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Klim J, Zielenkiewicz U, Kurlandzka A, Kaczanowski S, Skoneczny M. Slow Adaptive Response of Budding Yeast Cells to Stable Conditions of Continuous Culture Can Occur without Genome Modifications. Genes (Basel) 2020; 11:genes11121419. [PMID: 33261040 PMCID: PMC7759791 DOI: 10.3390/genes11121419] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2020] [Revised: 11/24/2020] [Accepted: 11/25/2020] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Continuous cultures assure the invariability of environmental conditions and the metabolic state of cultured microorganisms, whereas batch-cultured cells undergo constant changes in nutrients availability. For that reason, continuous culture is sometimes employed in the whole transcriptome, whole proteome, or whole metabolome studies. However, the typical method for establishing uniform growth of a cell population, i.e., by limited chemostat, results in the enrichment of the cell population gene pool with mutations adaptive for starvation conditions. These adaptive changes can skew the results of large-scale studies. It is commonly assumed that these adaptations reflect changes in the genome, and this assumption has been confirmed experimentally in rare cases. Here we show that in a population of budding yeast cells grown for over 200 generations in continuous culture in non-limiting minimal medium and therefore not subject to selection pressure, remodeling of transcriptome occurs, but not as a result of the accumulation of adaptive mutations. The observed changes indicate a shift in the metabolic balance towards catabolism, a decrease in ribosome biogenesis, a decrease in general stress alertness, reorganization of the cell wall, and transactions occurring at the cell periphery. These adaptive changes signify the acquisition of a new lifestyle in a stable nonstressful environment. The absence of underlying adaptive mutations suggests these changes may be regulated by another mechanism.
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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; (J.K.); (U.Z.)
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- Department of Microbial Biochemistry, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Pawińskiego 5a, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland; (J.K.); (U.Z.)
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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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- Department of Genetics, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Pawińskiego 5a, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland;
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +48-22-5921217
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Liu J, Lestrade D, Arabaciyan S, Cescut J, François JM, Capp JP. A GRX1 Promoter Variant Confers Constitutive Noisy Bimodal Expression That Increases Oxidative Stress Resistance in Yeast. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:2158. [PMID: 30283413 PMCID: PMC6156533 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.02158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2018] [Accepted: 08/23/2018] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Higher noise in the expression of stress-related genes was previously shown to confer better resistance in selective conditions. Thus, evolving the promoter of such genes toward higher transcriptional noise appears to be an attractive strategy to engineer microbial strains with enhanced stress resistance. Here we generated hundreds of promoter variants of the GRX1 gene involved in oxidative stress resistance in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and created a yeast library by replacing the native GRX1 promoter by these variants at the native locus. An outlier clone with very strong increase in noise (6-times) at the same mean expression level as the native strain was identified whereas the other noisiest clones were only 3-times increased. This variant provides constitutive bimodal expression and consists in 3 repeated but differently mutated copies of the GRX1 promoter. In spite of the multi-factorial oxidative stress-response in yeast, replacement of the native promoter by this variant is sufficient alone to confer strongly enhanced resistance to H2O2 and cumene hydroperoxide. New replacement of this variant by the native promoter in the resistant strain suppresses the resistance. This work shows that increasing noise of target genes in a relevant strategy to engineer microbial strains toward better stress resistance. Multiple promoter replacement could synergize the effect observed here with the sole GRX1 promoter replacement. Finally this work suggests that combining several mutated copies of the target promoter could allow enhancing transcriptional-mediated noise at higher levels than mutating a single copy by providing constitutive bimodal and highly heterogeneous expression distribution.
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- Jian Liu
- Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Systèmes Biologiques et des Procédés, UMR CNRS 5504, UMR INRA 792, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Toulouse, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
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- Toulouse White Biotechnology, UMS INRA 1337, UMS CNRS 3582, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
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- Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Systèmes Biologiques et des Procédés, UMR CNRS 5504, UMR INRA 792, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Toulouse, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
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- Toulouse White Biotechnology, UMS INRA 1337, UMS CNRS 3582, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
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- Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Systèmes Biologiques et des Procédés, UMR CNRS 5504, UMR INRA 792, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Toulouse, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France.,Toulouse White Biotechnology, UMS INRA 1337, UMS CNRS 3582, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
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- Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Systèmes Biologiques et des Procédés, UMR CNRS 5504, UMR INRA 792, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Toulouse, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
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Liu J, Arabaciyan S, François JM, Capp JP. Bimodality of gene expression from yeast promoter can be instigated by DNA context, inducing conditions and strain background. FEMS Yeast Res 2018; 18:4978428. [PMID: 29684123 DOI: 10.1093/femsyr/foy047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2017] [Accepted: 04/17/2018] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Bimodality in gene expression is thought to provide a high phenotypic heterogeneity that can be favourable for adaptation or unfavourable notably in industrial processes that require stable and homogeneous properties. Whether this property is produced or suppressed in different conditions has been understudied. Here we identified tens of Saccharomyces cerevisiae genomic fragments conferring bimodal yEGFP expression on centromeric plasmid and studied some of these promoters in different DNA contexts, inducing conditions or strain backgrounds. First, we observed that the bimodal behaviour identified on plasmid is generally suppressed at the genomic level. Second, an inducible promoter such as the copper-regulated CUP1 promoter can produce bimodal expression in a time- and dose-dependent fashion. For a given copper sulphate concentration, a constant proportion of the subpopulation is induced and only the induction level of this subpopulation changed with induction duration, while for a same induction time, higher copper sulphate concentrations induced more cells at higher levels. Third, we showed that bimodality conferred by the CUP1 promoter in expression profile is strain background dependent, revealing epistasis in the generation of bimodality. The influence of these parameters on bimodality has to be taken into account when considering transgene expression for industrial microbial productions.
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- Jian Liu
- INSA/Université de Toulouse, Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Systèmes Biologiques et des Procédés, UMR CNRS 5504, UMR INRA 792, 31077 Toulouse, France
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- INSA/Université de Toulouse, Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Systèmes Biologiques et des Procédés, UMR CNRS 5504, UMR INRA 792, 31077 Toulouse, France
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- INSA/Université de Toulouse, Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Systèmes Biologiques et des Procédés, UMR CNRS 5504, UMR INRA 792, 31077 Toulouse, France
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- INSA/Université de Toulouse, Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Systèmes Biologiques et des Procédés, UMR CNRS 5504, UMR INRA 792, 31077 Toulouse, France
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Real-Time Evolution of a Subtelomeric Gene Family in Candida albicans. Genetics 2015; 200:907-19. [PMID: 25956943 PMCID: PMC4512551 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.115.177451] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2015] [Accepted: 05/05/2015] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Subtelomeric regions of the genome are notable for high rates of sequence evolution and rapid gene turnover. Evidence of subtelomeric evolution has relied heavily on comparisons of historical evolutionary patterns to infer trends and frequencies of these events. Here, we describe evolution of the subtelomeric TLO gene family in Candida albicans during laboratory passaging for over 4000 generations. C. albicans is a commensal and opportunistic pathogen of humans and the TLO gene family encodes a subunit of the Mediator complex that regulates transcription and affects a range of virulence factors. We identified 16 distinct subtelomeric recombination events that altered the TLO repertoire. Ectopic recombination between subtelomeres on different chromosome ends occurred approximately once per 5000 generations and was often followed by loss of heterozygosity, resulting in the complete loss of one TLO gene sequence with expansion of another. In one case, recombination within TLO genes produced a novel TLO gene sequence. TLO copy number changes were biased, with some TLOs preferentially being copied to novel chromosome arms and other TLO genes being frequently lost. The majority of these nonreciprocal recombination events occurred either within the 3′ end of the TLO coding sequence or within a conserved 50-bp sequence element centromere-proximal to TLO coding sequence. Thus, subtelomeric recombination is a rapid mechanism of generating genotypic diversity through alterations in the number and sequence of related gene family members.
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Bae SH, Han HW, Moon J. Functional analysis of the molecular interactions of TATA box-containing genes and essential genes. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0120848. [PMID: 25789484 PMCID: PMC4366266 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0120848] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2014] [Accepted: 01/26/2015] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Genes can be divided into TATA-containing genes and TATA-less genes according to the presence of TATA box elements at promoter regions. TATA-containing genes tend to be stress-responsive, whereas many TATA-less genes are known to be related to cell growth or “housekeeping” functions. In a previous study, we demonstrated that there are striking differences among four gene sets defined by the presence of TATA box (TATA-containing) and essentiality (TATA-less) with respect to number of associated transcription factors, amino acid usage, and functional annotation. Extending this research in yeast, we identified KEGG (Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes) pathways that are statistically enriched in TATA-containing or TATA-less genes and evaluated the possibility that the enriched pathways are related to stress or growth as reflected by the individual functions of the genes involved. According to their enrichment for either of these two gene sets, we sorted KEGG pathways into TATA-containing-gene-enriched pathways (TEPs) and essential-gene-enriched pathways (EEPs). As expected, genes in TEPs and EEPs exhibited opposite results in terms of functional category, transcriptional regulation, codon adaptation index, and network properties, suggesting the possibility that the bipolar patterns in these pathways also contribute to the regulation of the stress response and to cell survival. Our findings provide the novel insight that significant enrichment of TATA-binding or TATA-less genes defines pathways as stress-responsive or growth-related.
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- Sang-Hun Bae
- College of Life Science, Department of Bioengineering, CHA University, Seoul, Korea
- General Research Institute, Gangnam CHA General Hospital, Seoul, Korea
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- College of Life Science, Department of Bioengineering, CHA University, Seoul, Korea
- General Research Institute, Gangnam CHA General Hospital, Seoul, Korea
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- College of Life Science, Department of Bioengineering, CHA University, Seoul, Korea
- General Research Institute, Gangnam CHA General Hospital, Seoul, Korea
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Anderson MZ, Gerstein AC, Wigen L, Baller JA, Berman J. Silencing is noisy: population and cell level noise in telomere-adjacent genes is dependent on telomere position and sir2. PLoS Genet 2014; 10:e1004436. [PMID: 25057900 PMCID: PMC4109849 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004436] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2013] [Accepted: 04/27/2014] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Cell-to-cell gene expression noise is thought to be an important mechanism for generating phenotypic diversity. Furthermore, telomeric regions are major sites for gene amplification, which is thought to drive genetic diversity. Here we found that individual subtelomeric TLO genes exhibit increased variation in transcript and protein levels at both the cell-to-cell level as well as at the population-level. The cell-to-cell variation, termed Telomere-Adjacent Gene Expression Noise (TAGEN) was largely intrinsic noise and was dependent upon genome position: noise was reduced when a TLO gene was expressed at an ectopic internal locus and noise was elevated when a non-telomeric gene was expressed at a telomere-adjacent locus. This position-dependent TAGEN also was dependent on Sir2p, an NAD+-dependent histone deacetylase. Finally, we found that telomere silencing and TAGEN are tightly linked and regulated in cis: selection for either silencing or activation of a TLO-adjacent URA3 gene resulted in reduced noise at the neighboring TLO but not at other TLO genes. This provides experimental support to computational predictions that the ability to shift between silent and active chromatin states has a major effect on cell-to-cell noise. Furthermore, it demonstrates that these shifts affect the degree of expression variation at each telomere individually.
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- Matthew Z. Anderson
- Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
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- Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
- Department of Microbiology and Biotechnology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel
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- Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
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- Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
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- Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
- Department of Microbiology and Biotechnology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel
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Oppikofer M, Kueng S, Gasser SM. SIR–nucleosome interactions: Structure–function relationships in yeast silent chromatin. Gene 2013; 527:10-25. [DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2013.05.088] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2013] [Revised: 05/27/2013] [Accepted: 05/30/2013] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Ladbury JE, Arold ST. Noise in cellular signaling pathways: causes and effects. Trends Biochem Sci 2012; 37:173-8. [PMID: 22341496 DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2012.01.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2011] [Revised: 01/10/2012] [Accepted: 01/13/2012] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Noise caused by stochastic fluctuations in genetic circuits (transcription and translation) is now appreciated as a central aspect of cell function and phenotypic behavior. Noise has also been detected in signaling networks, but the origin of this noise and how it shapes cellular outcomes remain poorly understood. Here, we argue that noise in signaling networks results from the intrinsic promiscuity of protein-protein interactions (PPIs), and that this noise has shaped cellular signal transduction. Features promoted by the presence of this molecular signaling noise include multimerization and clustering of signaling components, pleiotropic effects of gross changes in protein concentration, and a probabilistic rather than a linear view of signal propagation.
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- John E Ladbury
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Unit 1000, The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Boulevard, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
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Kelemen JZ, Ratna P, Scherrer S, Becskei A. Spatial epigenetic control of mono- and bistable gene expression. PLoS Biol 2010; 8:e1000332. [PMID: 20305717 PMCID: PMC2838748 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000332] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2009] [Accepted: 02/09/2010] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Bistability in signaling networks is frequently employed to promote stochastic switch-like transitions between cellular differentiation states. Differentiation can also be triggered by antagonism of activators and repressors mediated by epigenetic processes that constitute regulatory circuits anchored to the chromosome. Their regulatory logic has remained unclear. A reaction-diffusion model reveals that the same reaction mechanism can support both graded monostable and switch-like bistable gene expression, depending on whether recruited repressor proteins generate a single silencing gradient or two interacting gradients that flank a gene. Our experiments confirm that chromosomal recruitment of activator and repressor proteins permits a plastic form of control; the stability of gene expression is determined by the spatial distribution of silencing nucleation sites along the chromosome. The unveiled regulatory principles will help to understand the mechanisms of variegated gene expression, to design synthetic genetic networks that combine transcriptional regulatory motifs with chromatin-based epigenetic effects, and to control cellular differentiation.
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- János Z. Kelemen
- Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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