Ch 21 Genomes and Their

Evolution (Ch 20 The Evolution of Genomes)

BioA Ch-21-JYCHEN-2017

陳正繹

國防醫學院生物及解剖學科

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* Complete genome sequences exist for a human, chimpanzee, E. coli, brewer’s yeast, nematode, zea mays, fruit fly, elephant shark, and many other organisms, and extinct other organisms, such as Neanderthal (2010), woolly mammoth.

* Comparisons of genomes among organisms provide information about the evolutionary history of genes and taxonomic groups

* Genomics基因體學 is the study of whole sets of genes and their interactions

* Bioinformatics生物資訊 學is the application of computational methods to the storage and analysis of biological data

21.0 Overview: Reading the Leaves from the Tree of Life

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21.1: New approaches have accelerated the pace of genome

sequencing

Officially begun as the Human Genome Project人類基因體計畫in 1990, the sequencing of the human genome was largely completed by 2003

The genome was completed using sequencing machines and the dideoxy chain termination method双去氧鏈终止法

A major thrust of the project was development of technology for faster sequencing

Two approaches complemented each other in obtaining the complete sequence

The initial approach built on an earlier storehouse of human genetic information

Then J. Craig Venter set up a company to sequence the entire genome using an alternative whole-genome shotgun approach全基因組散彈定序

This used cloning and sequencing of fragments of randomly cut DNA followed by assembly into a single continuous sequence

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Whole-genome shotgun approach to sequencing

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Today the whole-genome shotgun approach is widely used, though newer techniques are contributing to the faster pace and lowered cost of genome sequencing

These “next-generation” techniques 次世代技術do not require a cloning step These techniques have also facilitated a metagenomics總體基因體學

approach in which DNA from a group of species (a metagenome) in an environmental sample and sequenced. Ex. Human microbiome project

Trends in Genetics 2013

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* Bioinformatics resources are provided by a number of sources: i. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health (NIH)

created the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) ii. European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) iii. DNA Data Bank of Japan iv. Beijing Genome Institute (BGI) in Shenzhen, China

* GenBank, the NCBI database of sequences, is constantly updated, with the data it contains increasing rapidly

* The NCBI BLAST software allows users to search for:

i. A specific DNA sequence

ii. A predicted protein sequence

iii. Common stretches of amino acids in a protein

iv. The NCBI website also provides 3-D views of all protein structures that have been determined

21.2 Scientists use bioinformatics to analyze genomes and

their functions *The Human Genome Project established databases and refined

analytical software to make data available on the Internet

* This has accelerated progress in DNA sequence analysis.

A. Centralized Resources for Analyzing Genome Sequences

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Bioinformatics tools available on the internet ---EX. Conserved Domain Database (CDD)

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B. Identifying Protein-Coding Genes within DNA Sequences

Using available DNA sequences, geneticists can study genes directly

The identification of protein coding genes within DNA sequences in a database is called gene annotation基因體註解

Gene annotation is largely an automated process

• Comparison of sequences of previously unknown genes with those of known genes in other species may help provide clues about their function

• The identities of these genes can be further confirmed by using RNA-seq or a similar method

• Functional studies involving knocking out剔除the gene function can show how the phenotype is altered

• CRISPR-Cas9 can be used for such studies.

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C. Understanding Genes and Their Products at the Systems Level

Genomics is a rich source of new insights into questions about genome

organization, regulation of gene expression, embryonic development, and

evolution

The ENCODE (Encyclopedia of DNA Elements) project ran from 2003 to

2012. The aim was to learn about the functionally important elements in the

human genome

• Besides working to identify enhancers and promoters, investigators also

extensively characterized histone and DNA modifications and chromatin

structure

• This project allows comparison of results from different projects, yielding a

richer picture of the whole genome

• About 75% of the genome is transcribed at some point in at least one cell type

studied

A related project called the Roadmap Epigenomics Project set out to

characterize the epigenetic features of the genome (the epigenome) 表觀基因體學 • A useful finding was that the original tissue in which a cancer arose can be

identified in a secondary tumor based on its epigenomic features

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1. Systems Biology系統生物學 •A proteome 蛋白質體學is the entire set of proteins expressed by a cell or group of cells •Proteomics is an approach to studying large sets of proteins and their properties •Scientist have begun to compile catalogs of genes and proteins and have begun to focus on their functional integration in biological systems •This approach is called systems biology系統生物學 •Researchers working on the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae used sophisticated techniques尖端技術to disable pairs of genes one pair at a time, creating double mutants •Computer software then mapped genes to produce a network-like “functional map” 功能地圖of their interactions •The systems biology approach is possible because of advances in bioinformatics

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The systems biology approach to protein interactions — in yeast about 4,500 gene involved 13 cellular functions

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i. The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA)project 癌症基因體圖解計畫started in 2010, looked for all the common mutations in three types of cancer by comparing gene sequences and expression in cancer versus normal cells. TCGA: https://tcga-

data.nci.nih.gov/docs/publications/tcga/ -GDC: https://gdc.cancer.gov/

ii. This has been so fruitful, it will be extended to ten other common cancers

iii. Silicon and glass “chips” have been produced that hold a microarray of most known human genes

iv. These are used to study gene expression patterns in patients suffering from various cancers or other diseases

2. Application of Systems Biology to Medicine

*A systems biology approach has several medical applications:

A human gene microarray chip

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* By summer 2013(2016), 4,300 (9,071)genomes had been sequenced completely. For 5,000 in bacteria, 242 in archaea, and 283 in eukaryotes including vertebrates, invertebrates, fungi and plants

* Sequencing of over 9,600 (39,656)genomes and over 3,400 metagenomes is currently in progress

(Genomes OnLine Database :https://gold.jgi.doe.gov/)

21.3 Genomes vary in size, number of genes, and gene density

* Genomes of most bacteria and archaea range from 1 to 6 million base pairs (Mb); genomes of eukaryotes are usually larger

* Most plants and animals have genomes greater than 100 Mb; humans have 3,000 Mb

* Within each domain there is no systematic relationship between genome size and phenotype

A. Genome Size

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* Humans and other mammals have the lowest gene density基因密度, or number of genes, in a given length of DNA

* Multicellular eukaryotes have many introns within genes and noncoding DNA between genes

B. Number of Genes * Free-living bacteria and archaea have 1,500 to 7,500 genes * Unicellular fungi have from about 5,000 genes and multicellular

eukaryotes from 40,000 genes * Number of genes is not correlated to genome size

C. Gene Density and Noncoding DNA

* Vertebrate genomes can produce more than one polypeptide per gene because of alternative splicing of RNA transcripts

*For example, it is estimated that the nematode C. elegans has 100 Mb and 20,000 genes, while Drosophila has 165 Mb and 14,000 genes

* Researchers predicted the human genome would contain about 50,000 to 100,000 genes; however the number is around 21,000

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* Sequencing of the human genome reveals that 98.5% does not code for proteins, rRNAs, or tRNAs

*About 25% of the human genome codes for introns (20%) and gene-related regulatory sequences (5%)

*Intergenic DNA is noncoding DNA found between genes

--Pseudogenes偽基因are former genes that have accumulated mutations and are nonfunctional

--Repetitive DNA重複DNA is present in multiple copies in the genome

*About three-fourths (75%)of repetitive DNA is made up of transposable elements (TE)轉位因子and sequences related to them

21.4: Multicellular eukaryotes have much noncoding DNA and many multigene families

* Much evidence indicates that noncoding DNA (previously called “junk DNA”垃圾) plays important roles in the cell

*For example, genomes of humans, rats, and mice show high sequence conservation for about 500 noncoding regions

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*The first evidence for mobile DNA segments came from geneticist Barbara McClintock’s breeding experiments with Indian corn.

A. Transposable Elementsand Related Sequences

* McClintock identified changes in the color of corn kernels that made sense only some genetic elements move from other genome locations into the genes for kernel color

* These transposable elements轉位因子move from one site to another in a cell’s DNA; they are present in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes

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Eukaryotic transposable elements are of two types:

i. Transposons轉座子, which move within a genome by means of a DNA intermediate, and require a transposase enzyme

ii. Retrotransposons反轉座子, which move by means of an RNA intermediate, using a reverse transcriptase

1.Movement of Transposons轉座子and Retrotransposons反轉座子

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2. Sequences Related to Transposable Elements

* Multiple copies of transposable elements and related sequences are scattered throughout the eukaryotic genome

* In primates, a large portion of transposable element–related DNA consists of a family of similar sequences called Alu element. About 10% human genome～300 bps-

* Many Alu elements are transcribed into RNA molecules; however, their function is unknown

* The human genome also contains many sequences of a type of retrotransposon called LINE-1 (L1) About 17% human genome ～6500 bps

* L1 sequences have a low rate of transposition and may help regulate gene expression

* L1 transposons may play roles in the diversity of neuronal cell types

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* About 5–6% of the human genome consists of duplication of long sequences of DNA from one location to another

* In contrast, simple sequence DNA contains many copies of tandemly repeated short sequences串聯重復序列(ex. …GATTCGATTCGATTCGATTCGATTCGATTC….)

* A series of repeating units of 2 to 5 nucleotides is called a short tandem repeat (STR) 短縱列重複序列.

* The repeat number for STRs can vary among sites (within a genome) or individuals

* Simple sequence DNA is common in centromeres中節 and telomeres端粒, where it probably plays structural roles in the chromosome

B. Other Repetitive DNA, Including Simple Sequence DNA

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*Many eukaryotic genes are present in one copy per haploid set of chromosomes

*The rest of the genome occurs in multigene families多基因家族, collections of identical or very similar genes

*Some multigene families consist of identical DNA sequences, usually clustered tandemly, such as those that code for r-RNA products

C. Genes and Multigene Families

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* The classic examples of multigene families of nonidentical genes are two related families of genes that encode globins球蛋白

* α-globins and β-globins are polypeptides of hemoglobin and are coded by genes on different human chromosomes

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*Accidents in meiosis can lead to one or more extra sets of chromosomes, a condition known as polyploidy

*The genes in one or more of the extra sets can diverge by accumulating mutations; these variations may persist if the organism carrying them survives and reproduces

*In this way genes with novel functions can evolve

21.5: Duplication, rearrangement, and mutation of DNA contribute to genome evolution

* The basis of change at the genomic level is mutation, which underlies much of genome evolution

* The earliest forms of life likely had a minimal number of genes, including only those necessary for survival and reproduction

* The size of genomes has increased over evolutionary time, with the extra genetic material providing raw material for gene diversification

A. Duplication of Entire Chromosome Sets

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B. Alterations of Chromosome Structure

* Humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes, while chimpanzees have 24 pairs

* Following the divergence of humans and chimpanzees from a common ancestor, two ancestral chromosomes fused in the human line

* Large blocks of genes on human chromosome 16 are found on four mouse chromosomes

* This indicates that the genes in each block stayed together in both the human and mouse lineages

* Duplications and inversions result from mistakes during meiotic recombination

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* Comparative analysis between chromosomes of humans and 7 mammalian species paints a hypothetical chromosomal evolutionary history

* The rate of duplications and inversions seems to have accelerated about 100 million years ago

* This coincides with when large dinosaurs went extinct and mammals diversified

* Chromosomal rearrangements are thought to contribute to the generation of new species

* Some of the recombination “hot spots” associated with chromosomal rearrangement are also locations that are associated with diseases

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* Unequal crossing over during

prophase I of meiosis can result

in one chromosome with a

deletion and another with a

duplication of a particular

region

* Transposable elements can

provide sites for crossover

between nonsister chromatids

C. Duplication and Divergence of Gene-Sized Regions of DNA

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1. Evolution of Genes with Related Functions: The Human Globin Genes

* The genes encoding the various globin proteins evolved from one common ancestral globin gene, which duplicated and diverged about 450–500 million years ago

*After the duplication events, differences between the genes in the globin family arose from the accumulation of mutations

*Subsequent duplications of these genes and random mutations gave rise to the present globin genes, which code for oxygen-binding proteins

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* The similarity in the amino acid sequences of the various globin proteins supports this model of gene duplication and mutation

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2. Evolution of Genes with Novel Functions * The copies of some duplicated genes have diverged so much in evolution that

the functions of their encoded proteins are now very different

* For example the lysozyme gene was duplicated and evolved into the α-lactalbumin 乳清蛋白gene in mammals

* Lysozyme is an enzyme that helps protect animals against bacterial infection

* α-lactalbumin is a nonenzymatic protein that plays a role in milk production in mammals

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* The duplication or repositioning of exons has contributed to genome evolution * Errors in meiosis can result in an exon being duplicated on one chromosome

and deleted from the homologous chromosome * In exon shuffling外子換移, errors in meiotic recombination lead to some

mixing and matching of exons, either within a gene or between two nonallelic genes

* The current version of the gene for tissue plasminogen activator (TPA) is thought to have arisen by several instances of exon shuffling and subsequent duplication

D. Rearrangements of Parts of Genes: Exon Duplication and Exon Shuffling

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* Multiple copies of similar transposable elements may facilitate

recombination, or crossing over, between different chromosomes

* Insertion of transposable elements within a protein-coding sequence may

block protein production

* Insertion of transposable elements within a regulatory sequence may

increase or decrease protein production

* Transposable elements may carry a gene or groups of genes to a new

location

* Transposable elements may also create new sites for alternative splicing in

an RNA transcript

* In all cases, changes are usually detrimental but may on occasion prove

advantageous to an organism

E. How Transposable Elements Contribute to Genome Evolution

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* Genome comparisons of closely related species help us understand recent evolutionary events

* Genome comparisons of distantly related species help us understand ancient evolutionary events

* Relationships among species can be represented by a tree-shaped diagram

1. Comparing Distantly Related Species * Highly conserved genes are genes that have changed very little over time * These inform us about relationships among species that diverged from each

other a long time ago * Bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes diverged from each other between 2 and 4

billion years ago * Highly conserved genes can be studied in one model organism, and the

results applied to other organisms

21.6: Comparing genome sequences provides clues to evolution and development

* Comparisons of genome sequences from different species reveal much about the evolutionary history of life

* Comparative studies of embryonic development are beginning to clarify the mechanisms that generated the diversity of life-forms present today

A. Comparing Genomes比較基因體學

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Evolutionary of relationships of the three domains of life

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2. Comparing Closely Related Species

Genomes of closely related species are likely to be organized similarly For example, using the human genome sequence as a guide, researchers

were quickly able to sequence the chimpanzee genome Analysis of the human and chimpanzee genomes reveals some general

differences that underlie the differences between the two organisms Human and chimpanzee genomes differ by 1.2% at single base-pairs, and by

2.7% because of insertions and deletions Sequencing of the bonobo genome in 2012 reveals that in some regions

there is greater similarity between human and bonobo or chimpanzee sequences than between chimpanzee and bonobo

A number of genes are apparently evolving faster in the human than in the chimpanzee or mouse

Among them are genes involved in defense, against malaria and tuberculosis and one that regulates brain size

Humans and chimpanzees differ in the expression of the FOXP2 gene, whose product turns on genes involved in vocalization發聲

Differences in the FOXP2 gene may explain why humans but not chimpanzees communicate by speech

The FOXP2 gene of Neanderthals is identical to that of humans, suggesting they may have been capable of speech

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What is the function of a gene (FOXP2) that is rapidly evolving in the human linage?

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* As a species, humans have only been around about 200,000 years and have low within-species genetic variation

* Variation within humans is due to single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP)單一核苷酸多形性, inversions, deletions, and duplications

* Most surprising is the large number of copy-number variants (CNVs)

* These variations are useful for studying human evolution and human health

* CNVs, SNPs, and variations in repetitive DNA such as short tandem repeats (STRs) are useful genetic markers for studying human evolution

3. Comparing Genomes Within a Species

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* Evolutionary developmental biology, or evo-devo演化發育生物學, is the study of the evolution of developmental processes in multicellular organisms

* Genomic information shows that minor differences in gene sequence or regulation can result in striking differences in form

1. Widespread Conservation of Developmental Genes Among Animals

* Molecular analysis of the homeotic genes (Hox)同源基因 in Drosophila has shown that they all include a sequence called a homeobox同源盒

* An identical or very similar nucleotide sequence has been discovered in the homeotic genes of both vertebrates and invertebrates species

B. Comparing Developmental Processes

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* Homeobox genes同源盒基因 code for a homeodomain 同源域that allows a protein to bind to DNA and to function as a transcription regulator

* Homeotic genes in animals are called Hox genes

* Related homeobox sequences have been found in regulatory genes of yeasts, plants, and even prokaryotes

* In addition to homeotic genes, many other developmental genes are highly conserved from species to species

* Sometimes small changes in regulatory sequences of certain genes lead to major changes in body form

* For example, variation in Hox gene expression controls variation in leg-bearing segments of crustaceans甲殼動物 and insects

* In other cases, genes with conserved sequences play different roles in different species

Effect of difference in Hox gene expression during development in

leg-bearing segments of crustaceans and insects

http://flymove.uni-muenster.de/

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* Explain how linkage mapping, physical mapping, and DNA sequencing each contributed to the Human Genome Project

* Define and compare the fields of proteomics and genomics

* Describe the surprising findings of the Human Genome Project with respect to the size of the human genome

* Distinguish between transposons and retrotransposons

* Explain how polyploidy may facilitate gene evolution

* Describe in general terms the events that may have led to evolution of the globin superfamily

* Explain the significance of the rapid evolution of the FOXP2 gene in the human lineage

* Provide evidence that suggests that the homeobox DNA sequence evolved very early in the history of life

You should now be able to:

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treehopper insect

http://pansci.tw/archives/5271

Genomic Evolution of Hox Gene Clusters

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/313/5795/1918.full