Nonlinear fitness consequences of variation in expression level of a eukaryotic gene
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- dc.contributor.author Rest, Joshua S.ca
- dc.contributor.author Morales, Christopher M.ca
- dc.contributor.author Waldron, John B.ca
- dc.contributor.author Opulente, Dana A.ca
- dc.contributor.author Fisher, Juliusca
- dc.contributor.author Moon, Seungjaeca
- dc.contributor.author Bullaughey, Kevinca
- dc.contributor.author Carey, Lucas, 1980-ca
- dc.contributor.author Dedousis, Demitrica
- dc.date.accessioned 2015-12-01T14:29:03Z
- dc.date.available 2015-12-01T14:29:03Z
- dc.date.issued 2013
- dc.description.abstract Levels of gene expression show considerable variation in eukaryotes, but no fine-scale maps have been made of the fitness consequences of such variation in controlled genetic backgrounds and environments. To address this, we assayed fitness at many levels of up- and down-regulated expression of a single essential gene, LCB2, involved in sphingolipid synthesis in budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Reduced LCB2 expression rapidly decreases cellular fitness, yet increased expression has little effect. The wild-type expression level is therefore perched on the edge of a nonlinear fitness cliff. LCB2 is upregulated when cells are exposed to osmotic stress; consistent with this, the entire fitness curve is shifted upward to higher expression under osmotic stress, illustrating the selective force behind gene regulation. Expression levels of LCB2 are lower in wild yeast strains than in the experimental lab strain, suggesting that higher levels in the lab strain may be idiosyncratic. Reports indicate that the effect sizes of alleles contributing to variation in complex phenotypes differ among environments and genetic backgrounds; our results suggest that such differences may be explained as simple shifts in the position of nonlinear fitness curves.ca
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- dc.identifier.citation Rest JS, Morales CM, Waldron JB, Opulente DA, Fisher J, Moon S et al. Nonlinear fitness consequences of variation in expression level of a eukaryotic gene. Molecular biology and evolution. 2013;30(2):448-56. DOI: 10.1093/molbev/mss248ca
- dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/molbev/mss248
- dc.identifier.issn 0737-4038
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/25282
- dc.language.iso engca
- dc.publisher University of Chicago Pressca
- dc.relation.ispartof Molecular biology and evolution. 2013;30(2):448-56
- dc.rights © The Author(s) 2012. Published by Oxford University Press on be half of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.ca
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- dc.subject.keyword Sphingolipids
- dc.subject.keyword Gene regulatory evolution
- dc.subject.keyword Saccharomyces cerevisiae
- dc.subject.keyword Fitness function
- dc.subject.keyword Gene expression
- dc.subject.other Saccharomyces cerevisiae -- Metabolismeca
- dc.subject.other Regulació genèticaca
- dc.title Nonlinear fitness consequences of variation in expression level of a eukaryotic geneca
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