对噪声的选择限制了真核生物促进体的变异
Brian P H Metzger1, David C Yuan2, Jonathan D Gruber1
1Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA.
Nature
|March 18, 2015
概括
对基因表达噪声的选择,而不是平均表达,显著影响酵母促进者的遗传变异. 这项研究揭示了分析新突变如何澄清进化过程,并为表达噪声的选择提供了证据.
科学领域:
- 进化生物学是进化的生物学.
- 遗传学 遗传学是一种遗传学.
- 分子生物学分子生物学
背景情况:
- 遗传变异是由突变,选择和漂移引起的.
- 通过比较多态和新突变,可以检测选择.
- 了解选择需要分析突变对特征的影响.
研究的目的:
- 研究突变和选择如何塑造 cis-regulatory 序列变异.
- 确定Saccharomyces cerevisiae中TDH3促进物多态的作用.
- 将多态效应与新突变效应进行比较,以推断选择压力.
主要方法:
- 在85个酵母菌株中经验确定了TDH3促进物多形态的效应.
- 用同一个促进体中的236个点突变定义了突变效应的分布.
- 比较了选择对平均表达式与表达式噪声的影响.
主要成果:
- 对表达噪声的选择对TDH3促进体变异的影响比对平均表达的选择更大.
- 突变效应分布的差异,不一定是健康影响,解释了这一观察.
- 提供了对选择作用于表达噪声的经验证据.
结论:
- 系统地检查新的突变效应可以提高对进化机制的理解.
- 对表达噪声的选择在塑造序列变化的过程中起着重要作用.
- 这项研究为基因表达调节的进化提供了罕见的经验见解.
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