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Chase SK, Snyder JC. ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Turriviridae 2024. J Gen Virol 2024; 105:002000. [PMID: 38959058 PMCID: PMC11316562 DOI: 10.1099/jgv.0.002000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2024] [Accepted: 05/29/2024] [Indexed: 07/04/2024] Open
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The family Turriviridae includes viruses with a dsDNA genome of 16-17 kbp. Virions are spherical with a diameter of approximately 75 nm and comprise a host-derived internal lipid membrane surrounded by a proteinaceous capsid shell. Members of the family Turriviridae infect extremophilic archaea of the genera Sulfolobus and Saccharolobus. Viral infection results in cell lysis for Sulfolobus turreted icosahedral virus 1 infection but other members of the family can be temperate. This is a summary of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) Report on the family Turriviridae, which is available at ictv.global/report/turriviridae.
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- Sydnie K. Chase
- Department of Biological Sciences, Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona, CA 91768, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona, CA 91768, USA
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Overton MS, Manuel RD, Lawrence CM, Snyder JC. Viruses of the Turriviridae: an emerging model system for studying archaeal virus-host interactions. Front Microbiol 2023; 14:1258997. [PMID: 37808280 PMCID: PMC10551542 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1258997] [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: 07/14/2023] [Accepted: 09/04/2023] [Indexed: 10/10/2023] Open
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Viruses have played a central role in the evolution and ecology of cellular life since it first arose. Investigations into viral molecular biology and ecological dynamics have propelled abundant progress in our understanding of living systems, including genetic inheritance, cellular signaling and trafficking, and organismal development. As well, the discovery of viral lineages that infect members of all three domains suggest that these lineages originated at the earliest stages of biological evolution. Research into these viruses is helping to elucidate the conditions under which life arose, and the dynamics that directed its early development. Archaeal viruses have only recently become a subject of intense study, but investigations have already produced intriguing and exciting results. STIV was originally discovered in Yellowstone National Park and has been the focus of concentrated research. Through this research, a viral genetic system was created, a novel lysis mechanism was discovered, and the interaction of the virus with cellular ESCRT machinery was revealed. This review will summarize the discoveries within this group of viruses and will also discuss future work.
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- Michael S. Overton
- Department of Biological Sciences, Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona, CA, United States
- Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona, CA, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona, CA, United States
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Gophna U, Altman-Price N. Horizontal Gene Transfer in Archaea-From Mechanisms to Genome Evolution. Annu Rev Microbiol 2022; 76:481-502. [PMID: 35667126 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-micro-040820-124627] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Archaea remains the least-studied and least-characterized domain of life despite its significance not just to the ecology of our planet but also to the evolution of eukaryotes. It is therefore unsurprising that research into horizontal gene transfer (HGT) in archaea has lagged behind that of bacteria. Indeed, several archaeal lineages may owe their very existence to large-scale HGT events, and thus understanding both the molecular mechanisms and the evolutionary impact of HGT in archaea is highly important. Furthermore, some mechanisms of gene exchange, such as plasmids that transmit themselves via membrane vesicles and the formation of cytoplasmic bridges that allows transfer of both chromosomal and plasmid DNA, may be archaea specific. This review summarizes what we know about HGT in archaea, and the barriers that restrict it, highlighting exciting recent discoveries and pointing out opportunities for future research. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Microbiology, Volume 76 is September 2022. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.
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- Uri Gophna
- The Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel; ,
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- The Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel; , .,Department of Natural and Life Sciences, The Open University of Israel, Raanana, Israel
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DeWerff SJ, Zhang C, Schneider J, Whitaker RJ. Intraspecific antagonism through viral toxin encoded by chronic Sulfolobus spindle-shaped virus. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2022; 377:20200476. [PMID: 34839697 PMCID: PMC8628083 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0476] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2021] [Accepted: 08/24/2021] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Virus-host interactions evolve along a symbiosis continuum from antagonism to mutualism. Long-term associations between virus and host, such as those in chronic infection, will select for traits that drive the interaction towards mutualism, especially when susceptible hosts are rare in the population. Virus-host mutualism has been demonstrated in thermophilic archaeal populations where Sulfolobus spindle-shaped viruses (SSVs) provide a competitive advantage to their host Sulfolobus islandicus by producing a toxin that kills uninfected strains. Here, we determine the genetic basis of this killing phenotype by identifying highly transcribed genes in cells that are chronically infected with a diversity of SSVs. We demonstrate that these genes alone confer growth inhibition by being expressed in uninfected cells via a Sulfolobus expression plasmid. Challenge of chronically infected strains with vector-expressed toxins revealed a nested network of cross-toxicity among divergent SSVs, with both broad and specific toxin efficacies. This suggests that competition between viruses and/or their hosts could maintain toxin diversity. We propose that competitive interactions among chronic viruses to promote their host fitness form the basis of virus-host mutualism. This article is part of the theme issue 'The secret lives of microbial mobile genetic elements'.
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- Samantha J. DeWerff
- Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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Louca S. The rates of global bacterial and archaeal dispersal. THE ISME JOURNAL 2022; 16:159-167. [PMID: 34282284 PMCID: PMC8692594 DOI: 10.1038/s41396-021-01069-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2021] [Revised: 06/28/2021] [Accepted: 07/12/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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The phylogenetic resolution at which microorganisms display geographic endemism, the rates at which they disperse at global scales, and the role of humans on global microbial dispersal are largely unknown. Answering these questions is necessary for interpreting microbial biogeography, ecology, and macroevolution and for predicting the spread of emerging pathogenic strains. To resolve these questions, I analyzed the geographic and evolutionary relationships between 36,795 bacterial and archaeal ("prokaryotic") genomes from ∼7000 locations around the world. I find clear signs of continental-scale endemism, including strong correlations between phylogenetic divergence and geographic distance. However, the phylogenetic scale at which endemism generally occurs is extremely small, and most "species" (defined by an average nucleotide identity ≥ 95%) and even closely related strains (average nucleotide identity ≥ 99.9%) are globally distributed. Human-associated lineages display faster dispersal rates than other terrestrial lineages; the average net distance between any two human-associated cell lineages diverging 50 years ago is roughly 580 km. These results suggest that many previously reported global-scale microbial biogeographical patterns are likely the result of recent or current environmental filtering rather than geographic endemism. For human-associated lineages, estimated transition rates between Europe and North America are particularly high, and much higher than for non-human associated terrestrial lineages, highlighting the role that human movement plays in global microbial dispersal. Dispersal was slowest for hot spring- and terrestrial subsurface-associated lineages, indicating that these environments may act as "isolated islands" of microbial evolution.
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- Stilianos Louca
- Department of Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA.
- Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA.
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Evolutionary stasis of a deep subsurface microbial lineage. THE ISME JOURNAL 2021; 15:2830-2842. [PMID: 33824425 PMCID: PMC8443664 DOI: 10.1038/s41396-021-00965-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2020] [Revised: 02/26/2021] [Accepted: 03/15/2021] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Sulfate-reducing bacteria Candidatus Desulforudis audaxviator (CDA) were originally discovered in deep fracture fluids accessed via South African gold mines and have since been found in geographically widespread deep subsurface locations. In order to constrain models for subsurface microbial evolution, we compared CDA genomes from Africa, North America and Eurasia using single cell genomics. Unexpectedly, 126 partial single amplified genomes from the three continents, a complete genome from of an isolate from Eurasia, and metagenome-assembled genomes from Africa and Eurasia shared >99.2% average nucleotide identity, low frequency of SNP's, and near-perfectly conserved prophages and CRISPRs. Our analyses reject sample cross-contamination, recent natural dispersal, and unusually strong purifying selection as likely explanations for these unexpected results. We therefore conclude that the analyzed CDA populations underwent only minimal evolution since their physical separation, potentially as far back as the breakup of Pangea between 165 and 55 Ma ago. High-fidelity DNA replication and repair mechanisms are the most plausible explanation for the highly conserved genome of CDA. CDA presents a stark contrast to the current model organisms in microbial evolutionary studies, which often develop adaptive traits over far shorter periods of time.
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Banerjee R, Chaudhari NM, Lahiri A, Gautam A, Bhowmik D, Dutta C, Chattopadhyay S, Huson DH, Paul S. Interplay of Various Evolutionary Modes in Genome Diversification and Adaptive Evolution of the Family Sulfolobaceae. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:639995. [PMID: 34248865 PMCID: PMC8267890 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.639995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2020] [Accepted: 05/06/2021] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Sulfolobaceae family, comprising diverse thermoacidophilic and aerobic sulfur-metabolizing Archaea from various geographical locations, offers an ideal opportunity to infer the evolutionary dynamics across the members of this family. Comparative pan-genomics coupled with evolutionary analyses has revealed asymmetric genome evolution within the Sulfolobaceae family. The trend of genome streamlining followed by periods of differential gene gains resulted in an overall genome expansion in some species of this family, whereas there was reduction in others. Among the core genes, both Sulfolobus islandicus and Saccharolobus solfataricus showed a considerable fraction of positively selected genes and also higher frequencies of gene acquisition. In contrast, Sulfolobus acidocaldarius genomes experienced substantial amount of gene loss and strong purifying selection as manifested by relatively lower genome size and higher genome conservation. Central carbohydrate metabolism and sulfur metabolism coevolved with the genome diversification pattern of this archaeal family. The autotrophic CO2 fixation with three significant positively selected enzymes from S. islandicus and S. solfataricus was found to be more imperative than heterotrophic CO2 fixation for Sulfolobaceae. Overall, our analysis provides an insight into the interplay of various genomic adaptation strategies including gene gain-loss, mutation, and selection influencing genome diversification of Sulfolobaceae at various taxonomic levels and geographical locations.
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- Rachana Banerjee
- Structural Biology and Bioinformatics Division, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata, India
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- Structural Biology and Bioinformatics Division, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata, India
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- Structural Biology and Bioinformatics Division, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata, India
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, India
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- Structural Biology and Bioinformatics Division, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata, India
- Department of Pharmacoinformatics, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Kolkata, India
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- Structural Biology and Bioinformatics Division, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata, India
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, India
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- Structural Biology and Bioinformatics Division, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata, India
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- JIS Institute of Advanced Studies and Research, JIS University, Kolkata, India
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- Institute for Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- Cluster of Excellence: Controlling Microbes to Fight Infection, Tübingen, Germany
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- Structural Biology and Bioinformatics Division, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata, India
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, India
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Hoetzinger M, Pitt A, Huemer A, Hahn MW. Continental-Scale Gene Flow Prevents Allopatric Divergence of Pelagic Freshwater Bacteria. Genome Biol Evol 2021; 13:6126423. [PMID: 33674852 PMCID: PMC7936036 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evab019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 01/25/2021] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Allopatric divergence is one of the principal mechanisms for speciation of macro-organisms. Microbes by comparison are assumed to disperse more freely and to be less limited by dispersal barriers. However, thermophilic prokaryotes restricted to geothermal springs have shown clear signals of geographic isolation, but robust studies on this topic for microbes with less strict habitat requirements are scarce. Furthermore, it has only recently been recognized that homologous recombination among conspecific individuals provides species coherence in a wide range of prokaryotes. Recombination barriers thus may define prokaryotic species boundaries, yet, the extent to which geographic distance between populations gives rise to such barriers is an open question. Here, we investigated gene flow and population structure in a widespread species of pelagic freshwater bacteria, Polynucleobacter paneuropaeus. Through comparative genomics of 113 conspecific strains isolated from freshwater lakes and ponds located across a North–South range of more than 3,000 km, we were able to reconstruct past gene flow events. The species turned out to be highly recombinogenic as indicated by significant signs of gene transfer and extensive genome mosaicism. Although genomic differences increased with spatial distance on a regional scale (<170 km), such correlations were mostly absent on larger scales up to 3,400 km. We conclude that allopatric divergence in European P. paneuropaeus is minor, and that effective gene flow across the sampled geographic range in combination with a high recombination efficacy maintains species coherence.
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- Matthias Hoetzinger
- Research Department for Limnology, University of Innsbruck, Mondseestrasse 9, A-5310 Mondsee, Austria.,Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala SE-75651, Sweden
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- Research Department for Limnology, University of Innsbruck, Mondseestrasse 9, A-5310 Mondsee, Austria
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- Research Department for Limnology, University of Innsbruck, Mondseestrasse 9, A-5310 Mondsee, Austria
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- Research Department for Limnology, University of Innsbruck, Mondseestrasse 9, A-5310 Mondsee, Austria
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Moulana A, Anderson RE, Fortunato CS, Huber JA. Selection Is a Significant Driver of Gene Gain and Loss in the Pangenome of the Bacterial Genus Sulfurovum in Geographically Distinct Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents. mSystems 2020; 5:e00673-19. [PMID: 32291353 PMCID: PMC7159903 DOI: 10.1128/msystems.00673-19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2019] [Accepted: 03/30/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Microbial genomes have highly variable gene content, and the evolutionary history of microbial populations is shaped by gene gain and loss mediated by horizontal gene transfer and selection. To evaluate the influence of selection on gene content variation in hydrothermal vent microbial populations, we examined 22 metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) (70 to 97% complete) from the ubiquitous vent Epsilonbacteraeota genus Sulfurovum that were recovered from two deep-sea hydrothermal vent regions, Axial Seamount in the northeastern Pacific Ocean (13 MAGs) and the Mid-Cayman Rise in the Caribbean Sea (9 MAGs). Genes involved in housekeeping functions were highly conserved across Sulfurovum lineages. However, genes involved in environment-specific functions, and in particular phosphate regulation, were found mostly in Sulfurovum genomes from the Mid-Cayman Rise in the low-phosphate Atlantic Ocean environment, suggesting that nutrient limitation is an important selective pressure for these bacteria. Furthermore, genes that were rare within the pangenome were more likely to undergo positive selection than genes that were highly conserved in the pangenome, and they also appeared to have experienced gene-specific sweeps. Our results suggest that selection is a significant driver of gene gain and loss for dominant microbial lineages in hydrothermal vents and highlight the importance of factors like nutrient limitation in driving microbial adaptation and evolution.IMPORTANCE Microbes can alter their gene content through the gain and loss of genes. However, there is some debate as to whether natural selection or neutral processes play a stronger role in molding the gene content of microbial genomes. In this study, we examined variation in gene content for the Epsilonbacteraeota genus Sulfurovum from deep-sea hydrothermal vents, which are dynamic habitats known for extensive horizontal gene transfer within microbial populations. Our results show that natural selection is a strong driver of Sulfurovum gene content and that nutrient limitation in particular has shaped the Sulfurovum genome, leading to differences in gene content between ocean basins. Our results also suggest that recently acquired genes undergo stronger selection than genes that were acquired in the more distant past. Overall, our results highlight the importance of natural selection in driving the evolution of microbial populations in these dynamic habitats.
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- Alief Moulana
- Biology Department, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, USA
- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Biology Department, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, USA
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- Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA
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An anti-CRISPR viral ring nuclease subverts type III CRISPR immunity. Nature 2020; 577:572-575. [PMID: 31942067 PMCID: PMC6986909 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1909-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 26.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2019] [Accepted: 11/14/2019] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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The CRISPR system in bacteria and archaea provides adaptive immunity against mobile genetic elements. Type III CRISPR systems detect viral RNA, resulting in the activation of two regions of the Cas10 protein: an HD nuclease domain (which degrades viral DNA)1,2 and a cyclase domain (which synthesizes cyclic oligoadenylates from ATP)3-5. Cyclic oligoadenylates in turn activate defence enzymes with a CRISPR-associated Rossmann fold domain6, sculpting a powerful antiviral response7-10 that can drive viruses to extinction7,8. Cyclic nucleotides are increasingly implicated in host-pathogen interactions11-13. Here we identify a new family of viral anti-CRISPR (Acr) enzymes that rapidly degrade cyclic tetra-adenylate (cA4). The viral ring nuclease AcrIII-1 is widely distributed in archaeal and bacterial viruses and in proviruses. The enzyme uses a previously unknown fold to bind cA4 specifically, and a conserved active site to rapidly cleave this signalling molecule, allowing viruses to neutralize the type III CRISPR defence system. The AcrIII-1 family has a broad host range, as it targets cA4 signalling molecules rather than specific CRISPR effector proteins. Our findings highlight the crucial role of cyclic nucleotide signalling in the conflict between viruses and their hosts.
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Pietrasiak N, Osorio-Santos K, Shalygin S, Martin MP, Johansen JR. When Is A Lineage A Species? A Case Study In Myxacorys gen. nov. (Synechococcales: Cyanobacteria) With The Description of Two New Species From The Americas. JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY 2019; 55:976-996. [PMID: 31233617 DOI: 10.1111/jpy.12897] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2018] [Accepted: 06/05/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Soil cyanobacteria are crucial components of biological soil crusts and carry out many functions in dryland ecosystems. Despite this importance, their taxonomy and population genetics remain poorly known. We isolated 42 strains of simple filamentous cyanobacteria previously identified as Pseudophormidium hollerbachianum from 26 desert locations in the North and South America and characterized these strains using a total evidence approach, that is, using both morphological and molecular data to arrive at taxonomic decisions. Based on a phylogenetic analysis of 16S rRNA gene sequences, we propose and characterize Myxacorys gen. nov. with two new species Myxacorys chilensis, the generitype, and M. californica. We also found distinct 16S-23S ITS sequence variability within species in our dataset. Especially interesting was the presence of two distinct lineages of M. californica obtained from locations in close spatial proximity (within a few meters to kilometers from each other) suggesting niche differentiation. The detection of such unrecognized lineage-level variability in soil cyanobacteria has important implications for biocrust restoration practices and conservation efforts.
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- Nicole Pietrasiak
- Plant and Environmental Sciences Department, New Mexico State University, 945 College Drive., Las Cruces, New Mexico, 88003, USA
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- Department of Comparative Biology, Faculty of Science, Universidad Nacional Autonóma de México, Coyoacán, Distrito Federal, 04510, México
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- Plant and Environmental Sciences Department, New Mexico State University, 945 College Drive., Las Cruces, New Mexico, 88003, USA
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- Department of Biology, John Carroll University, University Heights, Ohio, 44118, USA
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- Department of Biology, John Carroll University, University Heights, Ohio, 44118, USA
- Department of Botany, Faculty of Sciences, University of South Bohemia, Branišovská 31, České Budějovice, 370 05, Czech Republic
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Liu Y, Brandt D, Ishino S, Ishino Y, Koonin EV, Kalinowski J, Krupovic M, Prangishvili D. New archaeal viruses discovered by metagenomic analysis of viral communities in enrichment cultures. Environ Microbiol 2019; 21:2002-2014. [PMID: 30451355 PMCID: PMC11128462 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.14479] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2018] [Revised: 11/07/2018] [Accepted: 11/10/2018] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Viruses infecting hyperthermophilic archaea of the phylum Crenarchaeota display enormous morphological and genetic diversity, and are classified into 12 families. Eight of these families include only one or two species, indicating sparse sampling of the crenarchaeal virus diversity. In an attempt to expand the crenarchaeal virome, we explored virus diversity in the acidic, hot spring Umi Jigoku in Beppu, Japan. Environmental samples were used to establish enrichment cultures under conditions favouring virus replication. The host diversity in the enrichment cultures was restricted to members of the order Sulfolobales. Metagenomic sequencing of the viral communities yielded seven complete or near-complete double-stranded DNA virus genomes. Six of these genomes could be attributed to polyhedral and filamentous viruses that were observed by electron microscopy in the enrichment cultures. Two icosahedral viruses represented species in the family Portogloboviridae. Among the filamentous viruses, two were identified as new species in the families Rudiviridae and Lipothrixviridae, whereas two other formed a group seemingly distinct from the known virus genera. No particle morphotype could be unequivocally assigned to the seventh viral genome, which apparently represents a new virus type. Our results suggest that filamentous viruses are globally distributed and are prevalent virus types in extreme geothermal environments.
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- Ying Liu
- Department of Microbiology, BMGE, Institut Pasteur, Paris 75015, France
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- Center for Biotechnology, Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld 33615, Germany
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- Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Graduate School of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
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- Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Graduate School of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Center for Biotechnology, Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld 33615, Germany
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- Department of Microbiology, BMGE, Institut Pasteur, Paris 75015, France
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Pauly MD, Bautista MA, Black JA, Whitaker RJ. Diversified local CRISPR-Cas immunity to viruses of Sulfolobus islandicus. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2019; 374:20180093. [PMID: 30905292 PMCID: PMC6452263 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2018.0093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 01/29/2019] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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The population diversity and structure of CRISPR-Cas immunity provides key insights into virus-host interactions. Here, we examined two geographically and genetically distinct natural populations of the thermophilic crenarchaeon Sulfolobus islandicus and their interactions with Sulfolobus spindle-shaped viruses (SSVs) and S. islandicus rod-shaped viruses (SIRVs). We found that both virus families can be targeted with high population distributed immunity, whereby most immune strains target a virus using unique unshared CRISPR spacers. In Kamchatka, Russia, we observed high immunity to chronic SSVs that increases over time. In this context, we found that some SSVs had shortened genomes lacking genes that are highly targeted by the S. islandicus population, indicating a potential mechanism of immune evasion. By contrast, in Yellowstone National Park, we found high inter- and intra-strain immune diversity targeting lytic SIRVs and low immunity to chronic SSVs. In this population, we observed evidence of SIRVs evolving immunity through mutations concentrated in the first five bases of protospacers. These results indicate that diversity and structure of antiviral CRISPR-Cas immunity for a single microbial species can differ by both the population and virus type, and suggest that different virus families use different mechanisms to evade CRISPR-Cas immunity. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue 'The ecology and evolution of prokaryotic CRISPR-Cas adaptive immune systems'.
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- Matthew D. Pauly
- Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 601 South Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 601 South Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 601 South Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 601 South Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
- Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1206 West Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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Krupovic M, Makarova KS, Wolf YI, Medvedeva S, Prangishvili D, Forterre P, Koonin EV. Integrated mobile genetic elements in Thaumarchaeota. Environ Microbiol 2019; 21:2056-2078. [PMID: 30773816 PMCID: PMC6563490 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.14564] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2018] [Revised: 02/10/2019] [Accepted: 02/13/2019] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
Abstract
To explore the diversity of mobile genetic elements (MGE) associated with archaea of the phylum Thaumarchaeota, we exploited the property of most MGE to integrate into the genomes of their hosts. Integrated MGE (iMGE) were identified in 20 thaumarchaeal genomes amounting to 2 Mbp of mobile thaumarchaeal DNA. These iMGE group into five major classes: (i) proviruses, (ii) casposons, (iii) insertion sequence-like transposons, (iv) integrative-conjugative elements and (v) cryptic integrated elements. The majority of the iMGE belong to the latter category and might represent novel families of viruses or plasmids. The identified proviruses are related to tailed viruses of the order Caudovirales and to tailless icosahedral viruses with the double jelly-roll capsid proteins. The thaumarchaeal iMGE are all connected within a gene sharing network, highlighting pervasive gene exchange between MGE occupying the same ecological niche. The thaumarchaeal mobilome carries multiple auxiliary metabolic genes, including multicopper oxidases and ammonia monooxygenase subunit C (AmoC), and stress response genes, such as those for universal stress response proteins (UspA). Thus, iMGE might make important contributions to the fitness and adaptation of their hosts. We identified several iMGE carrying type I-B CRISPR-Cas systems and spacers matching other thaumarchaeal iMGE, suggesting antagonistic interactions between coexisting MGE and symbiotic relationships with the ir archaeal hosts.
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Affiliation(s)
- Mart Krupovic
- Institut Pasteur, Unité Biologie Moléculaire du Gène chez les Extrêmophiles, 75015, Paris, France
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
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- Institut Pasteur, Unité Biologie Moléculaire du Gène chez les Extrêmophiles, 75015, Paris, France.,Center of Life Sciences, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Skolkovo, Russia.,Sorbonne Université, Collège doctoral, 75005, Paris, France
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- Institut Pasteur, Unité Biologie Moléculaire du Gène chez les Extrêmophiles, 75015, Paris, France
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- Institut Pasteur, Unité Biologie Moléculaire du Gène chez les Extrêmophiles, 75015, Paris, France.,Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Univ. Paris- Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette cedex, Paris, France
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
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Microhomology-Mediated High-Throughput Gene Inactivation Strategy for the Hyperthermophilic Crenarchaeon Sulfolobus islandicus. Appl Environ Microbiol 2017; 84:AEM.02167-17. [PMID: 29030445 DOI: 10.1128/aem.02167-17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2017] [Accepted: 10/07/2017] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
Abstract
Sulfolobus islandicus is rapidly emerging as a model system for studying the biology and evolution within the TACK lineage of the archaeal domain. As the tree of life grows, identifying the cellular functions of genes within this lineage will have significant impacts on our understanding of the evolution of the last archaeal eukaryote common ancestor (LEACA) and the differentiation of archaea from eukaryotes during the evolution of the modern-day cell. To increase our understanding of this key archaeal organism, we report a novel high-throughput method for targeted gene inactivation in S. islandicus through one-step microhomology-directed homologous recombination (HR). We validated the efficacy of this approach by systematically deleting 21 individual toxin-antitoxin gene pairs and its application to delete chromosomal regions as large as 50 kb. Sequence analysis of 96 ArgD+ transformants showed that S. islandicus can effectively incorporate donor markers as short segments through HR in a continuous or discontinuous manner. We determined that the minimal size of homology allowing native argD marker replacement was as few as 10 bp, whereas argD marker replacement was frequently observed when increasing the size of homology to 30 to 50 bp. The microhomology-mediated gene inactivation system developed here will greatly facilitate isolation of S. islandicus gene deletion strains, making generation of a collection of genome-wide targeted mutants feasible and providing a tool to investigate homologous recombination in this organism.IMPORTANCE Current procedures for the construction of deletion mutants of S. islandicus are still tedious and time-consuming. We developed a novel procedure based on microhomology-mediated HR, allowing for rapid and efficient removal for genetic regions as large as 50 kb. Our work will greatly facilitate functional genomic studies in this promising model organism. Additionally, we developed a quantitative genetic assay to measure HR properties in S. islandicus, providing evidence that the ability to incorporate short, mismatched donor DNA into the genome through HR was probably a common trait for members of the Sulfolobus genus that are recombinogenic.
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Krupovic M, Cvirkaite-Krupovic V, Iranzo J, Prangishvili D, Koonin EV. Viruses of archaea: Structural, functional, environmental and evolutionary genomics. Virus Res 2017; 244:181-193. [PMID: 29175107 DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2017.11.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 139] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2017] [Revised: 11/20/2017] [Accepted: 11/20/2017] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Viruses of archaea represent one of the most enigmatic parts of the virosphere. Most of the characterized archaeal viruses infect extremophilic hosts and display remarkable diversity of virion morphotypes, many of which have never been observed among viruses of bacteria or eukaryotes. The uniqueness of the virion morphologies is matched by the distinctiveness of the genomes of these viruses, with ∼75% of genes encoding unique proteins, refractory to functional annotation based on sequence analyses. In this review, we summarize the state-of-the-art knowledge on various aspects of archaeal virus genomics. First, we outline how structural and functional genomics efforts provided valuable insights into the functions of viral proteins and revealed intricate details of the archaeal virus-host interactions. We then highlight recent metagenomics studies, which provided a glimpse at the diversity of uncultivated viruses associated with the ubiquitous archaea in the oceans, including Thaumarchaeota, Marine Group II Euryarchaeota, and others. These findings, combined with the recent discovery that archaeal viruses mediate a rapid turnover of thaumarchaea in the deep sea ecosystems, illuminate the prominent role of these viruses in the biosphere. Finally, we discuss the origins and evolution of archaeal viruses and emphasize the evolutionary relationships between viruses and non-viral mobile genetic elements. Further exploration of the archaeal virus diversity as well as functional studies on diverse virus-host systems are bound to uncover novel, unexpected facets of the archaeal virome.
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Affiliation(s)
- Mart Krupovic
- Department of Microbiology, Institut Pasteur, 25 rue du Dr. Roux, Paris 75015, Paris, France.
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, Institut Pasteur, 25 rue du Dr. Roux, Paris 75015, Paris, France
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, USA
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