The dynamic three-dimensional organization of the diploid yeast genome

  1. Seungsoo Kim
  2. Ivan Liachko
  3. Donna G Brickner
  4. Kate Cook
  5. William S Noble
  6. Jason H Brickner
  7. Jay Shendure
  8. Maitreya J Dunham  Is a corresponding author
  1. University of Washington, United States
  2. Northwestern University, United States

Abstract

The budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a long-standing model for the three-dimensional organization of eukaryotic genomes. However, even in this well-studied model, it is unclear how homolog pairing in diploids or environmental conditions influence overall genome organization. Here, we performed high-throughput chromosome conformation capture on diverged Saccharomyces hybrid diploids to obtain the first global view of chromosome conformation in diploid yeasts. After controlling for the Rabl-like orientation using a polymer model, we observe significant homolog proximity that increases in saturated culture conditions. Surprisingly, we observe a localized increase in homologous interactions between the HAS1-TDA1 alleles specifically under galactose induction and saturated growth. This pairing is accompanied by relocalization to the nuclear periphery and requires Nup2, suggesting a role for nuclear pore complexes. Together, these results reveal that the diploid yeast genome has a dynamic and complex 3D organization.

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  1. Seungsoo Kim

    Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, United States
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  2. Ivan Liachko

    Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, United States
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  3. Donna G Brickner

    Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, United States
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  4. Kate Cook

    Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, United States
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  5. William S Noble

    Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, United States
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  6. Jason H Brickner

    Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, United States
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  7. Jay Shendure

    Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, United States
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  8. Maitreya J Dunham

    Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, United States
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Funding

National Institutes of Health (GM080484 to JHB P41GM103533 to MJD U54 DK107979 to JS and WSN)

  • William S Noble
  • Jason H Brickner
  • Jay Shendure
  • Maitreya J Dunham

National Science Foundation (graduate research fellowship DGE-1256082 to SK 1516330 to MJD)

  • Seungsoo Kim

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (JS is an investigator of HHMI MJD was supported in part by a Faculty Scholar grant from HHMI)

  • Jay Shendure
  • Maitreya J Dunham

Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (MJD is a senior fellow in the Genetic Networks Program)

  • Maitreya J Dunham

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

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© 2017, Kim et al.

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  1. Seungsoo Kim
  2. Ivan Liachko
  3. Donna G Brickner
  4. Kate Cook
  5. William S Noble
  6. Jason H Brickner
  7. Jay Shendure
  8. Maitreya J Dunham
(2017)
The dynamic three-dimensional organization of the diploid yeast genome
eLife 6:e23623.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.23623

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