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Liu Y, Lin Y, Guo Y, Wu F, Zhang Y, Qi X, Wang Z, Wang Q. Stress tolerance enhancement via SPT15 base editing in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR BIOFUELS 2021; 14:155. [PMID: 34229745 PMCID: PMC8259078 DOI: 10.1186/s13068-021-02005-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2021] [Accepted: 06/26/2021] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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BACKGROUND Saccharomyces cerevisiae is widely used in traditional brewing and modern fermentation industries to produce biofuels, chemicals and other bioproducts, but challenged by various harsh industrial conditions, such as hyperosmotic, thermal and ethanol stresses. Thus, its stress tolerance enhancement has been attracting broad interests. Recently, CRISPR/Cas-based genome editing technology offers unprecedented tools to explore genetic modifications and performance improvement of S. cerevisiae. RESULTS Here, we presented that the Target-AID (activation-induced cytidine deaminase) base editor of enabling C-to-T substitutions could be harnessed to generate in situ nucleotide changes on the S. cerevisiae genome, thereby introducing protein point mutations in cells. The general transcription factor gene SPT15 was targeted, and total 36 mutants with diversified stress tolerances were obtained. Among them, the 18 tolerant mutants against hyperosmotic, thermal and ethanol stresses showed more than 1.5-fold increases of fermentation capacities. These mutations were mainly enriched at the N-terminal region and the convex surface of the saddle-shaped structure of Spt15. Comparative transcriptome analysis of three most stress-tolerant (A140G, P169A and R238K) and two most stress-sensitive (S118L and L214V) mutants revealed common and distinctive impacted global transcription reprogramming and transcriptional regulatory hubs in response to stresses, and these five amino acid changes had different effects on the interactions of Spt15 with DNA and other proteins in the RNA Polymerase II transcription machinery according to protein structure alignment analysis. CONCLUSIONS Taken together, our results demonstrated that the Target-AID base editor provided a powerful tool for targeted in situ mutagenesis in S. cerevisiae and more potential targets of Spt15 residues for enhancing yeast stress tolerance.
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- Yanfang Liu
- CAS Key Laboratory of Systems Microbial Biotechnology, Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tianjin, China
- National Technology Innovation Center of Synthetic Biology, Tianjin, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Systems Microbial Biotechnology, Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tianjin, China
- National Technology Innovation Center of Synthetic Biology, Tianjin, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Systems Microbial Biotechnology, Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tianjin, China
- National Technology Innovation Center of Synthetic Biology, Tianjin, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Systems Microbial Biotechnology, Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tianjin, China
- National Technology Innovation Center of Synthetic Biology, Tianjin, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Systems Microbial Biotechnology, Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tianjin, China
- National Technology Innovation Center of Synthetic Biology, Tianjin, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Systems Microbial Biotechnology, Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tianjin, China
- National Technology Innovation Center of Synthetic Biology, Tianjin, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Systems Microbial Biotechnology, Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tianjin, China
- National Technology Innovation Center of Synthetic Biology, Tianjin, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Systems Microbial Biotechnology, Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tianjin, China
- National Technology Innovation Center of Synthetic Biology, Tianjin, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Jung S, Hartmann A, Del Sol A. RefBool: a reference-based algorithm for discretizing gene expression data. Bioinformatics 2018; 33:1953-1962. [PMID: 28334101 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btx111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2016] [Accepted: 02/21/2017] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Motivation The identification of genes or molecular regulatory mechanisms implicated in biological processes often requires the discretization, and in particular booleanization, of gene expression measurements. However, currently used methods mostly classify each measurement into an active or inactive state regardless of its statistical support possibly leading to downstream analysis conclusions based on spurious booleanization results. Results In order to overcome the lack of certainty inherent in current methodologies and to improve the process of discretization, we introduce RefBool, a reference-based algorithm for discretizing gene expression data. Instead of requiring each measurement to be classified as active or inactive, RefBool allows for the classification of a third state that can be interpreted as an intermediate expression of genes. Furthermore, each measurement is associated to a p- and q-value indicating the significance of each classification. Validation of RefBool on a neuroepithelial differentiation study and subsequent qualitative and quantitative comparison against 10 currently used methods supports its advantages and shows clear improvements of resulting clusterings. Availability and Implementation The software is available as MATLAB files in the Supplementary Information and as an online repository ( https://github.com/saschajung/RefBool ). Contact antonio.delsol@uni.lu. Supplementary information Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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- Sascha Jung
- Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB), University of Luxembourg, Belvaux, Luxembourg
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- Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB), University of Luxembourg, Belvaux, Luxembourg
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- Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB), University of Luxembourg, Belvaux, Luxembourg
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He FQ, Wang W, Zheng P, Sudhakar P, Sun J, Zeng AP. Essential O2-responsive genes of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and their network revealed by integrating dynamic data from inverted conditions. Integr Biol (Camb) 2014; 6:215-23. [PMID: 24413814 DOI: 10.1039/c3ib40180d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Identification of the gene network through which Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 (PA) adapts to altered oxygen-availability environments is essential for a better understanding of stress responses and pathogenicity of PA. We performed high-time-resolution (HTR) transcriptome analyses of PA in a continuous cultivation system during the transition from high oxygen tension to low oxygen tension (HLOT) and the reversed transition from low to high oxygen tension (LHOT). From those genes responsive to both transient conditions, we identified 85 essential oxygen-availability responsive genes (EORGs), including the expected ones (arcDABC) encoding enzymes for arginine fermentation. We then constructed the regulatory network for the EORGs of PA by integrating information from binding motif searching, literature and HTR data. Notably, our results show that only the sub-networks controlled by the well-known oxygen-responsive transcription factors show a very high consistency between the inferred network and literature knowledge, e.g. 87.5% and 83.3% of the obtained sub-network controlled by the anaerobic regulator (ANR) and a quorum sensing regulator RhIR, respectively. These results not only reveal stringent EORGs of PA and their transcription regulatory network, but also highlight that achieving a high accuracy of the inferred regulatory network might be feasible only for the apparently affected regulators under the given conditions but not for all the expressed regulators on a genome scale.
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- Feng Q He
- Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, D-38124, Braunschweig, Germany
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Bost B, Veitia RA. Dominance and interloci interactions in transcriptional activation cascades: models explaining compensatory mutations and inheritance patterns. Bioessays 2013; 36:84-92. [PMID: 24242332 DOI: 10.1002/bies.201300109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Mutations in human genes encoding transcription factors are often dominant because one active allele cannot ensure a normal phenotype (haploinsufficiency). In other instances, heterozygous mutations of two genes are required for a phenotype to appear (combined haploinsufficiency). Here, we explore with models (i) the basis of haploinsufficiency and combined haploinsufficiency owing to mutations in transcription activators, and (ii) how the effects of such mutations can be amplified or buffered by subsequent steps in a transcription cascade. We propose that the non-linear (sigmoidal) response of transcription to the concentration of activators can explain haploinsufficiency. We further show that the sigmoidal character of the output of a cascade increases with the number of steps involved, the settings of which will determine the buffering or enhancement of the effects of a decreased concentration of an upstream activator. This exploration provides insights into the bases of compensatory mutations and on interloci interactions underlying oligogenic inheritance patterns.
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- Bruno Bost
- Université Paris-Sud, IGM, UMR8621, Orsay, France; CNRS, Orsay, France
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