evolution experiments take advantage of cryopreservation to archive experimental populations in glycerol media, creating a frozen, living "fossil" record. Prior research with Escherichia coli has shown that cryopreservation conditions can affect cell viability and that allele frequencies across the genome can change in response to a freeze-thaw event. We expand on these observations by characterizing fitness and genomic consequences of multiple freeze-thaw cycles in diploid yeast populations. Our study system is a highly recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae population (SGRP-4X) that harbors standing genetic variation that cryopreservation may threaten. We also investigate the four parental isogenic strains crossed to create the SGRP-4X. We measure cell viability over five consecutive freeze-thaw cycles; whereas we find that viability increases over time in the evolved recombinant populations, we observe no such viability improvements in the parental strains. We also collect genome-wide sequence data from experimental populations initially, after one freeze-thaw, and after five freeze-thaw cycles. In the recombinant evolved populations, we find a region of significant allele frequency change on chromosome 15 containing the ALR1 gene. In the parental strains, we find little evidence for new mutations. We conclude that cryopreserving yeast populations with standing genetic variation may have both phenotypic and genomic consequences, though the same cryopreservation practices may have only small impacts on populations with little or no initial variation.
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- Kieslana M Wing
- Department of Integrative Biology, Oregon State University, Corvallis
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- Department of Integrative Biology, Oregon State University, Corvallis
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- Department of Integrative Biology, Oregon State University, Corvallis
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- Department of Integrative Biology, Oregon State University, Corvallis
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Nielsen KN, Salgado JFM, Natsopoulou ME, Kristensen T, Stajich JE, De Fine Licht HH. Diploidy within a Haploid Genus of Entomopathogenic Fungi. Genome Biol Evol 2021; 13:evab158. [PMID: 34247231 PMCID: PMC8325562 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evab158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/02/2021] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Fungi in the genus Metarhizium are soil-borne plant-root endophytes and rhizosphere colonizers, but also potent insect pathogens with highly variable host ranges. These ascomycete fungi are predominantly asexually reproducing and ancestrally haploid, but two independent origins of persistent diploidy within the Coleoptera-infecting Metarhizium majus species complex are known and has been attributed to incomplete chromosomal segregation following meiosis during the sexual cycle. There is also evidence for infrequent sexual cycles in the locust-specific pathogenic fungus Metarhizium acridum (Hypocreales: Clavicipitaceae), which is an important entomopathogenic biocontrol agent used for the control of grasshoppers in agricultural systems as an alternative to chemical control. Here, we show that the genome of the M. acridum isolate ARSEF 324, which is formulated and commercially utilized is functionally diploid. We used single-molecule real-time sequencing technology to complete a high-quality assembly of ARSEF 324. K-mer frequencies, intragenomic collinearity between contigs and single nucleotide variant read depths across the genome revealed the first incidence of diploidy described within the species M. acridum. The haploid assembly of 44.7 Mb consisted of 20.8% repetitive elements, which is the highest proportion described of any Metarhizium species. The long-read diploid genome assembly sheds light on past research on this strain, such as unusual high UVB tolerance. The data presented here could fuel future investigation into the fitness landscape of fungi with infrequent sexual reproduction and aberrant ploidy levels, not least in the context of biocontrol agents.
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- Knud Nor Nielsen
- Section for Organismal Biology, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg C, Denmark
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- Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of California Riverside, California, USA
- Instituto de Microbiologia Paulo de Góes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Section for Organismal Biology, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg C, Denmark
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- Section for Organismal Biology, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg C, Denmark
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- Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of California Riverside, California, USA
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- Section for Organismal Biology, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg C, Denmark
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Kiktev DA, Dominska M, Zhang T, Dahl J, Stepchenkova EI, Mieczkowski P, Burgers PM, Lujan S, Burkholder A, Kunkel TA, Petes TD. The fidelity of DNA replication, particularly on GC-rich templates, is reduced by defects of the Fe-S cluster in DNA polymerase δ. Nucleic Acids Res 2021; 49:5623-5636. [PMID: 34019669 PMCID: PMC8191807 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkab371] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2021] [Revised: 04/22/2021] [Accepted: 05/16/2021] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Iron-sulfur clusters (4Fe–4S) exist in many enzymes concerned with DNA replication and repair. The contribution of these clusters to enzymatic activity is not fully understood. We identified the MET18 (MMS19) gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a strong mutator on GC-rich genes. Met18p is required for the efficient insertion of iron-sulfur clusters into various proteins. met18 mutants have an elevated rate of deletions between short flanking repeats, consistent with increased DNA polymerase slippage. This phenotype is very similar to that observed in mutants of POL3 (encoding the catalytic subunit of Pol δ) that weaken binding of the iron-sulfur cluster. Comparable mutants of POL2 (Pol ϵ) do not elevate deletions. Further support for the conclusion that met18 strains result in impaired DNA synthesis by Pol δ are the observations that Pol δ isolated from met18 strains has less bound iron and is less processive in vitro than the wild-type holoenzyme.
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- Denis A Kiktev
- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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- Genome Integrity and Structural Biology Laboratory, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, Saint-Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia.,Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Saint-Petersburg Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7264, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Genome Integrity and Structural Biology Laboratory, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
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- Office of Environmental Science Cyberinfrastructure, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
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- Genome Integrity and Structural Biology Laboratory, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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Gonzalez R, Morales P. Truth in wine yeast. Microb Biotechnol 2021; 15:1339-1356. [PMID: 34173338 PMCID: PMC9049622 DOI: 10.1111/1751-7915.13848] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2021] [Revised: 05/13/2021] [Accepted: 05/17/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Evolutionary history and early association with anthropogenic environments have made Saccharomyces cerevisiae the quintessential wine yeast. This species typically dominates any spontaneous wine fermentation and, until recently, virtually all commercially available wine starters belonged to this species. The Crabtree effect, and the ability to grow under fully anaerobic conditions, contribute decisively to their dominance in this environment. But not all strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae are equally suitable as starter cultures. In this article, we review the physiological and genetic characteristics of S. cerevisiae wine strains, as well as the biotic and abiotic factors that have shaped them through evolution. Limited genetic diversity of this group of yeasts could be a constraint to solving the new challenges of oenology. However, research in this field has for many years been providing tools to increase this diversity, from genetic engineering and classical genetic tools to the inclusion of other yeast species in the catalogues of wine yeasts. On occasion, these less conventional species may contribute to the generation of interspecific hybrids with S. cerevisiae. Thus, our knowledge about wine strains of S. cerevisiae and other wine yeasts is constantly expanding. Over the last decades, wine yeast research has been a pillar for the modernisation of oenology, and we can be confident that yeast biotechnology will keep contributing to solving any challenges, such as climate change, that we may face in the future.
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- Ramon Gonzalez
- Instituto de Ciencias de la Vid y del Vino (CSIC, Gobierno de la Rioja, Universidad de La Rioja), Finca La Grajera, Carretera de Burgos, km 6, Logroño, La Rioja, 26071, Spain
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- Instituto de Ciencias de la Vid y del Vino (CSIC, Gobierno de la Rioja, Universidad de La Rioja), Finca La Grajera, Carretera de Burgos, km 6, Logroño, La Rioja, 26071, Spain
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Wronska AK, van den Broek M, Perli T, de Hulster E, Pronk JT, Daran JM. Engineering oxygen-independent biotin biosynthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Metab Eng 2021; 67:88-103. [PMID: 34052444 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2021.05.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2021] [Revised: 05/17/2021] [Accepted: 05/23/2021] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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An oxygen requirement for de novo biotin synthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae precludes the application of biotin-prototrophic strains in anoxic processes that use biotin-free media. To overcome this issue, this study explores introduction of the oxygen-independent Escherichia coli biotin-biosynthesis pathway in S. cerevisiae. Implementation of this pathway required expression of seven E. coli genes involved in fatty-acid synthesis and three E. coli genes essential for the formation of a pimelate thioester, key precursor of biotin synthesis. A yeast strain expressing these genes readily grew in biotin-free medium, irrespective of the presence of oxygen. However, the engineered strain exhibited specific growth rates 25% lower in biotin-free media than in biotin-supplemented media. Following adaptive laboratory evolution in anoxic cultures, evolved cell lines that no longer showed this growth difference in controlled bioreactors, were characterized by genome sequencing and proteome analyses. The evolved isolates exhibited a whole-genome duplication accompanied with an alteration in the relative gene dosages of biosynthetic pathway genes. These alterations resulted in a reduced abundance of the enzymes catalyzing the first three steps of the E. coli biotin pathway. The evolved pathway configuration was reverse engineered in the diploid industrial S. cerevisiae strain Ethanol Red. The resulting strain grew at nearly the same rate in biotin-supplemented and biotin-free media non-controlled batches performed in an anaerobic chamber. This study established an unique genetic engineering strategy to enable biotin-independent anoxic growth of S. cerevisiae and demonstrated its portability in industrial strain backgrounds.
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- Anna K Wronska
- Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, Van der Maasweg 9, 2629, HZ, Delft, the Netherlands.
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- Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, Van der Maasweg 9, 2629, HZ, Delft, the Netherlands.
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- Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, Van der Maasweg 9, 2629, HZ, Delft, the Netherlands.
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- Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, Van der Maasweg 9, 2629, HZ, Delft, the Netherlands.
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- Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, Van der Maasweg 9, 2629, HZ, Delft, the Netherlands.
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- Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, Van der Maasweg 9, 2629, HZ, Delft, the Netherlands.
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Klim J, Zielenkiewicz U, Skoneczny M, Skoneczna A, Kurlandzka A, Kaczanowski S. Genetic interaction network has a very limited impact on the evolutionary trajectories in continuous culture-grown populations of yeast. BMC Ecol Evol 2021; 21:99. [PMID: 34039270 PMCID: PMC8157726 DOI: 10.1186/s12862-021-01830-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2020] [Accepted: 05/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Background The impact of genetic interaction networks on evolution is a fundamental issue. Previous studies have demonstrated that the topology of the network is determined by the properties of the cellular machinery. Functionally related genes frequently interact with one another, and they establish modules, e.g., modules of protein complexes and biochemical pathways. In this study, we experimentally tested the hypothesis that compensatory evolutionary modifications, such as mutations and transcriptional changes, occur frequently in genes from perturbed modules of interacting genes. Results Using Saccharomyces cerevisiae haploid deletion mutants as a model, we investigated two modules lacking COG7 or NUP133, which are evolutionarily conserved genes with many interactions. We performed laboratory evolution experiments with these strains in two genetic backgrounds (with or without additional deletion of MSH2), subjecting them to continuous culture in a non-limiting minimal medium. Next, the evolved yeast populations were characterized through whole-genome sequencing and transcriptome analyses. No obvious compensatory changes resulting from inactivation of genes already included in modules were identified. The supposedly compensatory inactivation of genes in the evolved strains was only rarely observed to be in accordance with the established fitness effect of the genetic interaction network. In fact, a substantial majority of the gene inactivations were predicted to be neutral in the experimental conditions used to determine the interaction network. Similarly, transcriptome changes during continuous culture mostly signified adaptation to growth conditions rather than compensation of the absence of the COG7, NUP133 or MSH2 genes. However, we noticed that for genes whose inactivation was deleterious an upregulation of transcription was more common than downregulation. Conclusions Our findings demonstrate that the genetic interactions and the modular structure of the network described by others have very limited effects on the evolutionary trajectory following gene deletion of module elements in our experimental conditions and has no significant impact on short-term compensatory evolution. However, we observed likely compensatory evolution in functionally related (albeit non-interacting) genes. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12862-021-01830-9.
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- Joanna Klim
- Department of Microbial Biochemistry, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Pawińskiego 5a, 02-106, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Microbial Biochemistry, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Pawińskiego 5a, 02-106, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Genetics, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Pawińskiego 5a, 02-106, Warsaw, Poland
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- Laboratory of Mutagenesis and DNA Repair, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Pawińskiego 5a, 02-106, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Genetics, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Pawińskiego 5a, 02-106, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Bioinformatics, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Pawińskiego 5a, 02-106, Warsaw, Poland.
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Marsit S, Hénault M, Charron G, Fijarczyk A, Landry CR. The neutral rate of whole-genome duplication varies among yeast species and their hybrids. Nat Commun 2021; 12:3126. [PMID: 34035259 PMCID: PMC8149824 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-23231-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2020] [Accepted: 04/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Hybridization and polyploidization are powerful mechanisms of speciation. Hybrid speciation often coincides with whole-genome duplication (WGD) in eukaryotes. This suggests that WGD may allow hybrids to thrive by increasing fitness, restoring fertility and/or increasing access to adaptive mutations. Alternatively, it has been suggested that hybridization itself may trigger WGD. Testing these models requires quantifying the rate of WGD in hybrids without the confounding effect of natural selection. Here we show, by measuring the spontaneous rate of WGD of more than 1300 yeast crosses evolved under relaxed selection, that some genotypes or combinations of genotypes are more prone to WGD, including some hybrids between closely related species. We also find that higher WGD rate correlates with higher genomic instability and that WGD increases fertility and genetic variability. These results provide evidence that hybridization itself can promote WGD, which in turn facilitates the evolution of hybrids.
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- S Marsit
- Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada.
- Regroupement Québécois de Recherche sur la Fonction, l'Ingénierie et les Applications des Protéines, (PROTEO), Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada.
- Département de Biologie, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada.
- Département de biochimie, microbiologie et bio-informatique, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada.
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- Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada
- Regroupement Québécois de Recherche sur la Fonction, l'Ingénierie et les Applications des Protéines, (PROTEO), Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada
- Département de Biologie, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada
- Département de biochimie, microbiologie et bio-informatique, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada
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- Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada
- Regroupement Québécois de Recherche sur la Fonction, l'Ingénierie et les Applications des Protéines, (PROTEO), Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada
- Département de Biologie, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada
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- Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada
- Regroupement Québécois de Recherche sur la Fonction, l'Ingénierie et les Applications des Protéines, (PROTEO), Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada
- Département de Biologie, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada
- Département de biochimie, microbiologie et bio-informatique, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada
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- Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada.
- Regroupement Québécois de Recherche sur la Fonction, l'Ingénierie et les Applications des Protéines, (PROTEO), Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada.
- Département de Biologie, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada.
- Département de biochimie, microbiologie et bio-informatique, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada.
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Gorkovskiy A, Verstrepen KJ. The Role of Structural Variation in Adaptation and Evolution of Yeast and Other Fungi. Genes (Basel) 2021; 12:699. [PMID: 34066718 PMCID: PMC8150848 DOI: 10.3390/genes12050699] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2021] [Revised: 04/30/2021] [Accepted: 05/04/2021] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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Mutations in DNA can be limited to one or a few nucleotides, or encompass larger deletions, insertions, duplications, inversions and translocations that span long stretches of DNA or even full chromosomes. These so-called structural variations (SVs) can alter the gene copy number, modify open reading frames, change regulatory sequences or chromatin structure and thus result in major phenotypic changes. As some of the best-known examples of SV are linked to severe genetic disorders, this type of mutation has traditionally been regarded as negative and of little importance for adaptive evolution. However, the advent of genomic technologies uncovered the ubiquity of SVs even in healthy organisms. Moreover, experimental evolution studies suggest that SV is an important driver of evolution and adaptation to new environments. Here, we provide an overview of the causes and consequences of SV and their role in adaptation, with specific emphasis on fungi since these have proven to be excellent models to study SV.
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- Anton Gorkovskiy
- Laboratory for Genetics and Genomics, Centre of Microbial and Plant Genetics (CMPG), KU Leuven, Gaston Geenslaan 1, 3001 Leuven, Belgium;
- Laboratory for Systems Biology, VIB—KU Leuven Center for Microbiology, Bio-Incubator, Gaston Geenslaan 1, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
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- Laboratory for Genetics and Genomics, Centre of Microbial and Plant Genetics (CMPG), KU Leuven, Gaston Geenslaan 1, 3001 Leuven, Belgium;
- Laboratory for Systems Biology, VIB—KU Leuven Center for Microbiology, Bio-Incubator, Gaston Geenslaan 1, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
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Thomson GJ, Kakade P, Hirakawa MP, Ene IV, Bennett RJ. Adaptation to the dietary sugar D-tagatose via genome instability in polyploid Candida albicans cells. G3-GENES GENOMES GENETICS 2021; 11:6219300. [PMID: 33836061 PMCID: PMC8495922 DOI: 10.1093/g3journal/jkab110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2021] [Accepted: 03/25/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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The opportunistic fungal pathogen Candida albicans undergoes an unusual parasexual cycle wherein diploid cells mate to form tetraploid cells that can generate genetically diverse progeny via a non-meiotic program of chromosome loss. The genetic diversity afforded by parasex impacts clinically relevant features including drug resistance and virulence, and yet the factors influencing genome instability in C. albicans are not well defined. To understand how environmental cues impact genome instability, we monitored ploidy change following tetraploid cell growth in a panel of different carbon sources. We found that growth in one carbon source, D-tagatose, led to high levels of genomic instability and chromosome loss in tetraploid cells. This sugar is a stereoisomer of L-sorbose which was previously shown to promote karyotypic changes in C. albicans. However, while expression of the SOU1 gene enabled utilization of L-sorbose, overexpression of this gene did not promote growth in D-tagatose, indicating differences in assimilation of the two sugars. In addition, genome sequencing of multiple progeny recovered from D-tagatose cultures revealed increased relative copy numbers of chromosome 4, suggestive of chromosome-level regulation of D-tagatose metabolism. Together, these studies identify a novel environmental cue that induces genome instability in C. albicans, and further implicate chromosomal changes in supporting metabolic adaptation in this species.
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- Gregory J Thomson
- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA.,Department of Systems Biology, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA 94550, USA
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA.,Mycology Department, Pasteur Institute, Paris 75015, France
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
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Bigey F, Segond D, Friedrich A, Guezenec S, Bourgais A, Huyghe L, Agier N, Nidelet T, Sicard D. Evidence for Two Main Domestication Trajectories in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Linked to Distinct Bread-Making Processes. Curr Biol 2021; 31:722-732.e5. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.11.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2020] [Revised: 09/07/2020] [Accepted: 11/05/2020] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Thermo-adaptive evolution to generate improved Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains for cocoa pulp fermentations. Int J Food Microbiol 2021; 342:109077. [PMID: 33550155 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2021.109077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2020] [Revised: 12/22/2020] [Accepted: 01/09/2021] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Cocoa pulp fermentation is a consequence of the succession of indigenous yeasts, lactic acid bacteria and acetic acid bacteria that not only produce a diversity of metabolites, but also cause the production of flavour precursors. However, as such spontaneous fermentations are less reproducible and contribute to produce variability, interest in a microbial starter culture is growing that could be used to inoculate cocoa pulp fermentations. This study aimed to generate robust S. cerevisiae strains by thermo-adaptive evolution that could be used in cocoa fermentation. We evolved a cocoa strain in a sugary defined medium at high temperature to improve both fermentation and growth capacity. Moreover, adaptive evolution at high temperature (40 °C) also enabled us to unveil the molecular basis underlying the improved phenotype by analysing the whole genome sequence of the evolved strain. Adaptation to high-temperature conditions occurred at different genomic levels, and promoted aneuploidies, segmental duplication, and SNVs in the evolved strain. The lipid profile analysis of the evolved strain also evidenced changes in the membrane composition that contribute to maintain an appropriate cell membrane state at high temperature. Our work demonstrates that experimental evolution is an effective approach to generate better-adapted yeast strains at high temperature for industrial processes.
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Gerstein AC, Sharp NP. The population genetics of ploidy change in unicellular fungi. FEMS Microbiol Rev 2021; 45:6121427. [PMID: 33503232 DOI: 10.1093/femsre/fuab006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2020] [Accepted: 01/14/2021] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Changes in ploidy are a significant type of genetic variation, describing the number of chromosome sets per cell. Ploidy evolves in natural populations, clinical populations, and lab experiments, particularly in fungi. Despite a long history of theoretical work on this topic, predicting how ploidy will evolve has proven difficult, as it is often unclear why one ploidy state outperforms another. Here, we review what is known about contemporary ploidy evolution in diverse fungal species through the lens of population genetics. As with typical genetic variants, ploidy evolution depends on the rate that new ploidy states arise by mutation, natural selection on alternative ploidy states, and random genetic drift. However, ploidy variation also has unique impacts on evolution, with the potential to alter chromosomal stability, the rate and patterns of point mutation, and the nature of selection on all loci in the genome. We discuss how ploidy evolution depends on these general and unique factors and highlight areas where additional experimental evidence is required to comprehensively explain the ploidy transitions observed in the field and the lab.
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- Aleeza C Gerstein
- Dept. of Microbiology, Dept. of Statistics, University of Manitoba Canada
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Johnson MS, Gopalakrishnan S, Goyal J, Dillingham ME, Bakerlee CW, Humphrey PT, Jagdish T, Jerison ER, Kosheleva K, Lawrence KR, Min J, Moulana A, Phillips AM, Piper JC, Purkanti R, Rego-Costa A, McDonald MJ, Nguyen Ba AN, Desai MM. Phenotypic and molecular evolution across 10,000 generations in laboratory budding yeast populations. eLife 2021; 10:e63910. [PMID: 33464204 PMCID: PMC7815316 DOI: 10.7554/elife.63910] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2020] [Accepted: 12/12/2020] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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Laboratory experimental evolution provides a window into the details of the evolutionary process. To investigate the consequences of long-term adaptation, we evolved 205 Saccharomyces cerevisiae populations (124 haploid and 81 diploid) for ~10,000,000 generations in three environments. We measured the dynamics of fitness changes over time, finding repeatable patterns of declining adaptability. Sequencing revealed that this phenotypic adaptation is coupled with a steady accumulation of mutations, widespread genetic parallelism, and historical contingency. In contrast to long-term evolution in E. coli, we do not observe long-term coexistence or populations with highly elevated mutation rates. We find that evolution in diploid populations involves both fixation of heterozygous mutations and frequent loss-of-heterozygosity events. Together, these results help distinguish aspects of evolutionary dynamics that are likely to be general features of adaptation across many systems from those that are specific to individual organisms and environmental conditions.
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- Milo S Johnson
- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard UniversityCambridgeUnited States
- Quantitative Biology Initiative, Harvard UniversityCambridgeUnited States
- NSF-Simons Center for Mathematical and Statistical Analysis of Biology, Harvard UniversityCambridgeUnited States
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard UniversityCambridgeUnited States
- Quantitative Biology Initiative, Harvard UniversityCambridgeUnited States
- NSF-Simons Center for Mathematical and Statistical Analysis of Biology, Harvard UniversityCambridgeUnited States
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard UniversityCambridgeUnited States
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard UniversityCambridgeUnited States
- John A Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard UniversityCambridgeUnited States
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- Quantitative Biology Initiative, Harvard UniversityCambridgeUnited States
- Graduate Program in Systems, Synthetic, and Quantitative Biology, Harvard UniversityCambridgeUnited States
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard UniversityCambridgeUnited States
- Quantitative Biology Initiative, Harvard UniversityCambridgeUnited States
- NSF-Simons Center for Mathematical and Statistical Analysis of Biology, Harvard UniversityCambridgeUnited States
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard UniversityCambridgeUnited States
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard UniversityCambridgeUnited States
- Quantitative Biology Initiative, Harvard UniversityCambridgeUnited States
- NSF-Simons Center for Mathematical and Statistical Analysis of Biology, Harvard UniversityCambridgeUnited States
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard UniversityCambridgeUnited States
- Quantitative Biology Initiative, Harvard UniversityCambridgeUnited States
- NSF-Simons Center for Mathematical and Statistical Analysis of Biology, Harvard UniversityCambridgeUnited States
- Graduate Program in Systems, Synthetic, and Quantitative Biology, Harvard UniversityCambridgeUnited States
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard UniversityCambridgeUnited States
- Department of Physics, Harvard UniversityCambridgeUnited States
- Department of Applied Physics, Stanford UniversityStanfordUnited States
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard UniversityCambridgeUnited States
- Department of Physics, Harvard UniversityCambridgeUnited States
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard UniversityCambridgeUnited States
- Quantitative Biology Initiative, Harvard UniversityCambridgeUnited States
- NSF-Simons Center for Mathematical and Statistical Analysis of Biology, Harvard UniversityCambridgeUnited States
- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridgeUnited States
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard UniversityCambridgeUnited States
- Quantitative Biology Initiative, Harvard UniversityCambridgeUnited States
- NSF-Simons Center for Mathematical and Statistical Analysis of Biology, Harvard UniversityCambridgeUnited States
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard UniversityCambridgeUnited States
- John A Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard UniversityCambridgeUnited States
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard UniversityCambridgeUnited States
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard UniversityCambridgeUnited States
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard UniversityCambridgeUnited States
- AeroLabs, Aeronaut Brewing CoSomervilleUnited States
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard UniversityCambridgeUnited States
- The Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and GeneticsDresdenGermany
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard UniversityCambridgeUnited States
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard UniversityCambridgeUnited States
- School of Biological Sciences, Monash UniversityVictoria, MonashAustralia
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard UniversityCambridgeUnited States
- Quantitative Biology Initiative, Harvard UniversityCambridgeUnited States
- NSF-Simons Center for Mathematical and Statistical Analysis of Biology, Harvard UniversityCambridgeUnited States
- Department of Physics, Harvard UniversityCambridgeUnited States
- Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of TorontoTorontoCanada
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard UniversityCambridgeUnited States
- Quantitative Biology Initiative, Harvard UniversityCambridgeUnited States
- NSF-Simons Center for Mathematical and Statistical Analysis of Biology, Harvard UniversityCambridgeUnited States
- Department of Physics, Harvard UniversityCambridgeUnited States
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Fischer G, Liti G, Llorente B. The budding yeast life cycle: More complex than anticipated? Yeast 2020; 38:5-11. [PMID: 33197073 DOI: 10.1002/yea.3533] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2020] [Revised: 10/05/2020] [Accepted: 10/28/2020] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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The budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, has served as a model for nearly a century to understand the principles of the eukaryotic life cycle. The canonical life cycle of S. cerevisiae comprises a regular alternation between haploid and diploid phases. Haploid gametes generated by sporulation are expected to quickly restore the diploid phase mainly through inbreeding via intratetrad mating or haploselfing, thereby promoting genome homozygotization. However, recent large population genomics data unveiled that heterozygosity and polyploidy are unexpectedly common. This raises the interesting paradox of a haplo-diplobiontic species being well-adapted to inbreeding and able to maintain high levels of heterozygosity and polyploidy, thereby suggesting an unanticipated complexity of the yeast life cycle. Here, we propose that unprogrammed mating type switching, heterothallism, reduced spore formation and viability, cell-cell fusion and dioecy could play key and uncharted contributions to generate and maintain heterozygosity through polyploidization.
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- Gilles Fischer
- CNRS, Institut de Biologie Paris-Seine, Laboratory of Computational and Quantitative Biology, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
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- CNRS, INSERM, IRCAN, Université Côte d'Azur, Nice, France
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- Cancer Research Center of Marseille, CNRS, Inserm, Institut Paoli-Calmettes, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France
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Chen H, Feng X, Jiang M, Xiao B, Zhang J, Zhang W, Hu Y, Sui Z. Estimating the ploidy of Gracilariopsis lemaneiformis at both the cellular and genomic level 1. JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY 2020; 56:1339-1348. [PMID: 32464702 DOI: 10.1111/jpy.13035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2020] [Accepted: 05/17/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The determination of the ploidy level of an organism is a prerequisite for studies of evolution, cellular function, and genomic construction. Identification of the ploidy of the economically important red alga Gracilariopsis lemaneiformis has been hindered by its small genome and large number of chromosomes. Therefore, in the current study, PloidyNGS, a tool that calculates the number of reads supporting different alleles at each position along the genome sequence, and fluorescence in situ hybridization coupled with tyramide signal amplification (TSA-FISH) were used to clarify the ploidy of G. lemaneiformis. In addition, flow cytometry (FCM) was used to estimate the ploidy of different somatic cells. The PloidyNGS results showed that most of the alleles in the gametophyte were monomorphic, whereas the TSA-FISH results showed that one hybridization signal was observed in gametophytic nuclei and two in tetrasporophytic nuclei when the nuclei were hybridized by single copy gene probes. These results confirmed that G. lemaneiformis is a haploid in the gametophytic generation and diploid in the sporophytic generation. Moreover, the FCM result suggested that G. lemaneiformis was not an endopolyploid. Based on previous studies, we hypothesize that the nuclear number is important for the cellular differentiation and function of this species. We also suggest that G. lemaneiformis evolved from a paleopolyploid, the genome of which has been diploidized, and that traces of genomic doubling are no longer apparent. Thus, this study provides important evidence for further studies on the evolution and genomes of red algae.
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- Haihong Chen
- Key Laboratory of Marine Genetics and Breeding (Ocean University of China), Ministry of Education, Qingdao, 266003, China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Genetics and Breeding (Ocean University of China), Ministry of Education, Qingdao, 266003, China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Genetics and Breeding (Ocean University of China), Ministry of Education, Qingdao, 266003, China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Genetics and Breeding (Ocean University of China), Ministry of Education, Qingdao, 266003, China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Genetics and Breeding (Ocean University of China), Ministry of Education, Qingdao, 266003, China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Genetics and Breeding (Ocean University of China), Ministry of Education, Qingdao, 266003, China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Genetics and Breeding (Ocean University of China), Ministry of Education, Qingdao, 266003, China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Genetics and Breeding (Ocean University of China), Ministry of Education, Qingdao, 266003, China
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Experimental evolution reveals nitrate tolerance mechanisms in Desulfovibrio vulgaris. ISME JOURNAL 2020; 14:2862-2876. [PMID: 32934357 DOI: 10.1038/s41396-020-00753-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2020] [Revised: 08/09/2020] [Accepted: 08/17/2020] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Elevated nitrate in the environment inhibits sulfate reduction by important microorganisms of sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB). Several SRB may respire nitrate to survive under elevated nitrate, but how SRB that lack nitrate reductase survive to elevated nitrate remains elusive. To understand nitrate adaptation mechanisms, we evolved 12 populations of a model SRB (i.e., Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough, DvH) under elevated NaNO3 for 1000 generations, analyzed growth and acquired mutations, and linked their genotypes with phenotypes. Nitrate-evolved (EN) populations significantly (p < 0.05) increased nitrate tolerance, and whole-genome resequencing identified 119 new mutations in 44 genes of 12 EN populations, among which six functional gene groups were discovered with high mutation frequencies at the population level. We observed a high frequency of nonsense or frameshift mutations in nitrosative stress response genes (NSR: DVU2543, DVU2547, and DVU2548), nitrogen regulatory protein C family genes (NRC: DVU2394-2396, DVU2402, and DVU2405), and nitrate cluster (DVU0246-0249 and DVU0251). Mutagenesis analysis confirmed that loss-of-functions of NRC and NSR increased nitrate tolerance. Also, functional gene groups involved in fatty acid synthesis, iron regulation, and two-component system (LytR/LytS) known to be responsive to multiple stresses, had a high frequency of missense mutations. Mutations in those gene groups could increase nitrate tolerance through regulating energy metabolism, barring entry of nitrate into cells, altering cell membrane characteristics, or conferring growth advantages at the stationary phase. This study advances our understanding of nitrate tolerance mechanisms and has important implications for linking genotypes with phenotypes in DvH.
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The Genome Sequence of the Jean-Talon Strain, an Archeological Beer Yeast from Québec, Reveals Traces of Adaptation to Specific Brewing Conditions. G3-GENES GENOMES GENETICS 2020; 10:3087-3097. [PMID: 32605927 PMCID: PMC7466965 DOI: 10.1534/g3.120.401149] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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The genome sequences of archeological Saccharomyces cerevisiae isolates can reveal insights about the history of human baking, brewing and winemaking activities. A yeast strain called Jean-Talon was recently isolated from the vaults of the Intendant’s Palace of Nouvelle France on a historical site in Québec City. This site was occupied by breweries from the end of the 17th century until the middle of the 20th century when poisoning caused by cobalt added to the beer led to a shutdown of brewing activities. We sequenced the genome of the Jean-Talon strain and reanalyzed the genomes of hundreds of strains to determine how it relates to other domesticated and wild strains. The Jean-Talon strain is most closely related to industrial beer strains from the beer and bakery genetic groups from the United Kingdom and Belgium. It has numerous aneuploidies and Copy Number Variants (CNVs), including the main gene conferring cobalt resistance in yeast. The Jean-Talon strain has indeed higher tolerance to cobalt compared to other yeast strains, consistent with adaptation to the most recent brewing activities on the site. We conclude from this that the Jean-Talon strain most likely derives from recent brewing activities and not from the original breweries of Nouvelle France on the site.
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Spontaneous Polyploids and Antimutators Compete During the Evolution of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Mutator Cells. Genetics 2020; 215:959-974. [PMID: 32513814 PMCID: PMC7404223 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.120.303333] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2019] [Accepted: 05/22/2020] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Mutations affecting DNA polymerase exonuclease domains or mismatch repair (MMR) generate "mutator" phenotypes capable of driving tumorigenesis. Cancers with both defects exhibit an explosive increase in mutation burden that appears to reach a threshold, consistent with selection acting against further mutation accumulation. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae haploid yeast, simultaneous defects in polymerase proofreading and MMR select for "antimutator" mutants that suppress the mutator phenotype. We report here that spontaneous polyploids also escape this "error-induced extinction" and routinely outcompete antimutators in evolved haploid cultures. We performed similar experiments to explore how diploid yeast adapt to the mutator phenotype. We first evolved cells with homozygous mutations affecting polymerase δ proofreading and MMR, which we anticipated would favor tetraploid emergence. While tetraploids arose with a low frequency, in most cultures, a single antimutator clone rose to prominence carrying biallelic mutations affecting the polymerase mutator alleles. Variation in mutation rate between subclones from the same culture suggests that there exists continued selection pressure for additional antimutator alleles. We then evolved diploid yeast modeling MMR-deficient cancers with the most common heterozygous exonuclease domain mutation (POLE-P286R). Although these cells grew robustly, within 120 generations, all subclones carried truncating or nonsynonymous mutations in the POLE-P286R homologous allele (pol2-P301R) that suppressed the mutator phenotype as much as 100-fold. Independent adaptive events in the same culture were common. Our findings suggest that analogous tumor cell populations may adapt to the threat of extinction by polyclonal mutations that neutralize the POLE mutator allele and preserve intratumoral genetic diversity for future adaptation.
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Randez-Gil F, Prieto JA, Rodríguez-Puchades A, Casas J, Sentandreu V, Estruch F. Myriocin-induced adaptive laboratory evolution of an industrial strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae reveals its potential to remodel lipid composition and heat tolerance. Microb Biotechnol 2020; 13:1066-1081. [PMID: 32212314 PMCID: PMC7264895 DOI: 10.1111/1751-7915.13555] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2019] [Accepted: 03/01/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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The modification of lipid composition allows cells to adjust membrane biophysical properties in response to changes in environmental temperature. Here, we use adaptive laboratory evolution (ALE) in the presence of myriocin, a sphingolipid (SLs) biosynthesis inhibitor, to remodel the lipid profile of an industrial yeast strain (LH) of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The approach enabled to obtain a heterogeneous population (LHev) of myriocin-tolerant evolved clones characterized by its growth capacity at high temperature. Myriocin exposure also caused tolerance to soraphen A, an inhibitor of the acetyl-CoA carboxylase Acc1, the rate-limiting enzyme in fatty acid de novo production, supporting a change in lipid metabolism during ALE. In line with this, characterization of two randomly selected clones, LH03 and LH09, showed the presence of lipids with increased saturation degree and reduced acyl length. In addition, the clone LH03, which displays the greater improvement in fitness at 40°C, exhibited higher SL content as compared with the parental strain. Analysis of the LH03 and LH09 genomes revealed a loss of chromosomes affecting genes that have a role in fatty acid synthesis and elongation. The link between ploidy level and growth at high temperature was further supported by the analysis of a fully isogenic set of yeast strains with ploidy between 1N and 4N which showed that the loss of genome content provides heat tolerance. Consistent with this, a thermotolerant evolved population (LH40°) generated from the parental LH strain by heat-driven ALE exhibited a reduction in the chromosome copy number. Thus, our results identify myriocin-driven evolution as a powerful approach to investigate the mechanisms of acquired thermotolerance and to generate improved strains.
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- Francisca Randez-Gil
- Department of Biotechnology, Instituto de Agroquímica y Tecnología de los Alimentos, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Avda. Agustín Escardino 7, Paterna, Valencia, 46980, Spain
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- Department of Biotechnology, Instituto de Agroquímica y Tecnología de los Alimentos, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Avda. Agustín Escardino 7, Paterna, Valencia, 46980, Spain
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- Department of Biotechnology, Instituto de Agroquímica y Tecnología de los Alimentos, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Avda. Agustín Escardino 7, Paterna, Valencia, 46980, Spain
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- Research Unit on BioActive Molecules (RUBAM), Instituto de Química Avanzada de Cataluña, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Jordi Girona 18-26., Barcelona, 08034, Spain
- CIBER-EHD, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Monforte de Lemos 3-5., Madrid, 28029, Spain
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- Genomics Section, Central Service for Experimental Research (SCSIE), Universitat de València, Dr. Moliner 50, Burjassot, 46100, Spain
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- Departament of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Universitat de València, Dr. Moliner 50, Burjassot, 46100, Spain
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The sterlet sturgeon genome sequence and the mechanisms of segmental rediploidization. Nat Ecol Evol 2020; 4:841-852. [PMID: 32231327 PMCID: PMC7269910 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-020-1166-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 122] [Impact Index Per Article: 30.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2019] [Accepted: 02/27/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Sturgeons seem to be frozen in time. The archaic characteristics of this ancient fish lineage place it in a key phylogenetic position at the base of the ~30,000 modern teleost fish species. Moreover, sturgeons are notoriously polyploid, providing unique opportunities to investigate the evolution of polyploid genomes. We assembled a high-quality chromosome-level reference genome for the sterlet, Acipenser ruthenus. Our analysis revealed a very low protein evolution rate that is at least as slow as in other deep branches of the vertebrate tree, such as that of the coelacanth. We uncovered a whole-genome duplication that occurred in the Jurassic, early in the evolution of the entire sturgeon lineage. Following this polyploidization, the rediploidization of the genome included the loss of whole chromosomes in a segmental deduplication process. While known adaptive processes helped conserve a high degree of structural and functional tetraploidy over more than 180 million years, the reduction of redundancy of the polyploid genome seems to have been remarkably random. A genome assembly of the sterlet, Acipenser ruthenus, reveals a whole-genome duplication early in the evolution of the entire sturgeon lineage and provides details about the rediploidization of the genome.
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Chance and necessity in the pleiotropic consequences of adaptation for budding yeast. Nat Ecol Evol 2020; 4:601-611. [PMID: 32152531 PMCID: PMC8063891 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-020-1128-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2019] [Accepted: 01/28/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Mutations that a population accumulates during evolution in one 'home' environment may cause fitness gains or losses in other environments. Such pleiotropic fitness effects determine the evolutionary fate of the population in variable environments and can lead to ecological specialization. It is unclear how the pleiotropic outcomes of evolution are shaped by the intrinsic randomness of the evolutionary process and by the deterministic variation in selection pressures across environments. Here, to address this question, we evolved 20 replicate populations of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae in 11 laboratory environments and measured their fitness across multiple conditions. We found that evolution led to diverse pleiotropic fitness gains and losses, driven by multiple types of mutations. Approximately 60% of this variation is explained by the home environment of a clone and the most common parallel genetic changes, whereas about 40% is attributed to the stochastic accumulation of mutations whose pleiotropic effects are unpredictable. Although populations are typically specialized to their home environment, generalists also evolved in almost all of the conditions. Our results suggest that the mutations that accumulate during evolution incur a variety of pleiotropic costs and benefits with different probabilities. Thus, whether a population evolves towards a specialist or a generalist phenotype is heavily influenced by chance.
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Zhao R, Wang Y, Zou L, Luo Y, Tan H, Yao J, Zhang M, Liu S. Hox genes reveal variations in the genomic DNA of allotetraploid hybrids derived from Carassius auratus red var. (female) × Cyprinus carpio L. (male). BMC Genet 2020; 21:24. [PMID: 32131722 PMCID: PMC7057633 DOI: 10.1186/s12863-020-0823-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2019] [Accepted: 02/04/2020] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Background Hox transcription factors are master regulators of animal development. Although highly conserved, they can contribute to the formation of novel biological characteristics when modified, such as during the generation of hybrid species, thus potentially serving as species-specific molecular markers. Here, we systematically studied the evolution of genomic sequences of Hox loci in an artificial allotetraploid lineage (4nAT, 4n = 200) derived from a red crucian carp (♀, RCC, 2n = 100) × common carp (♂, CC, 2n = 100) cross and its parents (RCC and CC). Results PCR amplification yielded 23 distinct Hox gene fragments from 160 clones in 4nAT, 22 fragments from 90 clones in RCC, and 19 fragments from 90 clones in CC. Sequence alignment of the HoxA3a and HoxC10a genes indicated both the inheritance and loss of paternal genomic DNA in 4nAT. The HoxA5a gene from 4nAT consisted of two subtypes from RCC and two subtypes from CC, indicating that homologous recombination occurred in the 4nAT hybrid genome. Moreover, 4nAT carried genomic pseudogenization in the HoxA10b and HoxC13a loci. Interestingly, a new type of HoxC9a gene was found in 4nAT as a hybrid sequence of CC and RCC by recombination in the intronic region. Conclusion The results revealed the influence of Hox genes during polyploidization in hybrid fish. The data provided insight into the evolution of vertebrate genomes and might be benefit for artificial breeding programs.
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- Rurong Zhao
- State Key Laboratory of Developmental Biology of Freshwater Fish, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, 410081, Hunan, People's Republic of China.,College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, 410081, Hunan, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Developmental Biology of Freshwater Fish, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, 410081, Hunan, People's Republic of China.,College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, 410081, Hunan, People's Republic of China
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- Fisheries Research Institute of Hunan Province, Changsha, 410153, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Developmental Biology of Freshwater Fish, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, 410081, Hunan, People's Republic of China.,College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, 410081, Hunan, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Developmental Biology of Freshwater Fish, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, 410081, Hunan, People's Republic of China.,College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, 410081, Hunan, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Developmental Biology of Freshwater Fish, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, 410081, Hunan, People's Republic of China.,College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, 410081, Hunan, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Developmental Biology of Freshwater Fish, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, 410081, Hunan, People's Republic of China.,College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, 410081, Hunan, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Developmental Biology of Freshwater Fish, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, 410081, Hunan, People's Republic of China. .,College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, 410081, Hunan, People's Republic of China.
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Hsieh YYP, Makrantoni V, Robertson D, Marston AL, Murray AW. Evolutionary repair: Changes in multiple functional modules allow meiotic cohesin to support mitosis. PLoS Biol 2020; 18:e3000635. [PMID: 32155147 PMCID: PMC7138332 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000635] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2019] [Revised: 04/07/2020] [Accepted: 02/21/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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The role of proteins often changes during evolution, but we do not know how cells adapt when a protein is asked to participate in a different biological function. We forced the budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, to use the meiosis-specific kleisin, recombination 8 (Rec8), during the mitotic cell cycle, instead of its paralog, Scc1. This perturbation impairs sister chromosome linkage, advances the timing of genome replication, and reduces reproductive fitness by 45%. We evolved 15 parallel populations for 1,750 generations, substantially increasing their fitness, and analyzed the genotypes and phenotypes of the evolved cells. Only one population contained a mutation in Rec8, but many populations had mutations in the transcriptional mediator complex, cohesin-related genes, and cell cycle regulators that induce S phase. These mutations improve sister chromosome cohesion and delay genome replication in Rec8-expressing cells. We conclude that changes in known and novel partners allow cells to use an existing protein to participate in new biological functions.
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- Yu-Ying Phoebe Hsieh
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- The Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- The Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- The Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Considering the role of theory in ecology and evolution, we argue that scientific theorizing involves an interplay between narratives and models in which narratives play a key creative and organizing role. Specifically, as scientists, we reason through the use of narratives that explain biological phenomena by envisaging, or mentally simulating, causal paths leading from a plausible initial state to an outcome of interest. Within these narratives, some parts may appear clear, while others may appear puzzling. It is at these tenuous junctions-junctions where reasoning is made challenging by conflicting possible outcomes-that we often build mathematical models to support and extend, or reject and revise, our narratives. Accordingly, models, both analytical and computational, are framed by and interpreted within a narrative. We illustrate these points using case studies from population genetics. This perspective on scientific theorizing helps to clarify the nature of theoretical debates, which often arise from the narratives in which math is embedded, not from the math itself. Finally, this perspective helps place appropriate creative weight on the importance of developing, revising, and challenging narratives in the scientific enterprise.
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