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Ponndara S, Kortebi M, Boccard F, Bury-Moné S, Lioy VS. Principles of bacterial genome organization, a conformational point of view. Mol Microbiol 2024. [PMID: 38922728 DOI: 10.1111/mmi.15290] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2024] [Revised: 06/03/2024] [Accepted: 06/06/2024] [Indexed: 06/28/2024]
Abstract
Bacterial chromosomes are large molecules that need to be highly compacted to fit inside the cells. Chromosome compaction must facilitate and maintain key biological processes such as gene expression and DNA transactions (replication, recombination, repair, and segregation). Chromosome and chromatin 3D-organization in bacteria has been a puzzle for decades. Chromosome conformation capture coupled to deep sequencing (Hi-C) in combination with other "omics" approaches has allowed dissection of the structural layers that shape bacterial chromosome organization, from DNA topology to global chromosome architecture. Here we review the latest findings using Hi-C and discuss the main features of bacterial genome folding.
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- Sokrich Ponndara
- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Zhao H, Peramuna T, Ajmal S, Wendt KL, Petrushenko ZM, Premachandra K, Cichewicz RH, Rybenkov VV. Inhibitor of Chromosome Segregation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa from Fungal Extracts. ACS Chem Biol 2024; 19:1387-1396. [PMID: 38843873 PMCID: PMC11197941 DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.4c00264] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2024] [Revised: 05/10/2024] [Accepted: 05/15/2024] [Indexed: 06/22/2024]
Abstract
Chromosome segregation is an essential cellular process that has the potential to yield numerous targets for drug development. This pathway is presently underutilized partially due to the difficulties in the development of robust reporter assays suitable for high throughput screening. In bacteria, chromosome segregation is mediated by two partially redundant systems, condensins and ParABS. Based on the synthetic lethality of the two systems, we developed an assay suitable for screening and then screened a library of fungal extracts for potential inhibitors of the ParABS pathway, as judged by their enhanced activity on condensin-deficient cells. We found such activity in extracts of Humicola sp. Fractionation of the extract led to the discovery of four new analogues of sterigmatocystin, one of which, 4-hydroxy-sterigmatocystin (4HS), displayed antibacterial activity. 4HS induced the phenotype typical for parAB mutants including defects in chromosome segregation and cell division. Specifically, bacteria exposed to 4HS produced anucleate cells and were impaired in the assembly of the FtsZ ring. Moreover, 4HS binds to purified ParB in a ParS-modulated manner and inhibits its ParS-dependent CTPase activity. The data describe a small molecule inhibitor of ParB and expand the known spectrum of activities of sterigmatocystin to include bacterial chromosome segregation.
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- Hang Zhao
- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University
of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, United States
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- Natural
Products Discovery Group, Institute for Natural Products Applications
and Research Technologies, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry,
Stephenson Life Science Research Center, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University
of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, United States
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- Natural
Products Discovery Group, Institute for Natural Products Applications
and Research Technologies, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry,
Stephenson Life Science Research Center, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University
of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University
of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, United States
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- Natural
Products Discovery Group, Institute for Natural Products Applications
and Research Technologies, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry,
Stephenson Life Science Research Center, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University
of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, United States
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Tišma M, Bock FP, Kerssemakers J, Antar H, Japaridze A, Gruber S, Dekker C. Direct observation of a crescent-shape chromosome in expanded Bacillus subtilis cells. Nat Commun 2024; 15:2737. [PMID: 38548820 PMCID: PMC10979009 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-47094-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2023] [Accepted: 03/14/2024] [Indexed: 04/01/2024] Open
Abstract
Bacterial chromosomes are folded into tightly regulated three-dimensional structures to ensure proper transcription, replication, and segregation of the genetic information. Direct visualization of chromosomal shape within bacterial cells is hampered by cell-wall confinement and the optical diffraction limit. Here, we combine cell-shape manipulation strategies, high-resolution fluorescence microscopy techniques, and genetic engineering to visualize the shape of unconfined bacterial chromosome in real-time in live Bacillus subtilis cells that are expanded in volume. We show that the chromosomes predominantly exhibit crescent shapes with a non-uniform DNA density that is increased near the origin of replication (oriC). Additionally, we localized ParB and BsSMC proteins - the key drivers of chromosomal organization - along the contour of the crescent chromosome, showing the highest density near oriC. Opening of the BsSMC ring complex disrupted the crescent chromosome shape and instead yielded a torus shape. These findings help to understand the threedimensional organization of the chromosome and the main protein complexes that underlie its structure.
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- Miloš Tišma
- Department of Bionanoscience, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
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- Department of Fundamental Microbiology (DMF), Faculty of Biology and Medicine (FBM), University of Lausanne (UNIL), Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Bionanoscience, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
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- Department of Fundamental Microbiology (DMF), Faculty of Biology and Medicine (FBM), University of Lausanne (UNIL), Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Bionanoscience, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
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- Department of Fundamental Microbiology (DMF), Faculty of Biology and Medicine (FBM), University of Lausanne (UNIL), Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Bionanoscience, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands.
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Seba M, Boccard F, Duigou S. Activity of MukBEF for chromosome management in E. coli and its inhibition by MatP. eLife 2024; 12:RP91185. [PMID: 38315099 PMCID: PMC10945525 DOI: 10.7554/elife.91185] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2024] Open
Abstract
Structural maintenance of chromosomes (SMC) complexes share conserved structures and serve a common role in maintaining chromosome architecture. In the bacterium Escherichia coli, the SMC complex MukBEF is necessary for rapid growth and the accurate segregation and positioning of the chromosome, although the specific molecular mechanisms involved are still unknown. Here, we used a number of in vivo assays to reveal how MukBEF controls chromosome conformation and how the MatP/matS system prevents MukBEF activity. Our results indicate that the loading of MukBEF occurs preferentially on newly replicated DNA, at multiple loci on the chromosome where it can promote long-range contacts in cis even though MukBEF can promote long-range contacts in the absence of replication. Using Hi-C and ChIP-seq analyses in strains with rearranged chromosomes, the prevention of MukBEF activity increases with the number of matS sites and this effect likely results from the unloading of MukBEF by MatP. Altogether, our results reveal how MukBEF operates to control chromosome folding and segregation in E. coli.
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- Mohammed Seba
- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Liu T, Qiu QT, Hua KJ, Ma BG. Chromosome structure modeling tools and their evaluation in bacteria. Brief Bioinform 2024; 25:bbae044. [PMID: 38385874 PMCID: PMC10883143 DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbae044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2023] [Revised: 12/31/2023] [Accepted: 01/22/2024] [Indexed: 02/23/2024] Open
Abstract
The three-dimensional (3D) structure of bacterial chromosomes is crucial for understanding chromosome function. With the growing availability of high-throughput chromosome conformation capture (3C/Hi-C) data, the 3D structure reconstruction algorithms have become powerful tools to study bacterial chromosome structure and function. It is highly desired to have a recommendation on the chromosome structure reconstruction tools to facilitate the prokaryotic 3D genomics. In this work, we review existing chromosome 3D structure reconstruction algorithms and classify them based on their underlying computational models into two categories: constraint-based modeling and thermodynamics-based modeling. We briefly compare these algorithms utilizing 3C/Hi-C datasets and fluorescence microscopy data obtained from Escherichia coli and Caulobacter crescentus, as well as simulated datasets. We discuss current challenges in the 3D reconstruction algorithms for bacterial chromosomes, primarily focusing on software usability. Finally, we briefly prospect future research directions for bacterial chromosome structure reconstruction algorithms.
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- Tong Liu
- Hubei Key Laboratory of Agricultural Bioinformatics, College of Informatics, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- Hubei Key Laboratory of Agricultural Bioinformatics, College of Informatics, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- Hubei Key Laboratory of Agricultural Bioinformatics, College of Informatics, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- Hubei Key Laboratory of Agricultural Bioinformatics, College of Informatics, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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Cornet F, Blanchais C, Dusfour-Castan R, Meunier A, Quebre V, Sekkouri Alaoui H, Boudsoq F, Campos M, Crozat E, Guynet C, Pasta F, Rousseau P, Ton Hoang B, Bouet JY. DNA Segregation in Enterobacteria. EcoSal Plus 2023; 11:eesp00382020. [PMID: 37220081 PMCID: PMC10729935 DOI: 10.1128/ecosalplus.esp-0038-2020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2022] [Accepted: 04/13/2023] [Indexed: 01/28/2024]
Abstract
DNA segregation ensures that cell offspring receive at least one copy of each DNA molecule, or replicon, after their replication. This important cellular process includes different phases leading to the physical separation of the replicons and their movement toward the future daughter cells. Here, we review these phases and processes in enterobacteria with emphasis on the molecular mechanisms at play and their controls.
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- François Cornet
- Laboratoire de Microbiologie et Génétique Moléculaires (LMGM), Centre de Biologie Intégrative (CBI), CNRS, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
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- Laboratoire de Microbiologie et Génétique Moléculaires (LMGM), Centre de Biologie Intégrative (CBI), CNRS, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
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- Laboratoire de Microbiologie et Génétique Moléculaires (LMGM), Centre de Biologie Intégrative (CBI), CNRS, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
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- Laboratoire de Microbiologie et Génétique Moléculaires (LMGM), Centre de Biologie Intégrative (CBI), CNRS, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
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- Laboratoire de Microbiologie et Génétique Moléculaires (LMGM), Centre de Biologie Intégrative (CBI), CNRS, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
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- Laboratoire de Microbiologie et Génétique Moléculaires (LMGM), Centre de Biologie Intégrative (CBI), CNRS, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
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- Laboratoire de Microbiologie et Génétique Moléculaires (LMGM), Centre de Biologie Intégrative (CBI), CNRS, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
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- Laboratoire de Microbiologie et Génétique Moléculaires (LMGM), Centre de Biologie Intégrative (CBI), CNRS, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
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- Laboratoire de Microbiologie et Génétique Moléculaires (LMGM), Centre de Biologie Intégrative (CBI), CNRS, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
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- Laboratoire de Microbiologie et Génétique Moléculaires (LMGM), Centre de Biologie Intégrative (CBI), CNRS, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
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- Laboratoire de Microbiologie et Génétique Moléculaires (LMGM), Centre de Biologie Intégrative (CBI), CNRS, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
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- Laboratoire de Microbiologie et Génétique Moléculaires (LMGM), Centre de Biologie Intégrative (CBI), CNRS, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
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- Laboratoire de Microbiologie et Génétique Moléculaires (LMGM), Centre de Biologie Intégrative (CBI), CNRS, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
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- Laboratoire de Microbiologie et Génétique Moléculaires (LMGM), Centre de Biologie Intégrative (CBI), CNRS, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
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Junier I, Ghobadpour E, Espeli O, Everaers R. DNA supercoiling in bacteria: state of play and challenges from a viewpoint of physics based modeling. Front Microbiol 2023; 14:1192831. [PMID: 37965550 PMCID: PMC10642903 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1192831] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2023] [Accepted: 09/25/2023] [Indexed: 11/16/2023] Open
Abstract
DNA supercoiling is central to many fundamental processes of living organisms. Its average level along the chromosome and over time reflects the dynamic equilibrium of opposite activities of topoisomerases, which are required to relax mechanical stresses that are inevitably produced during DNA replication and gene transcription. Supercoiling affects all scales of the spatio-temporal organization of bacterial DNA, from the base pair to the large scale chromosome conformation. Highlighted in vitro and in vivo in the 1960s and 1970s, respectively, the first physical models were proposed concomitantly in order to predict the deformation properties of the double helix. About fifteen years later, polymer physics models demonstrated on larger scales the plectonemic nature and the tree-like organization of supercoiled DNA. Since then, many works have tried to establish a better understanding of the multiple structuring and physiological properties of bacterial DNA in thermodynamic equilibrium and far from equilibrium. The purpose of this essay is to address upcoming challenges by thoroughly exploring the relevance, predictive capacity, and limitations of current physical models, with a specific focus on structural properties beyond the scale of the double helix. We discuss more particularly the problem of DNA conformations, the interplay between DNA supercoiling with gene transcription and DNA replication, its role on nucleoid formation and, finally, the problem of scaling up models. Our primary objective is to foster increased collaboration between physicists and biologists. To achieve this, we have reduced the respective jargon to a minimum and we provide some explanatory background material for the two communities.
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- Ivan Junier
- CNRS, UMR 5525, VetAgro Sup, Grenoble INP, TIMC, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
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- CNRS, UMR 5525, VetAgro Sup, Grenoble INP, TIMC, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
- École Normale Supérieure (ENS) de Lyon, CNRS, Laboratoire de Physique and Centre Blaise Pascal de l'ENS de Lyon, Lyon, France
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- Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Biology (CIRB), Collège de France, CNRS, INSERM, Université PSL, Paris, France
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- École Normale Supérieure (ENS) de Lyon, CNRS, Laboratoire de Physique and Centre Blaise Pascal de l'ENS de Lyon, Lyon, France
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Barton IS, Ren Z, Cribb CB, Pitzer JE, Baglivo I, Martin DW, Wang X, Roop RM. Brucella MucR acts as an H-NS-like protein to silence virulence genes and structure the nucleoid. mBio 2023; 14:e0220123. [PMID: 37847580 PMCID: PMC10746212 DOI: 10.1128/mbio.02201-23] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2023] [Accepted: 08/21/2023] [Indexed: 10/19/2023] Open
Abstract
Histone-like nucleoid structuring (H-NS) and H-NS-like proteins serve as global gene silencers and work with antagonistic transcriptional activators (counter-silencers) to properly coordinate the expression of virulence genes in pathogenic bacteria. In Brucella, MucR has been proposed as a novel H-NS-like gene silencer, but direct experimental evidence is lacking. Here, we show that MucR serves as an H-NS-like silencer of the Brucella abortus genes encoding the polar autotransporter adhesins BtaE and BmaC, the c-di-GMP-specific phosphodiesterase BpdB, and the quorum-sensing regulator BabR. We also demonstrate that the MarR-type transcriptional activator MdrA can displace MucR from the btaE promoter, supporting the existence of MucR counter-silencers in Brucella. Moreover, our chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP)-seq analysis identified 546 MucR enrichment peaks along the genome, including in the promoters of the genes encoding the Type IV secretion machinery and effectors and the quorum-sensing regulator VjbR. Importantly, MucR ChIP-seq peaks overlap with the previously described binding sites for the transcriptional activators VjbR, BvrR, and CtrA suggesting that these regulators serve as MucR counter-silencers and work in concert with MucR to coordinate virulence gene expression in Brucella. In addition, using chromosome conformation capture (Hi-C), we show that like H-NS in Escherichia coli, MucR alters the global structure of the Brucella nucleoid. Finally, a copy of the E. coli hns rescues the distinctive growth defect and elevated btaE expression of a B. abortus mucR mutant. Together, these findings solidify the role of MucR as a novel type of H-NS-like protein and suggest that MucR's gene-silencing properties play a key role in virulence in Brucella. IMPORTANCE Histone-like nucleoid structuring (H-NS) and H-NS-like proteins coordinate host-associated behaviors in many pathogenic bacteria, often through forming silencer/counter-silencer pairs with signal-responsive transcriptional activators to tightly control gene expression. Brucella and related bacteria do not encode H-NS or homologs of known H-NS-like proteins, and it is unclear if they have other proteins that perform analogous functions during pathogenesis. In this work, we provide compelling evidence for the role of MucR as a novel H-NS-like protein in Brucella. We show that MucR possesses many of the known functions attributed to H-NS and H-NS-like proteins, including the formation of silencer/counter-silencer pairs to control virulence gene expression and global structuring of the nucleoid. These results uncover a new role for MucR as a nucleoid structuring protein and support the importance of temporal control of gene expression in Brucella and related bacteria.
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- Ian S. Barton
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Environmental, Biological and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Caserta, Italy
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA
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Yáñez-Cuna FO, Koszul R. Insights in bacterial genome folding. Curr Opin Struct Biol 2023; 82:102679. [PMID: 37604045 DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2023.102679] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2023] [Revised: 07/18/2023] [Accepted: 07/19/2023] [Indexed: 08/23/2023]
Abstract
Chromosomes in all domains of life are well-defined structural entities with complex hierarchical organization. The regulation of this hierarchical organization and its functional interplay with gene expression or other chromosome metabolic processes such as repair, replication, or segregation is actively investigated in a variety of species, including prokaryotes. Bacterial chromosomes are typically gene-dense with few non-coding sequences and are organized into the nucleoid, a membrane-less compartment composed of DNA, RNA, and proteins (nucleoid-associated proteins or NAPs). The continuous improvement of imaging and genomic methods has put the organization of these Mb-long molecules at reach, allowing to disambiguate some of their highly dynamic properties and intertwined structural features. Here we review and discuss some of the recent advances in the field of bacterial chromosome organization.
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- Fares Osam Yáñez-Cuna
- Institut Pasteur, CNRS UMR 3525, Université Paris Cité, Unité Régulation Spatiale des Génomes, 75015, Paris, France
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- Institut Pasteur, CNRS UMR 3525, Université Paris Cité, Unité Régulation Spatiale des Génomes, 75015, Paris, France.
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Liu HW, Roisné-Hamelin F, Gruber S. SMC-based immunity against extrachromosomal DNA elements. Biochem Soc Trans 2023; 51:1571-1583. [PMID: 37584323 PMCID: PMC10586767 DOI: 10.1042/bst20221395] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2023] [Revised: 08/01/2023] [Accepted: 08/03/2023] [Indexed: 08/17/2023]
Abstract
SMC and SMC-like complexes promote chromosome folding and genome maintenance in all domains of life. Recently, they were also recognized as factors in cellular immunity against foreign DNA. In bacteria and archaea, Wadjet and Lamassu are anti-plasmid/phage defence systems, while Smc5/6 and Rad50 complexes play a role in anti-viral immunity in humans. This raises an intriguing paradox - how can the same, or closely related, complexes on one hand secure the integrity and maintenance of chromosomal DNA, while on the other recognize and restrict extrachromosomal DNA? In this minireview, we will briefly describe the latest understanding of each of these complexes in immunity including speculations on how principles of SMC(-like) function may explain how the systems recognize linear or circular forms of invading DNA.
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- Hon Wing Liu
- Department of Fundamental Microbiology (DMF), Faculty of Biology and Medicine (FBM), University of Lausanne (UNIL), 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Fundamental Microbiology (DMF), Faculty of Biology and Medicine (FBM), University of Lausanne (UNIL), 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Fundamental Microbiology (DMF), Faculty of Biology and Medicine (FBM), University of Lausanne (UNIL), 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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Gilbert BR, Thornburg ZR, Brier TA, Stevens JA, Grünewald F, Stone JE, Marrink SJ, Luthey-Schulten Z. Dynamics of chromosome organization in a minimal bacterial cell. Front Cell Dev Biol 2023; 11:1214962. [PMID: 37621774 PMCID: PMC10445541 DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2023.1214962] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2023] [Accepted: 07/10/2023] [Indexed: 08/26/2023] Open
Abstract
Computational models of cells cannot be considered complete unless they include the most fundamental process of life, the replication and inheritance of genetic material. By creating a computational framework to model systems of replicating bacterial chromosomes as polymers at 10 bp resolution with Brownian dynamics, we investigate changes in chromosome organization during replication and extend the applicability of an existing whole-cell model (WCM) for a genetically minimal bacterium, JCVI-syn3A, to the entire cell-cycle. To achieve cell-scale chromosome structures that are realistic, we model the chromosome as a self-avoiding homopolymer with bending and torsional stiffnesses that capture the essential mechanical properties of dsDNA in Syn3A. In addition, the conformations of the circular DNA must avoid overlapping with ribosomes identitied in cryo-electron tomograms. While Syn3A lacks the complex regulatory systems known to orchestrate chromosome segregation in other bacteria, its minimized genome retains essential loop-extruding structural maintenance of chromosomes (SMC) protein complexes (SMC-scpAB) and topoisomerases. Through implementing the effects of these proteins in our simulations of replicating chromosomes, we find that they alone are sufficient for simultaneous chromosome segregation across all generations within nested theta structures. This supports previous studies suggesting loop-extrusion serves as a near-universal mechanism for chromosome organization within bacterial and eukaryotic cells. Furthermore, we analyze ribosome diffusion under the influence of the chromosome and calculate in silico chromosome contact maps that capture inter-daughter interactions. Finally, we present a methodology to map the polymer model of the chromosome to a Martini coarse-grained representation to prepare molecular dynamics models of entire Syn3A cells, which serves as an ultimate means of validation for cell states predicted by the WCM.
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- Benjamin R. Gilbert
- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
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- Molecular Dynamics Group, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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- Molecular Dynamics Group, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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- NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA, United States
- NIH Center for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
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- Molecular Dynamics Group, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
- NIH Center for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
- NSF Center for the Physics of Living Cells, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
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Kawalek A, Bartosik AA, Jagura-Burdzy G. Robust ParB Binding to Half- parS Sites in Pseudomonas aeruginosa-A Mechanism for Retaining ParB on the Nucleoid? Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:12517. [PMID: 37569892 PMCID: PMC10419367 DOI: 10.3390/ijms241512517] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2023] [Revised: 07/28/2023] [Accepted: 08/03/2023] [Indexed: 08/13/2023] Open
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Chromosome segregation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa is assisted by the tripartite ParAB-parS system, composed of an ATPase (ParA), a DNA-binding protein (ParB) and its target parS sequence(s). ParB forms a nucleoprotein complex around four parSs (parS1-parS4) that overlaps oriC and facilitates relocation of newly synthesized ori domains inside the cells by ParA. Remarkably, ParB of P. aeruginosa also binds to numerous heptanucleotides (half-parSs) scattered in the genome. Here, using chromatin immunoprecipitation-sequencing (ChIP-seq), we analyzed patterns of ParB genome occupancy in cells growing under conditions of coupling or uncoupling between replication and cell division processes. Interestingly, a dissipation of ParB-parS complexes and a shift of ParB to half-parSs were observed during the transition from the exponential to stationary phase of growth on rich medium, suggesting the role of half-parSs in retaining ParB on the nucleoid within non-dividing P. aeruginosa cells. The ChIP-seq analysis of strains expressing ParB variants unable to dislocate from parSs showed that the ParB spreading ability is not required for ParB binding to half-parSs. Finally, a P. aeruginosa strain with mutated 25 half-parSs of the highest affinity towards ParB was constructed and analyzed. It showed altered ParB coverage of the oriC region and moderate changes in gene expression. Overall, this study characterizes a novel aspect of conserved bacterial chromosome segregation machinery.
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- Adam Kawalek
- Laboratory of DNA Segregation and Life Cycle of Proteobacteria, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland
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- Laboratory of DNA Segregation and Life Cycle of Proteobacteria, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland
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Ren Z, Takacs CN, Brandão HB, Jacobs-Wagner C, Wang X. Organization and replicon interactions within the highly segmented genome of Borrelia burgdorferi. PLoS Genet 2023; 19:e1010857. [PMID: 37494383 PMCID: PMC10406323 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1010857] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2023] [Revised: 08/07/2023] [Accepted: 07/05/2023] [Indexed: 07/28/2023] Open
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Borrelia burgdorferi, a causative agent of Lyme disease, contains the most segmented bacterial genome known to date, with one linear chromosome and over twenty plasmids. How this unusually complex genome is organized, and whether and how the different replicons interact are unclear. We recently demonstrated that B. burgdorferi is polyploid and that the copies of the chromosome and plasmids are regularly spaced in each cell, which is critical for faithful segregation of the genome to daughter cells. Regular spacing of the chromosome is controlled by two separate partitioning systems that involve the protein pairs ParA/ParZ and ParB/Smc. Here, using chromosome conformation capture (Hi-C), we characterized the organization of the B. burgdorferi genome and the interactions between the replicons. We uncovered that although the linear chromosome lacks contacts between the two replication arms, the two telomeres are in frequent contact. Moreover, several plasmids specifically interact with the chromosome oriC region, and a subset of plasmids interact with each other more than with others. We found that Smc and the Smc-like MksB protein mediate long-range interactions on the chromosome, but they minimally affect plasmid-chromosome or plasmid-plasmid interactions. Finally, we found that disruption of the two partition systems leads to chromosome restructuring, correlating with the mis-positioning of chromosome oriC. Altogether, this study revealed the conformation of a complex genome and analyzed the contribution of the partition systems and SMC family proteins to this organization. This work expands the understanding of the organization and maintenance of multipartite bacterial genomes.
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- Zhongqing Ren
- Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America
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- Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America
- Sarafan ChEM-H Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford, California, United States of America
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- Illumina Inc., 5200 Illumina Way, San Diego, California, United States of America
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- Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America
- Sarafan ChEM-H Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford, California, United States of America
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- Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America
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Lamy-Besnier Q, Bignaud A, Garneau JR, Titecat M, Conti DE, Von Strempel A, Monot M, Stecher B, Koszul R, Debarbieux L, Marbouty M. Chromosome folding and prophage activation reveal specific genomic architecture for intestinal bacteria. MICROBIOME 2023; 11:111. [PMID: 37208714 DOI: 10.1186/s40168-023-01541-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2022] [Accepted: 04/04/2023] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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BACKGROUND Bacteria and their viruses, bacteriophages, are the most abundant entities of the gut microbiota, a complex community of microorganisms associated with human health and disease. In this ecosystem, the interactions between these two key components are still largely unknown. In particular, the impact of the gut environment on bacteria and their associated prophages is yet to be deciphered. RESULTS To gain insight into the activity of lysogenic bacteriophages within the context of their host genomes, we performed proximity ligation-based sequencing (Hi-C) in both in vitro and in vivo conditions on the 12 bacterial strains of the OMM12 synthetic bacterial community stably associated within mice gut (gnotobiotic mouse line OMM12). High-resolution contact maps of the chromosome 3D organization of the bacterial genomes revealed a wide diversity of architectures, differences between environments, and an overall stability over time in the gut of mice. The DNA contacts pointed at 3D signatures of prophages leading to 16 of them being predicted as functional. We also identified circularization signals and observed different 3D patterns between in vitro and in vivo conditions. Concurrent virome analysis showed that 11 of these prophages produced viral particles and that OMM12 mice do not carry other intestinal viruses. CONCLUSIONS The precise identification by Hi-C of functional and active prophages within bacterial communities will unlock the study of interactions between bacteriophages and bacteria across conditions (healthy vs disease). Video Abstract.
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- Quentin Lamy-Besnier
- Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, CNRS UMR6047, Bacteriophage Bacterium Host, 25-28 Rue du Dr Roux, 75015, Paris, France
- Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Spatial Regulation of Genomes Group, CNRS UMR 3525, 25-28 Rue du Dr Roux, 75015, Paris, France
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- Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Spatial Regulation of Genomes Group, CNRS UMR 3525, 25-28 Rue du Dr Roux, 75015, Paris, France
- Sorbonne Université, Collège Doctoral, Paris, France
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- Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Plate-Forme Technologique Biomics, 75015, Paris, France
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- Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, CNRS UMR6047, Bacteriophage Bacterium Host, 25-28 Rue du Dr Roux, 75015, Paris, France
- Université de Lille, INSERM, CHU Lille, U1286-INFINITE-Institute for Translational Research in Inflammation, Lille, 59000, France
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- Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, CNRS UMR6047, Bacteriophage Bacterium Host, 25-28 Rue du Dr Roux, 75015, Paris, France
- Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Spatial Regulation of Genomes Group, CNRS UMR 3525, 25-28 Rue du Dr Roux, 75015, Paris, France
- Sorbonne Université, Collège Doctoral, Paris, France
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- Max Von Pettenkofer Institute of Hygiene and Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Plate-Forme Technologique Biomics, 75015, Paris, France
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- Max Von Pettenkofer Institute of Hygiene and Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany
- German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site LMU Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Spatial Regulation of Genomes Group, CNRS UMR 3525, 25-28 Rue du Dr Roux, 75015, Paris, France
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- Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, CNRS UMR6047, Bacteriophage Bacterium Host, 25-28 Rue du Dr Roux, 75015, Paris, France.
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- Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Spatial Regulation of Genomes Group, CNRS UMR 3525, 25-28 Rue du Dr Roux, 75015, Paris, France.
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Ren Z, Takacs CN, Brandão HB, Jacobs-Wagner C, Wang X. Organization and replicon interactions within the highly segmented genome of Borrelia burgdorferi. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.03.19.532819. [PMID: 37066390 PMCID: PMC10103936 DOI: 10.1101/2023.03.19.532819] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/22/2023]
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Borrelia burgdorferi , a causative agent of Lyme disease, contains the most segmented bacterial genome known to date, with one linear chromosome and over twenty plasmids. How this unusually complex genome is organized, and whether and how the different replicons interact are unclear. We recently demonstrated that B. burgdorferi is polyploid and that the copies of the chromosome and plasmids are regularly spaced in each cell, which is critical for faithful segregation of the genome to daughter cells. Regular spacing of the chromosome is controlled by two separate partitioning systems that involve the protein pairs ParA/ParZ and ParB/SMC. Here, using chromosome conformation capture (Hi-C), we characterized the organization of the B. burgdorferi genome and the interactions between the replicons. We uncovered that although the linear chromosome lacks contacts between the two replication arms, the two telomeres are in frequent contact. Moreover, several plasmids specifically interact with the chromosome oriC region, and a subset of plasmids interact with each other more than with others. We found that SMC and the SMC-like MksB protein mediate long-range interactions on the chromosome, but they minimally affect plasmid-chromosome or plasmid-plasmid interactions. Finally, we found that disruption of the two partition systems leads to chromosome restructuring, correlating with the mis-positioning of chromosome oriC . Altogether, this study revealed the conformation of a complex genome and analyzed the contribution of the partition systems and SMC family proteins to this organization. This work expands the understanding of the organization and maintenance of multipartite bacterial genomes.
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- Zhongqing Ren
- Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
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- Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
- Sarafan ChEM-H Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
- Sarafan ChEM-H Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
- Corresponding authors: ;
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- Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
- Corresponding authors: ;
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Chromosomal Position of Ribosomal Protein Genes Affects Long-Term Evolution of Vibrio cholerae. mBio 2023; 14:e0343222. [PMID: 36861972 PMCID: PMC10127744 DOI: 10.1128/mbio.03432-22] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/03/2023] Open
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It is unclear how gene order within the chromosome influences genome evolution. Bacteria cluster transcription and translation genes close to the replication origin (oriC). In Vibrio cholerae, relocation of s10-spc-α locus (S10), the major locus of ribosomal protein genes, to ectopic genomic positions shows that its relative distance to the oriC correlates to a reduction in growth rate, fitness, and infectivity. To test the long-term impact of this trait, we evolved 12 populations of V. cholerae strains bearing S10 at an oriC-proximal or an oriC-distal location for 1,000 generations. During the first 250 generations, positive selection was the main force driving mutation. After 1,000 generations, we observed more nonadaptative mutations and hypermutator genotypes. Populations fixed inactivating mutations at many genes linked to virulence: flagellum, chemotaxis, biofilm, and quorum sensing. Throughout the experiment, all populations increased their growth rates. However, those bearing S10 close to oriC remained the fittest, indicating that suppressor mutations cannot compensate for the genomic position of the main ribosomal protein locus. Selection and sequencing of the fastest-growing clones allowed us to characterize mutations inactivating, among other sites, flagellum master regulators. Reintroduction of these mutations into the wild-type context led to a ≈10% growth improvement. In conclusion, the genomic location of ribosomal protein genes conditions the evolutionary trajectory of V. cholerae. While genomic content is highly plastic in prokaryotes, gene order is an underestimated factor that conditions cellular physiology and evolution. A lack of suppression enables artificial gene relocation as a tool for genetic circuit reprogramming. IMPORTANCE The bacterial chromosome harbors several entangled processes such as replication, transcription, DNA repair, and segregation. Replication begins bidirectionally at the replication origin (oriC) until the terminal region (ter) organizing the genome along the ori-ter axis gene order along this axis could link genome structure to cell physiology. Fast-growing bacteria cluster translation genes near oriC. In Vibrio cholerae, moving them away was feasible but at the cost of losing fitness and infectivity. Here, we evolved strains harboring ribosomal genes close or far from oriC. Growth rate differences persisted after 1,000 generations. No mutation was able to compensate for the growth defect, showing that ribosomal gene location conditions their evolutionary trajectory. Despite the high plasticity of bacterial genomes, evolution has sculpted gene order to optimize the ecological strategy of the microorganism. We observed growth rate improvement throughout the evolution experiment that occurred at expense of energetically costly processes such the flagellum biosynthesis and virulence-related functions. From the biotechnological point of view, manipulation of gene order enables altering bacterial growth with no escape events.
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Huang YF, Liu L, Wang F, Yuan XW, Chen HC, Liu ZF. High-Resolution 3D Genome Map of Brucella Chromosomes in Exponential and Stationary Phases. Microbiol Spectr 2023; 11:e0429022. [PMID: 36847551 PMCID: PMC10100373 DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.04290-22] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2022] [Accepted: 02/02/2023] [Indexed: 03/01/2023] Open
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The three-dimensional (3D) genome structure of an organism or cell is highly relevant to its biological activities, but the availability of 3D genome information for bacteria, especially intracellular pathogens, is still limited. Here, we used Hi-C (high-throughput chromosome conformation capture) technology to determine the 3D chromosome structures of exponential- and stationary-phase Brucella melitensis at a 1-kb resolution. We observed that the contact heat maps of the two B. melitensis chromosomes contain a prominent diagonal and a secondary diagonal. Then, 79 chromatin interaction domains (CIDs) were detected at an optical density at 600 nm (OD600) of 0.4 (exponential phase), with the longest CID being 106 kb and the shortest being 12 kb. Moreover, we obtained 49,363 significant cis-interaction loci and 59,953 significant trans-interaction loci. Meanwhile, 82 CIDs of B. melitensis at an OD600 of 1.5 (stationary phase) were detected, with the longest CID being 94 kb and the shortest being 16 kb. In addition, 25,965 significant cis-interaction loci and 35,938 significant trans-interaction loci were obtained in this phase. Furthermore, we found that as the B. melitensis cells grew from the logarithmic to the plateau phase, the frequency of short-range interactions increased, while that of long-range interactions decreased. Finally, combined analysis of 3D genome and whole-genome transcriptome (RNA-seq) data revealed that the strength of short-range interactions in Chr1 is specifically and strongly correlated with gene expression. Overall, our study provides a global view of the chromatin interactions in the B. melitensis chromosomes, which will serve as a resource for further study of the spatial regulation of gene expression in Brucella. IMPORTANCE The spatial structure of chromatin plays important roles in normal cell functions and in the regulation of gene expression. Three-dimensional genome sequencing has been performed in many mammals and plants, but the availability of such data for bacteria, especially intracellular pathogens, is still limited. Approximately 10% of sequenced bacterial genomes contain more than one replicon. However, how multiple replicons are organized within bacterial cells, how they interact, and whether these interactions help to maintain or segregate these multipartite genomes are unresolved issues. Brucella is a Gram-negative, facultative intracellular, and zoonotic bacterium. Except for Brucella suis biovar 3, Brucella species have two chromosomes. Here, we applied Hi-C technology to determine the 3D genome structures of exponential- and stationary-phase Brucella melitensis chromosomes at a 1-kb resolution. Combined analysis of the 3D genome and RNA-seq data indicated that the strength of short-range interactions in B. melitensis Chr1 is specifically and strongly correlated with gene expression. Our study provides a resource to achieve a deeper understanding of the spatial regulation of gene expression in Brucella.
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- Yong-Fang Huang
- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- Wuhan Frasergen Bioinformatics Co., Ltd., Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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Diverse Partners of the Partitioning ParB Protein in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Microbiol Spectr 2023; 11:e0428922. [PMID: 36622167 PMCID: PMC9927451 DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.04289-22] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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In the majority of bacterial species, the tripartite ParAB-parS system, composed of an ATPase (ParA), a DNA-binding protein (ParB), and its target parS sequence(s), assists in the chromosome partitioning. ParB forms large nucleoprotein complexes at parS(s), located in the vicinity of origin of chromosomal replication (oriC), which after replication are subsequently positioned by ParA in cell poles. Remarkably, ParA and ParB participate not only in the chromosome segregation but through interactions with various cellular partners they are also involved in other cell cycle-related processes, in a species-specific manner. In this work, we characterized Pseudomonas aeruginosa ParB interactions with the cognate ParA, showing that the N-terminal motif of ParB is required for these interactions, and demonstrated that ParAB-parS-mediated rapid segregation of newly replicated ori domains prevented structural maintenance of chromosome (SMC)-mediated cohesion of sister chromosomes. Furthermore, using proteome-wide techniques, we have identified other ParB partners in P. aeruginosa, which encompass a number of proteins, including the nucleoid-associated proteins NdpA(PA3849) and NdpA2, MinE (PA3245) of Min system, and transcriptional regulators and various enzymes, e.g., CTP synthetase (PA3637). Among them are also NTPases PA4465, PA5028, PA3481, and FleN (PA1454), three of them displaying polar localization in bacterial cells. Overall, this work presents the spectrum of P. aeruginosa ParB partners and implicates the role of this protein in the cross-talk between chromosome segregation and other cellular processes. IMPORTANCE In Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a Gram-negative pathogen causing life-threatening infections in immunocompromised patients, the ParAB-parS system is involved in the precise separation of newly replicated bacterial chromosomes. In this work, we identified and characterized proteins interacting with partitioning protein ParB. We mapped the domain of interactions with its cognate ParA partner and showed that ParB-ParA interactions are crucial for the chromosome segregation and for proper SMC action on DNA. We also demonstrated ParB interactions with other DNA binding proteins, metabolic enzymes, and NTPases displaying polar localization in the cells. Overall, this study uncovers novel players cooperating with the chromosome partition system in P. aeruginosa, supporting its important regulatory role in the bacterial cell cycle.
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DNA-measuring Wadjet SMC ATPases restrict smaller circular plasmids by DNA cleavage. Mol Cell 2022; 82:4727-4740.e6. [PMID: 36525956 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2022.11.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2022] [Revised: 10/31/2022] [Accepted: 11/16/2022] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Structural maintenance of chromosome (SMC) complexes fold DNA by loop extrusion to support chromosome segregation and genome maintenance. Wadjet systems (JetABCD/MksBEFG/EptABCD) are derivative SMC complexes with roles in bacterial immunity against selfish DNA. Here, we show that JetABCD restricts circular plasmids with an upper size limit of about 100 kb, whereas a linear plasmid evades restriction. Purified JetABCD complexes cleave circular DNA molecules, regardless of the DNA helical topology; cleavage is DNA sequence nonspecific and depends on the SMC ATPase. A cryo-EM structure reveals a distinct JetABC dimer-of-dimers geometry, with the two SMC dimers facing in opposite direction-rather than the same as observed with MukBEF. We hypothesize that JetABCD is a DNA-shape-specific endonuclease and propose the "total extrusion model" for DNA cleavage exclusively when extrusion of an entire plasmid has been completed by a JetABCD complex. Total extrusion cannot be achieved on the larger chromosome, explaining how self-DNA may evade processing.
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Deep A, Gu Y, Gao YQ, Ego KM, Herzik MA, Zhou H, Corbett KD. The SMC-family Wadjet complex protects bacteria from plasmid transformation by recognition and cleavage of closed-circular DNA. Mol Cell 2022; 82:4145-4159.e7. [PMID: 36206765 PMCID: PMC9637719 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2022.09.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2022] [Revised: 07/19/2022] [Accepted: 09/06/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Self versus non-self discrimination is a key element of innate and adaptive immunity across life. In bacteria, CRISPR-Cas and restriction-modification systems recognize non-self nucleic acids through their sequence and their methylation state, respectively. Here, we show that the Wadjet defense system recognizes DNA topology to protect its host against plasmid transformation. By combining cryoelectron microscopy with cross-linking mass spectrometry, we show that Wadjet forms a complex similar to the bacterial condensin complex MukBEF, with a novel nuclease subunit similar to a type II DNA topoisomerase. Wadjet specifically cleaves closed-circular DNA in a reaction requiring ATP hydrolysis by the structural maintenance of chromosome (SMC) ATPase subunit JetC, suggesting that the complex could use DNA loop extrusion to sense its substrate's topology, then specifically activate the nuclease subunit JetD to cleave plasmid DNA. Overall, our data reveal how bacteria have co-opted a DNA maintenance machine to specifically recognize and destroy foreign DNAs through topology sensing.
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- Amar Deep
- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
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Bacterial Membrane Vesicles as a Novel Strategy for Extrusion of Antimicrobial Bismuth Drug in Helicobacter pylori. mBio 2022; 13:e0163322. [PMID: 36154274 PMCID: PMC9601102 DOI: 10.1128/mbio.01633-22] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Bacterial antibiotic resistance is a major threat to human health. A combination of antibiotics with metals is among the proposed alternative treatments. Only one such combination is successfully used in clinics; it associates antibiotics with the metal bismuth to treat infections by Helicobacter pylori. This bacterial pathogen colonizes the human stomach and is associated with gastric cancer, killing 800,000 individuals yearly. The effect of bismuth in H. pylori treatment is not well understood in particular for sublethal doses such as those measured in the plasma of treated patients. We addressed this question and observed that bismuth induces the formation of homogeneously sized membrane vesicles (MVs) with unique protein cargo content enriched in bismuth-binding proteins, as shown by quantitative proteomics. Purified MVs of bismuth-exposed bacteria were strongly enriched in bismuth as measured by inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES), unlike bacterial cells from which they originate. Thus, our results revealed a novel function of MVs in bismuth detoxification, where secreted MVs act as tool to discard bismuth from the bacteria. Bismuth also induces the formation of intracellular polyphosphate granules that are associated with changes in nucleoid structure. Nucleoid compaction in response to bismuth was established by immunogold electron microscopy and refined by the first chromosome conformation capture (Hi-C) analysis of H. pylori. Our results reveal that even low doses of bismuth induce profound changes in H. pylori physiology and highlight a novel defense mechanism that involves MV-mediated bismuth extrusion from the bacteria and a probable local DNA protective response where polyphosphate granules are associated with nucleoid compaction.
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Mirny L, Dekker J. Mechanisms of Chromosome Folding and Nuclear Organization: Their Interplay and Open Questions. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol 2022; 14:a040147. [PMID: 34518339 PMCID: PMC9248823 DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a040147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Microscopy and genomic approaches provide detailed descriptions of the three-dimensional folding of chromosomes and nuclear organization. The fundamental question is how activity of molecules at the nanometer scale can lead to complex and orchestrated spatial organization at the scale of chromosomes and the whole nucleus. At least three key mechanisms can bridge across scales: (1) tethering of specific loci to nuclear landmarks leads to massive reorganization of the nucleus; (2) spatial compartmentalization of chromatin, which is driven by molecular affinities, results in spatial isolation of active and inactive chromatin; and (3) loop extrusion activity of SMC (structural maintenance of chromosome) complexes can explain many features of interphase chromatin folding and underlies key phenomena during mitosis. Interestingly, many features of chromosome organization ultimately result from collective action and the interplay between these mechanisms, and are further modulated by transcription and topological constraints. Finally, we highlight some outstanding questions that are critical for our understanding of nuclear organization and function. We believe many of these questions can be answered in the coming years.
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- Leonid Mirny
- Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, and Department of Physics, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Program in Systems Biology, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts 01605, USA
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Chromosome organization affects genome evolution in Sulfolobus archaea. Nat Microbiol 2022; 7:820-830. [PMID: 35618771 DOI: 10.1038/s41564-022-01127-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2021] [Accepted: 04/21/2022] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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In all organisms, the DNA sequence and the structural organization of chromosomes affect gene expression. The extremely thermophilic crenarchaeon Sulfolobus has one circular chromosome with three origins of replication. We previously revealed that this chromosome has defined A and B compartments that have high and low gene expression, respectively. As well as higher levels of gene expression, the A compartment contains the origins of replication. To evaluate the impact of three-dimensional organization on genome evolution, we characterized the effect of replication origins and compartmentalization on primary sequence evolution in eleven Sulfolobus species. Using single-nucleotide polymorphism analyses, we found that distance from an origin of replication was associated with increased mutation rates in the B but not in the A compartment. The enhanced polymorphisms distal to replication origins suggest that replication termination may have a causal role in their generation. Further mutational analyses revealed that the sequences in the A compartment are less likely to be mutated, and that there is stronger purifying selection than in the B compartment. Finally, we applied the Assay for Transposase-Accessible Chromatin using sequencing (ATAC-seq) to show that the B compartment is less accessible than the A compartment. Taken together, our data suggest that compartmentalization of chromosomal DNA can influence chromosome evolution in Sulfolobus. We propose that the A compartment serves as a haven for stable maintenance of gene sequences, while sequences in the B compartment can be diversified.
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Possoz C, Yamaichi Y, Galli E, Ferat JL, Barre FX. Vibrio cholerae Chromosome Partitioning without Polar Anchoring by HubP. Genes (Basel) 2022; 13:genes13050877. [PMID: 35627261 PMCID: PMC9140986 DOI: 10.3390/genes13050877] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2022] [Revised: 05/10/2022] [Accepted: 05/11/2022] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Partition systems are widespread among bacterial chromosomes. They are composed of two effectors, ParA and ParB, and cis acting sites, parS, located close to the replication origin of the chromosome (oriC). ParABS participate in chromosome segregation, at least in part because they serve to properly position sister copies of oriC. A fourth element, located at cell poles, is also involved in some cases, such as HubP for the ParABS1 system of Vibrio cholerae chromosome 1 (ch1). The polar anchoring of oriC of ch1 (oriC1) is lost when HubP or ParABS1 are inactivated. Here, we report that in the absence of HubP, ParABS1 actively maintains oriC1 at mid-cell, leading to the subcellular separation of the two ch1 replication arms. We further show that parS1 sites ectopically inserted in chromosome 2 (ch2) stabilize the inheritance of this replicon in the absence of its endogenous partition system, even without HubP. We also observe the positioning interference between oriC1 and oriC of ch2 regions when their positionings are both driven by ParABS1. Altogether, these data indicate that ParABS1 remains functional in the absence of HubP, which raises questions about the role of the polar anchoring of oriC1 in the cell cycle.
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Conformation and dynamic interactions of the multipartite genome in Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2022; 119:2115854119. [PMID: 35101983 PMCID: PMC8833148 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2115854119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/20/2021] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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How bacteria with multipartite genomes organize and segregate their DNA is poorly understood. Here, we investigate a prototypical multipartite genome in the plant pathogen Agrobacterium tumefaciens. We identify previously unappreciated interreplicon interactions: the four replicons cluster through interactions at their centromeres, and the two chromosomes, one circular and one linear, interact along their replication arms. Our data suggest that these interreplicon contacts play critical roles in the organization and maintenance of multipartite genomes. Bacterial species from diverse phyla contain multiple replicons, yet how these multipartite genomes are organized and segregated during the cell cycle remains poorly understood. Agrobacterium tumefaciens has a 2.8-Mb circular chromosome (Ch1), a 2.1-Mb linear chromosome (Ch2), and two large plasmids (pAt and pTi). We used this alpha proteobacterium as a model to investigate the global organization and temporal segregation of a multipartite genome. Using chromosome conformation capture assays, we demonstrate that both the circular and the linear chromosomes, but neither of the plasmids, have their left and right arms juxtaposed from their origins to their termini, generating interarm interactions that require the broadly conserved structural maintenance of chromosomes complex. Moreover, our study revealed two types of interreplicon interactions: “ori-ori clustering” in which the replication origins of all four replicons interact, and “Ch1-Ch2 alignment” in which the arms of Ch1 and Ch2 interact linearly along their lengths. We show that the centromeric proteins (ParB1 for Ch1 and RepBCh2 for Ch2) are required for both types of interreplicon contacts. Finally, using fluorescence microscopy, we validated the clustering of the origins and observed their frequent colocalization during segregation. Altogether, our findings provide a high-resolution view of the conformation of a multipartite genome. We hypothesize that intercentromeric contacts promote the organization and maintenance of diverse replicons.
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Zhao H, Clevenger AL, Coburn PS, Callegan MC, Rybenkov V. Condensins are essential for Pseudomonas aeruginosa corneal virulence through their control of lifestyle and virulence programs. Mol Microbiol 2022; 117:937-957. [PMID: 35072315 PMCID: PMC9512581 DOI: 10.1111/mmi.14883] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2021] [Revised: 01/20/2022] [Accepted: 01/20/2022] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a significant opportunistic pathogen responsible for numerous human infections. Its high pathogenicity resides in a diverse array of virulence factors and an ability to adapt to hostile environments. We report that these factors are tied to the activity of condensins, SMC and MksBEF, which primarily function in structural chromosome maintenance. This study revealed that both proteins are required for P. aeruginosa virulence during corneal infection. The reduction in virulence was traced to broad changes in gene expression. Transcriptional signatures of smc and mksB mutants were largely dissimilar and non-additive, with the double mutant displaying a distinct gene expression profile. Affected regulons included those responsible for lifestyle control, primary metabolism, surface adhesion and biofilm growth, iron and sulfur assimilation, and numerous virulence factors, including type 3 and type 6 secretion systems. The in vitro phenotypes of condensin mutants mirrored their transcriptional profiles and included impaired production and secretion of multiple virulence factors, growth deficiencies under nutrient limiting conditions, and altered c-di-GMP signaling. Notably, c-di-GMP mediated some but not all transcriptional responses of the mutants. Thus, condensins are integrated into the control of multiple genetic programs related to epigenetic and virulent behavior of P. aeruginosa.
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- Hang Zhao
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma, 101 Stephenson Parkway, Norman, OK, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma, 101 Stephenson Parkway, Norman, OK, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology, the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, 608 Stanton L. Young Blvd, Oklahoma City, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology, the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, 608 Stanton L. Young Blvd, Oklahoma City, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma, 101 Stephenson Parkway, Norman, OK, USA
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Dugar G, Hofmann A, Heermann DW, Hamoen LW. A chromosomal loop anchor mediates bacterial genome organization. Nat Genet 2022; 54:194-201. [PMID: 35075232 DOI: 10.1038/s41588-021-00988-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2021] [Accepted: 11/19/2021] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Nucleoprotein complexes play an integral role in genome organization of both eukaryotes and prokaryotes. Apart from their role in locally structuring and compacting DNA, several complexes are known to influence global organization by mediating long-range anchored chromosomal loop formation leading to spatial segregation of large sections of DNA. Such megabase-range interactions are ubiquitous in eukaryotes, but have not been demonstrated in prokaryotes. Here, using a genome-wide sedimentation-based approach, we found that a transcription factor, Rok, forms large nucleoprotein complexes in the bacterium Bacillus subtilis. Using chromosome conformation capture and live-imaging of DNA loci, we show that these complexes robustly interact with each other over large distances. Importantly, these Rok-dependent long-range interactions lead to anchored chromosomal loop formation, thereby spatially isolating large sections of DNA, as previously observed for insulator proteins in eukaryotes.
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- Gaurav Dugar
- Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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- Institute for Theoretical Physics, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institute for Theoretical Physics, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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Qian JW, Wang XY, Deng K, Li DF, Guo L. Crystal structure of the chromosome partition protein MukE homodimer. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2021; 589:229-233. [PMID: 34929446 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2021.12.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2021] [Revised: 12/08/2021] [Accepted: 12/12/2021] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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The SMC (structural maintenance of chromosomes) proteins are known to be involved in chromosome pairing or aggregation and play an important role in cell cycle and division. Different from SMC-ScpAB complex maintaining chromosome structure in most bacteria, the MukB-MukE-MukF complex is responsible for chromosome condensation in E. coli and some γ-proteobacter. Though different models were proposed to illustrate the mechanism of how the MukBEF complex worked, the assembly of the MukBEF complex is a key. The MukE dimer interacted with the middle region of one MukF molecule, and was clamped by the N- and C-terminal domain of the latter, and then was involved in the interaction with the head domain of MukB. To reveal the structural basis of MukE involved in the dynamic equilibrium of potential different MukBEF assemblies, we determined the MukE structure at 2.44 Å resolution. We found that the binding cavity for the α10, β4 and β5 of MukF (residues 296-327) in the MukE dimer has been occupied by the α9 and β7 strand of MukE. We proposed that the highly dynamic C-terminal region (173-225) was important for the MukE-F assembly and then involved in the MukBEF complex formation.
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- Jia-Wei Qian
- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China; College of Life and Health Sciences, Northeastern University, Shenyang, 110169, China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Basic Medicine, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan, 442000, China
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- Reproductive Medicine Center, Renmin Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan, 442000, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China; College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China; College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China.
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Lioy VS, Lorenzi JN, Najah S, Poinsignon T, Leh H, Saulnier C, Aigle B, Lautru S, Thibessard A, Lespinet O, Leblond P, Jaszczyszyn Y, Gorrichon K, Varoquaux N, Junier I, Boccard F, Pernodet JL, Bury-Moné S. Dynamics of the compartmentalized Streptomyces chromosome during metabolic differentiation. Nat Commun 2021; 12:5221. [PMID: 34471117 PMCID: PMC8410849 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-25462-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2021] [Accepted: 07/21/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Bacteria of the genus Streptomyces are prolific producers of specialized metabolites, including antibiotics. The linear chromosome includes a central region harboring core genes, as well as extremities enriched in specialized metabolite biosynthetic gene clusters. Here, we show that chromosome structure in Streptomyces ambofaciens correlates with genetic compartmentalization during exponential phase. Conserved, large and highly transcribed genes form boundaries that segment the central part of the chromosome into domains, whereas the terminal ends tend to be transcriptionally quiescent compartments with different structural features. The onset of metabolic differentiation is accompanied by a rearrangement of chromosome architecture, from a rather 'open' to a 'closed' conformation, in which highly expressed specialized metabolite biosynthetic genes form new boundaries. Thus, our results indicate that the linear chromosome of S. ambofaciens is partitioned into structurally distinct entities, suggesting a link between chromosome folding, gene expression and genome evolution.
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- Virginia S Lioy
- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, TIMC-IMAG, Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, TIMC-IMAG, Grenoble, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
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Anchimiuk A, Lioy VS, Bock FP, Minnen A, Boccard F, Gruber S. A low Smc flux avoids collisions and facilitates chromosome organization in Bacillus subtilis. eLife 2021; 10:65467. [PMID: 34346312 PMCID: PMC8357415 DOI: 10.7554/elife.65467] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2020] [Accepted: 07/28/2021] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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SMC complexes are widely conserved ATP-powered DNA-loop-extrusion motors indispensable for organizing and faithfully segregating chromosomes. How SMC complexes translocate along DNA for loop extrusion and what happens when two complexes meet on the same DNA molecule is largely unknown. Revealing the origins and the consequences of SMC encounters is crucial for understanding the folding process not only of bacterial, but also of eukaryotic chromosomes. Here, we uncover several factors that influence bacterial chromosome organization by modulating the probability of such clashes. These factors include the number, the strength, and the distribution of Smc loading sites, the residency time on the chromosome, the translocation rate, and the cellular abundance of Smc complexes. By studying various mutants, we show that these parameters are fine-tuned to reduce the frequency of encounters between Smc complexes, presumably as a risk mitigation strategy. Mild perturbations hamper chromosome organization by causing Smc collisions, implying that the cellular capacity to resolve them is limited. Altogether, we identify mechanisms that help to avoid Smc collisions and their resolution by Smc traversal or other potentially risky molecular transactions.
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- Anna Anchimiuk
- Department of Fundamental Microbiology, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Department of Fundamental Microbiology, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Department of Fundamental Microbiology, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Since the nucleoid was isolated from bacteria in the 1970s, two fundamental questions emerged and are still in the spotlight: how bacteria organize their chromosomes to fit inside the cell and how nucleoid organization enables essential biological processes. During the last decades, knowledge of bacterial chromosome organization has advanced considerably, and today, such chromosomes are considered to be highly organized and dynamic structures that are shaped by multiple factors in a multiscale manner. Here we review not only the classical well-known factors involved in chromosome organization but also novel components that have recently been shown to dynamically shape the 3D structuring of the bacterial genome. We focus on the different functional elements that control short-range organization and describe how they collaborate in the establishment of the higher-order folding and disposition of the chromosome. Recent advances have opened new avenues for a deeper understanding of the principles and mechanisms of chromosome organization in bacteria. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Microbiology, Volume 75 is October 2021. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.
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- Virginia S Lioy
- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France;
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, TIMC-IMAG, 38000 Grenoble, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France;
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Brandão HB, Ren Z, Karaboja X, Mirny LA, Wang X. DNA-loop-extruding SMC complexes can traverse one another in vivo. Nat Struct Mol Biol 2021; 28:642-651. [PMID: 34312537 DOI: 10.1038/s41594-021-00626-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2020] [Accepted: 06/17/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Chromosome organization mediated by structural maintenance of chromosomes (SMC) complexes is vital in many organisms. SMC complexes act as motors that extrude DNA loops, but it remains unclear what happens when multiple complexes encounter one another on the same DNA in living cells and how these interactions may help to organize an active genome. We therefore created a crash-course track system to study SMC complex encounters in vivo by engineering defined SMC loading sites in the Bacillus subtilis chromosome. Chromosome conformation capture (Hi-C) analyses of over 20 engineered strains show an amazing variety of chromosome folding patterns. Through three-dimensional polymer simulations and theory, we determine that these patterns require SMC complexes to bypass each other in vivo, as recently seen in an in vitro study. We posit that the bypassing activity enables SMC complexes to avoid traffic jams while spatially organizing the genome.
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- Hugo B Brandão
- Graduate Program in Biophysics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
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- Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
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- Graduate Program in Biophysics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. .,Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
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- Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA.
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Gilbert BR, Thornburg ZR, Lam V, Rashid FZM, Glass JI, Villa E, Dame RT, Luthey-Schulten Z. Generating Chromosome Geometries in a Minimal Cell From Cryo-Electron Tomograms and Chromosome Conformation Capture Maps. Front Mol Biosci 2021; 8:644133. [PMID: 34368224 PMCID: PMC8339304 DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2021.644133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2020] [Accepted: 05/14/2021] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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JCVI-syn3A is a genetically minimal bacterial cell, consisting of 493 genes and only a single 543 kbp circular chromosome. Syn3A’s genome and physical size are approximately one-tenth those of the model bacterial organism Escherichia coli’s, and the corresponding reduction in complexity and scale provides a unique opportunity for whole-cell modeling. Previous work established genome-scale gene essentiality and proteomics data along with its essential metabolic network and a kinetic model of genetic information processing. In addition to that information, whole-cell, spatially-resolved kinetic models require cellular architecture, including spatial distributions of ribosomes and the circular chromosome’s configuration. We reconstruct cellular architectures of Syn3A cells at the single-cell level directly from cryo-electron tomograms, including the ribosome distributions. We present a method of generating self-avoiding circular chromosome configurations in a lattice model with a resolution of 11.8 bp per monomer on a 4 nm cubic lattice. Realizations of the chromosome configurations are constrained by the ribosomes and geometry reconstructed from the tomograms and include DNA loops suggested by experimental chromosome conformation capture (3C) maps. Using ensembles of simulated chromosome configurations we predict chromosome contact maps for Syn3A cells at resolutions of 250 bp and greater and compare them to the experimental maps. Additionally, the spatial distributions of ribosomes and the DNA-crowding resulting from the individual chromosome configurations can be used to identify macromolecular structures formed from ribosomes and DNA, such as polysomes and expressomes.
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- Benjamin R Gilbert
- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
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- Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States
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- Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands.,Center for Microbial Cell Biology, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands
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- Synthetic Biology Group, J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, CA, United States
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- Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States
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- Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands.,Center for Microbial Cell Biology, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
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