Stress-induced expression is enriched for evolutionarily young genes in diverse budding yeasts
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2020

The Saccharomycotina subphylum (budding yeasts) spans 400 million years of evolution and includes species that thrive in diverse environments. To study niche-adaptation, we identify changes in gene expression in three divergent yeasts grown in the presence of various stressors. Duplicated and non-conserved genes are significantly more likely to respond to stress than genes that are conserved as single-copy orthologs. Next, we develop a sorting method that considers evolutionary origin and duplication timing to assign an evolutionary age to each gene. Subsequent analysis reveals that genes that emerged in recent evolutionary time are enriched amongst stress-responsive genes for each species. This gene expression pattern suggests that budding yeasts share a stress adaptation mechanism, whereby selective pressure leads to functionalization of young genes to improve growth in adverse conditions. Further characterization of young genes from species that thrive in harsh environments can inform the design of more robust strains for biotechnology.

Systems analysis

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Applied microbiology

Författare

Tyler Doughty

Novo Nordisk Fonden

Chalmers, Biologi och bioteknik, Systembiologi

Iván Domenzain Del Castillo Cerecer

Novo Nordisk Fonden

Chalmers, Biologi och bioteknik, Systembiologi

Aaron Millan-Oropeza

Université Paris-Saclay

Noemi Montini

APC Microbiome Ireland

Philip A. de Groot

TU Delft

Rui Pereira

Novo Nordisk Fonden

Chalmers, Biologi och bioteknik, Systembiologi

Jens B Nielsen

Novo Nordisk Fonden

Chalmers, Biologi och bioteknik, Systembiologi

Céline Henry

Université Paris-Saclay

J. M. Daran

TU Delft

Verena Siewers

Novo Nordisk Fonden

Chalmers, Biologi och bioteknik, Systembiologi

John P. Morrissey

APC Microbiome Ireland

Nature Communications

2041-1723 (ISSN) 20411723 (eISSN)

Vol. 11 1 2144

Ämneskategorier

Evolutionsbiologi

Bioinformatik och systembiologi

Genetik

DOI

10.1038/s41467-020-16073-3

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