Meiotic cohesin Rec8 imposes fitness costs on fission yeast gametes to drive evolution of parental bias in gene expression
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Project description:Differences between partner gametes, which evolved repeatedly in unicellular and multicellular eukaryotes, are central to biological phenomena such as non-Mendelian inheritance and sexual selection1–4. How functional asymmetries first emerge between equivalent partners is poorly understood due to limited experimental evidence. Here, we report that in the isogamous fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, partner P- and M-gametes differentially invest into zygotic development by making unequal amounts of the conserved meiotic cohesin Rec85. Driven by asymmetric partner communication, P-gametes produce Rec8 before fertilization to promote meiotic fidelity and production of viable spores in zygotes. However, this early Rec8 expression also causes genomic instabilities6 and imposes a fitness cost on P-gametes, revealing a trade-off between sexual success and gamete survival. Using biologically parametrized model and experimental evolution, we show that the Rec8 costs and benefits drive selection for biased parental investment and evolution of mating populations. Our work dissects a molecular mechanism that selects for functional gamete asymmetries in an isogamous species, providing rare experimental evidence for an early step in the evolution of gamete dimorphism.
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Project description:Spo11-mediated DNA double strand breaks (DSBs) that initiate meiotic recombination are temporally and spatially controlled. The meiotic cohesin Rec8 has been implicated in regulating DSB formation, but little is known about the features of their interplay. To shed light on this point, we investigated the genome-wide localization of Spo11 in budding yeast during early meiosis by chromatin immunoprecipitation using high-density tiling arrays. We found that Spo11 is dynamically localized to meiotic chromosomes. Spo11 initially accumulated around centromeres and thereafter localized to arm regions as premeiotic S-phase proceeded. During this stage, a substantial proportion of Spo11 bound to Rec8 binding sites. Eventually, some of Spo11 further bound to both DSB and Rec8 sites. We also showed that such a change in a distribution of Spo11 is affected by hydroxyurea (HU) treatment. Interestingly, deletion of REC8 influences the localization of Spo11 to centromeres and in some of the intervals of the chromosomal arms. Thereby we observed a lack of DSB formation in a region-specific manner. These observations suggest that Rec8 would prearrange the distribution of Spo11 along chromosomes and will provide clues to understanding temporal and spatial regulation of DSB formation. Keywords: ChIP-chip
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Project description:The mitotic cohesin complex necessary for sister chromatid cohesion and chromatin loop formation shows local and global association to chromosomes in response to DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs). Here, by genome-wide binding analysis of the meiotic cohesin with Rec8 as a kleisin, we found that Rec8 shows dynamic localization from middle to late meiotic prophase I with cleavage-independent global dissociation along chromosomes, driven by meiotic DSB formation. Each Rec8 binding site on the chromosome axis follows distinct dynamics with dissociation and association. Centromeres also showed reduced Rec8 binding in late prophase I relative to mid-prophase I, implying chromosome remodeling of the regions. Rec8 dissociation profile per chromosome is largely correlated with meiotic DSB density. Indeed, the spo11 mutant deficient in meiotic DSB formation did not show the cleavage-independent dissociation of Rec8 in late meiotic prophase I. These suggest the presence of a regulatory pathway for global Rec8-cohesin dynamics in response to meiotic DSBs.
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Project description:During meiotic prophase, cohesin-dependent axial structures are formed in the synaptonemal complex (SC). However, functional correlation between these structure formation and cohesion remains elusive. Here we examined formation of the cohesin-dependent axial structure in fission yeast, which forms atypical SCs composed of linear elements (LinEs) resembling the lateral elements of SC but lacking the central elements, and found that Rec8 cohesin is crucial for the formation of the loop-axis structure within the atypical SC. Furthermore, the Rec8-mediated loop-axis structure is formed in the absence of LinEs, and provides a structural platform for aligning homologous chromosomes. We also succeeded to identify a rec8 mutant that lost the ability of assembling the loop-axis structure without losing cohesion. Remarkably, this mutant showed defects in LinE assembly, resulting in great reduction of meiotic recombination. Collectively, our results demonstrate an essential role of the Rec8-dependent loop-axis structure in LinE assembly, facilitating meiotic recombination.
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Project description:The meiotic cohesin Rec8 is required for the stepwise segregation of chromosomes during the two rounds of meiotic division. By directly measuring chromosome compaction in living cells of the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, we found an additional role for the meiotic cohesin in the compaction of chromosomes during meiotic prophase. In the absence of Rec8, chromosomes were decompacted relative to those of wild-type cells. Conversely, loss of the cohesin-associated protein Pds5 resulted in hyper-compaction. While this hyper-compaction requires Rec8, binding of Rec8 to chromatin was reduced in the absence of Pds5, indicating that Pds5 promotes chromosome association of Rec8. To explain these observations, we propose that meiotic prophase chromosomes are organized as chromatin loops emanating from a Rec8-containing axis; the absence of Rec8 disrupts the axis, resulting in disorganized chromosomes, whereas reduced Rec8 loading results in a longitudinally compacted axis with fewer attachment points and longer chromatin loops. Keywords: ChIP-chip analysis
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