Journal
GENETICS
Volume 195, Issue 4, Pages 1407-+Publisher
GENETICS SOCIETY AMERICA
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.113.152256
Keywords
de novo genes; protein-protein interaction; regulatory network; secondary structure; aggregation; Saccharomyces cerevisiae
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- Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA) [PD83571]
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It has been recently discovered that new genes can originate de novo from noncoding DNA, and several biological traits including expression or sequence composition form a continuum from noncoding sequences to conserved genes. In this article, using yeast genes I test whether the integration of new genes into cellular networks and their structural maturation shows such a continuum by analyzing their changes with gene age. I show that 1) The number of regulatory, protein-protein, and genetic interactions increases continuously with gene age, although with very different rates. New regulatory interactions emerge rapidly within a few million years, while the number of protein-protein and genetic interactions increases slowly, with a rate of 2-2.25 x 10(-8)/year and 4.8 x 10(-8)/year, respectively. 2) Gene essentiality evolves relatively quickly: the youngest essential genes appear in proto-genes approximate to 14 MY old. 3) In contrast to interactions, the secondary structure of proteins and their robustness to mutations indicate that new genes face a bottleneck in their evolution: proto-genes are characterized by high -strand content, high aggregation propensity, and low robustness against mutations, while conserved genes are characterized by lower strand content and higher stability, most likely due to the higher probability of gene loss among young genes and accumulation of neutral mutations.
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