Großbach, Jan ORCID: 0000-0002-9394-5665 (2020). Identification and Validation of Regulatory Genetic Variation in Yeasts. PhD thesis, Universität zu Köln.
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Abstract
Genomic variation impacts on the molecular network that performs all cellular functions. As these functions are largely carried out by proteins, it is crucial to understand how genomic variation contributes to differences in protein abundances and activities. We investigated the effects of genetic variation on the molecular network in two independent studies in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe and the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae through the mapping of quantitative trait loci (QTL). To be able to observe the molecular network in more states, we exposed fission yeast samples to oxidative stress. The effects of most QTL differed between these two experimental conditions. We identified QTL-hotspots that affected the expression of large numbers of stress response genes. For one of these hotspots we identified and validated pka1 as the causal gene: a missense mutation in pka1 caused a reduction in RAS signaling, which mediates part of the stress response in fission yeast. In the second study, we integrated quantitative phosphorylation traits for hundreds of proteins with matched transcriptomic and proteomic data. We found the phosphoproteome to be controlled by genetic variation and identified numerous associations between genetic variants and phosphorylation traits. Hotspots for other molecular layers and local variation both impacted on the phosphorylation of proteins. The additional information of phsophorylation was further demonstrated by the analysis of affected signaling pathways. The comprehensive proteomic data in both projects allowed us to investigate the effects of changes in transcript levels on protein levels. We found the relationship between transcript and protein levels to be complex and variable across functional groups of genes. This work contributes to the understanding of molecular networks by identifying the effects of genetic variation on the stress response, proteome, and phosphoproteome in the yeast models, studied here. We demonstrate how perturbations of this network can be tracked through multiple molecular layers.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD thesis) | ||||||||
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-112803 | ||||||||
Date: | 2020 | ||||||||
Language: | English | ||||||||
Faculty: | Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences | ||||||||
Divisions: | CECAD - Cluster of Excellence Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases | ||||||||
Subjects: | Natural sciences and mathematics Life sciences |
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Date of oral exam: | 12 June 2019 | ||||||||
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Refereed: | Yes | ||||||||
URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/11280 |
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