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Characterizing selective pressures on the pathway for de novo biosynthesis of pyrimidines in yeast
BACKGROUND: Selection on proteins is typically measured with the assumption that each protein acts independently. However, selection more likely acts at higher levels of biological organization, requiring an integrative view of protein function. Here, we built a kinetic model for de novo pyrimidine...
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BioMed Central
2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4625875/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26511837 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-015-0515-x |
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author | Hermansen, Russell A. Mannakee, Brian K. Knecht, Wolfgang Liberles, David A. Gutenkunst, Ryan N. |
author_facet | Hermansen, Russell A. Mannakee, Brian K. Knecht, Wolfgang Liberles, David A. Gutenkunst, Ryan N. |
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description | BACKGROUND: Selection on proteins is typically measured with the assumption that each protein acts independently. However, selection more likely acts at higher levels of biological organization, requiring an integrative view of protein function. Here, we built a kinetic model for de novo pyrimidine biosynthesis in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae to relate pathway function to selective pressures on individual protein-encoding genes. RESULTS: Gene families across yeast were constructed for each member of the pathway and the ratio of nonsynonymous to synonymous nucleotide substitution rates (dN/dS) was estimated for each enzyme from S. cerevisiae and closely related species. We found a positive relationship between the influence that each enzyme has on pathway function and its selective constraint. CONCLUSIONS: We expect this trend to be locally present for enzymes that have pathway control, but over longer evolutionary timescales we expect that mutation-selection balance may change the enzymes that have pathway control. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12862-015-0515-x) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
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spelling | pubmed-46258752015-10-30 Characterizing selective pressures on the pathway for de novo biosynthesis of pyrimidines in yeast Hermansen, Russell A. Mannakee, Brian K. Knecht, Wolfgang Liberles, David A. Gutenkunst, Ryan N. BMC Evol Biol Research Article BACKGROUND: Selection on proteins is typically measured with the assumption that each protein acts independently. However, selection more likely acts at higher levels of biological organization, requiring an integrative view of protein function. Here, we built a kinetic model for de novo pyrimidine biosynthesis in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae to relate pathway function to selective pressures on individual protein-encoding genes. RESULTS: Gene families across yeast were constructed for each member of the pathway and the ratio of nonsynonymous to synonymous nucleotide substitution rates (dN/dS) was estimated for each enzyme from S. cerevisiae and closely related species. We found a positive relationship between the influence that each enzyme has on pathway function and its selective constraint. CONCLUSIONS: We expect this trend to be locally present for enzymes that have pathway control, but over longer evolutionary timescales we expect that mutation-selection balance may change the enzymes that have pathway control. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12862-015-0515-x) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2015-10-28 /pmc/articles/PMC4625875/ /pubmed/26511837 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-015-0515-x Text en © Hermansen et al. 2015 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Hermansen, Russell A. Mannakee, Brian K. Knecht, Wolfgang Liberles, David A. Gutenkunst, Ryan N. Characterizing selective pressures on the pathway for de novo biosynthesis of pyrimidines in yeast |
title | Characterizing selective pressures on the pathway for de novo biosynthesis of pyrimidines in yeast |
title_full | Characterizing selective pressures on the pathway for de novo biosynthesis of pyrimidines in yeast |
title_fullStr | Characterizing selective pressures on the pathway for de novo biosynthesis of pyrimidines in yeast |
title_full_unstemmed | Characterizing selective pressures on the pathway for de novo biosynthesis of pyrimidines in yeast |
title_short | Characterizing selective pressures on the pathway for de novo biosynthesis of pyrimidines in yeast |
title_sort | characterizing selective pressures on the pathway for de novo biosynthesis of pyrimidines in yeast |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4625875/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26511837 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-015-0515-x |
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