Project description:In budding yeast, damaged organelles and biomolecules are symmetrically segregated between mother and daughter cells, which can influence the replicating aging of mother cells. In some cases, older proteins are prone to be damaged and decline in their functions compared to newly synthesized proteins, likely to contribute the cellular aging. The purpose of this analysis is to uncover asymmetrically inherited older proteins, which are preferentially retained in mother cells during division into mother and rejuvenating daughter cells. To achieve this purpose, we conducted an originally developed strategy where mother and daughter cells are separated after just one cycle of synchronized culture, during which newly synthesized proteins are labeled with stable isotope amino acid. Synchronized culture was carried out using virgin cells, which have never produce daughter cells and enriched in G1 phase. We successfully identified more than 20 proteins whose older forms are asymmetrically inherited by mother cells, among which are proteins involved in the intracellular homeostasis of the proton concentration and the response to the stress of misfolded proteins.
Project description:In budding yeast, damaged organelles and biomolecules are symmetrically segregated between mother and daughter cells, which can influence the replicating aging of mother cells. In some cases, older proteins are prone to be damaged and decline in their functions compared to newly synthesized proteins, likely to contribute the cellular aging. The purpose of this analysis is to uncover asymmetrically inherited older proteins, which are preferentially retained in mother cells during division into mother and rejuvenating daughter cells. To achieve this purpose, we conducted an originally developed strategy where mother and daughter cells are separated after just one cycle of synchronized culture, during which newly synthesized proteins are labeled with stable isotope amino acid. Synchronized culture was carried out using mating pheromone, which arrest the budding yeast in G1 phase. We successfully identified more than 20 proteins whose older forms are asymmetrically inherited by mother cells, among which are proteins involved in the intracellular homeostasis of the proton concentration and the response to the stress of misfolded proteins.
2017-10-08 | PXD005114 | JPOST Repository
Project description:Vaginal microbiome of reproductive age mother daughter pairs
| PRJNA779415 | ENA
Project description:Comparison of mother-daughter vaginal Lactobacillus crispatus genome sequences
Project description:Homologous recombination is essential for high-fidelity DNA repair during mitotic proliferation and meiosis. Yet, context-specific modifications must tailor the recombination machinery to avoid, or enforce, formation of reciprocal exchanges – crossovers – between recombining chromosomes. To obtain molecular insight into how crossover control is achieved, we affinity-purified the 7 DNA-processing enzymes with known roles in channelling HR intermediates into crossovers, or non-crossovers, from vegetative cells, or cells undergoing meiosis. Using mass spectrometry, we provide the first global characterization of their composition. The resulting mitosis- and meiosis-specific interaction maps reveal intricate changes in enzyme architecture and a concerted rewiring of the interaction networks to support flexible control to the recombination outcome. Moreover, functional analyses of 31 novel interactions uncovered 8 meiosis-specific network components that remodel HR to support crossing-over. Chd1, which transiently associates with Exo1 during meiosis, enables the formation of MutLγ-Exo1-dependent crossovers through its conserved ability to bind and displace nucleosomes.
Project description:The absence of meiosis and sex are expected to lead to mutation accumulation in asexual (apomictic) plants. We have performed a double-validated analysis of copy number variation (CNV) on 10 biological replicates each of diploid sexual and diploid apomictic Boechera using a high-density (>700K) custom microarray, in order to compare mutation accumulation in the form of CNV between the transcribing regions of their genomes. The Boechera genome demonstrated higher levels of depleted compared to enriched CNV, irrespective of reproductive mode. Genome-wide patterns of CNV revealed four divergent lineages, three of which were characterized by both sexual and apomictic genotypes. Hence genome-wide CNV is reflective of at least 3 independent origins (i.e. expression) of apomixis from different sexual genetic backgrounds. CNV distributions for different families of transposable elements (TEs) were lineage specific, and a trend for enrichment in LINE/L1 and LTR/Copia elements in lineage 3 apomicts is consistent with sex and meiosis being mechanisms for purging genomic parasites. We hypothesize that significant overrepresentation of specific gene ontology classes (e.g. pollen-pistil interaction) in apomicts implies that gene enrichment could be an adaptive mechanism for genome stability in diploid apomicts by providing a polyploid-like system for buffering the effects of deleterious mutations.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of mitotic archesporial cells, early pollen mother cells and pollen mother cells comparing control tapetal cells, pollen, parenchyma cells and seedling. Goal was explain the mitosis/meiosis transition at the molecular level.
Project description:Cytokinetic abscission is the last step of cell division during which the daughter cells physically separate through the generation of barriers in the form of new plasma membrane or cell wall. While the contractile ring is a prominent structure during cytokinesis in bacteria, fungi and animal cells, the mechanism is divergent in Apicomplexa. In Toxoplasma gondii, two daughter cells are formed within the intact mother cell by endodyogeny. The acquisition of plasma membrane at the end of the division cycle occurs by an unknown mechanism, when the mother cell disassembles, and the daughter cells emerge. Here we identified and functionally characterized a complex of three essential T. gondii proteins, named Daughter Cell Scaffold proteins 1 and 2 (DCS1, DCS2) as well as PP2A-B2 (also named DCS3) that exhibit a dynamic localization during parasite division. Their individual downregulation prevents the accumulation of plasma membrane at the division plane, resulting in a block of cytokinesis. Remarkably, the absence of cytokinetic abscission does not preclude division cycles and the consecutive progeny is able to successfully egress from the infected cells but fails to glide and invade except for conjoined twin parasites.