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- Title
The Genome Sequence of the Jean-Talon Strain, an Archeological Beer Yeast from Québec, Reveals Traces of Adaptation to Specific Brewing Conditions.
- Authors
Fijarczyk, Anna; Hénault, Mathieu; Marsit, Souhir; Charron, Guillaume; Fischborn, Tobias; Nicole-Labrie, Luc; Landry, Christian R.
- Abstract
The genome sequences of archeological Saccharomyces cerevisiae isolates can reveal insights about the history of human baking, brewing and wine making activities. A yeast strain called Jean-Talon was recently isolated from the vaults of the Intendant’s Palace of Nouvelle France on a historical site in QuébecCity. This site was occupied by breweries from the end of the 17th century until the middle of the 20th century when poisoning caused by cobalt added to the beer led to a shutdown of brewing activities. We sequenced the genome of the Jean-Talon strain and reanalyzed the genomes of hundreds of strains to determine how it relates to other domesticated and wild strains. The Jean-Talon strain is most closely related to industrial beer strains from the beer and bakery genetic groups from the United Kingdom and Belgium. It has numerous aneuploidies and Copy Number Variants (CNVs), including the main gene conferring cobalt resistance in yeast. The Jean-Talon strain has indeed higher tolerance to cobalt compared to other yeast strains, consistent with adaptation to the most recent brewing activities on the site. We conclude from this that the Jean-Talon strain most likely derives from recent brewing activities and not from the original breweries of Nouvelle France on the site.
- Subjects
BEER brewing; BREWING; NUCLEOTIDE sequencing; DNA copy number variations; YEAST; BEER; HISTORIC sites
- Publication
G3: Genes | Genomes | Genetics, 2020, Vol 10, Issue 9, p3087
- ISSN
2160-1836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1534/g3.120.401149