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Norris V, Kayser C, Muskhelishvili G, Konto-Ghiorghi Y. The roles of nucleoid-associated proteins and topoisomerases in chromosome structure, strand segregation, and the generation of phenotypic heterogeneity in bacteria. FEMS Microbiol Rev 2023; 47:fuac049. [PMID: 36549664 DOI: 10.1093/femsre/fuac049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2022] [Revised: 12/06/2022] [Accepted: 12/21/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
Abstract
How to adapt to a changing environment is a fundamental, recurrent problem confronting cells. One solution is for cells to organize their constituents into a limited number of spatially extended, functionally relevant, macromolecular assemblies or hyperstructures, and then to segregate these hyperstructures asymmetrically into daughter cells. This asymmetric segregation becomes a particularly powerful way of generating a coherent phenotypic diversity when the segregation of certain hyperstructures is with only one of the parental DNA strands and when this pattern of segregation continues over successive generations. Candidate hyperstructures for such asymmetric segregation in prokaryotes include those containing the nucleoid-associated proteins (NAPs) and the topoisomerases. Another solution to the problem of creating a coherent phenotypic diversity is by creating a growth-environment-dependent gradient of supercoiling generated along the replication origin-to-terminus axis of the bacterial chromosome. This gradient is modulated by transcription, NAPs, and topoisomerases. Here, we focus primarily on two topoisomerases, TopoIV and DNA gyrase in Escherichia coli, on three of its NAPs (H-NS, HU, and IHF), and on the single-stranded binding protein, SSB. We propose that the combination of supercoiling-gradient-dependent and strand-segregation-dependent topoisomerase activities result in significant differences in the supercoiling of daughter chromosomes, and hence in the phenotypes of daughter cells.
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- Vic Norris
- University of Rouen, Laboratory of Bacterial Communication and Anti-infection Strategies, EA 4312, 76821 Mont Saint Aignan, France
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- University of Rouen, Laboratory of Bacterial Communication and Anti-infection Strategies, EA 4312, 76821 Mont Saint Aignan, France
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- Agricultural University of Georgia, School of Natural Sciences, 0159 Tbilisi, Georgia
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- University of Rouen, Laboratory of Bacterial Communication and Anti-infection Strategies, EA 4312, 76821 Mont Saint Aignan, France
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Abbas Z, Rehman MU, Tayara H, Chong KT. ORI-Explorer: a unified cell-specific tool for origin of replication sites prediction by feature fusion. Bioinformatics 2023; 39:btad664. [PMID: 37929975 PMCID: PMC10639035 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btad664] [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: 06/30/2023] [Revised: 09/20/2023] [Accepted: 10/27/2023] [Indexed: 11/07/2023] Open
Abstract
MOTIVATION The origins of replication sites (ORIs) are precise regions inside the DNA sequence where the replication process begins. These locations are critical for preserving the genome's integrity during cell division and guaranteeing the faithful transfer of genetic data from generation to generation. The advent of experimental techniques has aided in the discovery of ORIs in many species. Experimentation, on the other hand, is often more time-consuming and pricey than computational approaches, and it necessitates specific equipment and knowledge. Recently, ORI sites have been predicted using computational techniques like motif-based searches and artificial intelligence algorithms based on sequence characteristics and chromatin states. RESULTS In this article, we developed ORI-Explorer, a unique artificial intelligence-based technique that combines multiple feature engineering techniques to train CatBoost Classifier for recognizing ORIs from four distinct eukaryotic species. ORI-Explorer was created by utilizing a unique combination of three traditional feature-encoding techniques and a feature set obtained from a deep-learning neural network model. The ORI-Explorer has significantly outperformed current predictors on the testing dataset. Furthermore, by employing the sophisticated SHapley Additive exPlanation method, we give crucial insights that aid in comprehending model success, highlighting the most relevant features vital for forecasting cell-specific ORIs. ORI-Explorer is also intended to aid community-wide attempts in discovering potential ORIs and developing innovative verifiable biological hypotheses. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION The used datasets along with the source code are made available through https://github.com/Z-Abbas/ORI-Explorer and https://zenodo.org/record/8358679.
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- Zeeshan Abbas
- Department of Electronics and Information Engineering, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju 54896, South Korea
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- Khalifa University Center for Autonomous Robotic Systems (KUCARS), Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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- School of International Engineering and Science, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju 54896, South Korea
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- Department of Electronics and Information Engineering, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju 54896, South Korea
- Advances Electronics and Information Research Center, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju 54896, South Korea
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Shahid M, Ilyas M, Hussain W, Khan YD. ORI-Deep: improving the accuracy for predicting origin of replication sites by using a blend of features and long short-term memory network. Brief Bioinform 2022; 23:6511972. [PMID: 35048955 DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbac001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2021] [Revised: 12/30/2021] [Accepted: 01/02/2022] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Abstract
Replication of DNA is an important process for the cell division cycle, gene expression regulation and other biological evolution processes. It also has a crucial role in a living organism's physical growth and structure. Replication of DNA comprises of three stages known as initiation, elongation and termination, whereas the origin of replication sites (ORI) is the location of initiation of the DNA replication process. There exist various methodologies to identify ORIs in the genomic sequences, however, these methods have used either extensive computations for execution, or have limited optimization for the large datasets. Herein, a model called ORI-Deep is proposed to identify ORIs from the multiple cell type genomic sequence benchmark data. An efficient method is proposed using a deep neural network to identify ORIs for four different eukaryotic species. For better representation of data, a feature vector is constructed using statistical moments for the training and testing of data and is further fed to a long short-term memory (LSTM) network. To prove the effectiveness of the proposed model, we applied several validation techniques at different levels to obtain seven accuracy metrics, and the accuracy score for self-consistency, 10-fold cross-validation, jackknife and the independent set test is observed to be 0.977, 0.948, 0.976 and 0.977, respectively. Based on the results, it can be concluded that ORI-Deep can efficiently predict the sites of origin replication in DNA sequence with high accuracy. Webserver for ORI-Deep is available at (https://share.streamlit.io/waqarhusain/orideep/main/app.py), whereas source code is available at (https://github.com/WaqarHusain/OriDeep).
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- Mahwish Shahid
- School of Systems and Technologies, University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan
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- University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan
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- University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan
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Wu F, Yang R, Zhang C, Zhang L. A deep learning framework combined with word embedding to identify DNA replication origins. Sci Rep 2021; 11:844. [PMID: 33436981 PMCID: PMC7804333 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-80670-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [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: 10/23/2020] [Accepted: 12/24/2020] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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The DNA replication influences the inheritance of genetic information in the DNA life cycle. As the distribution of replication origins (ORIs) is the major determinant to precisely regulate the replication process, the correct identification of ORIs is significant in giving an insightful understanding of DNA replication mechanisms and the regulatory mechanisms of genetic expressions. For eukaryotes in particular, multiple ORIs exist in each of their gene sequences to complete the replication in a reasonable period of time. To simplify the identification process of eukaryote's ORIs, most of existing methods are developed by traditional machine learning algorithms, and target to the gene sequences with a fixed length. Consequently, the identification results are not satisfying, i.e. there is still great room for improvement. To break through the limitations in previous studies, this paper develops sequence segmentation methods, and employs the word embedding technique, 'Word2vec', to convert gene sequences into word vectors, thereby grasping the inner correlations of gene sequences with different lengths. Then, a deep learning framework to perform the ORI identification task is constructed by a convolutional neural network with an embedding layer. On the basis of the analysis of similarity reduction dimensionality diagram, Word2vec can effectively transform the inner relationship among words into numerical feature. For four species in this study, the best models are obtained with the overall accuracy of 0.975, 0.765, 0.885, 0.967, the Matthew's correlation coefficient of 0.940, 0.530, 0.771, 0.934, and the AUC of 0.975, 0.800, 0.888, 0.981, which indicate that the proposed predictor has a stable ability and provide a high confidence coefficient to classify both of ORIs and non-ORIs. Compared with state-of-the-art methods, the proposed predictor can achieve ORI identification with significant improvement. It is therefore reasonable to anticipate that the proposed method will make a useful high throughput tool for genome analysis.
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- Feng Wu
- School of Mechanical, Electrical and Information Engineering, Shandong University at Weihai, Weihai, 264200, China
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- School of Mechanical, Electrical and Information Engineering, Shandong University at Weihai, Weihai, 264200, China.
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- School of Mechanical, Electrical and Information Engineering, Shandong University at Weihai, Weihai, 264200, China
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- School of Mechanical, Electrical and Information Engineering, Shandong University at Weihai, Weihai, 264200, China
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Konto-Ghiorghi Y, Norris V. Hypothesis: nucleoid-associated proteins segregate with a parental DNA strand to generate coherent phenotypic diversity. Theory Biosci 2020; 140:17-25. [PMID: 33095418 DOI: 10.1007/s12064-020-00323-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2020] [Accepted: 10/12/2020] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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The generation of a phenotypic diversity that is coherent across a bacterial population is a fundamental problem. We propose here that the DNA strand-specific segregation of certain nucleoid-associated proteins or NAPs results in these proteins being asymmetrically distributed to the daughter cells. We invoke a variety of mechanisms as responsible for this asymmetrical segregation including those based on differences between the leading and lagging strands, post-translational modifications, oligomerisation and association with membrane domains.
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- Yoan Konto-Ghiorghi
- Laboratory of Microbiology Signals and Microenvironment, EA 4312, University of Rouen, 76821, Mont Saint Aignan, France
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- Laboratory of Microbiology Signals and Microenvironment, EA 4312, University of Rouen, 76821, Mont Saint Aignan, France.
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Dao FY, Lv H, Zulfiqar H, Yang H, Su W, Gao H, Ding H, Lin H. A computational platform to identify origins of replication sites in eukaryotes. Brief Bioinform 2020; 22:1940-1950. [PMID: 32065211 DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbaa017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2020] [Revised: 01/30/2020] [Accepted: 01/31/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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The locations of the initiation of genomic DNA replication are defined as origins of replication sites (ORIs), which regulate the onset of DNA replication and play significant roles in the DNA replication process. The study of ORIs is essential for understanding the cell-division cycle and gene expression regulation. Accurate identification of ORIs will provide important clues for DNA replication research and drug development by developing computational methods. In this paper, the first integrated predictor named iORI-Euk was built to identify ORIs in multiple eukaryotes and multiple cell types. In the predictor, seven eukaryotic (Homo sapiens, Mus musculus, Drosophila melanogaster, Arabidopsis thaliana, Pichia pastoris, Schizosaccharomyces pombe and Kluyveromyces lactis) ORI data was collected from public database to construct benchmark datasets. Subsequently, three feature extraction strategies which are k-mer, binary encoding and combination of k-mer and binary were used to formulate DNA sequence samples. We also compared the different classification algorithms' performance. As a result, the best results were obtained by using support vector machine in 5-fold cross-validation test and independent dataset test. Based on the optimal model, an online web server called iORI-Euk (http://lin-group.cn/server/iORI-Euk/) was established for the novel ORI identification.
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- Fu-Ying Dao
- Center for Informational Biology at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
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- Center for Informational Biology at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
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- Center for Informational Biology at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
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- Center for Informational Biology at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
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- Center for Informational Biology at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
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- Center for Informational Biology at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
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- Center for Informational Biology at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
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- Center for Informational Biology at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
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