GSE117246 Structural, physiological and regulatory analysis of maltose transporter genes in Saccharomyces eubayanus CBS12357T.

Contributors : Jean-Marc Daran ; Marcel van den BroekSeries Type : Expression profiling by high throughput sequencingOrganism : Saccharomyces eubayanusSaccharomyces pastorianus lager brewing yeasts are domesticated hybrids of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and cold-tolerant Saccharomyces eubayanus. To better understand the contribution of both parental genomes to maltose metabolism in brewing wort, this study focuses on maltose transport in the S. eubayanus type strain CBS12357T/FM1318T. To obtain complete sequences of the MAL loci of this strain, a near-complete genome assembly was generated using the Oxford Nanopore Technology MinION sequencing platform. Except for CHRXII, all sixteen chromosomes were assembled as single contigs. Four loci harboring putative maltose transporter genes (SeMALT1-4), located in subtelomeric regions of CHRII, CHRV, CHRXIII and CHRXVI, were completely resolved. The near-identical loci on CHRV and CHRXVI strongly resembled canonical S. cerevisiae MAL loci, while those on CHRII and CHRXIII showed different structures suggestive of gene loss. Functionality of the SeMALT1-4-encoded transporters was confirmed by their ability to restore growth on maltose, but not on maltotriose, of a maltose-transport-deficient S. cerevisiae strain. Simultaneous CRISPR-Cas9-assisted deletion of SeMALT2 and SeMALT4, which shared 99.7 % sequence identity, eliminated growth of S. eubayanus CBS12357T on maltose. Transcriptome analysis of S. eubayanus CBS12357T established th...
Source: GEO: Gene Expression Omnibus - Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Tags: Expression profiling by high throughput sequencing Saccharomyces eubayanus Source Type: research