A systematic screen for co-option of transposable elements across the fungal kingdom.

Autor: Oggenfuss U; Laboratory of Evolutionary Genetics, Institute of Biology, University of Neuchâtel, CH-2000, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Minnesota, Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America., Badet T; Laboratory of Evolutionary Genetics, Institute of Biology, University of Neuchâtel, CH-2000, Neuchâtel, Switzerland., Croll D; Laboratory of Evolutionary Genetics, Institute of Biology, University of Neuchâtel, CH-2000, Neuchâtel, Switzerland. daniel.croll@unine.ch.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Mobile DNA [Mob DNA] 2024 Jan 20; Vol. 15 (1), pp. 2. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jan 20.
DOI: 10.1186/s13100-024-00312-1
Abstrakt: How novel protein functions are acquired is a central question in molecular biology. Key paths to novelty include gene duplications, recombination or horizontal acquisition. Transposable elements (TEs) are increasingly recognized as a major source of novel domain-encoding sequences. However, the impact of TE coding sequences on the evolution of the proteome remains understudied. Here, we analyzed 1237 genomes spanning the phylogenetic breadth of the fungal kingdom. We scanned proteomes for evidence of co-occurrence of TE-derived domains along with other conventional protein functional domains. We detected more than 13,000 predicted proteins containing potentially TE-derived domain, of which 825 were identified in more than five genomes, indicating that many host-TE fusions may have persisted over long evolutionary time scales. We used the phylogenetic context to identify the origin and retention of individual TE-derived domains. The most common TE-derived domains are helicases derived from Academ, Kolobok or Helitron. We found putative TE co-options at a higher rate in genomes of the Saccharomycotina, providing an unexpected source of protein novelty in these generally TE depleted genomes. We investigated in detail a candidate host-TE fusion with a heterochromatic transcriptional silencing function that may play a role in TE and gene regulation in ascomycetes. The affected gene underwent multiple full or partial losses within the phylum. Overall, our work establishes a kingdom-wide view of putative host-TE fusions and facilitates systematic investigations of candidate fusion proteins.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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