Synchronized replication of genes encoding the same protein complex in fast-proliferating cells

© 2019 Chen et al.; Published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press..

DNA replication perturbs the dosage balance among genes; at mid-S phase, early-replicating genes have doubled their copies while late-replicating ones have not. Dosage imbalance among genes, especially within members of a protein complex, is toxic to cells. However, the molecular mechanisms that cells use to deal with such imbalance remain not fully understood. Here, we validate at the genomic scale that the dosage between early- and late-replicating genes is imbalanced in HeLa cells. We propose the synchronized replication hypothesis that genes sensitive to stoichiometric relationships will be replicated simultaneously to maintain stoichiometry. In support of this hypothesis, we observe that genes encoding the same protein complex have similar replication timing but mainly in fast-proliferating cells such as embryonic stem cells and cancer cells. We find that the synchronized replication observed in cancer cells, but not in slow-proliferating differentiated cells, is due to convergent evolution during tumorigenesis that restores synchronized replication timing within protein complexes. Taken together, our study reveals that the demand for dosage balance during S phase plays an important role in the optimization of the replication-timing program; this selection is relaxed during differentiation as the cell cycle prolongs and is restored during tumorigenesis as the cell cycle shortens.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:29

Enthalten in:

Genome research - 29(2019), 12 vom: 29. Dez., Seite 1929-1938

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Chen, Ying [VerfasserIn]
Li, Ke [VerfasserIn]
Chu, Xiao [VerfasserIn]
Carey, Lucas B [VerfasserIn]
Qian, Wenfeng [VerfasserIn]

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Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 15.04.2020

Date Revised 01.06.2020

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1101/gr.254342.119

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NLM302669221