title: Emergent complexity in Myosin V-based organelle inheritance.
abstract: How is adaptability generated in a system composed of interacting cellular machineries, each with a separate and functionally critical job to perform? The machinery for organelle inheritance is precisely one such system, requiring coordination between robust and ancient cellular modules, including the cell cycle, cytoskeleton, and organelle biogenesis/identity. Budding yeasts have emerged as powerful models to study these processes, which are critical for cellular survival, propagation, and differentiation, as organelles must compete for access to myosin V motors that travel along polarized actin cables to vectorially deliver bound cargo to the bud. Under the direction of the cell cycle, myosin V motors are recruited to organelles by specific interactions between their carboxyl-terminal globular tail domains and organelle-specific receptors. We used comparative genomics, phylogenetics, and secondary structure modeling to characterize the evolutionary history of these organelle-specific receptors. We find that while some receptors are retained widely across the animals and fungi, others are limited primarily to the Saccharomycetaceae family of budding yeast, with the emergent pattern of a conserved biogenic and inheritance factor often paired with an evolutionarily novel inheritance adaptor. We propose an evolutionary model whereby the emergence of myosin V-based organelle inheritance has utilized mechanisms of paralogy, mutation, and the appearance of pliable evolutionarily novel adaptor proteins. Our findings suggest an overarching evolutionary mechanism for how diverse cargoes compete for a single myosin V motor in organelle transport and detail one system's solution to obtaining evolutionary adaptability amongst constrained cellular modules.
authors: Department of Cell Biology, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
authors: Fred D
authors: FD
authors: Mast
authors: Richard A
authors: RA
authors: Rachubinski
authors: Joel B
authors: JB
authors: Dacks
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D001499:Bayes Theorem; D005075:Biological Evolution; D001692:Biological Transport / Q000235:genetics; D019295:Computational Biology; D023281:Genomics / Q000379:methods; D016013:Likelihood Functions; D008957:Models, Genetic; D024701:Myosin Type V / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D015388:Organelles / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D010802:Phylogeny; D016601:RNA-Binding Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D004718:Saccharomycetales / Q000235:genetics*; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D013045:Species Specificity; D033921:Vesicular Transport Proteins / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D016601:RNA-Binding Proteins; D033921:Vesicular Transport Proteins; D024701:Myosin Type V