Loss of function from widely distributed, synonymous mutations at single codons
Gupta, K.; Prabha, J.; Chandra, S.; Khare, S.; Mohan, S. V.; Kohli, P.; Asok, A.; Gowda, H.; Ramesh, A.; Varadarajan, R.
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Mutational tolerance inferred from laboratory-based mutational studies is typically much higher than observed natural sequence variation. Using saturation mutagenesis, we show that the ccdA antitoxin component of the ccdAB toxin-antitoxin system is unusually sensitive to mutation with over 60% of mutations leading to loss of function. Multi-base synonymous mutations at a codon display enhanced propensity to show altered phenotypes, relative to single-base ones. Such mutations modulate RNA structure, leading to altered relative translation efficiencies of the two genes in the operon, and a CcdA:CcdB protein ratio below one. These insights were used to predict and experimentally validate synonymous mutations that lead to loss of function in the unrelated relBE operon as well as the lacZ gene. Thus, synonymous mutations can have significant phenotypic effects, in the absence of overexpression or extraneous reporters. More generally, proteins are likely more sensitive to mutation than inferred from previous saturation mutagenesis studies.
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