Selection Transforms the Landscape of Genetic Variation Interacting with Hsp90.
Selection Transforms the Landscape of Genetic Variation Interacting with Hsp90.
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10.1371/journal.pbio.2000465
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2016-10
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9.8
通讯作者:
Siegal ML
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Geiler-Samerotte KA;Zhu YO;Goulet BE;Hall DW;Siegal ML
The protein-folding chaperone Hsp90 has been proposed to buffer the phenotypic effects of mutations. The potential for Hsp90 and other putative buffers to increase robustness to mutation has had major impact on disease models, quantitative genetics, and evolutionary theory. But Hsp90 sometimes contradicts expectations for a buffer by potentiating rapid phenotypic changes that would otherwise not occur. Here, we quantify Hsp90’s ability to buffer or potentiate (i.e., diminish or enhance) the effects of genetic variation on single-cell morphological features in budding yeast. We corroborate reports that Hsp90 tends to buffer the effects of standing genetic variation in natural populations. However, we demonstrate that Hsp90 tends to have the opposite effect on genetic variation that has experienced reduced selection pressure. Specifically, Hsp90 tends to enhance, rather than diminish, the effects of spontaneous mutations and recombinations. This result implies that Hsp90 does not make phenotypes more robust to the effects of genetic perturbation. Instead, natural selection preferentially allows buffered alleles to persist and thereby creates the false impression that Hsp90 confers greater robustness. Most biologists appreciate that natural selection filters new mutations (e.g., by eliminating deleterious ones), such that genetic variation in nature is biased. The idea that selection also skews the types of genetic interactions that exist in nature is less appreciated. For example, studies spanning diverse species have shown that the protein Hsp90, which helps other proteins to fold properly, tends to diminish the observable effects of genetic variation. This observation has led to the assumption that Hsp90 also buffers the effects of new mutations. This untested assumption has served as a rationale for cancer-treatment strategies and shaped our understanding of variation in complex traits. We measured the effects of new mutations on the shapes and sizes of individual yeast cells and found that Hsp90 does not tend to buffer these effects. Instead, Hsp90 interacts with new mutations in diverse ways, sometimes buffering, but more often enhancing mutational effects on cell shape and size. We conclude that selection preferentially allows buffered mutations to persist in natural populations. This result alters common perceptions about why cryptic (i.e., buffered) genetic variation exists and casts doubt on cancer-treatment strategies aiming to target presumed buffers of mutational effects.
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发表时间:
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Science (New York, N.Y.)
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