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The metabolic background is a global player in Saccharomyces gene expression epistasis

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Alam, Mohammad T., Zelezniak, Aleksej, Mülleder, Michael, Shliaha, Pavel, Schwarz, Roland, Capuano, Floriana, Vowinckel, Jakob, Radmaneshfar, Elahe, Krüger, Antje, Calvani, Enrica, Michel, Steve, Börno, Stefan, Christen, Stefan, Patil, Kiran Raosaheb, Timmermann, Bernd, Lilley, Kathryn S. and Ralser, Markus (2016) The metabolic background is a global player in Saccharomyces gene expression epistasis. Nature microbiology, 1 . 15030. ISSN 2058-5276.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nmicrobiol.2015.30

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Abstract

The regulation of gene expression in response to nutrient availability is fundamental to the genotype–phenotype relationship. The metabolic–genetic make-up of the cell, as reflected in auxotrophy, is hence likely to be a determinant of gene expression. Here, we address the importance of the metabolic–genetic background by monitoring transcriptome, proteome and metabolome in a repertoire of 16 Saccharomyces cerevisiae laboratory backgrounds, combinatorially perturbed in histidine, leucine, methionine and uracil biosynthesis. The metabolic background affected up to 85% of the coding genome. Suggesting widespread confounding, these transcriptional changes show, on average, 83% overlap between unrelated auxotrophs and 35% with previously published transcriptomes generated for non-metabolic gene knockouts. Background-dependent gene expression correlated with metabolic flux and acted, predominantly through masking or suppression, on 88% of transcriptional interactions epistatically. As a consequence, the deletion of the same metabolic gene in a different background could provoke an entirely different transcriptional response. Propagating to the proteome and scaling up at the metabolome, metabolic background dependencies reveal the prevalence of metabolism-dependent epistasis at all regulatory levels. Urging a fundamental change of the prevailing laboratory practice of using auxotrophs and nutrient supplemented media, these results reveal epistatic intertwining of metabolism with gene expression on the genomic scale.

Item Type: Journal Article
Divisions: Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Biomedical Sciences > Cell & Developmental Biology
Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Biomedical Sciences
Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School
Journal or Publication Title: Nature microbiology
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
ISSN: 2058-5276
Official Date: 1 February 2016
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1 February 2016Published
17 December 2015Accepted
12 September 2015Submitted
Volume: 1
Article Number: 15030
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
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