1. The TSC22D, WNK, and NRBP gene families exhibit functional buffering and evolved with Metazoa for cell volume regulation
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Yu-Xi Xiao, Seon Yong Lee, Magali Aguilera-Uribe, Reuben Samson, Aaron Au, Yukti Khanna, Zetao Liu, Ran Cheng, Kamaldeep Aulakh, Jiarun Wei, Adrian Granda Farias, Taylor Reilly, Saba Birkadze, Andrea Habsid, Kevin R. Brown, Katherine Chan, Patricia Mero, Jie Qi Huang, Maximilian Billmann, Mahfuzur Rahman, Chad Myers, Brenda J. Andrews, Ji-Young Youn, Christopher M. Yip, Daniela Rotin, W. Brent Derry, Julie D. Forman-Kay, Alan M. Moses, Iva Pritišanac, Anne-Claude Gingras, and Jason Moffat
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CP: Molecular biology ,Biology (General) ,QH301-705.5 - Abstract
Summary: The ability to sense and respond to osmotic fluctuations is critical for the maintenance of cellular integrity. We used gene co-essentiality analysis to identify an unappreciated relationship between TSC22D2, WNK1, and NRBP1 in regulating cell volume homeostasis. All of these genes have paralogs and are functionally buffered for osmo-sensing and cell volume control. Within seconds of hyperosmotic stress, TSC22D, WNK, and NRBP family members physically associate into biomolecular condensates, a process that is dependent on intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs). A close examination of these protein families across metazoans revealed that TSC22D genes evolved alongside a domain in NRBPs that specifically binds to TSC22D proteins, which we have termed NbrT (NRBP binding region with TSC22D), and this co-evolution is accompanied by rapid IDR length expansion in WNK-family kinases. Our study reveals that TSC22D, WNK, and NRBP genes evolved in metazoans to co-regulate rapid cell volume changes in response to osmolarity.
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- 2024
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