Hitchhiking on condensed chromatin promotes plasmid persistence in yeast without perturbing chromosome function
Prajapati, H. K.; Kumar, D.; Yang, X.-M.; Ma, C.-H.; Mittal, P.; Jayaram, M.; Ghosh, S. K.
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Equipartitioning by chromosome hitchhiking and copy number correction by DNA amplification are at the heart of the evolutionary success of the selfish yeast 2-micron plasmid. The present analysis reveals plasmid presence near centromeres and telomeres in mitotic cells, with a preference towards the latter. The observed correlation of plasmid missegregation with non-disjunction of rDNA and telomeres under Cdc14 inactivation, higher plasmid missegregation upon induced missegregation of chromosome XII but not chromosome III, requirement of condensin for plasmid stability and the interaction of the condensin subunit Brn1 with the plasmid partitioning system lend functional credence to condensed chromatin being favored for plasmid tethering. By homing to condensed/quiescent chromosome locales, and not over-perturbing genome homeostasis, the plasmid may minimize fitness conflicts with its host. Analogous persistence strategies may be utilized by other extrachromosomal selfish genomes, for example, episomes of mammalian viruses that also hitchhike on host chromosomes for their stable maintenance.
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