Project description:Investigation of global gene expression changes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain NRRL Y-12632 (ATCC® 18824) grown in media made with asbestos mine tailings-laden water compared to the control grown in media made with double distilled water
Project description:Accurate chromosome segregation requires centromeres (CENs), the chromosomal sites where kinetochores form, to bridge DNA and attach to microtubules. In contrast to most eukaryotes, Saccharomyces cerevisiae possesses sequence-defined point centromeres. Chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by sequencing (ChIP-Seq) of four kinetochore components reveals regions of overlapping, extra-centromeric protein localization upon overproduction of the centromeric histone, Cse4 (CENP-A or CenH3). These identified sequences enhance proper plasmid and chromosome segregation, and are termed Centromere-like Regions (CLRs). CLRs form in close proximity to S. cerevisiae CENs and share characteristics typical of point and regional centromeres. CLR sequences are conserved among related budding yeasts, suggesting a role in vivo. These studies provide new insights into the origin and evolution of centromeres.
Project description:Accurate chromosome segregation requires centromeres (CENs), the chromosomal sites where kinetochores form, to bridge DNA and attach to microtubules. In contrast to most eukaryotes, Saccharomyces cerevisiae possesses sequence-defined point centromeres. Chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by sequencing (ChIP-Seq) of four kinetochore components reveals regions of overlapping, extra-centromeric protein localization upon overproduction of the centromeric histone, Cse4 (CENP-A or CenH3). These identified sequences enhance proper plasmid and chromosome segregation, and are termed Centromere-like Regions (CLRs). CLRs form in close proximity to S. cerevisiae CENs and share characteristics typical of point and regional centromeres. CLR sequences are conserved among related budding yeasts, suggesting a role in vivo. These studies provide new insights into the origin and evolution of centromeres. ChIP-Seq analysis of the kinetochore components Cse4, Mif2, Ndc10 and Ndc80 in budding yeast strains (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) with normal and elevated levels of Cse4
Project description:We reprocessed a recently published microarray compendium of 269 regulator knockouts that contains most known TFs and many epigenetic regulators for the yeast \italic{Saccharomyces cerevisiae} (Hu et al 2007). Using sensitive microarray analysis tools, we gained nearly 10 times more differentially expressed genes and recovered 90\% of previously described targets. We validated our analysis using Gene Ontology (GO), DNA-protein interactions, TF binding sites and protein-protein interactions. Our validation underlines the advantages of our sensitive analysis. The original data files for this submission can be found in E-MTAB-109.additional.zip
Project description:The objective of this study was to determine the global chromosomal interaction map for exponentially growing Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells using Genome Conformation Capture. Interactions between chromosomes were identified within a population of yeast cells growing exponentially in a semi-defined medium containing glucose. The series contains the sequences of the ligated restriction fragments that identified the interactions.
Project description:Proanthocyanidins (PAs) could pose significant enhancement on the metabolism and fermentation efficiency of Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast cells, which has been elucidated from metabolic level and cell phenotype in our previous work. The goals of this study are to compare the transcriptome profiling (RNA-seq) of yeast cells treated with and without PAs to explore the possible global protection mechanism. After treated with 0 g/L, 0.1g/L, 1.0 g/L PAs, the total RNA of Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain AWRI R2 was extracted and sequenced at Illumina HiSeq sequencing platform. The analysis yielded a total of 524025062 clean sequencing reads. The clean reads were processed for the following bioinformatics analysis.
Project description:CGH arrays for Smukowski Heil, et al MBE 2017. Hybridization is often considered maladaptive, but sometimes hybrids can invade new ecological niches and adapt to novel or stressful environments better than their parents. The genomic changes that occur following hybridization that facilitate genome resolution and/or adaptation are not well understood. Here, we address these questions using experimental evolution of de novo interspecific hybrid yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae x Saccharomyces uvarum and their parentals. We evolved these strains in nutrient limited conditions for hundreds of generations and sequenced the resulting cultures to identify genomic changes. Analysis of 16 hybrid clones and 16 parental clones identified numerous point mutations, copy number changes, and loss of heterozygosity events, including species biased amplification of nutrient transporters. We focused on a particularly interesting example, in which we saw repeated loss of heterozygosity at the high affinity phosphate transporter gene PHO84 in both intra- and interspecific hybrids. Using allele replacement methods, we tested the fitness of different alleles in hybrid and S. cerevisiae strain backgrounds and found that the loss of heterozygosity is indeed the result of selection on one allele over the other in both S. cerevisiae and the hybrids. This is an example where hybrid genome resolution is driven by positive selection on existing heterozygosity, and demonstrates that even infrequent outcrossing may have lasting impacts on adaptation.