Yeast cell fate control by temporal redundancy modulation of transcription factor paralogs

Yan Wu, Jiaqi Wu, Minghua Deng and Yihan Lin ()
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Yan Wu: Peking University
Jiaqi Wu: Peking University
Minghua Deng: Peking University
Yihan Lin: Peking University

Nature Communications, 2021, vol. 12, issue 1, 1-13

Abstract: Abstract Recent single-cell studies have revealed that yeast stress response involves transcription factors that are activated in pulses. However, it remains unclear whether and how these dynamic transcription factors temporally interact to regulate stress survival. Here we show that budding yeast cells can exploit the temporal relationship between paralogous general stress regulators, Msn2 and Msn4, during stress response. We find that individual pulses of Msn2 and Msn4 are largely redundant, and cells can enhance the expression of their shared targets by increasing their temporal divergence. Thus, functional redundancy between these two paralogs is modulated in a dynamic manner to confer fitness advantages for yeast cells, which might feed back to promote the preservation of their redundancy. This evolutionary implication is supported by evidence from Msn2/Msn4 orthologs and analyses of other transcription factor paralogs. Together, we show a cell fate control mechanism through temporal redundancy modulation in yeast, which may represent an evolutionarily important strategy for maintaining functional redundancy between gene duplicates.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-23425-0

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