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Lai HY, Yu YH, Jhou YT, Liao CW, Leu JY. Multiple intermolecular interactions facilitate rapid evolution of essential genes. Nat Ecol Evol 2023; 7:745-755. [PMID: 36997737 PMCID: PMC10172115 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-023-02029-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2022] [Accepted: 02/21/2023] [Indexed: 04/01/2023]
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Essential genes are commonly assumed to function in basic cellular processes and to change slowly. However, it remains unclear whether all essential genes are similarly conserved or if their evolutionary rates can be accelerated by specific factors. To address these questions, we replaced 86 essential genes of Saccharomyces cerevisiae with orthologues from four other species that diverged from S. cerevisiae about 50, 100, 270 and 420 Myr ago. We identify a group of fast-evolving genes that often encode subunits of large protein complexes, including anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome (APC/C). Incompatibility of fast-evolving genes is rescued by simultaneously replacing interacting components, suggesting it is caused by protein co-evolution. Detailed investigation of APC/C further revealed that co-evolution involves not only primary interacting proteins but also secondary ones, suggesting the evolutionary impact of epistasis. Multiple intermolecular interactions in protein complexes may provide a microenvironment facilitating rapid evolution of their subunits.
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- Huei-Yi Lai
- Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
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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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Ghadie MA, Xia Y. Are transient protein-protein interactions more dispensable? PLoS Comput Biol 2022; 18:e1010013. [PMID: 35404956 PMCID: PMC9000134 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2021] [Accepted: 03/11/2022] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) are key drivers of cell function and evolution. While it is widely assumed that most permanent PPIs are important for cellular function, it remains unclear whether transient PPIs are equally important. Here, we estimate and compare dispensable content among transient PPIs and permanent PPIs in human. Starting with a human reference interactome mapped by experiments, we construct a human structural interactome by building three-dimensional structural models for PPIs, and then distinguish transient PPIs from permanent PPIs using several structural and biophysical properties. We map common mutations from healthy individuals and disease-causing mutations onto the structural interactome, and perform structure-based calculations of the probabilities for common mutations (assumed to be neutral) and disease mutations (assumed to be mildly deleterious) to disrupt transient PPIs and permanent PPIs. Using Bayes' theorem we estimate that a similarly small fraction (<~20%) of both transient and permanent PPIs are completely dispensable, i.e., effectively neutral upon disruption. Hence, transient and permanent interactions are subject to similarly strong selective constraints in the human interactome.
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- Department of Bioengineering, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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Interspecific hybridization as a driver of fungal evolution and adaptation. Nat Rev Microbiol 2021; 19:485-500. [PMID: 33767366 DOI: 10.1038/s41579-021-00537-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 02/22/2021] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Cross-species gene transfer is often associated with bacteria, which have evolved several mechanisms that facilitate horizontal DNA exchange. However, the increased availability of whole-genome sequences has revealed that fungal species also exchange DNA, leading to intertwined lineages, blurred species boundaries or even novel species. In contrast to prokaryotes, fungal DNA exchange originates from interspecific hybridization, where two genomes are merged into a single, often highly unstable, polyploid genome that evolves rapidly into stabler derivatives. The resulting hybrids can display novel combinations of genetic and phenotypic variation that enhance fitness and allow colonization of new niches. Interspecific hybridization led to the emergence of important pathogens of humans and plants (for example, various Candida and 'powdery mildew' species, respectively) and industrially important yeasts, such as Saccharomyces hybrids that are important in the production of cold-fermented lagers or cold-cellared Belgian ales. In this Review, we discuss the genetic processes and evolutionary implications of fungal interspecific hybridization and highlight some of the best-studied examples. In addition, we explain how hybrids can be used to study molecular mechanisms underlying evolution, adaptation and speciation, and serve as a route towards development of new variants for industrial applications.
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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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Berger CM, Landry CR. Yeast proteins do not practice social distancing as species hybridize. Curr Genet 2021; 67:755-759. [PMID: 33948708 PMCID: PMC8096128 DOI: 10.1007/s00294-021-01188-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2021] [Accepted: 04/12/2021] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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With the current COVID-19 pandemic, we all realized how important interactions are. Interactions are everywhere. At the cellular level, protein interactions play a key role and their ensemble, also called interactome, is often referred as the basic building blocks of life. Given its importance, the maintenance of the integrity of the interactome is a real challenge in the cell. Many events during evolution can disrupt interactomes and potentially result in different characteristics for the organisms. However, the molecular underpinnings of changes in interactions at the cellular level are still largely unexplored. Among the perturbations, hybridization puts in contact two different interactomes, which may lead to many changes in the protein interaction network of the hybrid, including gains and losses of interactions. We recently investigated the fate of the interactomes after hybridization between yeast species using a comparative proteomics approach. A large-scale conservation of the interactions was observed in hybrids, but we also noticed the presence of proteostasis-related changes. This suggests that, despite a general robustness, small differences may accumulate in hybrids and perturb their protein physiology. Here, we summarize our work with a broader perspective on the importance of interactions.
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- Caroline M Berger
- Département de Biologie, Faculté des sciences et de génie, Université Laval, Quebec, QC, G1V0A6, Canada.
- Département de Biochimie, Microbiologie et Bio-informatique, Faculté des sciences et de génie, Université Laval, Quebec, QC, G1V0A6, Canada.
- Le réseau québécois de recherche sur la fonction, la structure et l'ingénierie de protéines, PROTEO, Université Laval, Quebec, QC, G1V0A6, Canada.
- Centre de Recherche en Données Massives (CRDM), Université Laval, Quebec, QC, G1V0A6, Canada.
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- Département de Biologie, Faculté des sciences et de génie, Université Laval, Quebec, QC, G1V0A6, Canada
- Département de Biochimie, Microbiologie et Bio-informatique, Faculté des sciences et de génie, Université Laval, Quebec, QC, G1V0A6, Canada
- Le réseau québécois de recherche sur la fonction, la structure et l'ingénierie de protéines, PROTEO, Université Laval, Quebec, QC, G1V0A6, Canada
- Centre de Recherche en Données Massives (CRDM), Université Laval, Quebec, QC, G1V0A6, Canada
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Swamy KBS, Schuyler SC, Leu JY. Protein Complexes Form a Basis for Complex Hybrid Incompatibility. Front Genet 2021; 12:609766. [PMID: 33633780 PMCID: PMC7900514 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2021.609766] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2020] [Accepted: 01/20/2021] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Proteins are the workhorses of the cell and execute many of their functions by interacting with other proteins forming protein complexes. Multi-protein complexes are an admixture of subunits, change their interaction partners, and modulate their functions and cellular physiology in response to environmental changes. When two species mate, the hybrid offspring are usually inviable or sterile because of large-scale differences in the genetic makeup between the two parents causing incompatible genetic interactions. Such reciprocal-sign epistasis between inter-specific alleles is not limited to incompatible interactions between just one gene pair; and, usually involves multiple genes. Many of these multi-locus incompatibilities show visible defects, only in the presence of all the interactions, making it hard to characterize. Understanding the dynamics of protein-protein interactions (PPIs) leading to multi-protein complexes is better suited to characterize multi-locus incompatibilities, compared to studying them with traditional approaches of genetics and molecular biology. The advances in omics technologies, which includes genomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics can help achieve this end. This is especially relevant when studying non-model organisms. Here, we discuss the recent progress in the understanding of hybrid genetic incompatibility; omics technologies, and how together they have helped in characterizing protein complexes and in turn multi-locus incompatibilities. We also review advances in bioinformatic techniques suitable for this purpose and propose directions for leveraging the knowledge gained from model-organisms to identify genetic incompatibilities in non-model organisms.
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- Krishna B. S. Swamy
- Division of Biological and Life Sciences, School of Arts and Sciences, Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad, India
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
- Division of Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Otolaryngology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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- Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
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Morard M, Ibáñez C, Adam AC, Querol A, Barrio E, Toft C. Genomic instability in an interspecific hybrid of the genus Saccharomyces: a matter of adaptability. Microb Genom 2020; 6:mgen000448. [PMID: 33021926 PMCID: PMC7660253 DOI: 10.1099/mgen.0.000448] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2020] [Accepted: 09/14/2020] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Ancient events of polyploidy have been linked to huge evolutionary leaps in the tree of life, while increasing evidence shows that newly established polyploids have adaptive advantages in certain stress conditions compared to their relatives with a lower ploidy. The genus Saccharomyces is a good model for studying such events, as it contains an ancient whole-genome duplication event and many sequenced Saccharomyces cerevisiae are, evolutionary speaking, newly formed polyploids. Many polyploids have unstable genomes and go through large genome erosions; however, it is still unknown what mechanisms govern this reduction. Here, we sequenced and studied the natural S. cerevisiae × Saccharomyces kudriavzevii hybrid strain, VIN7, which was selected for its commercial use in the wine industry. The most singular observation is that its nuclear genome is highly unstable and drastic genomic alterations were observed in only a few generations, leading to a widening of its phenotypic landscape. To better understand what leads to the loss of certain chromosomes in the VIN7 cell population, we looked for genetic features of the genes, such as physical interactions, complex formation, epistatic interactions and stress responding genes, which could have beneficial or detrimental effects on the cell if their dosage is altered by a chromosomal copy number variation. The three chromosomes lost in our VIN7 population showed different patterns, indicating that multiple factors could explain the mechanisms behind the chromosomal loss. However, one common feature for two out of the three chromosomes is that they are among the smallest ones. We hypothesize that small chromosomes alter their copy numbers more frequently as a low number of genes is affected, meaning that it is a by-product of genome instability, which might be the chief driving force of the adaptability and genome architecture of this hybrid.
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- Miguel Morard
- Departament de Genètica, Universitat de València, Burjassot, Valencia, Spain
- Departamento de Biotecnología de los Alimentos, Instituto de Agroquímica y Tecnología de los Alimentos (IATA), CSIC, Paterna, Valencia, Spain
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- Departamento de Biotecnología de los Alimentos, Instituto de Agroquímica y Tecnología de los Alimentos (IATA), CSIC, Paterna, Valencia, Spain
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- Departamento de Biotecnología de los Alimentos, Instituto de Agroquímica y Tecnología de los Alimentos (IATA), CSIC, Paterna, Valencia, Spain
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- Departamento de Biotecnología de los Alimentos, Instituto de Agroquímica y Tecnología de los Alimentos (IATA), CSIC, Paterna, Valencia, Spain
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- Departament de Genètica, Universitat de València, Burjassot, Valencia, Spain
- Departamento de Biotecnología de los Alimentos, Instituto de Agroquímica y Tecnología de los Alimentos (IATA), CSIC, Paterna, Valencia, Spain
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- Departament de Genètica, Universitat de València, Burjassot, Valencia, Spain
- Departamento de Biotecnología de los Alimentos, Instituto de Agroquímica y Tecnología de los Alimentos (IATA), CSIC, Paterna, Valencia, Spain
- Program for Systems Biology of Molecular Interactions and Regulation, Institute for Integrative Systems Biology (I2SysBio), UV-CSIC, Valencia, Spain
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New species arise as the genomes of populations diverge. The developmental 'alarm clock' of speciation sounds off when sufficient divergence in genetic control of development leads hybrid individuals to infertility or inviability, the world awoken to the dawn of new species with intrinsic post-zygotic reproductive isolation. Some developmental stages will be more prone to hybrid dysfunction due to how molecular evolution interacts with the ontogenetic timing of gene expression. Considering the ontogeny of hybrid incompatibilities provides a profitable connection between 'evo-devo' and speciation genetics to better link macroevolutionary pattern, microevolutionary process, and molecular mechanisms. Here, we explore speciation alongside development, emphasizing their mutual dependence on genetic network features, fitness landscapes, and developmental system drift. We assess models for how ontogenetic timing of reproductive isolation can be predictable. Experiments and theory within this synthetic perspective can help identify new rules of speciation as well as rules in the molecular evolution of development.
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- Asher D Cutter
- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of TorontoTorontoCanada
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Wisconsin – MadisonMadisonUnited States
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Levray YS, Berhe AD, Osborne AR. Use of split-dihydrofolate reductase for the detection of protein-protein interactions and simultaneous selection of multiple plasmids in Plasmodium falciparum. Mol Biochem Parasitol 2020; 238:111292. [PMID: 32505674 DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2020.111292] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2020] [Revised: 05/04/2020] [Accepted: 05/09/2020] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Defining protein-protein interactions is fundamental to the understanding of gene function. Protein-fragment complementation assays have been used for the analysis of protein-protein interactions in various organisms. The split-dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) protein-fragment complementation assay utilises two complementary fragments of the enzyme fused to a pair of potentially interacting proteins. If these proteins interact, the DHFR fragments associate, fold into their native structure, reconstitute their function and confer resistance to antifolate drugs. We show that murine DHFR fragments fused to interacting proteins reconstitute a functional enzyme and confer resistance to the antifolate drug WR99210 in Plasmodium falciparum. These data demonstrate that the split-DHFR method can be used to detect in vivo protein-protein interactions in the parasite. Additionally, we show that split-DHFR fragments can be used as selection markers, permitting simultaneous selection of two plasmids in the presence of a single antifolate drug. Taken together, these experiments show that split-DHFR represents a valuable tool for the characterisation of Plasmodium protein function and genetic manipulation of the parasite.
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- Yvette S Levray
- Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
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- Pomona College, 333 N. College Way, Claremont, CA 91711, United States
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- Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom; Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, Birkbeck, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HX, United Kingdom.
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Gamba A, Salmona M, Bazzoni G. Quantitative analysis of proteins which are members of the same protein complex but cause locus heterogeneity in disease. Sci Rep 2020; 10:10423. [PMID: 32591566 PMCID: PMC7320193 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-66836-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2019] [Accepted: 05/26/2020] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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It is still largely unknown how mutations in different genes cause similar diseases – a condition known as locus heterogeneity. A likely explanation is that the different proteins encoded by the locus heterogeneity genes participate in the same biological function and, specifically, that they belong to the same protein complex. Here we report that, in up to 30% of the instances of locus heterogeneity, the disease-causing proteins are indeed members of the same protein complex. Moreover, we observed that, in many instances, the diseases and protein complexes only partially intersect. Among the possible explanations, we surmised that some genes that encode proteins in the complex have not yet been reported as causing disease and are therefore candidate disease genes. Mutations of known human disease genes and murine orthologs of candidate disease genes that encode proteins in the same protein complex do in fact often cause similar phenotypes in humans and mice. Furthermore, we found that the disease-complex intersection is not only incomplete but also non-univocal, with many examples of one disease intersecting more than one protein complex or one protein complex intersecting more than one disease. These limits notwithstanding, this study shows that action on proteins in the same complex is a widespread pathogenic mechanism underlying numerous instances of locus heterogeneity.
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- Alessio Gamba
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS Via Mario Negri 2, I-20156, Milano, Italy
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS Via Mario Negri 2, I-20156, Milano, Italy
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS Via Mario Negri 2, I-20156, Milano, Italy.
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Estimating dispensable content in the human interactome. Nat Commun 2019; 10:3205. [PMID: 31324802 PMCID: PMC6642175 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-11180-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2018] [Accepted: 06/21/2019] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks (interactome networks) have successfully advanced our knowledge of molecular function, disease and evolution. While much progress has been made in quantifying errors and biases in experimental PPI datasets, it remains unknown what fraction of the error-free PPIs in the cell are completely dispensable, i.e., effectively neutral upon disruption. Here, we estimate dispensable content in the human interactome by calculating the fractions of PPIs disrupted by neutral and non-neutral mutations. Starting with the human reference interactome determined by experiments, we construct a human structural interactome by building homology-based three-dimensional structural models for PPIs. Next, we map common mutations from healthy individuals as well as Mendelian disease-causing mutations onto the human structural interactome, and perform structure-based calculations of how these mutations perturb the interactome. Using our predicted as well as experimentally-determined interactome perturbation patterns by common and disease mutations, we estimate that <~20% of the human interactome is completely dispensable. The fraction of protein-protein interactions (PPIs) that can be disrupted without fitness effect is unknown. Here, the authors model how disease-causing mutations and common mutations carried by healthy people perturb the interactome, and estimate that <20% of human PPIs are completely dispensable.
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Overexpression of RAD51 Enables PCR-Based Gene Targeting in Lager Yeast. Microorganisms 2019; 7:microorganisms7070192. [PMID: 31284488 PMCID: PMC6680445 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms7070192] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2019] [Revised: 07/02/2019] [Accepted: 07/03/2019] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Lager beer fermentations rely on specific polyploid hybrids between Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Saccharomyces eubayanus falling into the two groups of S. carlsbergensis/Saaz-type and S. pastorianus/Frohberg-type. These strains provide a terroir to lager beer as they have long traditional associations and local selection histories with specific breweries. Lager yeasts share, based on their common origin, several phenotypes. One of them is low transformability, hampering the gene function analyses required for proof-of-concept strain improvements. PCR-based gene targeting is a standard tool for manipulating S. cerevisiae and other ascomycetes. However, low transformability paired with the low efficiency of homologous recombination practically disable targeted gene function analyses in lager yeast strains. For genetic manipulations in lager yeasts, we employed a yeast transformation protocol based on lithium-acetate/PEG incubation combined with electroporation. We first introduced freely replicating CEN/ARS plasmids carrying ScRAD51 driven by a strong heterologous promoter into lager yeast. RAD51 overexpression in the Weihenstephan 34/70 lager yeast was necessary and sufficient in our hands for gene targeting using short-flanking homology regions of 50 bp added to a selection marker by PCR. We successfully targeted two independent loci, ScADE2/YOR128C and ScHSP104/YLL026W, and confirmed correct integration by diagnostic PCR. With these modifications, genetic alterations of lager yeasts can be achieved efficiently and the RAD51-containing episomal plasmid can be removed after successful strain construction.
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Peris D, Pérez-Torrado R, Hittinger CT, Barrio E, Querol A. On the origins and industrial applications ofSaccharomyces cerevisiae×Saccharomyces kudriavzeviihybrids. Yeast 2017; 35:51-69. [DOI: 10.1002/yea.3283] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2017] [Revised: 09/15/2017] [Accepted: 09/27/2017] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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- David Peris
- Laboratory of Genetics, Wisconsin Energy Institute, J. F. Crow Institute for the Study of Evolution, Genome Center of Wisconsin, DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center; University of Wisconsin-Madison; Madison WI USA
- Department of Food Biotechnology; Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology (IATA), CSIC; Valencia Spain
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- Department of Food Biotechnology; Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology (IATA), CSIC; Valencia Spain
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- Laboratory of Genetics, Wisconsin Energy Institute, J. F. Crow Institute for the Study of Evolution, Genome Center of Wisconsin, DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center; University of Wisconsin-Madison; Madison WI USA
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- Department of Food Biotechnology; Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology (IATA), CSIC; Valencia Spain
- Department of Genetics; University of Valencia; Valencia Spain
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- Department of Food Biotechnology; Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology (IATA), CSIC; Valencia Spain
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Ghadie MA, Coulombe-Huntington J, Xia Y. Interactome evolution: insights from genome-wide analyses of protein-protein interactions. Curr Opin Struct Biol 2017; 50:42-48. [PMID: 29112911 DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2017.10.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2017] [Revised: 10/05/2017] [Accepted: 10/12/2017] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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We highlight new evolutionary insights enabled by recent genome-wide studies on protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks ('interactomes'). While most PPIs are mediated by a single sequence region promoting or inhibiting interactions, many PPIs are mediated by multiple sequence regions acting cooperatively. Most PPIs perform important functions maintained by negative selection: we estimate that less than ∼10% of the human interactome is effectively neutral upon perturbation (i.e. 'junk' PPIs), and the rest are deleterious upon perturbation; interfacial sites evolve more slowly than other sites; many conserved PPIs show signatures of co-evolution at the interface; PPIs evolve more slowly than protein sequence. At the same time, many PPIs undergo rewiring during evolution for lineage-specific adaptation. Finally, chaperone-protein and host-pathogen interactomes are governed by distinct evolutionary principles.
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- Mohamed A Ghadie
- Department of Bioengineering, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3C 0C3, Canada
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- Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec H3C 3J7, Canada
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- Department of Bioengineering, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3C 0C3, Canada.
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Diss G, Gagnon-Arsenault I, Dion-Coté AM, Vignaud H, Ascencio DI, Berger CM, Landry CR. Gene duplication can impart fragility, not robustness, in the yeast protein interaction network. Science 2017; 355:630-634. [PMID: 28183979 DOI: 10.1126/science.aai7685] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2016] [Accepted: 01/13/2017] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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The maintenance of duplicated genes is thought to protect cells from genetic perturbations, but the molecular basis of this robustness is largely unknown. By measuring the interaction of yeast proteins with their partners in wild-type cells and in cells lacking a paralog, we found that 22 out of 56 paralog pairs compensate for the lost interactions. An equivalent number of pairs exhibit the opposite behavior and require each other's presence for maintaining their interactions. These dependent paralogs generally interact physically, regulate each other's abundance, and derive from ancestral self-interacting proteins. This reveals that gene duplication may actually increase mutational fragility instead of robustness in a large number of cases.
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- Guillaume Diss
- Département de Biologie, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada.,The Quebec Network for Research on Protein Function, Engineering, and Applications, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada.,Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada.,EMBL/CRG Systems Biology Research Unit, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Doctor Aiguader 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain.,Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), 08003 Barcelona, Spain
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- Département de Biologie, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada.,The Quebec Network for Research on Protein Function, Engineering, and Applications, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada.,Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada
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- Département de Biologie, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada.,The Quebec Network for Research on Protein Function, Engineering, and Applications, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada.,Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada
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- Département de Biologie, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada.,The Quebec Network for Research on Protein Function, Engineering, and Applications, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada.,Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada
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- Département de Biologie, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada.,The Quebec Network for Research on Protein Function, Engineering, and Applications, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada.,Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada.,Laboratorio Nacional de Genómica para la Biodiversidad (LANGEBIO), Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico
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- Département de Biologie, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada.,The Quebec Network for Research on Protein Function, Engineering, and Applications, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada.,Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada
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- Département de Biologie, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada. .,The Quebec Network for Research on Protein Function, Engineering, and Applications, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada.,Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada
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Filteau M, Charron G, Landry CR. Identification of the fitness determinants of budding yeast on a natural substrate. THE ISME JOURNAL 2017; 11:959-971. [PMID: 27935595 PMCID: PMC5364353 DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2016.170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2016] [Revised: 09/15/2016] [Accepted: 10/20/2016] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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The budding yeasts are prime models in genomics and cell biology, but the ecological factors that determine their success in non-human-associated habitats is poorly understood. In North America Saccharomyces yeasts are present on the bark of deciduous trees, where they feed on bark and sap exudates. In the North East, Saccharomyces paradoxus is found on maples, which makes maple sap a natural substrate for this species. We measured growth rates of S. paradoxus natural isolates on maple sap and found variation along a geographical gradient not explained by the inherent variation observed under optimal laboratory conditions. We used a functional genomic screen to reveal the ecologically relevant genes and conditions required for optimal growth in this substrate. We found that the allantoin degradation pathway is required for optimal growth in maple sap, in particular genes necessary for allantoate utilization, which we demonstrate is the major nitrogen source available to yeast in this environment. Growth with allantoin or allantoate as the sole nitrogen source recapitulated the variation in growth rates in maple sap among strains. We also show that two lineages of S. paradoxus display different life-history traits on allantoin and allantoate media, highlighting the ecological relevance of this pathway.
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- Marie Filteau
- Département de Biologie, PROTEO, Big Data Research Center and Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes (IBIS), Université Laval, Québec, Québec, Canada
- Département des Sciences des aliments, Institut sur la nutrition et les aliments fonctionnels (INAF), Université Laval, Québec, Québec, Canada
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- Département de Biologie, PROTEO, Big Data Research Center and Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes (IBIS), Université Laval, Québec, Québec, Canada
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- Département de Biologie, PROTEO, Big Data Research Center and Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes (IBIS), Université Laval, Québec, Québec, Canada
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Yeast Population Genomics Goes Wild: The Case of Saccharomyces paradoxus. POPULATION GENOMICS: MICROORGANISMS 2017. [DOI: 10.1007/13836_2017_4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Diss G, Landry CR. Combining the Dihydrofolate Reductase Protein-Fragment Complementation Assay with Gene Deletions to Establish Genotype-to-Phenotype Maps of Protein Complexes and Interaction Networks. Cold Spring Harb Protoc 2016; 2016:2016/11/pdb.prot090035. [PMID: 27803253 DOI: 10.1101/pdb.prot090035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Systematically measuring the impact of gene deletion on protein-protein interactions is a promising approach to reveal the structural bases of protein interaction networks and to allow a better understanding of how genotypes translate into phenotypes. Genetic and protein-interaction tools in yeast now allow us to explore this third dimension of protein-protein interaction networks. Because it is scalable and quantitative, the protein-fragment complementation assay (PCA) using dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) as the reporter protein provides an exceptionally powerful tool for such a purpose. Here, we describe a fully automated protocol that combines DHFR PCA for protein-protein interaction measurement and synthetic genetic array (SGA) technology for introducing mutant and other alleles into PCA strains using genetic crosses. In this, PCA strains are crossed with strains carrying a gene deletion and SGA markers, and the recombinant haploid progeny are selected by SGA. The resulting haploid strains, each expressing a DHFR-fragment fusion protein in a gene-specific haploid deletion background, are crossed to measure the interaction between the two recombinant proteins by PCA in a diploid homozygous deletion background. This approach can be used to measure a single protein interaction in a large array of genetic backgrounds or a large number of protein interactions in a small number of genetic backgrounds.
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- Guillaume Diss
- Département de Biologie, Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes, PROTEO-Québec Research Network on Protein Function, Structure and Engineering, Université Laval, Québec, Québec G1V 0A6, Canada
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- Département de Biologie, Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes, PROTEO-Québec Research Network on Protein Function, Structure and Engineering, Université Laval, Québec, Québec G1V 0A6, Canada
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Apelt L, Knockenhauer KE, Leksa NC, Benlasfer N, Schwartz TU, Stelzl U. Systematic Protein-Protein Interaction Analysis Reveals Intersubcomplex Contacts in the Nuclear Pore Complex. Mol Cell Proteomics 2016; 15:2594-606. [PMID: 27194810 PMCID: PMC4974338 DOI: 10.1074/mcp.m115.054627] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2015] [Revised: 05/17/2016] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The nuclear pore complex (NPC) enables transport across the nuclear envelope. It is one of the largest multiprotein assemblies in the cell, built from about 30 proteins called nucleoporins (Nups), organized into distinct subcomplexes. Structure determination of the NPC is a major research goal. The assembled ∼40-112 MDa NPC can be visualized by cryoelectron tomography (cryo-ET), while Nup subcomplexes are studied crystallographically. Docking the crystal structures into the cryo-ET maps is difficult because of limited resolution. Further, intersubcomplex contacts are not well characterized. Here, we systematically investigated direct interactions between Nups. In a comprehensive, structure-based, yeast two-hybrid interaction matrix screen, we mapped protein-protein interactions in yeast and human. Benchmarking against crystallographic and coaffinity purification data from the literature demonstrated the high coverage and accuracy of the data set. Novel intersubcomplex interactions were validated biophysically in microscale thermophoresis experiments and in intact cells through protein fragment complementation. These intersubcomplex interaction data provide direct experimental evidence toward possible structural arrangements of architectural elements within the assembled NPC, or they may point to assembly intermediates. Our data favors an assembly model in which major architectural elements of the NPC, notably the Y-complex, exist in different structural contexts within the scaffold.
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- Luise Apelt
- From the ‡Otto-Warburg Laboratory, Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics (MPIMG), Berlin, Germany
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- §Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge
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- From the ‡Otto-Warburg Laboratory, Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics (MPIMG), Berlin, Germany
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- §Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge
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- From the ‡Otto-Warburg Laboratory, Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics (MPIMG), Berlin, Germany; ¶Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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Zhong Q, Pevzner SJ, Hao T, Wang Y, Mosca R, Menche J, Taipale M, Taşan M, Fan C, Yang X, Haley P, Murray RR, Mer F, Gebreab F, Tam S, MacWilliams A, Dricot A, Reichert P, Santhanam B, Ghamsari L, Calderwood MA, Rolland T, Charloteaux B, Lindquist S, Barabási AL, Hill DE, Aloy P, Cusick ME, Xia Y, Roth FP, Vidal M. An inter-species protein-protein interaction network across vast evolutionary distance. Mol Syst Biol 2016; 12:865. [PMID: 27107014 PMCID: PMC4848758 DOI: 10.15252/msb.20156484] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2015] [Revised: 02/22/2016] [Accepted: 03/04/2016] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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In cellular systems, biophysical interactions between macromolecules underlie a complex web of functional interactions. How biophysical and functional networks are coordinated, whether all biophysical interactions correspond to functional interactions, and how such biophysical-versus-functional network coordination is shaped by evolutionary forces are all largely unanswered questions. Here, we investigate these questions using an "inter-interactome" approach. We systematically probed the yeast and human proteomes for interactions between proteins from these two species and functionally characterized the resulting inter-interactome network. After a billion years of evolutionary divergence, the yeast and human proteomes are still capable of forming a biophysical network with properties that resemble those of intra-species networks. Although substantially reduced relative to intra-species networks, the levels of functional overlap in the yeast-human inter-interactome network uncover significant remnants of co-functionality widely preserved in the two proteomes beyond human-yeast homologs. Our data support evolutionary selection against biophysical interactions between proteins with little or no co-functionality. Such non-functional interactions, however, represent a reservoir from which nascent functional interactions may arise.
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- Quan Zhong
- Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB) and Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA Department of Biological Sciences, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, USA
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- Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB) and Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB) and Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB) and Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Joint IRB-BSC-CRG Program in Computational Biology, Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona Catalonia, Spain
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- Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB) and Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA Center for Complex Network Research (CCNR) and Department of Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB) and Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA Departments of Molecular Genetics and Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada Donnelly Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mt. Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB) and Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB) and Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB) and Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB) and Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB) and Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB) and Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB) and Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB) and Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB) and Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB) and Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB) and Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB) and Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB) and Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB) and Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB) and Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA, USA Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB) and Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA Center for Complex Network Research (CCNR) and Department of Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB) and Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Joint IRB-BSC-CRG Program in Computational Biology, Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona Catalonia, Spain Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain
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- Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB) and Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB) and Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA Department of Bioengineering, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB) and Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA Departments of Molecular Genetics and Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada Donnelly Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mt. Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB) and Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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A Cross-Species Study of PI3K Protein-Protein Interactions Reveals the Direct Interaction of P85 and SHP2. Sci Rep 2016; 6:20471. [PMID: 26839216 PMCID: PMC4738311 DOI: 10.1038/srep20471] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2015] [Accepted: 01/05/2016] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Using a series of immunoprecipitation (IP) – tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) experiments and reciprocal BLAST, we conducted a fly-human cross-species comparison of the phosphoinositide-3-kinase (PI3K) interactome in a drosophila S2R+ cell line and several NSCLC and human multiple myeloma cell lines to identify conserved interacting proteins to PI3K, a critical signaling regulator of the AKT pathway. Using H929 human cancer cells and drosophila S2R+ cells, our data revealed an unexpected direct binding of Corkscrew, the drosophila ortholog of the non-receptor protein tyrosine phosphatase type II (SHP2) to the Pi3k21B (p60) regulatory subunit of PI3K (p50/p85 human ortholog) but no association with Pi3k92e, the human ortholog of the p110 catalytic subunit. The p85-SHP2 association was validated in human cell lines, and formed a ternary regulatory complex with GRB2-associated-binding protein 2 (GAB2). Validation experiments with knockdown of GAB2 and Far-Western blots proved the direct interaction of SHP2 with p85, independent of adaptor proteins and transfected FLAG-p85 provided evidence that SHP2 binding on p85 occurred on the SH2 domains. A disruption of the SHP2-p85 complex took place after insulin/IGF1 stimulation or imatinib treatment, suggesting that the direct SHP2-p85 interaction was both independent of AKT activation and positively regulates the ERK signaling pathway.
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Filteau M, Vignaud H, Rochette S, Diss G, Chrétien AÈ, Berger CM, Landry CR. Multi-scale perturbations of protein interactomes reveal their mechanisms of regulation, robustness and insights into genotype-phenotype maps. Brief Funct Genomics 2015; 15:130-7. [PMID: 26476431 DOI: 10.1093/bfgp/elv043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Cellular architectures and signaling machineries are organized through protein-protein interactions (PPIs). High-throughput methods to study PPIs in yeast have opened a new perspective on the organization of the cell by allowing the study of whole protein interactomes. Recent investigations have moved from the description of this organization to the analysis of its dynamics by experimenting how protein interaction networks (PINs) are rewired in response to perturbations. Here we review studies that have used the budding yeast as an experimental system to explore these altered networks. Given the large space of possible PPIs and the diversity of potential genetic and environmental perturbations, high-throughput methods are an essential requirement to survey PIN perturbations on a large scale. Network perturbations are typically conceptualized as the removal of entire proteins (nodes), the modification of single PPIs (edges) or changes in growth conditions. These studies have revealed mechanisms of PPI regulation, PIN architectural organization, robustness and sensitivity to perturbations. Despite these major advances, there are still inherent limits to current technologies that lead to a trade-off between the number of perturbations and the number of PPIs that can be considered simultaneously. Nevertheless, as we exemplify here, targeted approaches combined with the existing resources remain extremely powerful to explore the inner organization of cells and their responses to perturbations.
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Rochette S, Diss G, Filteau M, Leducq JB, Dubé AK, Landry CR. Genome-wide protein-protein interaction screening by protein-fragment complementation assay (PCA) in living cells. J Vis Exp 2015:52255. [PMID: 25867901 PMCID: PMC4401175 DOI: 10.3791/52255] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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Proteins are the building blocks, effectors and signal mediators of cellular processes. A protein's function, regulation and localization often depend on its interactions with other proteins. Here, we describe a protocol for the yeast protein-fragment complementation assay (PCA), a powerful method to detect direct and proximal associations between proteins in living cells. The interaction between two proteins, each fused to a dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) protein fragment, translates into growth of yeast strains in presence of the drug methotrexate (MTX). Differential fitness, resulting from different amounts of reconstituted DHFR enzyme, can be quantified on high-density colony arrays, allowing to differentiate interacting from non-interacting bait-prey pairs. The high-throughput protocol presented here is performed using a robotic platform that parallelizes mating of bait and prey strains carrying complementary DHFR-fragment fusion proteins and the survival assay on MTX. This protocol allows to systematically test for thousands of protein-protein interactions (PPIs) involving bait proteins of interest and offers several advantages over other PPI detection assays, including the study of proteins expressed from their endogenous promoters without the need for modifying protein localization and for the assembly of complex reporter constructs.
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- Samuel Rochette
- Département de Biologie, Institut de biologie intégrative et des systémes & PROTEO, Université Laval
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- Département de Biologie, Institut de biologie intégrative et des systémes & PROTEO, Université Laval
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- Département de Biologie, Institut de biologie intégrative et des systémes & PROTEO, Université Laval
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- Département de Biologie, Institut de biologie intégrative et des systémes & PROTEO, Université Laval
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- Département de Biologie, Institut de biologie intégrative et des systémes & PROTEO, Université Laval
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- Département de Biologie, Institut de biologie intégrative et des systémes & PROTEO, Université Laval;
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Gibson B, Liti G. Saccharomyces pastorianus: genomic insights inspiring innovation for industry. Yeast 2014; 32:17-27. [DOI: 10.1002/yea.3033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2014] [Revised: 06/17/2014] [Accepted: 07/18/2014] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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- Brian Gibson
- VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland; Tietotie 2, PO Box 1000 FI-02044 VTT Espoo Finland
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- Institute for Research on Cancer and Ageing of Nice (IRCAN), CNRS UMR 7284-INSERM U1081; Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis; 06107 Nice Cedex 2 France
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A test of double interspecific introgression of nucleoporin genes in Drosophila. G3-GENES GENOMES GENETICS 2014; 4:2101-6. [PMID: 25172915 PMCID: PMC4232535 DOI: 10.1534/g3.114.014027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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In interspecific hybrids between Drosophila melanogaster and Drosophila simulans, the D. simulans nucleoporin-encoding Nup96sim and Nup160sim can cause recessive lethality if the hybrid does not also inherit the D. simulans X chromosome. In addition, Nup160sim leads to recessive female sterility in the D. melanogaster genetic background. Here, we conducted carefully controlled crosses to better understand the relationship between Nup96sim and Nup160sim. Nup96sim did not lead to female sterility in the D. melanogaster genetic background, and double introgression of Nup96sim and Nup160sim did not generally lead to lethality when one was heterozygous and the other homozygous (hemizygous). It appears that introgression of additional autosomal D. simulans genes is necessary to cause lethality and that the effect of the introgression is dominant to D. melanogaster alleles. Interestingly, the genetic background affected dominance of Nup96sim, and double introgression carrying homozygous Nup96sim and hemizygous Nup160sim resulted in lethality. Thus, Nup96sim and Nup160sim seem to be two components of the same incompatibility.
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Charron G, Leducq JB, Landry CR. Chromosomal variation segregates within incipient species and correlates with reproductive isolation. Mol Ecol 2014; 23:4362-72. [PMID: 25039979 DOI: 10.1111/mec.12864] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2014] [Revised: 07/11/2014] [Accepted: 07/14/2014] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Reproductive isolation is a critical step in the process of speciation. Among the most important factors driving reproductive isolation are genetic incompatibilities. Whether these incompatibilities are already present before extrinsic factors prevent gene flow between incipient species remains largely unresolved in natural systems. This question is particularly challenging because it requires that we catch speciating populations in the act before they reach the full-fledged species status. We measured the extent of intrinsic postzygotic isolation within and between phenotypically and genetically divergent lineages of the wild yeast Saccharomyces paradoxus that have partially overlapping geographical distributions. We find that hybrid viability between lineages progressively decreases with genetic divergence. A large proportion of postzygotic inviability within lineages is associated with chromosomal rearrangements, suggesting that chromosomal differences substantially contribute to the early steps of reproductive isolation within lineages before reaching fixation. Our observations show that polymorphic intrinsic factors may segregate within incipient species before they contribute to their full reproductive isolation and highlight the role of chromosomal rearrangements in speciation. We propose different hypotheses based on adaptation, biogeographical events and life history evolution that could explain these observations.
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- Guillaume Charron
- Département de Biologie, Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes, PROTEO, Université Laval, Québec, QC, G1V 0A6, Canada
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Andreani J, Guerois R. Evolution of protein interactions: From interactomes to interfaces. Arch Biochem Biophys 2014; 554:65-75. [DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2014.05.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2014] [Revised: 04/28/2014] [Accepted: 05/12/2014] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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McManus CJ, May GE, Spealman P, Shteyman A. Ribosome profiling reveals post-transcriptional buffering of divergent gene expression in yeast. Genome Res 2014; 24:422-30. [PMID: 24318730 PMCID: PMC3941107 DOI: 10.1101/gr.164996.113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 146] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2013] [Accepted: 12/05/2013] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Understanding the patterns and causes of phenotypic divergence is a central goal in evolutionary biology. Much work has shown that mRNA abundance is highly variable between closely related species. However, the extent and mechanisms of post-transcriptional gene regulatory evolution are largely unknown. Here we used ribosome profiling to compare transcript abundance and translation efficiency in two closely related yeast species (S. cerevisiae and S. paradoxus). By comparing translation regulatory divergence to interspecies differences in mRNA sequence features, we show that differences in transcript leaders and codon bias substantially contribute to divergent translation. Globally, we find that translation regulatory divergence often buffers species differences in mRNA abundance, such that ribosome occupancy is more conserved than transcript abundance. We used allele-specific ribosome profiling in interspecies hybrids to compare the relative contributions of cis- and trans-regulatory divergence to species differences in mRNA abundance and translation efficiency. The mode of gene regulatory divergence differs for these processes, as trans-regulatory changes play a greater role in divergent mRNA abundance than in divergent translation efficiency. Strikingly, most genes with aberrant transcript abundance in F1 hybrids (either over- or underexpressed compared to both parent species) did not exhibit aberrant ribosome occupancy. Our results show that interspecies differences in translation contribute substantially to the evolution of gene expression. Compensatory differences in transcript abundance and translation efficiency may increase the robustness of gene regulation.
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- C. Joel McManus
- Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Biological Sciences, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
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- Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Biological Sciences, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
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- Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Biological Sciences, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
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- Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Biological Sciences, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
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Leducq JB. Ecological Genomics of Adaptation and Speciation in Fungi. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2014; 781:49-72. [DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-7347-9_4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Ryan CJ, Krogan NJ, Cunningham P, Cagney G. All or nothing: protein complexes flip essentiality between distantly related eukaryotes. Genome Biol Evol 2013; 5:1049-59. [PMID: 23661563 PMCID: PMC3698920 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evt074] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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In the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the subunits of any given protein complex are either mostly essential or mostly nonessential, suggesting that essentiality is a property of molecular machines rather than individual components. There are exceptions to this rule, however, that is, nonessential genes in largely essential complexes and essential genes in largely nonessential complexes. Here, we provide explanations for these exceptions, showing that redundancy within complexes, as revealed by genetic interactions, can explain many of the former cases, whereas “moonlighting,” as revealed by membership of multiple complexes, can explain the latter. Surprisingly, we find that redundancy within complexes cannot usually be explained by gene duplication, suggesting alternate buffering mechanisms. In the distantly related Schizosaccharomyces pombe, we observe the same phenomenon of modular essentiality, suggesting that it may be a general feature of eukaryotes. Furthermore, we show that complexes flip essentiality in a cohesive fashion between the two species, that is, they tend to change from mostly essential to mostly nonessential, or vice versa, but not to mixed patterns. We show that these flips in essentiality can be explained by differing lifestyles of the two yeasts. Collectively, our results support a previously proposed model where proteins are essential because of their involvement in essential functional modules rather than because of specific topological features such as degree or centrality.
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- Colm J Ryan
- School of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin, Ireland.
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Rochette S, Gagnon-Arsenault I, Diss G, Landry CR. Modulation of the yeast protein interactome in response to DNA damage. J Proteomics 2013; 100:25-36. [PMID: 24262151 DOI: 10.1016/j.jprot.2013.11.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2013] [Revised: 10/10/2013] [Accepted: 11/05/2013] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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UNLABELLED Cells deploy diverse mechanisms to physiologically adapt to potentially detrimental perturbations. These mechanisms include changes in the organization of protein-protein interaction networks (PINs). Most PINs characterized to date are portrayed in a single environmental condition and are thus likely to miss important connections among biological processes. In this report, we show that the yeast DHFR-PCA on high-density arrays allows to detects modulations of protein-protein interactions (PPIs) in different conditions by testing more than 1000 PPIs in standard and in a drug-inducing DNA damage conditions. We identify 156 PPIs that show significant modulation in response to DNA damage. We provide evidence that modulated PPIs involve essential genes (NOP7, EXO84 and LAS17) playing critical roles in response to DNA damage. Additionally, we show that a significant proportion of PPI changes are likely explained by changes in protein localization and, to a lesser extent, protein abundance. The protein interaction modules affected by changing PPIs support the role of mRNA stability and translation, protein degradation and ubiquitylation and the regulation of the actin cytoskeleton in response to DNA damage. Overall, we provide a valuable tool and dataset for the study of the rewiring of PINs in response to environmental perturbations. BIOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE We show that the DHFR-PCA is a high-throughput method that allows the detection of changes in PPIs associated with different environmental conditions using DNA damage response as a testbed. We provide a valuable resource for the study of DNA damage in eukaryotic cells. This article is part of a Special Issue: Can Proteomics Fill the Gap Between Genomics and Phenotypes?
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- Samuel Rochette
- Département de Biologie, PROTEO and Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes, Université Laval, Québec, Québec G1V 0A6, Canada
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- Département de Biologie, PROTEO and Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes, Université Laval, Québec, Québec G1V 0A6, Canada
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- Département de Biologie, PROTEO and Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes, Université Laval, Québec, Québec G1V 0A6, Canada
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- Département de Biologie, PROTEO and Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes, Université Laval, Québec, Québec G1V 0A6, Canada.
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Landry C, Levy E, Abd Rabbo D, Tarassov K, Michnick S. Extracting Insight from Noisy Cellular Networks. Cell 2013; 155:983-9. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2013.11.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2013] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Chimeric protein complexes in hybrid species generate novel phenotypes. PLoS Genet 2013; 9:e1003836. [PMID: 24137105 PMCID: PMC3789821 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003836] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2012] [Accepted: 08/13/2013] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Hybridization between species is an important mechanism for the origin of novel lineages and adaptation to new environments. Increased allelic variation and modification of the transcriptional network are the two recognized forces currently deemed to be responsible for the phenotypic properties seen in hybrids. However, since the majority of the biological functions in a cell are carried out by protein complexes, inter-specific protein assemblies therefore represent another important source of natural variation upon which evolutionary forces can act. Here we studied the composition of six protein complexes in two different Saccharomyces “sensu stricto” hybrids, to understand whether chimeric interactions can be freely formed in the cell in spite of species-specific co-evolutionary forces, and whether the different types of complexes cause a change in hybrid fitness. The protein assemblies were isolated from the hybrids via affinity chromatography and identified via mass spectrometry. We found evidence of spontaneous chimericity for four of the six protein assemblies tested and we showed that different types of complexes can cause a variety of phenotypes in selected environments. In the case of TRP2/TRP3 complex, the effect of such chimeric formation resulted in the fitness advantage of the hybrid in an environment lacking tryptophan, while only one type of parental combination of the MBF complex allowed the hybrid to grow under respiratory conditions. These phenotypes were dependent on both genetic and environmental backgrounds. This study provides empirical evidence that chimeric protein complexes can freely assemble in cells and reveals a new mechanism to generate phenotypic novelty and plasticity in hybrids to complement the genomic innovation resulting from gene duplication. The ability to exchange orthologous members has also important implications for the adaptation and subsequent genome evolution of the hybrids in terms of pattern of gene loss. The Saccharomyces cerevisiae “sensu stricto” group represent an excellent example of closely related species which can readily hybridise to occupy new ecological niches. Hybrids harbour the DNA of both parents and can display diverse pattern of gene expression. Less is known about the protein interactions that occur in hybrids, where two diverged proteome co-exist and are responsible for the correct execution of the biological function. In fact, hybrids could potentially form different chimeric variants of the same protein complex by using all the different combinations of parental alleles available. Chimeric interactions are expected to be sub-optimal and therefore discouraged since the members forming the protein complex are from different parents and have a different evolutionary history. Interestingly, here, we show experimentally that chimeric protein assemblies are spontaneously established in different yeast hybrids, and that such chimericity produces different phenotypic variants displaying loss or gain of fitness according to their genetic background and to the environment that they are exposed. These findings imply that the formation of chimeric complexes offers a new source of natural variation, widens the adaptation potential of the hybrids towards new nutritional contexts, and may influence genome evolution through selective retention of optimal alleles.
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The modern synthesis of evolutionary theory and genetics has enabled us to discover underlying molecular mechanisms of organismal evolution. We know that in order to maximize an organism's fitness in a particular environment, individual interactions among components of protein and nucleic acid networks need to be optimized by natural selection, or sometimes through random processes, as the organism responds to changes and/or challenges in the environment. Despite the significant role of molecular networks in determining an organism's adaptation to its environment, we still do not know how such inter- and intra-molecular interactions within networks change over time and contribute to an organism's evolvability while maintaining overall network functions. One way to address this challenge is to identify connections between molecular networks and their host organisms, to manipulate these connections, and then attempt to understand how such perturbations influence molecular dynamics of the network and thus influence evolutionary paths and organismal fitness. In the present review, we discuss how integrating evolutionary history with experimental systems that combine tools drawn from molecular evolution, synthetic biology and biochemistry allow us to identify the underlying mechanisms of organismal evolution, particularly from the perspective of protein interaction networks.
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Diss G, Dubé AK, Boutin J, Gagnon-Arsenault I, Landry CR. A systematic approach for the genetic dissection of protein complexes in living cells. Cell Rep 2013; 3:2155-67. [PMID: 23746448 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2013.05.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2013] [Revised: 04/11/2013] [Accepted: 05/04/2013] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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Cells contain many important protein complexes involved in performing and regulating structural, metabolic, and signaling functions. One major challenge in cell biology is to elucidate the organization and mechanisms of robustness of these complexes in vivo. We developed a systematic approach to study structural dependencies within complexes in living cells by deleting subunits and measuring pairwise interactions among other components. We used our methodology to perturb two conserved eukaryotic complexes: the retromer and the nuclear pore complex. Our results identify subunits that are critical for the assembly of these complexes, reveal their structural architecture, and uncover mechanisms by which protein interactions are modulated. Our results also show that paralogous proteins play a key role in the robustness of protein complexes and shape their assembly landscape. Our approach paves the way for studying the response of protein interactomes to mutations and enhances our understanding of genotype-phenotype maps.
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- Guillaume Diss
- Département de Biologie, PROTEO and Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes, Université Laval, Québec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada
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Diss G, Filteau M, Freschi L, Leducq JB, Rochette S, Torres-Quiroz F, Landry CR. Integrative avenues for exploring the dynamics and evolution of protein interaction networks. Curr Opin Biotechnol 2013; 24:775-83. [PMID: 23571097 DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2013.02.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2012] [Revised: 02/14/2013] [Accepted: 02/24/2013] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Over the past decade, the study of protein interaction networks (PINs) has shed light on the organizing principles of living cells. However, PINs have been mostly mapped in one single condition. We outline three of the most promising avenues of investigation in this field, namely the study of first, how PINs are rewired by mutations and environmental perturbations; secondly, how inter-species interactions affect PIN achitectures; thirdly, what mechanisms and forces drive PIN evolution. These investigations will unravel the dynamics and condition dependence of PINs and will thus lead to a better functional annotation of network architecture. One major challenge to reach these goals is the integration of PINs with other cellular regulatory networks in the context of complex cellular phenotypes.
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- Guillaume Diss
- Département de Biologie, Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes (IBIS), PROTEO, Université Laval, Québec, Canada G1V 0A6
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