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Wang Y, Yao L, Fan J, Zhao X, Zhang Q, Chen Y, Guo C. The Codon Usage Bias Analysis of Free-Living Ciliates' Macronuclear Genomes and Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats/Cas9 Vector Construction of Stylonychia lemnae. Front Microbiol 2022; 13:785889. [PMID: 35308388 PMCID: PMC8927777 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.785889] [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: 09/29/2021] [Accepted: 01/24/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Ciliates represent higher unicellular animals, and several species are also important model organisms for molecular biology research. Analyses of codon usage bias (CUB) of the macronuclear (MAC) genome in ciliates can not only promote a better understanding of the genetic mode and evolution history of these organisms but also help optimize codons to improve the gene editing efficiency of model ciliates. In this study, macronuclear genome sequences of nine free-living ciliates were analyzed with CodonW software to calculate the following indices: the guanine-cytosine content (GC); the frequency of the nucleotides U, C, A, and G at the third position of codons (U3s, C3s, A3s, G3s); the effective number of codons (ENC); the correlation between GC at the first and second positions (GC12); the frequency of the nucleotides G + C at the third position of synonymous codons (GC3s); the relative synonymous codon usage (RSCU). Parity rule 2 plot analysis, neutrality plot analysis, and correlation analysis were performed to explore the factors that influence codon preference. The results showed that the GC contents in nine ciliates' MAC genomes were lower than 50% and appeared AT-rich. The base compositions of GC12 and GC3s are markedly distinct and the codon usage pattern and evolution of ciliates are affected by genetic mutation and natural selection. According to the synonymous codon analysis, the codons of most ciliates ended with A or U and eight codons were the general optimal codons of nine ciliates. A clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats/Cas9 (CRISPR/Cas9) expression vector of Stylonychia lemnae was constructed by optimizing the macronuclear genome codon and was successfully used to knock out the Adss gene. This is the first such extensive investigation of the MAC genome CUB of ciliates and the initial successful application of the CRISPR/Cas9 technique in free-living ciliates.
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- Ying Wang
- Key Laboratory of Biodiversity of Aquatic Organisms, Harbin Normal University, Harbin, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biodiversity of Aquatic Organisms, Harbin Normal University, Harbin, China.,Key Laboratory of Molecular Cytogenetics and Genetic Breeding of Heilongjiang Province, Harbin, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biodiversity of Aquatic Organisms, Harbin Normal University, Harbin, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biodiversity of Aquatic Organisms, Harbin Normal University, Harbin, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biodiversity of Aquatic Organisms, Harbin Normal University, Harbin, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biodiversity of Aquatic Organisms, Harbin Normal University, Harbin, China.,School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), Shenzhen, China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Cytogenetics and Genetic Breeding of Heilongjiang Province, Harbin, China
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Khandazhinskaya AL, Matyugina ES, Alexandrova LA, Kezin VA, Chernousova LN, Smirnova TG, Andreevskaya SN, Popenko VI, Leonova OG, Kochetkov SN. Interaction of 5-substituted pyrimidine nucleoside analogues and M.Tuberculosis: A view through an electron microscope. Biochimie 2020; 171-172:170-177. [PMID: 32147512 DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2020.03.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2019] [Accepted: 03/03/2020] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
Abstract
The data of transmission electron microscopy (TEM) on morphology of M. tuberculosis H37Rv bacterial cells treated with four analogues of pyrimidine nucleosides with different substituents at 5 position of base are presented. We showed that the growth of M. tuberculosis H37Rv cells effectively inhibited by each of these compounds. This process is accompanied with the accumulation of lipid intracellular vacuole-like inclusions in the cells, appearance of deep protrusions and indentations on the surface, partial and/or complete destruction of the three-layered cell envelope. The exact molecular mechanism of action of 5-substituted pyrimidine nucleosides on M. tuberculosis cells remains to be proved. However, one can suggest that mechanism of action for these compounds is related either to their direct interactions with bacteria cell walls or to interactions with enzymes participating in the process of cell wall formation.
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- Anastasia L Khandazhinskaya
- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 32 Vavilov St., Moscow, 119991, Russia.
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- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 32 Vavilov St., Moscow, 119991, Russia.
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- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 32 Vavilov St., Moscow, 119991, Russia.
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- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 32 Vavilov St., Moscow, 119991, Russia
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- Central Tuberculosis Research Institute, 2 Yauzskaya Alley, Moscow, 107564, Russia.
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- Central Tuberculosis Research Institute, 2 Yauzskaya Alley, Moscow, 107564, Russia.
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- Central Tuberculosis Research Institute, 2 Yauzskaya Alley, Moscow, 107564, Russia.
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- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 32 Vavilov St., Moscow, 119991, Russia.
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- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 32 Vavilov St., Moscow, 119991, Russia.
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- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 32 Vavilov St., Moscow, 119991, Russia.
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Khandazhinskaya AL, Alexandrova LA, Matyugina ES, Solyev PN, Efremenkova OV, Buckheit KW, Wilkinson M, Buckheit RW, Chernousova LN, Smirnova TG, Andreevskaya SN, Leonova OG, Popenko VI, Kochetkov SN, Seley-Radtke KL. Novel 5'-Norcarbocyclic Pyrimidine Derivatives as Antibacterial Agents. Molecules 2018; 23:E3069. [PMID: 30477147 PMCID: PMC6321083 DOI: 10.3390/molecules23123069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2018] [Revised: 11/16/2018] [Accepted: 11/20/2018] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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A series of novel 5'-norcarbocyclic derivatives of 5-alkoxymethyl or 5-alkyltriazolyl-methyl uracil were synthesized and the activity of the compounds evaluated against both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. The growth of Mycobacterium smegmatis was completely inhibited by the most active compounds at a MIC99 of 67 μg/mL (mc²155) and a MIC99 of 6.7⁻67 μg/mL (VKPM Ac 1339). Several compounds also showed the ability to inhibit the growth of attenuated strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis ATCC 25177 (MIC99 28⁻61 μg/mL) and Mycobacterium bovis ATCC 35737 (MIC99 50⁻60 μg/mL), as well as two virulent strains of M. tuberculosis; a laboratory strain H37Rv (MIC99 20⁻50 μg/mL) and a clinical strain with multiple drug resistance MS-115 (MIC99 20⁻50 μg/mL). Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) evaluation of M. tuberculosis H37Rv bacterial cells treated with one of the compounds demonstrated destruction of the bacterial cell wall, suggesting that the mechanism of action for these compounds may be related to their interactions with bacteria cell walls.
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- Anastasia L Khandazhinskaya
- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 32 Vavilov St., Moscow 119991, Russia.
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- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 32 Vavilov St., Moscow 119991, Russia.
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- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 32 Vavilov St., Moscow 119991, Russia.
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- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 32 Vavilov St., Moscow 119991, Russia.
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- Gause Institute of New Antibiotics, 11 Bol'shaya Pirogovskaya St., Moscow 119021, Russia.
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- ImQuest BioSciences, 7340 Executive Way Suite R, Frederick, MD 21704, USA.
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- ImQuest BioSciences, 7340 Executive Way Suite R, Frederick, MD 21704, USA.
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- ImQuest BioSciences, 7340 Executive Way Suite R, Frederick, MD 21704, USA.
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- Central Tuberculosis Research Institute, 2 Yauzskaya Alley, Moscow 107564, Russia.
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- Central Tuberculosis Research Institute, 2 Yauzskaya Alley, Moscow 107564, Russia.
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- Central Tuberculosis Research Institute, 2 Yauzskaya Alley, Moscow 107564, Russia.
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- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 32 Vavilov St., Moscow 119991, Russia.
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- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 32 Vavilov St., Moscow 119991, Russia.
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- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 32 Vavilov St., Moscow 119991, Russia.
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Maryland, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA.
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Maurer-Alcalá XX, Yan Y, Pilling OA, Knight R, Katz LA. Twisted Tales: Insights into Genome Diversity of Ciliates Using Single-Cell 'Omics. Genome Biol Evol 2018; 10:1927-1939. [PMID: 29945193 PMCID: PMC6101598 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evy133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/25/2018] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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The emergence of robust single-cell 'omics techniques enables studies of uncultivable species, allowing for the (re)discovery of diverse genomic features. In this study, we combine single-cell genomics and transcriptomics to explore genome evolution in ciliates (a > 1 Gy old clade). Analysis of the data resulting from these single-cell 'omics approaches show: 1) the description of the ciliates in the class Karyorelictea as "primitive" is inaccurate because their somatic macronuclei contain loci of varying copy number (i.e., they have been processed by genome rearrangements from the zygotic nucleus); 2) gene-sized somatic chromosomes exist in the class Litostomatea, consistent with Balbiani's (1890) observation of giant chromosomes in this lineage; and 3) gene scrambling exists in the underexplored Postciliodesmatophora (the classes Heterotrichea and Karyorelictea, abbreviated here as the Po-clade), one of two major clades of ciliates. Together these data highlight the complex evolutionary patterns underlying germline genome architectures in ciliates and provide a basis for further exploration of principles of genome evolution in diverse microbial lineages.
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- Xyrus X Maurer-Alcalá
- Program in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, University of Massachusetts Amherst.,Department of Biological Sciences, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts.,Institute of Cell Biology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego, San Diego.,Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California San Diego, San Diego.,Center for Microbiome Innovation, University of California San Diego, San Diego
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- Program in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, University of Massachusetts Amherst.,Department of Biological Sciences, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts
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