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Environmentally induced plasticity of programmed DNA elimination boosts somatic variability in Paramecium tetraurelia
Can ecological changes impact somatic genome development? Efforts to resolve this question could reveal a direct link between environmental changes and somatic variability, potentially illuminating our understanding of how variation can surface from a single genotype under stress. Here, we tackle th...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6771405/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31548355 http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/gr.245332.118 |
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author | Vitali, Valerio Hagen, Rebecca Catania, Francesco |
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description | Can ecological changes impact somatic genome development? Efforts to resolve this question could reveal a direct link between environmental changes and somatic variability, potentially illuminating our understanding of how variation can surface from a single genotype under stress. Here, we tackle this question by leveraging the biological properties of ciliates. When Paramecium tetraurelia reproduces sexually, its polyploid somatic genome regenerates from the germline genome through a developmental process that involves the removal of thousands of ORF-interrupting sequences known as internal eliminated sequences (IESs). We show that exposure to nonstandard culture temperatures impacts the efficiency of this process of programmed DNA elimination, prompting the emergence of hundreds of incompletely excised IESs in the newly developed somatic genome. These alternative DNA isoforms display a patterned genomic topography, impact gene expression, and might be inherited transgenerationally. On this basis, we conclude that environmentally induced developmental thermoplasticity contributes to genotypic diversification in Paramecium. |
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spelling | pubmed-67714052020-04-01 Environmentally induced plasticity of programmed DNA elimination boosts somatic variability in Paramecium tetraurelia Vitali, Valerio Hagen, Rebecca Catania, Francesco Genome Res Research Can ecological changes impact somatic genome development? Efforts to resolve this question could reveal a direct link between environmental changes and somatic variability, potentially illuminating our understanding of how variation can surface from a single genotype under stress. Here, we tackle this question by leveraging the biological properties of ciliates. When Paramecium tetraurelia reproduces sexually, its polyploid somatic genome regenerates from the germline genome through a developmental process that involves the removal of thousands of ORF-interrupting sequences known as internal eliminated sequences (IESs). We show that exposure to nonstandard culture temperatures impacts the efficiency of this process of programmed DNA elimination, prompting the emergence of hundreds of incompletely excised IESs in the newly developed somatic genome. These alternative DNA isoforms display a patterned genomic topography, impact gene expression, and might be inherited transgenerationally. On this basis, we conclude that environmentally induced developmental thermoplasticity contributes to genotypic diversification in Paramecium. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 2019-10 /pmc/articles/PMC6771405/ /pubmed/31548355 http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/gr.245332.118 Text en © 2019 Vitali et al.; Published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed exclusively by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press for the first six months after the full-issue publication date (see http://genome.cshlp.org/site/misc/terms.xhtml). After six months, it is available under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International), as described at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Research Vitali, Valerio Hagen, Rebecca Catania, Francesco Environmentally induced plasticity of programmed DNA elimination boosts somatic variability in Paramecium tetraurelia |
title | Environmentally induced plasticity of programmed DNA elimination boosts somatic variability in Paramecium tetraurelia |
title_full | Environmentally induced plasticity of programmed DNA elimination boosts somatic variability in Paramecium tetraurelia |
title_fullStr | Environmentally induced plasticity of programmed DNA elimination boosts somatic variability in Paramecium tetraurelia |
title_full_unstemmed | Environmentally induced plasticity of programmed DNA elimination boosts somatic variability in Paramecium tetraurelia |
title_short | Environmentally induced plasticity of programmed DNA elimination boosts somatic variability in Paramecium tetraurelia |
title_sort | environmentally induced plasticity of programmed dna elimination boosts somatic variability in paramecium tetraurelia |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6771405/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31548355 http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/gr.245332.118 |
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