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Genome sequencing and comparative analysis of Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain YJM789

2007; National Academy of Sciences; Volume: 104; Issue: 31 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1073/pnas.0701291104

1091-6490

Wei Wu, John H. McCusker, Richard W. Hyman, Ted Jones, Ning Ye, Zhiwei Cao, Zhenglong Gu, Dan Bruno, Molly Miranda, Michelle Nguyen, Julie Wilhelmy, C. Komp, Raquel Tamse, Xiaojing Wang, Peilin Jia, Philippe P. Luedi, Peter J. Oefner, Lior David, Fred S. Dietrich, Yixue Li, Ronald W. Davis, Lars M. Steinmetz,

Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics

We sequenced the genome of Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain YJM789, which was derived from a yeast isolated from the lung of an AIDS patient with pneumonia. The strain is used for studies of fungal infections and quantitative genetics because of its extensive phenotypic differences to the laboratory reference strain, including growth at high temperature and deadly virulence in mouse models. Here we show that the ≈12-Mb genome of YJM789 contains ≈60,000 SNPs and ≈6,000 indels with respect to the reference S288c genome, leading to protein polymorphisms with a few known cases of phenotypic changes. Several ORFs are found to be unique to YJM789, some of which might have been acquired through horizontal transfer. Localized regions of high polymorphism density are scattered over the genome, in some cases spanning multiple ORFs and in others concentrated within single genes. The sequence of YJM789 contains clues to pathogenicity and spurs the development of more powerful approaches to dissecting the genetic basis of complex hereditary traits.