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Article Dans Une Revue PLoS Genetics Année : 2010

The relationship among gene expression, the evolution of gene dosage, and the rate of protein evolution

Jean-François Gout
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Laurent Duret

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The understanding of selective constraints affecting genes is a major issue in biology. It is well established that gene expression level is a major determinant of the rate of protein evolution, but the reasons for this relationship remain highly debated. Here we demonstrate that gene expression is also a major determinant of the evolution of gene dosage: the rate of gene losses after whole genome duplications in the Paramecium lineage is negatively correlated to the level of gene expression, and this relationship is not a byproduct of other factors known to affect the fate of gene duplicates. This indicates that changes in gene dosage are generally more deleterious for highly expressed genes. This rule also holds for other taxa: in yeast, we find a clear relationship between gene expression level and the fitness impact of reduction in gene dosage. To explain these observations, we propose a model based on the fact that the optimal expression level of a gene corresponds to a trade-off between the benefit and cost of its expression. This COSTEX model predicts that selective pressure against mutations changing gene expression level or affecting the encoded protein should on average be stronger in highly expressed genes and hence that both the frequency of gene loss and the rate of protein evolution should correlate negatively with gene expression. Thus, the COSTEX model provides a simple and common explanation for the general relationship observed between the level of gene expression and the different facets of gene evolution.

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hal-00539474 , version 1 (24-11-2010)
hal-00539474 , version 2 (08-10-2015)

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Jean-François Gout, Daniel Kahn, Laurent Duret. The relationship among gene expression, the evolution of gene dosage, and the rate of protein evolution. PLoS Genetics, 2010, 6 (5), pp.e1000944. ⟨10.1371/journal.pgen.1000944⟩. ⟨hal-00539474v2⟩
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