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Population Structure and Comparative Genome Hybridization of European flor yeast reveal a unique group of Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains with few gene duplications in their genome

ABSTRACT: Wine biological aging is a wine making process used to produce specific beverages in several countries in Europe, including Spain, Italy, France, and Hungary. This process involves the formation of a velum at the surface of the wine. Here, we present the first large scale comparison of all European flor strains involved in this process. We inferred the population structure of these European flor strains from their microsatellite genotype diversity and analyzed their ploidy. We show that almost all of these flor strains belong to the same cluster and are diploid, except for a few Spanish strains. Comparison of the array hybridization profile of six flor strains originating from these four countries, with that of three wine strains did not reveal any large segmental amplification. Nonetheless, some genes, including YKL221W/MCH2 and YKL222C, were amplified in the genome of four out of six flor strains. Finally, we correlated ICR1 ncRNA and FLO11 polymorphisms with flor yeast population structure, and associate the presence of wild type ICR1 and a long Flo11p with thin velum formation in a cluster of Jura strains. These results provide new insight into the diversity of flor yeast and show that combinations of different adaptive changes can lead to an increase of hydrophobicity and affect velum formation.

ORGANISM(S): Saccharomyces cerevisiae Schizosaccharomyces pombe Saccharomyces cerevisiae x Saccharomyces kudriavzevii

PROVIDER: GSE55925 | GEO | 2014/06/01

SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PRJNA241319

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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Project description:The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a model for biology and is also one of the most important microorganisms for food and drink production. Surprisingly, only a few genes involved in the adaptation to anthropic niches have been described until now. Wine fermentation and flor aging, which are performed by strains from two closely related groups of yeast, are two technologies that have opposite approaches toward oxygen, which results in contrasting lifestyles for yeast: fermentation growth on grape for wine yeast, and biofilm aerobic growth on ethanol and glycerol contained in wine for flor strains. This pair of environments and the associated yeast populations can be a model for studying adaptation to anthropic environments. In this project, we have obtained high-quality genome sequences of 20 yeast strains from 9 flor yeast, 9 wine yeast as well as EC1118 and haploid derivative 59A. Phylogeny and population structure analysis, based on GATK genotyping, enable us to characterize a group of flor yeast that is clearly different from wine yeast. A comparison of the genomes of wine and flor yeasts using various methods (PCA, nucleotidic diversity, McDonald Kreitman test, potentially impacted genes according to SIFT) enabled us to note divergent regions, or genes, with potential non-neutral evolution, and highly variant genes. The results of these genomic comparisons are echoed by the comparison of a wine and a flor yeast transcriptome. These methods, as expected, highlight key genes that are involved in FLO11 regulation as well as in biofilm growth, but they also revealed the presence of many allelic variations in genes that are involved in the sensing and regulation of osmotic pressure (such as SLN1, HKR1, SSK22, AQY2) and specific metabolic traits, such as the fructophily of flor yeast, which carry a fructophile allele of HXT3. More remarkable is the accumulation of mutations in multiple genes, which creates a pattern of convergent mutations in regulatory networks, as seen in FLO11 regulation or the HOG MAP kinase pathway. The rewiring of these regulatory networks is clearly one of the hallmarks of domestication for the flor yeast genome. Data presented here correspond to the comparison of Flor yeast P3-D5 and wine yeast K1-280-2B transcriptomes under conditions potentially enabling the production of a biofilm.

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Population Structure and Comparative Genome Hybridization of European flor yeast reveal a unique group of Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains with few gene duplications in their genome

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