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Biological Roles of Protein-Coding Tandem Repeats in the Yeast Candida Albicans.


ABSTRACT: Tandem repeat (TR) DNA mutates faster than other DNA by insertion and deletion of repeats. Large parts of eukaryotic proteomes are encoded by ORFs containing protein-coding TRs (TR-ORFs, pcTRs) with largely unknown biological consequences. We explored these in the yeast Candida albicans, an opportunistic human pathogen. We found that almost half of C. albicans’ proteins are encoded by TR-ORFs. pcTR frequency differed only moderately between different gene (GO) categories. Bioinformatic predictions of genome-wide mutation rates and clade-specific differences in pcTR allele frequencies indicated that pcTRs (i) significantly increase the genome-wide mutation rate; (ii) significantly impact on fitness and (iii) allow the evolution of selectively advantageous clade-specific protein variants. Synonymous mutations reduced the repetitiveness of many amino acid repeat-encoding pcTRs. A survey, in 58 strains, revealed that in some pcTR regions in which repetitiveness was not significantly diminished by synonymous mutations the habitat predicted which alleles were present, suggesting roles of pcTR mutation in short-term adaptation and pathogenesis. In C. albicans pcTR mutation apparently is an important mechanism for mutational advance and possibly also rapid adaptation, with synonymous mutations providing a mechanism for adjusting mutation rates of individual pcTRs. Analyses of Arabidopsis and human pcTRs showed that the latter also occurs in other eukaryotes.

SUBMITTER: Wilkins M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6162428 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Biological Roles of Protein-Coding Tandem Repeats in the Yeast <i>Candida Albicans</i>.

Wilkins Matt M   Zhang Ningxin N   Schmid Jan J  

Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) 20180629 3


Tandem repeat (TR) DNA mutates faster than other DNA by insertion and deletion of repeats. Large parts of eukaryotic proteomes are encoded by ORFs containing protein-coding TRs (TR-ORFs, pcTRs) with largely unknown biological consequences. We explored these in the yeast <i>Candida albicans</i>, an opportunistic human pathogen. We found that almost half of <i>C. albicans&rsquo;</i> proteins are encoded by TR-ORFs. pcTR frequency differed only moderately between different gene (GO) categories. Bio  ...[more]

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