Genetics: Early Online, published on February 2, 2016 as 10.1534/genetics.115.185660 Chromosome-Specific and Global Effects of Aneuploidy in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Stacie E. Dodgson*,†, Sharon Kim*,†, Michael Costanzo‡, Anastasia Baryshnikova§, Darcy L. Morse†, Chris A. Kaiser†, Charles Boone‡, Angelika Amon*,† * Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA † Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA ‡ The Donnelly Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S3E1, Canada; Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S3E1, Canada § Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544-1014 1 Copyright 2016. Aneuploidy Synthetic Interactions Keywords: aneuploidy, synthetic lethality, dosage imbalance, protein transport Corresponding author: Angelika Amon, 77 Massachusetts Avenue 76-561, Cambridge, MA 02139; 617-258-6559;
[email protected] 2 ABSTRACT Aneuploidy, an unbalanced karyotype in which one or more chromosomes are present in excess or reduced copy number, causes an array of known phenotypes including proteotoxicity, genomic instability and slowed proliferation. However, the molecular consequences of aneuploidy are poorly understood and an unbiased investigation into aneuploid cell biology is lacking. We performed high-throughput screens for genes whose deletion has a synthetic fitness cost in aneuploid Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells containing single extra chromosomes. This analysis identified genes that when deleted decrease the fitness of specific disomic strains as well as those that impair the proliferation of a broad range of aneuploidies. In one case, a chromosome-specific synthetic growth defect could be explained fully by the specific duplication of a single gene on the aneuploid chromosome, highlighting the ability of individual dosage imbalances to cause chromosome-specific phenotypes in aneuploid cells.