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A High Frequency of Chromosomal Duplications in Unicellular Algae Is Compensated by Translational Regulation

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Although duplications have long been recognized as a fundamental process driving major evolutionary innovations, direct estimates of spontaneous chromosome duplication rates, leading to aneuploid karyotypes, are scarce. Here, from mutation accumulation (MA) experiments, we provide the first estimates of spontaneous chromosome duplication rates in six unicellular eukaryotic species, which range from 1 × 10 -4 to 1 × 10 -3 per genome per generation. Although this is ∼5 to ∼60 times less frequent than spontaneous point mutations per genome, chromosome duplication events can affect 1-7% of the total genome size. In duplicated chromosomes, mRNA levels reflected gene copy numbers, but the level of translation estimated by polysome profiling revealed that dosage compensation must be occurring. In particular, one duplicated chromosome showed a 2.1-fold increase of mRNA but translation rates were decreased to 0.7-fold. Altogether, our results support previous observations of chromosome-dependent dosage compensation effects, providing evidence that compensation occurs during translation. We hypothesize that an unknown posttranscriptional mechanism modulates the translation of hundreds of transcripts from genes located on duplicated regions in eukaryotes.
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hal-04794317 , version 1 (20-11-2024)

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Marc Krasovec, Rémy Merret, Frédéric Sanchez, Sophie Sanchez-Brosseau, Gwenaël Piganeau. A High Frequency of Chromosomal Duplications in Unicellular Algae Is Compensated by Translational Regulation. Genome Biology and Evolution, 2023, 15 (6), pp.evad086. ⟨10.1093/gbe/evad086⟩. ⟨hal-04794317⟩
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