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Vijayraghavan S, Kozmin SG, Strope PK, Skelly DA, Magwene PM, Dietrich FS, McCusker JH. RNA viruses, M satellites, chromosomal killer genes, and killer/nonkiller phenotypes in the 100-genomes S. cerevisiae strains. G3 (BETHESDA, MD.) 2023; 13:jkad167. [PMID: 37497616 PMCID: PMC10542562 DOI: 10.1093/g3journal/jkad167] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2023] [Revised: 07/13/2023] [Accepted: 07/14/2023] [Indexed: 07/28/2023]
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We characterized previously identified RNA viruses (L-A, L-BC, 20S, and 23S), L-A-dependent M satellites (M1, M2, M28, and Mlus), and M satellite-dependent killer phenotypes in the Saccharomyces cerevisiae 100-genomes genetic resource population. L-BC was present in all strains, albeit in 2 distinct levels, L-BChi and L-BClo; the L-BC level is associated with the L-BC genotype. L-BChi, L-A, 20S, 23S, M1, M2, and Mlus (M28 was absent) were in fewer strains than the similarly inherited 2µ plasmid. Novel L-A-dependent phenotypes were identified. Ten M+ strains exhibited M satellite-dependent killing (K+) of at least 1 of the naturally M0 and cured M0 derivatives of the 100-genomes strains; in these M0 strains, sensitivities to K1+, K2+, and K28+ strains varied. Finally, to complement our M satellite-encoded killer toxin analysis, we assembled the chromosomal KHS1 and KHR1 killer genes and used naturally M0 and cured M0 derivatives of the 100-genomes strains to assess and characterize the chromosomal killer phenotypes.
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- Sriram Vijayraghavan
- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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- Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
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- Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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Xu S, Yamamoto N. Anti-infective nitazoxanide disrupts transcription of ribosome biogenesis-related genes in yeast. Genes Genomics 2020; 42:915-926. [PMID: 32524281 DOI: 10.1007/s13258-020-00958-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2020] [Accepted: 06/04/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND Nitazoxanide is a broad-spectrum, anti-parasitic, anti-protozoal, anti-viral drug, whose mechanisms of action have remained elusive. OBJECTIVE In this study, we aimed to provide insight into the mechanisms of action of nitazoxanide and the related eukaryotic host responses by characterizing transcriptome profiles of Saccharomyces cerevisiae exposed to nitazoxanide. METHODS RNA-Seq was used to investigate the transcriptome profiles of three strains of S. cerevisiae with dsRNA virus-like elements, including a strain that hosts M28 encoding the toxic protein K28. From the strain with M28, an additional sub-strain was prepared by excluding M28 using a nitazoxanide treatment. RESULTS Our transcriptome analysis revealed the effects of nitazoxanide on ribosome biogenesis. Many genes related to the UTP A, UTP B, Mpp10-Imp3-Imp4, and Box C/D snoRNP complexes were differentially regulated by nitazoxanide exposure in all of the four tested strains/sub-strains. Examples of the differentially regulated genes included UTP14, UTP4, NOP4, UTP21, UTP6, and IMP3. The comparison between the M28-laden and non-M28-laden sub-strains showed that the mitotic cell cycle was more significantly affected by nitazoxanide exposure in the non-M28-laden sub-strain. CONCLUSIONS Overall, our study reveals that nitazoxanide disrupts regulation of ribosome biogenesis-related genes in yeast.
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- Siyu Xu
- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University, Seoul, 08826, South Korea
- State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
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- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University, Seoul, 08826, South Korea.
- Institute of Health and Environment, Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University, Seoul, 08826, South Korea.
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Becker B, Schmitt MJ. Yeast Killer Toxin K28: Biology and Unique Strategy of Host Cell Intoxication and Killing. Toxins (Basel) 2017; 9:toxins9100333. [PMID: 29053588 PMCID: PMC5666379 DOI: 10.3390/toxins9100333] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2017] [Revised: 10/12/2017] [Accepted: 10/17/2017] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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The initial discovery of killer toxin-secreting brewery strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae (S. cerevisiae) in the mid-sixties of the last century marked the beginning of intensive research in the yeast virology field. So far, four different S. cerevisiae killer toxins (K28, K1, K2, and Klus), encoded by cytoplasmic inherited double-stranded RNA viruses (dsRNA) of the Totiviridae family, have been identified. Among these, K28 represents the unique example of a yeast viral killer toxin that enters a sensitive cell by receptor-mediated endocytosis to reach its intracellular target(s). This review summarizes and discusses the most recent advances and current knowledge on yeast killer toxin K28, with special emphasis on its endocytosis and intracellular trafficking, pointing towards future directions and open questions in this still timely and fascinating field of killer yeast research.
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- Björn Becker
- Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of Biosciences and Center of Human and Molecular Biology (ZHMB), Saarland University, D-66123 Saarbrücken, Germany.
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- Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of Biosciences and Center of Human and Molecular Biology (ZHMB), Saarland University, D-66123 Saarbrücken, Germany.
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The inter-generic fungicidal activity of Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous. J Microbiol 2011; 48:822-8. [PMID: 21221941 DOI: 10.1007/s12275-010-0180-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2010] [Accepted: 08/22/2010] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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In this study, the existence of intra-specific and inter-generic fungicidal activity in Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous and Phaffia rhodozyma strains isolated from different regions of the earth was examined. Assays were performed under several culture conditions, showing that all the analyzed X. dendrorhous and P. rhodozyma strains have killing activity against Kloeckera apiculata, Rhodotorula sloffiae, and R. minuta. This activity was greater in rich media at a pH from 4.6 to 5.0. Extracellular protein extracts with fungicidal activity were obtained from cultures of all strains, and their characterization suggested that a protein of 33 kDa is the antifungal factor. According to peptide mass fingerprinting and an analysis of the results with the MASCOT search engine, this protein was identified as an aspartic protease. Additionally, extrachromosomal double-stranded DNA elements (dsDNAs) were observed in all X. dendrorhous and P. rhodozyma strains. Although there is a high variability, two dsDNAs of 5.4 and 6.8 kb are present in all strains.
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Since the discovery of toxin-secreting killer yeasts more than 40 years ago, research into this phenomenon has provided insights into eukaryotic cell biology and virus-host-cell interactions. This review focuses on the most recent advances in our understanding of the basic biology of virus-carrying killer yeasts, in particular the toxin-encoding killer viruses, and the intracellular processing, maturation and toxicity of the viral protein toxins. The strategy of using eukaryotic viral toxins to effectively penetrate and eventually kill a eukaryotic target cell will be discussed, and the cellular mechanisms of self-defence and protective immunity will also be addressed.
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- Manfred J Schmitt
- Applied Molecular Biology, University of the Saarland, D-66041 Saarbrücken, Germany.
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Since the initial discovery of the yeast killer system almost 40 years ago, intensive studies have substantially strengthened our knowledge in many areas of biology and provided deeper insights into basic aspects of eukaryotic cell biology as well as into virus-host cell interactions and general yeast virology. Analysis of killer toxin structure, synthesis and secretion has fostered understanding of essential cellular mechanisms such as post-translational prepro-protein processing in the secretory pathway. Furthermore, investigation of the receptor-mediated mode of toxin action proved to be an effective means for dissecting the molecular structure and in vivo assembly of yeast and fungal cell walls, providing important insights relevant to combating infections by human pathogenic yeasts. Besides their general importance in understanding eukaryotic cell biology, killer yeasts, killer toxins and killer viruses are also becoming increasingly interesting with respect to possible applications in biomedicine and gene technology. This review will try to address all these aspects.
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- Manfred J Schmitt
- Angewandte Molekularbiologie (FR 8.3 -- Mikrobiologie), Universität des Saarlandes, Im Stadtwald, Gebäude 2, D-66123 Saarbrücken, Germany.
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Riffer F, Eisfeld K, Breinig F, Schmitt MJ. Mutational analysis of K28 preprotoxin processing in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. MICROBIOLOGY (READING, ENGLAND) 2002; 148:1317-28. [PMID: 11988505 DOI: 10.1099/00221287-148-5-1317] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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K28 killer strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae are permanently infected with a cytoplasmic persisting dsRNA virus encoding a secreted alpha/beta heterodimeric protein toxin that kills sensitive cells by cell-cycle arrest and inhibition of DNA synthesis. In vivo processing of the 345 aa toxin precursor (preprotoxin; pptox) involves multiple internal and carboxy-terminal cleavage events by the prohormone convertases Kex2p and Kex1p. By site-directed mutagenesis of the preprotoxin gene and phenotypic analysis of its in vivo effects it is now demonstrated that secretion of a biological active virus toxin requires signal peptidase cleavage after Gly(36) and Kex2p-mediated processing at the alpha subunit N terminus (after Glu-Arg(49)), the alpha subunit C terminus (after Ser-Arg(149)) and at the beta subunit N terminus (after Lys-Arg(245)). The mature C terminus of the beta subunit is trimmed by Kex1p, which removes the terminal Arg(345) residue, thus uncovering the toxin's endoplasmic reticulum targeting signal (HDEL) which--in a sensitive target cell--is essential for retrograde toxin transport. Interestingly, both toxin subunits are covalently linked by a single disulfide bond between alpha-Cys(56) and beta-Cys(340), and expression of a mutant toxin in which beta-Cys(340) had been replaced by Ser(340) resulted in the secretion of a non-toxic alpha/beta heterodimer that is blocked in retrograde transport and incapable of entering the yeast cell cytosol, indicating that one important in vivo function of beta-Cys(340) might be to ensure accessibility of the toxin's beta subunit C terminus to the HDEL receptor of the target cell.
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- Frank Riffer
- Angewandte Molekularbiologie, Universität des Saarlandes, FR 8.3, Gebäude 2, Postfach 151150, D-66041 Saarbrücken, Germany
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Eisfeld K, Riffer F, Mentges J, Schmitt MJ. Endocytotic uptake and retrograde transport of a virally encoded killer toxin in yeast. Mol Microbiol 2000; 37:926-40. [PMID: 10972812 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.02063.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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We demonstrate that a virally encoded yeast 'killer' toxin is entering its eukaryotic target cell by endocytosis, subsequently travelling the yeast secretory pathway in reverse to exhibit its lethal effect. The K28 killer toxin is a secreted alpha/beta heterodimer that kills sensitive yeasts in a receptor-mediated fashion by blocking DNA synthesis in the nucleus. In vivo processing of the toxin precursor results in a protein whose beta-C-terminus carries the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) retention signal HDEL, which, as we show here, is essential for retrograde toxin transport. Yeast end3/4 mutants as well as cells lacking the HDEL receptor (Deltaerd2) or mutants defective in Golgi-to-ER protein recycling (erd1) are toxin resistant because the toxin can no longer enter and/or retrograde pass the cell. Site-directed mutagenesis further indicated that the toxin's beta-HDEL motif ensures retrograde transport, although in a toxin-secreting yeast the beta-C-terminus is initially masked by an R residue (beta-HDELR) until Kex1p cleavage uncovers the toxin's targeting signal in a late Golgi compartment. Prevention of Kex1p processing results in high-level secretion of a biologically inactive protein incapable of re-entering the secretory pathway. Finally, we present evidence that ER-to-cytosol toxin export is mediated by the Sec61p translocon and requires functional copies of the lumenal ER chaperones Kar2p and Cne1p.
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- K Eisfeld
- Angewandte Molekularbiologie, Universität des Saarlandes, Germany
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The killer phenomenon in yeasts has been revealed to be a multicentric model for molecular biologists, virologists, phytopathologists, epidemiologists, industrial and medical microbiologists, mycologists, and pharmacologists. The surprisingly widespread occurrence of the killer phenomenon among taxonomically unrelated microorganisms, including prokaryotic and eukaryotic pathogens, has engendered a new interest in its biological significance as well as its theoretical and practical applications. The search for therapeutic opportunities by using yeast killer systems has conceptually opened new avenues for the prevention and control of life-threatening fungal diseases through the idiotypic network that is apparently exploited by the immune system in the course of natural infections. In this review, the biology, ecology, epidemiology, therapeutics, serology, and idiotypy of yeast killer systems are discussed.
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- W Magliani
- Istituto di Microbiologia, Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia, Università degli Studi di Parma, Italy
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- R B Wickner
- Section on Genetics of Simple Eukaryotes, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-0830, USA.
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Schmitt MJ. Cloning and expression of a cDNA copy of the viral K28 killer toxin gene in yeast. MOLECULAR & GENERAL GENETICS : MGG 1995; 246:236-46. [PMID: 7862095 DOI: 10.1007/bf00294687] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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The killer toxin K28, secreted by certain killer strains of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is genetically encoded by a 1.9 kb double-stranded RNA, M-dsRNA (M28), that is present within the cell as a cytoplasmically inherited virus-like particle (VLP). For stable maintenance and replication, M28-VLPs depend on a second dsRNA virus (LA), which has been shown to encode the major capsid protein (cap) and a capsid-polymerase fusion protein (cap-pol) that provides the toxin-coding M-satellites with their transcription and replicase functions. K28 toxin-coding M28-VLPs were isolated, purified and used in vitro for the synthesis of the single-stranded M28 transcript, which was shown to be of plus strand polarity and to bind to oligo(dT)-cellulose, indicating that M28(+)ssRNA contains an internal A-rich tract. Strand separation of the 1.9 kb M28-dsRNA and direct RNA sequencing of its 3' ends was performed in order to obtain specific DNA oligonucleotides that could be used as primers for cDNA synthesis. The nucleotide sequence of the toxin-coding M28-cDNA identified a single open reading frame (ORF) coding for a polypeptide of 345 amino acids, which contained two potential Kex2p/Kex1p processing sites and three potential sites for protein N-glycosylation. The toxin-coding cDNA was cloned and expressed in sensitive non-killer strains under the control of the yeast PGK promoter. Upon transformation, this construct conferred the complete K28 phenotype, demonstrating that both toxin and immunity determinants are contained within the cloned cDNA. In vitro translational analysis of the M28(+)ssRNA in vitro transcript identified the primary gene product of M28 as a K28 preprotoxin of 38 kDa (M-p38).
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Base Sequence
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA, Complementary/genetics
- DNA-Directed RNA Polymerases/genetics
- DNA-Directed RNA Polymerases/metabolism
- Gene Expression
- Killer Factors, Yeast
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mycotoxins/biosynthesis
- Mycotoxins/genetics
- Nucleic Acid Conformation
- Open Reading Frames
- Protein Biosynthesis
- Protein Precursors/genetics
- RNA, Double-Stranded/genetics
- RNA, Double-Stranded/isolation & purification
- RNA, Fungal/genetics
- RNA, Fungal/isolation & purification
- RNA, Viral/genetics
- RNA, Viral/isolation & purification
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae/genetics
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae/virology
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Sequence Analysis, RNA
- Transcription, Genetic
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- M J Schmitt
- Institut für Mikrobiologie und Weinforschung, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany
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Schmitt MJ, Neuhausen F. Killer toxin-secreting double-stranded RNA mycoviruses in the yeasts Hanseniaspora uvarum and Zygosaccharomyces bailii. J Virol 1994; 68:1765-72. [PMID: 8107238 PMCID: PMC236637 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.68.3.1765-1772.1994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Killer toxin-secreting strains of the yeasts Hanseniaspora uvarum and Zygosaccharomyces bailii were shown to contain linear double-stranded RNAs (dsRNAs) that persist within the cytoplasm of the infected host cell as encapsidated virus-like particles. In both yeasts, L- and M-dsRNAs were associated with 85-kDa major capsid protein, whereas the additional Z-dsRNA (2.8 kb), present only in the wild-type Z. bailii killer strain, was capsid protein, whereas the additional Z-dsRNA (2.8 kb), present only in the wild-type Z. bailii killer strain, was shown to be encapsidated by a 35-kDa coat protein. Although Northern (RNA) blot hybridizations indicated that L-dsRNA from Z. bailii is a LA species, additional peptide maps of the purified 85-kDa capsid from Z. bailii and the 88- and 80-kDa major coat proteins from K1 and K28 killer viruses of Saccharomyces cerevisiae revealed distinctly different patterns of peptides. Electron microscopy of purified Z. bailii viruses (ZbV) identified icosahedral particles 40 nm in diameter which were undistinguishable from the S. cerevisiae killer viruses. We demonstrated that purified ZbVs are sufficient to confer the Z. bailii killer phenotype on transfected spheroplasts of a S. cerevisiae nonkiller strain and that the resulting transfectants secreted even more killer toxin that the original ZbV donor strain did. Curing experiments with ZbV-transfected S. cerevisiae strains indicated that the M-dsRNA satellite from Z. bailii contains the genetic information for toxin production, whereas expression of toxin immunity might be dependent on Z-dsRNA, which resembles a new dsRNA replicon in yeasts that is not dependent on an LA helper virus to be stably maintained and replicated within the cell.
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- M J Schmitt
- Institut für Mikrobiologie und Weinforschung, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany
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