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ArticlePLoS genetics2021

Decreasing mitochondrial RNA polymerase activity reverses biased inheritance of hypersuppressive mtDNA.

Daniel Corbi, Angelika Amon

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Article in PLoS genetics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Daniel CorbiDavid H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and the Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0003-0787-9153
Angelika AmonDavid H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and the Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute · USMassachusetts Institute of Technology · US

Funding

Causes and consequences of aneuploidyR35GM118066 · NIGMS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI AMON, ANGELIKA B · 2016 to 2020
$1.9M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM118066
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Faithful inheritance of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is crucial for cellular respiration/oxidative phosphorylation and mitochondrial membrane potential. However, how mtDNA is transmitted to progeny is not fully understood. We utilized hypersuppressive mtDNA, a class of respiratory deficient Saccharomyces cerevisiae mtDNA that is preferentially inherited over wild-type mtDNA (rho+), to uncover the factors governing mtDNA inheritance. We found that some regions of rho+ mtDNA persisted while others were lost after a specific hypersuppressive takeover indicating that hypersuppressive preferential inheritance may partially be due to active destruction of rho+ mtDNA. From a multicopy suppression screen, we found that overexpression of putative mitochondrial RNA exonuclease PET127 reduced biased inheritance of a subset of hypersuppressive genomes. This suppression required PET127 binding to the mitochondrial RNA polymerase RPO41 but not PET127 exonuclease activity. A temperature-sensitive allele of RPO41 improved rho+ mtDNA inheritance over a specific hypersuppressive mtDNA at semi-permissive temperatures revealing a previously unknown role for rho+ transcription in promoting hypersuppressive mtDNA inheritance.

Indexed as

DNA-Directed RNA PolymerasesDNA, FungalDNA, MitochondrialDNA ReplicationGenes, FungalMitochondriaReplication OriginRNA, MitochondrialSaccharomyces cerevisiaeSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsTranscription, GeneticDNA-Directed RNA PolymerasesDNA, FungalDNA, MitochondrialRNA, MitochondrialSaccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins

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PMID34665800
PMCPMC8555793
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