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Yun S, Min J, Han S, Sim HS, Kim SK, Lee JB, Yoon JW, Yeom J, Park W. Experimental evolution under different nutritional conditions changes the genomic architecture and virulence of Acinetobacter baumannii. Commun Biol 2024; 7:1274. [PMID: 39369115 PMCID: PMC11455985 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-024-06978-w] [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: 01/14/2024] [Accepted: 09/27/2024] [Indexed: 10/07/2024] Open
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This study uncovers the molecular processes governing the adaptive evolution of multidrug-resistant (MDR) pathogens without antibiotic pressure. Genomic analysis of MDR Acinetobacter baumannii cells cultured for 8000 generations under starvation conditions (EAB1) or nutrient-rich conditions (EAB2) revealed significant genomic changes, primarily by insertion sequence (IS)-mediated insertions and deletions. Only two Acinetobacter-specific prophage-related deletions and translocations were observed in the EAB1 strain. Both evolved strains exhibited higher virulence in mouse infection studies, each with different modes of action. The EAB1 strain displayed a heightened ability to cross the epithelial barrier of human lung tissue, evade the immune system, and spread to lung tissues, ultimately resulting in cellular mortality. In contrast, the EAB2 strain strongly attached to epithelial cells, leading to increased synthesis of proinflammatory cytokines and chemokines. The genomic alterations and increased virulence observed in evolved strains during short-term evolution underscore the need for caution when handling these pathogens, as these risks persist even without antibiotic exposure.
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- Sohyeon Yun
- Laboratory of Molecular Environmental Microbiology, Department of Environmental Science and Ecological Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Laboratory of Molecular Environmental Microbiology, Department of Environmental Science and Ecological Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Laboratory of Molecular Environmental Microbiology, Department of Environmental Science and Ecological Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Department of Biomedical Science, and Cancer Research Institute, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Jongno-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- College of Veterinary Medicine & Institute of Veterinary Science, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Gangwon, Republic of Korea
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- College of Veterinary Medicine & Institute of Veterinary Science, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Gangwon, Republic of Korea
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- College of Veterinary Medicine & Institute of Veterinary Science, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Gangwon, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Department of Biomedical Science, and Cancer Research Institute, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Jongno-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
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- Laboratory of Molecular Environmental Microbiology, Department of Environmental Science and Ecological Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
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Root-Bernstein RS, Bernstein MI. 'Evolutionary poker': an agent-based model of interactome emergence and epistasis tested against Lenski's long-term E. coli experiments. J Physiol 2024; 602:2511-2535. [PMID: 37707489 DOI: 10.1113/jp284421] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2023] [Accepted: 08/23/2023] [Indexed: 09/15/2023] Open
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A simple agent-based model is presented that produces results matching the experimental data found by Lenski's group for ≤50,000 generations of Escherichia coli bacteria under continuous selective pressure. Although various mathematical models have been devised previously to model the Lenski data, the present model has advantages in terms of overall simplicity and conceptual accessibility. The model also clearly illustrates a number of features of the evolutionary process that are otherwise not obvious, such as the roles of epistasis and historical contingency in adaptation and why evolution is time irreversible ('Dollo's law'). The reason for this irreversibility is that genomes become increasingly integrated or organized, and this organization becomes a novel selective factor itself, against which future generations must compete. Selection for integrated or synergistic networks, systems or sets of mutations or traits, not for individual mutations, confers the main adaptive advantage. The result is a punctuated form of evolution that follows a logarithmic occurrence probability, in which evolution proceeds very quickly when interactomes begin to form but which slows as interactomes become more robust and the difficulty of integrating new mutations increases. Sufficient parameters exist in the game to suggest not only how equilibrium or stasis is reached but also the conditions in which it will be punctuated, the factors governing the rate at which genomic organization occurs and novel traits appear, and how population size, genome size and gene variability affect these.
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- Department of Physiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
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uz-Zaman MH, D’Alton S, Barrick JE, Ochman H. Promoter recruitment drives the emergence of proto-genes in a long-term evolution experiment with Escherichia coli. PLoS Biol 2024; 22:e3002418. [PMID: 38713714 PMCID: PMC11101190 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002418] [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: 10/18/2023] [Revised: 05/17/2024] [Accepted: 04/18/2024] [Indexed: 05/09/2024] Open
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The phenomenon of de novo gene birth-the emergence of genes from non-genic sequences-has received considerable attention due to the widespread occurrence of genes that are unique to particular species or genomes. Most instances of de novo gene birth have been recognized through comparative analyses of genome sequences in eukaryotes, despite the abundance of novel, lineage-specific genes in bacteria and the relative ease with which bacteria can be studied in an experimental context. Here, we explore the genetic record of the Escherichia coli long-term evolution experiment (LTEE) for changes indicative of "proto-genic" phases of new gene birth in which non-genic sequences evolve stable transcription and/or translation. Over the time span of the LTEE, non-genic regions are frequently transcribed, translated and differentially expressed, with levels of transcription across low-expressed regions increasing in later generations of the experiment. Proto-genes formed downstream of new mutations result either from insertion element activity or chromosomal translocations that fused preexisting regulatory sequences to regions that were not expressed in the LTEE ancestor. Additionally, we identified instances of proto-gene emergence in which a previously unexpressed sequence was transcribed after formation of an upstream promoter, although such cases were rare compared to those caused by recruitment of preexisting promoters. Tracing the origin of the causative mutations, we discovered that most occurred early in the history of the LTEE, often within the first 20,000 generations, and became fixed soon after emergence. Our findings show that proto-genes emerge frequently within evolving populations, can persist stably, and can serve as potential substrates for new gene formation.
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- Md. Hassan uz-Zaman
- Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America
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Li Z, Liu X, Ning N, Li T, Wang H. Diversity, Distribution, and Chromosomal Rearrangements of TRIP1 Repeat Sequences in Escherichia coli. Genes (Basel) 2024; 15:236. [PMID: 38397225 PMCID: PMC10888264 DOI: 10.3390/genes15020236] [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: 01/17/2024] [Revised: 02/07/2024] [Accepted: 02/10/2024] [Indexed: 02/25/2024] Open
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The bacterial genome contains numerous repeated sequences that greatly affect its genomic plasticity. The Escherichia coli K-12 genome contains three copies of the TRIP1 repeat sequence (TRIP1a, TRIP1b, and TRIP1c). However, the diversity, distribution, and role of the TRIP1 repeat sequence in the E. coli genome are still unclear. In this study, after screening 6725 E. coli genomes, the TRIP1 repeat was found in the majority of E. coli strains (96%: 6454/6725). The copy number and direction of the TRIP1 repeat sequence varied in each genome. Overall, 2449 genomes (36%: 2449/6725) had three copies of TRIP1 (TRIP1a, TRIP1b, and TRIP1c), which is the same as E. coli K-12. Five types of TRIP1 repeats, including two new types (TRIP1d and TRIP1e), are identified in E. coli genomes, located in 4703, 3529, 5741, 1565, and 232 genomes, respectively. Each type of TRIP1 repeat is localized to a specific locus on the chromosome. TRIP1 repeats can cause intra-chromosomal rearrangements. A total of 156 rearrangement events were identified, of which 88% (137/156) were between TRIP1a and TRIP1c. These findings have important implications for future research on TRIP1 repeats.
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- Zhan Li
- State Key Laboratory of Pathogens and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, No. 20 Dongda Street, Fengtai District, Beijing 100071, China; (Z.L.); (N.N.); (T.L.)
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- Chinese PLA Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Dongda Street 20#, Fengtai District, Beijing 100071, China;
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- State Key Laboratory of Pathogens and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, No. 20 Dongda Street, Fengtai District, Beijing 100071, China; (Z.L.); (N.N.); (T.L.)
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- State Key Laboratory of Pathogens and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, No. 20 Dongda Street, Fengtai District, Beijing 100071, China; (Z.L.); (N.N.); (T.L.)
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- State Key Laboratory of Pathogens and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, No. 20 Dongda Street, Fengtai District, Beijing 100071, China; (Z.L.); (N.N.); (T.L.)
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Couce A, Limdi A, Magnan M, Owen SV, Herren CM, Lenski RE, Tenaillon O, Baym M. Changing fitness effects of mutations through long-term bacterial evolution. Science 2024; 383:eadd1417. [PMID: 38271521 DOI: 10.1126/science.add1417] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2022] [Accepted: 12/12/2023] [Indexed: 01/27/2024]
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The distribution of fitness effects of new mutations shapes evolution, but it is challenging to observe how it changes as organisms adapt. Using Escherichia coli lineages spanning 50,000 generations of evolution, we quantify the fitness effects of insertion mutations in every gene. Macroscopically, the fraction of deleterious mutations changed little over time whereas the beneficial tail declined sharply, approaching an exponential distribution. Microscopically, changes in individual gene essentiality and deleterious effects often occurred in parallel; altered essentiality is only partly explained by structural variation. The identity and effect sizes of beneficial mutations changed rapidly over time, but many targets of selection remained predictable because of the importance of loss-of-function mutations. Taken together, these results reveal the dynamic-but statistically predictable-nature of mutational fitness effects.
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- Alejandro Couce
- Université Paris Cité and Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, Inserm, IAME, F-75018 Paris, France
- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK
- Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), 28223 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, and Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Université Paris Cité and Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, Inserm, IAME, F-75018 Paris, France
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, and Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, and Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
- Department of Marine and Environmental Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
- Program in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
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- Université Paris Cité and Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, Inserm, IAME, F-75018 Paris, France
- Université Paris Cité, Inserm, Institut Cochin, F-75014 Paris, France
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, and Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Zhang H, Hellweger FL, Luo H. Genome reduction occurred in early Prochlorococcus with an unusually low effective population size. THE ISME JOURNAL 2024; 18:wrad035. [PMID: 38365237 PMCID: PMC10837832 DOI: 10.1093/ismejo/wrad035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2023] [Revised: 12/14/2023] [Accepted: 12/20/2023] [Indexed: 02/18/2024]
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In the oligotrophic sunlit ocean, the most abundant free-living planktonic bacterial lineages evolve convergently through genome reduction. The cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus responsible for 10% global oxygen production is a prominent example. The dominant theory known as "genome streamlining" posits that they have extremely large effective population sizes (Ne) such that selection for metabolic efficiency acts to drive genome reduction. Because genome reduction largely took place anciently, this theory builds on the assumption that their ancestors' Ne was similarly large. Constraining Ne for ancient ancestors is challenging because experimental measurements of extinct organisms are impossible and alternatively reconstructing ancestral Ne with phylogenetic models gives large uncertainties. Here, we develop a new strategy that leverages agent-based modeling to simulate the changes in the genome-wide ratio of radical to conservative nonsynonymous nucleotide substitution rate (dR/dC) in a possible range of Ne in ancestral populations. This proxy shows expected increases with decreases of Ne only when Ne falls to about 10 k - 100 k or lower, magnitudes characteristic of Ne of obligate endosymbiont species where drift drives genome reduction. Our simulations therefore strongly support a scenario where the primary force of Prochlorococcus genome reduction is drift rather than selection.
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- Hao Zhang
- Simon F. S. Li Marine Science Laboratory, School of Life Sciences and State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, 999077, Hong Kong SAR
- Shenzhen Research Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, 518000, China
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- Water Quality Engineering, Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, 10623, Germany
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- Simon F. S. Li Marine Science Laboratory, School of Life Sciences and State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, 999077, Hong Kong SAR
- Institute of Environment, Energy and Sustainability, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, 999077, Hong Kong SAR
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Arai H, Watada M, Kageyama D. Two male-killing Wolbachia from Drosophila birauraia that are closely related but distinct in genome structure. ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE 2024; 11:231502. [PMID: 38204789 PMCID: PMC10776216 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.231502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2023] [Accepted: 12/11/2023] [Indexed: 01/12/2024]
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Insects harbour diverse maternally inherited bacteria and viruses, some of which have evolved to kill the male progeny of their hosts (male killing: MK). The fly species Drosophila biauraria carries a maternally transmitted MK-inducing partiti-like virus, but it was unknown if it carries other MK-inducing endosymbionts. Here, we identified two male-killing Wolbachia strains (wBiau1 and wBiau2) from D. biauraria and compared their genomes to elucidate their evolutionary processes. The two strains were genetically closely related but had exceptionally different genome structures with considerable rearrangements compared with combinations of other Wolbachia strains. Despite substantial changes in the genome structure, the two Wolbachia strains did not experience gene losses that would disrupt the male-killing expression or persistence in the host population. The two Wolbachia-infected matrilines carried distinct mitochondrial haplotypes, suggesting that wBiau1 and wBiau2 have invaded D. biauraria independently and undergone considerable genome changes owing to unknown selective pressures in evolutionary history. This study demonstrated the presence of three male-killers from two distinct origins in one fly species and highlighted the diverse and rapid genome evolution of MK Wolbachia in the host.
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- Hiroshi Arai
- National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO), 1-2 Owashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0851, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Ehime 780-8857, Japan
- Department of Biological Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University, 1-1 Minamiosawa, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-0397, Japan
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- National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO), 1-2 Owashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0851, Japan
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Uz-Zaman MH, D'Alton S, Barrick JE, Ochman H. Promoter capture drives the emergence of proto-genes in Escherichia coli. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.11.15.567300. [PMID: 38013999 PMCID: PMC10680751 DOI: 10.1101/2023.11.15.567300] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2023]
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The phenomenon of de novo gene birth-the emergence of genes from non-genic sequences-has received considerable attention due to the widespread occurrence of genes that are unique to particular species or genomes. Most instances of de novo gene birth have been recognized through comparative analyses of genome sequences in eukaryotes, despite the abundance of novel, lineage-specific genes in bacteria and the relative ease with which bacteria can be studied in an experimental context. Here, we explore the genetic record of the Escherichia coli Long-Term Evolution Experiment (LTEE) for changes indicative of "proto-genic" phases of new gene birth in which non-genic sequences evolve stable transcription and/or translation. Over the time-span of the LTEE, non-genic regions are frequently transcribed, translated and differentially expressed, thereby serving as raw material for new gene emergence. Most proto-genes result either from insertion element activity or chromosomal translocations that fused pre-existing regulatory sequences to regions that were not expressed in the LTEE ancestor. Additionally, we identified instances of proto-gene emergence in which a previously unexpressed sequence was transcribed after formation of an upstream promoter. Tracing the origin of the causative mutations, we discovered that most occurred early in the history of the LTEE, often within the first 20,000 generations, and became fixed soon after emergence. Our findings show that proto-genes emerge frequently within evolving populations, persist stably, and can serve as potential substrates for new gene formation.
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Horton JS, Taylor TB. Mutation bias and adaptation in bacteria. MICROBIOLOGY (READING, ENGLAND) 2023; 169:001404. [PMID: 37943288 PMCID: PMC10710837 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.001404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2023] [Accepted: 10/11/2023] [Indexed: 11/10/2023]
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Genetic mutation, which provides the raw material for evolutionary adaptation, is largely a stochastic force. However, there is ample evidence showing that mutations can also exhibit strong biases, with some mutation types and certain genomic positions mutating more often than others. It is becoming increasingly clear that mutational bias can play a role in determining adaptive outcomes in bacteria in both the laboratory and the clinic. As such, understanding the causes and consequences of mutation bias can help microbiologists to anticipate and predict adaptive outcomes. In this review, we provide an overview of the mechanisms and features of the bacterial genome that cause mutational biases to occur. We then describe the environmental triggers that drive these mechanisms to be more potent and outline the adaptive scenarios where mutation bias can synergize with natural selection to define evolutionary outcomes. We conclude by describing how understanding mutagenic genomic features can help microbiologists predict areas sensitive to mutational bias, and finish by outlining future work that will help us achieve more accurate evolutionary forecasts.
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- James S. Horton
- Milner Centre for Evolution, Department of Life Sciences, University of Bath, BA2 7AY, UK
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- Milner Centre for Evolution, Department of Life Sciences, University of Bath, BA2 7AY, UK
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Lin T, Pan J, Gregory C, Wang Y, Tincher C, Rivera C, Lynch M, Long H, Zhang Y. Contribution of the SOS response and the DNA repair systems to norfloxacin induced mutations in E. coli. MARINE LIFE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2023; 5:538-550. [PMID: 38045542 PMCID: PMC10689325 DOI: 10.1007/s42995-023-00185-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2022] [Accepted: 06/27/2023] [Indexed: 12/05/2023]
Abstract
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria severely threaten human health. Besides spontaneous mutations generated by endogenous factors, the resistance might also originate from mutations induced by certain antibiotics, such as the fluoroquinolones. Such antibiotics increase the genome-wide mutation rate by introducing replication errors from the SOS response pathway or decreasing the efficiency of the DNA repair systems. However, the relative contributions of these molecular mechanisms remain unclear, hindering understanding of the generation of resistant pathogens. Here, using newly-accumulated mutations of wild-type and SOS-uninducible Escherichia coli strains, as well as those of the strains deficient for the mismatch repair (MMR) and the oxidative damage repair pathways, we find that the SOS response is the major mutagenesis contributor in mutation elevation, responsible for ~ 30-50% of the total base-pair substitution (BPS) mutation-rate elevation upon treatment with sublethal levels of norfloxacin (0 ~ 50 ng/mL). We further estimate the significance of the effects on other mutational features of these mechanisms (i.e., transversions, structural variations, and mutation spectrum) in E. coli using linear models. The SOS response plays a positive role in all three mutational features (mutation rates of BPSs, transversions, structural variations) and affects the mutational spectrum. The repair systems significantly reduce the BPS mutation rate and the transversion rate, regardless of whether antibiotics are present, while significantly increasing the structural variation rate in E. coli. Our results quantitatively disentangle the contributions of the SOS response and DNA repair systems in antibiotic-induced mutagenesis. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s42995-023-00185-y.
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- Tongtong Lin
- Institute of Evolution and Marine Biodiversity, KLMME, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266003 China
- Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology, Laoshan Laboratory, Qingdao, 266237 China
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- Institute of Evolution and Marine Biodiversity, KLMME, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266003 China
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- Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, 47405 USA
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- Institute of Evolution and Marine Biodiversity, KLMME, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266003 China
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- Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, 47405 USA
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- Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, 47405 USA
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- Biodesign Center for Mechanisms of Evolution, Arizona State University, Tempe, 85281 USA
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- Institute of Evolution and Marine Biodiversity, KLMME, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266003 China
- Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology, Laoshan Laboratory, Qingdao, 266237 China
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- Institute of Evolution and Marine Biodiversity, KLMME, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266003 China
- School of Mathematics Science, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266000 China
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Clark C, Jonušas J, Mitchell JD, Francis A. An algebraic model for inversion and deletion in bacterial genome rearrangement. J Math Biol 2023; 87:34. [PMID: 37517046 PMCID: PMC10387463 DOI: 10.1007/s00285-023-01965-x] [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: 09/18/2022] [Revised: 07/03/2023] [Accepted: 07/08/2023] [Indexed: 08/01/2023]
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Inversions, also sometimes called reversals, are a major contributor to variation among bacterial genomes, with studies suggesting that those involving small numbers of regions are more likely than larger inversions. Deletions may arise in bacterial genomes through the same biological mechanism as inversions, and hence a model that incorporates both is desirable. However, while inversion distances between genomes have been well studied, there has yet to be a model which accounts for the combination of both deletions and inversions. To account for both of these operations, we introduce an algebraic model that utilises partial permutations. This leads to an algorithm for calculating the minimum distance to the most recent common ancestor of two bacterial genomes evolving by inversions (of adjacent regions) and deletions. The algebraic model makes the existing short inversion models more complete and realistic by including deletions, and also introduces new algebraic tools into evolutionary distance problems.
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- Chad Clark
- Centre for Research in Mathematics and Data Science, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, Australia.
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- Mathematical Institute, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK
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- Mathematical Institute, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK
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- Centre for Research in Mathematics and Data Science, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, Australia
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Smith WPJ, Wucher BR, Nadell CD, Foster KR. Bacterial defences: mechanisms, evolution and antimicrobial resistance. Nat Rev Microbiol 2023:10.1038/s41579-023-00877-3. [PMID: 37095190 DOI: 10.1038/s41579-023-00877-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 45.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 02/27/2023] [Indexed: 04/26/2023]
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Throughout their evolutionary history, bacteria have faced diverse threats from other microorganisms, including competing bacteria, bacteriophages and predators. In response to these threats, they have evolved sophisticated defence mechanisms that today also protect bacteria against antibiotics and other therapies. In this Review, we explore the protective strategies of bacteria, including the mechanisms, evolution and clinical implications of these ancient defences. We also review the countermeasures that attackers have evolved to overcome bacterial defences. We argue that understanding how bacteria defend themselves in nature is important for the development of new therapies and for minimizing resistance evolution.
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- William P J Smith
- Division of Genomics, Infection and Evolution, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
- Department of Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
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- Department of Biological sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
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- Department of Biological sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
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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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Lowrey LC, Kent LA, Rios BM, Ocasio AB, Cotter PA. An IS-mediated, RecA-dependent, bet-hedging strategy in Burkholderia thailandensis. eLife 2023; 12:e84327. [PMID: 36715687 PMCID: PMC9946442 DOI: 10.7554/elife.84327] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2022] [Accepted: 01/27/2023] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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Adaptation to fluctuating environmental conditions is difficult to achieve. Phase variation mechanisms can overcome this difficulty by altering genomic architecture in a subset of individuals, creating a phenotypically heterogeneous population with subpopulations optimized to persist when conditions change, or are encountered, suddenly. We have identified a phase variation system in Burkholderia thailandensis that generates a genotypically and phenotypically heterogeneous population. Genetic analyses revealed that RecA-mediated homologous recombination between a pair of insertion sequence (IS) 2-like elements duplicates a 208.6 kb region of DNA that contains 157 coding sequences. RecA-mediated homologous recombination also resolves merodiploids, and hence copy number of the region is varied and dynamic within populations. We showed that the presence of two or more copies of the region is advantageous for growth in a biofilm, and a single copy is advantageous during planktonic growth. While IS elements are well known to contribute to evolution through gene inactivation, polar effects on downstream genes, and altering genomic architecture, we believe that this system represents a rare example of IS element-mediated evolution in which the IS elements provide homologous sequences for amplification of a chromosomal region that provides a selective advantage under specific growth conditions, thereby expanding the lifestyle repertoire of the species.
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- Lillian C Lowrey
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillChapel HillUnited States
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillChapel HillUnited States
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillChapel HillUnited States
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillChapel HillUnited States
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillChapel HillUnited States
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Getting higher on rugged landscapes: Inversion mutations open access to fitter adaptive peaks in NK fitness landscapes. PLoS Comput Biol 2022; 18:e1010647. [PMID: 36315581 PMCID: PMC9648849 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010647] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2022] [Revised: 11/10/2022] [Accepted: 10/09/2022] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Molecular evolution is often conceptualised as adaptive walks on rugged fitness landscapes, driven by mutations and constrained by incremental fitness selection. It is well known that epistasis shapes the ruggedness of the landscape’s surface, outlining their topography (with high-fitness peaks separated by valleys of lower fitness genotypes). However, within the strong selection weak mutation (SSWM) limit, once an adaptive walk reaches a local peak, natural selection restricts passage through downstream paths and hampers any possibility of reaching higher fitness values. Here, in addition to the widely used point mutations, we introduce a minimal model of sequence inversions to simulate adaptive walks. We use the well known NK model to instantiate rugged landscapes. We show that adaptive walks can reach higher fitness values through inversion mutations, which, compared to point mutations, allows the evolutionary process to escape local fitness peaks. To elucidate the effects of this chromosomal rearrangement, we use a graph-theoretical representation of accessible mutants and show how new evolutionary paths are uncovered. The present model suggests a simple mechanistic rationale to analyse escapes from local fitness peaks in molecular evolution driven by (intragenic) structural inversions and reveals some consequences of the limits of point mutations for simulations of molecular evolution. Ninety years ago, Wright translated Darwin’s core idea of survival of the fittest into rugged landscapes—a highly influential metaphor—with peaks representing high values of fitness separated by valleys of lower fitness. In this picture, once a population has reached a local peak, the adaptive dynamics may stall as further adaptation requires crossing a valley. At the DNA level, adaptation is often modelled as a space of genotypes that is explored through point mutations. Therefore, once a local peak is reached, any genotype fitter than that of the peak will be away from the neighbourhood of genotypes accessible through point mutations. Here we present a simple computational model for inversion mutations, one of the most frequent structural variations, and show that adaptive processes in rugged landscapes can escape from local peaks through intragenic inversion mutations. This new escape mechanism reveals the innovative role of inversions at the DNA level and provides a step towards more realistic models of adaptive dynamics, beyond the dominance of point mutations in theories of molecular evolution.
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Thomas GH. Microbial Musings - Autumn 2022. MICROBIOLOGY (READING, ENGLAND) 2022; 168. [PMID: 36748692 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.001291] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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- Gavin H Thomas
- Department of Biology, University of York, Heslington, UK
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Le VVH, León-Quezada RI, Biggs PJ, Rakonjac J. A large chromosomal inversion affects antimicrobial sensitivity of Escherichia coli to sodium deoxycholate. MICROBIOLOGY (READING, ENGLAND) 2022; 168. [PMID: 35960647 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.001232] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Resistance to antimicrobials is normally caused by mutations in the drug targets or genes involved in antimicrobial activation or expulsion. Here we show that an Escherichia coli strain, named DOC14, selected for increased resistance to the bile salt sodium deoxycholate, has no mutations in any ORF, but instead has a 2.1 Mb chromosomal inversion. The breakpoints of the inversion are two inverted copies of an IS5 element. Besides lowering deoxycholate susceptibility, the IS5-mediated chromosomal inversion in the DOC14 mutant was found to increase bacterial survival upon exposure to ampicillin and vancomycin, and sensitize the cell to ciprofloxacin and meropenem, but does not affect bacterial growth or cell morphology in a rich medium in the absence of antibacterial molecules. Overall, our findings support the notion that a large chromosomal inversion can benefit bacterial cells under certain conditions, contributing to genetic variability available for selection during evolution. The DOC14 mutant paired with its isogenic parental strain form a useful model as bacterial ancestors in evolution experiments to study how a large chromosomal inversion influences the evolutionary trajectory in response to various environmental stressors.
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- Vuong Van Hung Le
- School of Natural Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand.,Maurice Wilkins Centre, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.,Present address: Section of Microbiology, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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- School of Natural Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand.,mEpiLab, Infectious Disease Research Centre, School of Veterinary Science, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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- School of Natural Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand.,Maurice Wilkins Centre, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Barker DF. A synergistic arrangement of two unrelated IS elements facilitates adjacent deletion in Micrococcus luteus ATCC49732. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2022; 369:6646518. [DOI: 10.1093/femsle/fnac062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2022] [Revised: 06/07/2022] [Accepted: 07/15/2022] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Mutants of M. luteus strain ATCC49732 lacking the yellow pigment sarcinaxanthin were observed at an unexpectedly high frequency and the molecular basis was investigated. PCR probing revealed complete deletion of the crt biosynthetic operon in 11/14 mutants. Inverse PCR was used to identify a common breakpoint 35 kb downstream from crt precisely at the end of the right inverted repeat (IRR) of a partial ISMlu8 element that lies between two inversely oriented full-length ISMlu2. Three different breakpoints 5′ to crt were found with the sequence CTAG one bp 5′ to each novel junction. Analysis of 35 genomic sites with single ISMlu8 insertions showed that ISMlu8 transposase has high specificity for CTAG, implicating its key role in formation of the Δcrt deletions. No downstream deletion endpoints were observed at an immediately adjacent ISMlu8 with a nearly identical IRR in the same orientation and slightly closer to the crt operon, indicating that access of ISMlu8 transposase to the ISMlu2-flanked ISMlu8 IRR is greatly enhanced by the surrounding inverted repeat arrangement. The association of high frequency genomic rearrangement with this distinctive natural configuration of ISs from two different IS families offers a new insight into IS element evolutionary potential.
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- David F Barker
- Department of Medical Laboratory Science, Bellarmine University , 2001 Newburg Road, Louisville, KY 40205 , USA
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Zhang Y, Chu H, Yu L, He F, Gao Y, Tang L. Analysis of the Taxonomy, Synteny, and Virulence Factors for Soft Rot Pathogen Pectobacterium aroidearum in Amorphophallus konjac Using Comparative Genomics. Front Microbiol 2022; 13:868709. [PMID: 35910650 PMCID: PMC9326479 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.868709] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2022] [Accepted: 06/13/2022] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
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Bacterial soft rot is a devastating disease for a wide range of crops, vegetables, and ornamental plants including konjac (Amorphophallus konjac). However, the pangenome and genomic plasticity of the konjac soft rot pathogens is little explored. In this study, we reported the complete genome sequences of 11 bacterial isolates that can cause typical soft rot symptoms in konjac by in vitro and in vivo pathogenicity tests. Based on in silico DNA-DNA hybridization, average nucleotide identity and phylogenomic analysis, all 11 isolates were determined to be Pectobacterium aroidearum. In addition, synteny analysis of these genomes revealed considerable chromosomal inversions, one of which is triggered by homologous recombination of ribose operon. Pangenome analysis and COG enrichment analysis showed that the pangenome of P. aroidearum is open and that accessory genes are enriched in replication, recombination, and repair. Variations in type IV secretion system and type VI secretion system were found, while plant cell wall degrading enzymes were conserved. Furthermore, sequence analyses also provided evidence for the presence of a type V secretion system in Pectobacterium. These findings advance our understanding of the pathogenicity determinants, genomic plasticity, and evolution of P. aroidearum.
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- Yanan Zhang
- College of Biological Resource and Food Engineering, Yunnan Engineering Research Center of Fruit Wine, Qujing Normal University, Qujing, China
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- College of Biological Resource and Food Engineering, Yunnan Engineering Research Center of Fruit Wine, Qujing Normal University, Qujing, China
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- College of Biological Resource and Food Engineering, Yunnan Engineering Research Center of Fruit Wine, Qujing Normal University, Qujing, China
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- School of Modern Agriculture and Biotechnology, Ankang University, Ankang, China
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- College of Biological Resource and Food Engineering, Yunnan Engineering Research Center of Fruit Wine, Qujing Normal University, Qujing, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, China
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Foster-Nyarko E, Pallen MJ. The microbial ecology of Escherichia coli in the vertebrate gut. FEMS Microbiol Rev 2022; 46:fuac008. [PMID: 35134909 PMCID: PMC9075585 DOI: 10.1093/femsre/fuac008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2021] [Revised: 01/31/2022] [Accepted: 02/01/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Escherichia coli has a rich history as biology's 'rock star', driving advances across many fields. In the wild, E. coli resides innocuously in the gut of humans and animals but is also a versatile pathogen commonly associated with intestinal and extraintestinal infections and antimicrobial resistance-including large foodborne outbreaks such as the one that swept across Europe in 2011, killing 54 individuals and causing approximately 4000 infections and 900 cases of haemolytic uraemic syndrome. Given that most E. coli are harmless gut colonizers, an important ecological question plaguing microbiologists is what makes E. coli an occasionally devastating pathogen? To address this question requires an enhanced understanding of the ecology of the organism as a commensal. Here, we review how our knowledge of the ecology and within-host diversity of this organism in the vertebrate gut has progressed in the 137 years since E. coli was first described. We also review current approaches to the study of within-host bacterial diversity. In closing, we discuss some of the outstanding questions yet to be addressed and prospects for future research.
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- Ebenezer Foster-Nyarko
- Quadram Institute Bioscience, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UQ, United Kingdom
- Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, United Kingdom
- Department of Infection Biology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, United Kingdom
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- Quadram Institute Bioscience, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UQ, United Kingdom
- School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7AL, United Kingdom
- School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7TU, United Kingdom
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Population size mediates the contribution of high-rate and large-benefit mutations to parallel evolution. Nat Ecol Evol 2022; 6:439-447. [PMID: 35241808 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-022-01669-3] [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: 01/11/2022] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Mutations with large fitness benefits and mutations occurring at high rates may both cause parallel evolution, but their contribution is predicted to depend on population size. Moreover, high-rate and large-benefit mutations may have different long-term adaptive consequences. We show that small and 100-fold larger bacterial populations evolve resistance to a β-lactam antibiotic by using similar numbers, but different types of mutations. Small populations frequently substitute similar high-rate structural variants and loss-of-function point mutations, including the deletion of a low-activity β-lactamase, and evolve modest resistance levels. Large populations more often use low-rate, large-benefit point mutations affecting the same targets, including mutations activating the β-lactamase and other gain-of-function mutations, leading to much higher resistance levels. Our results demonstrate the separation by clonal interference of mutation classes with divergent adaptive consequences, causing a shift from high-rate to large-benefit mutations with increases in population size.
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Balasubramanian D, López-Pérez M, Grant TA, Ogbunugafor CB, Almagro-Moreno S. Molecular mechanisms and drivers of pathogen emergence. Trends Microbiol 2022; 30:898-911. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2022.02.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2021] [Revised: 02/05/2022] [Accepted: 02/10/2022] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Lato DF, Zeng Q, Golding GB. Genomic inversions in Escherichia coli alter gene expression and are associated with nucleoid protein binding sites. Genome 2022; 65:287-299. [DOI: 10.1139/gen-2021-0102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Genomic reorganization, like rearrangements and inversions, influence how genetic information is organized within bacterial genomes. Inversions in particular, facilitate genome evolution through gene gain and loss, and can alter gene expression. Previous studies investigating the impact inversions have on gene expression induced inversions targeting specific genes or examine inversions between distantly related species. This fails to encompass a genome wide perspective on naturally occurring inversions and their post adaptation impact on gene expression. Here we use bioinformatic techniques and multiple RNA-seq datasets to investigate the short- and long-range impact inversions have on genomic gene expression within <i>Escherichia coli</i>. We observed differences in gene expression between homologous inverted and non-inverted genes, even after long term exposure to adaptive selection. In 4% of inversions representing 33 genes, differential gene expression between inverted and non-inverted homologs was detected, with nearly two thirds (71%) of differentially expressed inverted genes having 9.4-85.6 fold higher gene expression. The identified inversions had more overlap than expected with nucleoid associated protein binding sites, which assist in genomic gene expression regulation. Some inversions can drastically impact gene expression even between different strains of <i>E.coli</i>, and could provide a mechanism for the diversification of genetic content through controlled expression changes.
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- McMaster University, Department of Biology, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada,
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- McMaster University, Department of Biology, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, L8S 4K1,
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Kanai Y, Tsuru S, Furusawa C. OUP accepted manuscript. Nucleic Acids Res 2022; 50:1673-1686. [PMID: 35066585 PMCID: PMC8860574 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkac004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2021] [Revised: 12/23/2021] [Accepted: 01/11/2022] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Operons are a hallmark of the genomic and regulatory architecture of prokaryotes. However, the mechanism by which two genes placed far apart gradually come close and form operons remains to be elucidated. Here, we propose a new model of the origin of operons: Mobile genetic elements called insertion sequences can facilitate the formation of operons by consecutive insertion–deletion–excision reactions. This mechanism barely leaves traces of insertion sequences and thus difficult to detect in nature. In this study, as a proof-of-concept, we reproducibly demonstrated operon formation in the laboratory. The insertion sequence IS3 and the insertion sequence excision enhancer are genes found in a broad range of bacterial species. We introduced these genes into insertion sequence-less Escherichia coli and found that, supporting our hypothesis, the activity of the two genes altered the expression of genes surrounding IS3, closed a 2.7 kb gap between a pair of genes, and formed new operons. This study shows how insertion sequences can facilitate the rapid formation of operons through locally increasing the structural mutation rates and highlights how coevolution with mobile elements may shape the organization of prokaryotic genomes and gene regulation.
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- Yuki Kanai
- Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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- To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +81 3 5841 4229; Fax: +81 3 5841 4229;
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Deatherage DE, Barrick JE. High-throughput characterization of mutations in genes that drive clonal evolution using multiplex adaptome capture sequencing. Cell Syst 2021; 12:1187-1200.e4. [PMID: 34536379 DOI: 10.1016/j.cels.2021.08.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2021] [Revised: 07/14/2021] [Accepted: 08/20/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Understanding how cells are likely to evolve can guide medical interventions and bioengineering efforts that must contend with unwanted mutations. The adaptome of a cell-the neighborhood of genetic changes that are most likely to drive adaptation in a given environment-can be mapped by tracking rare beneficial variants during the early stages of clonal evolution. We used multiplex adaptome capture sequencing (mAdCap-seq), a procedure that combines unique molecular identifiers and hybridization-based enrichment, to characterize mutations in eight Escherichia coli genes known to be under selection in a laboratory environment. We tracked 301 mutations at frequencies as low as 0.01% and inferred the fitness effects of 240 of these mutations. There were distinct molecular signatures of selection on protein structure and function for the three genes with the most beneficial mutations. Our results demonstrate how mAdCap-seq can be used to deeply profile a targeted portion of a cell's adaptome.
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- Daniel E Deatherage
- Department of Molecular Biosciences, Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biosciences, Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA.
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Genomic evolution of antibiotic resistance is contingent on genetic background following a long-term experiment with Escherichia coli. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2021; 118:2016886118. [PMID: 33441451 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2016886118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Antibiotic resistance is a growing health concern. Efforts to control resistance would benefit from an improved ability to forecast when and how it will evolve. Epistatic interactions between mutations can promote divergent evolutionary trajectories, which complicates our ability to predict evolution. We recently showed that differences between genetic backgrounds can lead to idiosyncratic responses in the evolvability of phenotypic resistance, even among closely related Escherichia coli strains. In this study, we examined whether a strain's genetic background also influences the genotypic evolution of resistance. Do lineages founded by different genotypes take parallel or divergent mutational paths to achieve their evolved resistance states? We addressed this question by sequencing the complete genomes of antibiotic-resistant clones that evolved from several different genetic starting points during our earlier experiments. We first validated our statistical approach by quantifying the specificity of genomic evolution with respect to antibiotic treatment. As expected, mutations in particular genes were strongly associated with each drug. Then, we determined that replicate lines evolved from the same founding genotypes had more parallel mutations at the gene level than lines evolved from different founding genotypes, although these effects were more subtle than those showing antibiotic specificity. Taken together with our previous work, we conclude that historical contingency can alter both genotypic and phenotypic pathways to antibiotic resistance.
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Pang S, Daley DA, Sahibzada S, Mowlaboccus S, Stegger M, Coombs GW. Genome-wide association studies reveal candidate genes associated to bacteraemia caused by ST93-IV CA-MRSA. BMC Genomics 2021; 22:418. [PMID: 34090342 PMCID: PMC8180019 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-021-07738-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2020] [Accepted: 05/25/2021] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The global emergence of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) has seen the dominance of specific clones in different regions around the world with the PVL-positive ST93-IV as the predominant CA-MRSA clone in Australia. In this study we applied a genome-wide association study (GWAS) approach on a collection of Australian ST93-IV MRSA genomes to screen for genetic traits that might have assisted the ongoing transmission of ST93-IV in Australia. We also compared the genomes of ST93-IV bacteraemia and non-bacteraemia isolates to search for potential virulence genes associated with bacteraemia. RESULTS Based on single nucleotide polymorphism phylogenetics we revealed two distinct ST93-IV clades circulating concurrently in Australia. One of the clades contained isolates primarily isolated in the northern regions of Australia whilst isolates in the second clade were distributed across the country. Analyses of the ST93-IV genome plasticity over a 15-year period (2002-2017) revealed an observed gain in accessory genes amongst the clone's population. GWAS analysis on the bacteraemia isolates identified two gene candidates that have previously been associated to this kind of infection. CONCLUSIONS Although this hypothesis was not tested here, it is possible that the emergence of a ST93-IV clade containing additional virulence genes might be related to the high prevalence of ST93-IV infections amongst the indigenous population living in the northern regions of Australia. More importantly, our data also demonstrated that GWAS can reveal candidate genes for further investigations on the pathogenesis and evolution of MRSA strains within a same lineage.
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- Stanley Pang
- Antimicrobial Resistance and Infectious Diseases (AMRID) Research Laboratory, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia.
- Department of Microbiology, PathWest Laboratory Medicine-WA, Fiona Stanley Hospital, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia.
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- Australian Group on Antimicrobial Resistance (AGAR), Fiona Stanley Hospital, Murdoch, Australia
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- Antimicrobial Resistance and Infectious Diseases (AMRID) Research Laboratory, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia
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- Antimicrobial Resistance and Infectious Diseases (AMRID) Research Laboratory, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia
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- Antimicrobial Resistance and Infectious Diseases (AMRID) Research Laboratory, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia
- Department of Bacteria, Parasites and Fungi, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Antimicrobial Resistance and Infectious Diseases (AMRID) Research Laboratory, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia
- Department of Microbiology, PathWest Laboratory Medicine-WA, Fiona Stanley Hospital, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia
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Data from a long time evolution experiment with Escherichia Coli and from a large study on copy number variations in subjects with European ancestry are analyzed in order to argue that mutations can be described as Levy flights in the mutation space. These Levy flights have at least two components: random single-base substitutions and large DNA rearrangements. From the data, we get estimations for the time rates of both events and the size distribution function of large rearrangements.
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- Dario A Leon
- University of Modena & Reggio Emilia, 41125, Modena, Italy.
- Institute of Cybernetics, Mathematics and Physics, 10400, Havana, Cuba.
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- Institute of Cybernetics, Mathematics and Physics, 10400, Havana, Cuba
- University of Electronic Science and Technology, Chengdu, 610051, People's Republic of China
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Seferbekova Z, Zabelkin A, Yakovleva Y, Afasizhev R, Dranenko NO, Alexeev N, Gelfand MS, Bochkareva OO. High Rates of Genome Rearrangements and Pathogenicity of Shigella spp. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:628622. [PMID: 33912145 PMCID: PMC8072062 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.628622] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2020] [Accepted: 03/22/2021] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Shigella are pathogens originating within the Escherichia lineage but frequently classified as a separate genus. Shigella genomes contain numerous insertion sequences (ISs) that lead to pseudogenisation of affected genes and an increase of non-homologous recombination. Here, we study 414 genomes of E. coli and Shigella strains to assess the contribution of genomic rearrangements to Shigella evolution. We found that Shigella experienced exceptionally high rates of intragenomic rearrangements and had a decreased rate of homologous recombination compared to pathogenic and non-pathogenic E. coli. The high rearrangement rate resulted in independent disruption of syntenic regions and parallel rearrangements in different Shigella lineages. Specifically, we identified two types of chromosomally encoded E3 ubiquitin-protein ligases acquired independently by all Shigella strains that also showed a high level of sequence conservation in the promoter and further in the 5′-intergenic region. In the only available enteroinvasive E. coli (EIEC) strain, which is a pathogenic E. coli with a phenotype intermediate between Shigella and non-pathogenic E. coli, we found a rate of genome rearrangements comparable to those in other E. coli and no functional copies of the two Shigella-specific E3 ubiquitin ligases. These data indicate that the accumulation of ISs influenced many aspects of genome evolution and played an important role in the evolution of intracellular pathogens. Our research demonstrates the power of comparative genomics-based on synteny block composition and an important role of non-coding regions in the evolution of genomic islands.
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- Zaira Seferbekova
- Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.,Institute for Information Transmission Problems (The Kharkevich Institute, RAS), Moscow, Russia
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- Computer Technologies Laboratory, ITMO University, Saint Petersburg, Russia.,JetBrains Research, Saint Petersburg, Russia.,Bioinformatics Institute, Saint Petersburg, Russia
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- Bioinformatics Institute, Saint Petersburg, Russia.,Department of Cytology and Histology, Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia
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- Institute for Information Transmission Problems (The Kharkevich Institute, RAS), Moscow, Russia
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- Institute for Information Transmission Problems (The Kharkevich Institute, RAS), Moscow, Russia
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- Computer Technologies Laboratory, ITMO University, Saint Petersburg, Russia
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- Institute for Information Transmission Problems (The Kharkevich Institute, RAS), Moscow, Russia.,Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia
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- Institute for Information Transmission Problems (The Kharkevich Institute, RAS), Moscow, Russia.,Institute of Science and Technology (IST Austria), Klosterneuburg, Austria
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Gonzalez A, Nieves J, Leon DA, Bringas Vega ML, Sosa PV. Gene expression rearrangements denoting changes in the biological state. Sci Rep 2021; 11:8470. [PMID: 33875699 PMCID: PMC8055689 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-87764-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2020] [Accepted: 03/30/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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In many situations, the gene expression signature is a unique marker of the biological state. We study the modification of the gene expression distribution function when the biological state of a system experiences a change. This change may be the result of a selective pressure, as in the Long Term Evolution Experiment with E. Coli populations, or the progression to Alzheimer disease in aged brains, or the progression from a normal tissue to the cancer state. The first two cases seem to belong to a class of transitions, where the initial and final states are relatively close to each other, and the distribution function for the differential expressions is short ranged, with a tail of only a few dozens of strongly varying genes. In the latter case, cancer, the initial and final states are far apart and separated by a low-fitness barrier. The distribution function shows a very heavy tail, with thousands of silenced and over-expressed genes. We characterize the biological states by means of their principal component representations, and the expression distribution functions by their maximal and minimal differential expression values and the exponents of the Pareto laws describing the tails.
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- Augusto Gonzalez
- University of Electronic Science and Technology, 610051, Chengdu, People's Republic of China
- Institute of Cybernetics, Mathematics and Physics, 10400, Havana, Cuba
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- Faculty of Physics, University of Havana, 10400, Havana, Cuba
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- Institute of Cybernetics, Mathematics and Physics, 10400, Havana, Cuba
- University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, 41125, Modena, Italy
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- University of Electronic Science and Technology, 610051, Chengdu, People's Republic of China
- Cuban Neurosciences Center, 11600, Havana, Cuba
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- University of Electronic Science and Technology, 610051, Chengdu, People's Republic of China.
- Cuban Neurosciences Center, 11600, Havana, Cuba.
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Abdel-Glil MY, Thomas P, Linde J, Busch A, Wieler LH, Neubauer H, Seyboldt C. Comparative in silico genome analysis of Clostridium perfringens unravels stable phylogroups with different genome characteristics and pathogenic potential. Sci Rep 2021; 11:6756. [PMID: 33762628 PMCID: PMC7991664 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-86148-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2020] [Accepted: 03/11/2021] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Clostridium perfringens causes a plethora of devastating infections, with toxin production being the underlying mechanism of pathogenicity in various hosts. Genomic analyses of 206 public-available C. perfringens strains´ sequence data identified a substantial degree of genomic variability in respect to episome content, chromosome size and mobile elements. However, the position and order of the local collinear blocks on the chromosome showed a considerable degree of preservation. The strains were divided into five stable phylogroups (I–V). Phylogroup I contained human food poisoning strains with chromosomal enterotoxin (cpe) and a Darmbrand strain characterized by a high frequency of mobile elements, a relatively small genome size and a marked loss of chromosomal genes, including loss of genes encoding virulence traits. These features might correspond to the adaptation of these strains to a particular habitat, causing human foodborne illnesses. This contrasts strains that belong to phylogroup II where the genome size points to the acquisition of genetic material. Most strains of phylogroup II have been isolated from enteric lesions in horses and dogs. Phylogroups III, IV and V are heterogeneous groups containing a variety of different strains, with phylogroup III being the most abundant (65.5%). In conclusion, C. perfringens displays five stable phylogroups reflecting different disease involvements, prompting further studies on the evolution of this highly important pathogen.
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- Mostafa Y Abdel-Glil
- Institute of Bacterial Infections and Zoonoses, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Naumburger Str. 96A, 07743, Jena, Germany. .,Department of Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Sharkia Province, Egypt.
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- Institute of Bacterial Infections and Zoonoses, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Naumburger Str. 96A, 07743, Jena, Germany.,Division of Bacteriology and Mycology, ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, Bareilly, 243122, India
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- Institute of Bacterial Infections and Zoonoses, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Naumburger Str. 96A, 07743, Jena, Germany
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- Institute of Bacterial Infections and Zoonoses, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Naumburger Str. 96A, 07743, Jena, Germany.,Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Jena, Am Klinikum 1, 07747, Jena, Germany
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- Robert Koch-Institut, Nordufer 20, 13353, Berlin, Germany.,Institute of Microbiology and Epizootics, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Freie Universität, Robert-von-Ostertag-Str. 7-13, Building 35, 14163, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Bacterial Infections and Zoonoses, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Naumburger Str. 96A, 07743, Jena, Germany
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- Institute of Bacterial Infections and Zoonoses, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Naumburger Str. 96A, 07743, Jena, Germany.
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Baquero F, Coque TM, Galán JC, Martinez JL. The Origin of Niches and Species in the Bacterial World. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:657986. [PMID: 33815348 PMCID: PMC8010147 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.657986] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2021] [Accepted: 02/23/2021] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Niches are spaces for the biological units of selection, from cells to complex communities. In a broad sense, "species" are biological units of individuation. Niches do not exist without individual organisms, and every organism has a niche. We use "niche" in the Hutchinsonian sense as an abstraction of a multidimensional environmental space characterized by a variety of conditions, both biotic and abiotic, whose quantitative ranges determine the positive or negative growth rates of the microbial individual, typically a species, but also parts of the communities of species contained in this space. Microbial organisms ("species") constantly diversify, and such diversification (radiation) depends on the possibility of opening up unexploited or insufficiently exploited niches. Niche exploitation frequently implies "niche construction," as the colonized niche evolves with time, giving rise to new potential subniches, thereby influencing the selection of a series of new variants in the progeny. The evolution of niches and organisms is the result of reciprocal interacting processes that form a single unified process. Centrifugal microbial diversification expands the limits of the species' niches while a centripetal or cohesive process occurs simultaneously, mediated by horizontal gene transfers and recombinatorial events, condensing all of the information recovered during the diversifying specialization into "novel organisms" (possible future species), thereby creating a more complex niche, where the selfishness of the new organism(s) establishes a "homeostatic power" limiting the niche's variation. Once the niche's full carrying capacity has been reached, reproductive isolation occurs, as no foreign organisms can outcompete the established population/community, thereby facilitating speciation. In the case of individualization-speciation of the microbiota, its contribution to the animal' gut structure is a type of "niche construction," the result of crosstalk between the niche (host) and microorganism(s). Lastly, there is a parallelism between the hierarchy of niches and that of microbial individuals. The increasing anthropogenic effects on the biosphere (such as globalization) might reduce the diversity of niches and bacterial individuals, with the potential emergence of highly transmissible multispecialists (which are eventually deleterious) resulting from the homogenization of the microbiosphere, a possibility that should be explored and prevented.
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- Fernando Baquero
- Division of Biology and Evolution of Microorganisms, Department of Microbiology, Ramón y Cajal Institute for Health Research (IRYCIS), Ramón y Cajal University Hospital, Madrid, Spain
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- Division of Biology and Evolution of Microorganisms, Department of Microbiology, Ramón y Cajal Institute for Health Research (IRYCIS), Ramón y Cajal University Hospital, Madrid, Spain
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- Division of Biology and Evolution of Microorganisms, Department of Microbiology, Ramón y Cajal Institute for Health Research (IRYCIS), Ramón y Cajal University Hospital, Madrid, Spain
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Nagy-Staron A, Tomasek K, Caruso Carter C, Sonnleitner E, Kavčič B, Paixão T, Guet CC. Local genetic context shapes the function of a gene regulatory network. eLife 2021; 10:e65993. [PMID: 33683203 PMCID: PMC7968929 DOI: 10.7554/elife.65993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2020] [Accepted: 02/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Gene expression levels are influenced by multiple coexisting molecular mechanisms. Some of these interactions such as those of transcription factors and promoters have been studied extensively. However, predicting phenotypes of gene regulatory networks (GRNs) remains a major challenge. Here, we use a well-defined synthetic GRN to study in Escherichia coli how network phenotypes depend on local genetic context, i.e. the genetic neighborhood of a transcription factor and its relative position. We show that one GRN with fixed topology can display not only quantitatively but also qualitatively different phenotypes, depending solely on the local genetic context of its components. Transcriptional read-through is the main molecular mechanism that places one transcriptional unit (TU) within two separate regulons without the need for complex regulatory sequences. We propose that relative order of individual TUs, with its potential for combinatorial complexity, plays an important role in shaping phenotypes of GRNs.
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- Anna Nagy-Staron
- Institute of Science and Technology AustriaKlosterneuburgAustria
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- Institute of Science and Technology AustriaKlosterneuburgAustria
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- Department of MicrobiologyImmunobiology and Genetics, Max F. Perutz Laboratories, Center Of Molecular Biology, University of ViennaViennaAustria
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- Institute of Science and Technology AustriaKlosterneuburgAustria
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- Institute of Science and Technology AustriaKlosterneuburgAustria
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- Institute of Science and Technology AustriaKlosterneuburgAustria
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Insertion-sequence-mediated mutations both promote and constrain evolvability during a long-term experiment with bacteria. Nat Commun 2021; 12:980. [PMID: 33579917 PMCID: PMC7881107 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-21210-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2020] [Accepted: 01/08/2021] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Insertion sequences (IS) are ubiquitous bacterial mobile genetic elements, and the mutations they cause can be deleterious, neutral, or beneficial. The long-term dynamics of IS elements and their effects on bacteria are poorly understood, including whether they are primarily genomic parasites or important drivers of adaptation by natural selection. Here, we investigate the dynamics of IS elements and their contribution to genomic evolution and fitness during a long-term experiment with Escherichia coli. IS elements account for ~35% of the mutations that reached high frequency through 50,000 generations in those populations that retained the ancestral point-mutation rate. In mutator populations, IS-mediated mutations are only half as frequent in absolute numbers. In one population, an exceptionally high ~8-fold increase in IS150 copy number is associated with the beneficial effects of early insertion mutations; however, this expansion later slowed down owing to reduced IS150 activity. This population also achieves the lowest fitness, suggesting that some avenues for further adaptation are precluded by the IS150-mediated mutations. More generally, across all populations, we find that higher IS activity becomes detrimental to adaptation over evolutionary time. Therefore, IS-mediated mutations can both promote and constrain evolvability. Insertion sequences (IS) are common mobile genetic elements in bacteria, but their effects on bacterial evolution are not well understood. Here, Consuegra and colleagues investigate the dynamics and fitness consequences of IS elements in E. coli over 50,000 generations.
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Lato DF, Golding GB. The Location of Substitutions and Bacterial Genome Arrangements. Genome Biol Evol 2020; 13:6035136. [PMID: 33320172 PMCID: PMC7851589 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evaa260] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/11/2020] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Increasing evidence supports the notion that different regions of a genome have unique rates of molecular change. This variation is particularly evident in bacterial genomes where previous studies have reported gene expression and essentiality tend to decrease, whereas substitution rates usually increase with increasing distance from the origin of replication. Genomic reorganization such as rearrangements occur frequently in bacteria and allow for the introduction and restructuring of genetic content, creating gradients of molecular traits along genomes. Here, we explore the interplay of these phenomena by mapping substitutions to the genomes of Escherichia coli, Bacillus subtilis, Streptomyces, and Sinorhizobium meliloti, quantifying how many substitutions have occurred at each position in the genome. Preceding work indicates that substitution rate significantly increases with distance from the origin. Using a larger sample size and accounting for genome rearrangements through ancestral reconstruction, our analysis demonstrates that the correlation between the number of substitutions and the distance from the origin of replication is significant but small and inconsistent in direction. Some replicons had a significantly decreasing trend (E. coli and the chromosome of S. meliloti), whereas others showed the opposite significant trend (B. subtilis, Streptomyces, pSymA and pSymB in S. meliloti). dN, dS, and ω were examined across all genes and there was no significant correlation between those values and distance from the origin. This study highlights the impact that genomic rearrangements and location have on molecular trends in some bacteria, illustrating the importance of considering spatial trends in molecular evolutionary analysis. Assuming that molecular trends are exclusively in one direction can be problematic.
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- Daniella F Lato
- Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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El Hamoui O, Yadav I, Radiom M, Wien F, Berret JF, van der Maarel JRC, Arluison V. Interactions between DNA and the Hfq Amyloid-like Region Trigger a Viscoelastic Response. Biomacromolecules 2020; 21:3668-3677. [PMID: 32786728 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.0c00747] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Molecular transport of biomolecules plays a pivotal role in the machinery of life. Yet, this role is poorly understood due the lack of quantitative information. Here, the role and properties of the C-terminal region of Escherichia coli Hfq is reported, involved in controlling the flow of a DNA solution. A combination of experimental methodologies has been used to probe the interaction of Hfq with DNA and to measure the rheological properties of the complex. A physical gel with a temperature reversible elasticity modulus is formed due to the formation of noncovalent cross-links. The mechanical response of the complexes shows that they are inhomogeneous soft solids. Our experiments indicate that the Hfq C-terminal region could contribute to the genome's mechanical response. The reported viscoelasticity of the DNA-protein complex might have implications for cellular processes involving molecular transport of DNA or segments thereof.
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- Department of Physics, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117542, Singapore
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- Matière et Systèmes Complexes, UMR 7057 CNRS Université de Paris, Bâtiment Condorcet, 10 rue Alice Domon et Léonie Duquet, F-75205 Paris, France
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- Synchrotron SOLEIL, F-91192 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Matière et Systèmes Complexes, UMR 7057 CNRS Université de Paris, Bâtiment Condorcet, 10 rue Alice Domon et Léonie Duquet, F-75205 Paris, France
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- Laboratoire Léon Brillouin LLB, CEA, CNRS UMR12, Université Paris Saclay, CEA Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France.,Université de Paris, F-75006 Paris, France
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Wang K, de la Torre D, Robertson WE, Chin JW. Programmed chromosome fission and fusion enable precise large-scale genome rearrangement and assembly. Science 2020; 365:922-926. [PMID: 31467221 DOI: 10.1126/science.aay0737] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2019] [Accepted: 08/02/2019] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The design and creation of synthetic genomes provide a powerful approach to understanding and engineering biology. However, it is often limited by the paucity of methods for precise genome manipulation. Here, we demonstrate the programmed fission of the Escherichia coli genome into diverse pairs of synthetic chromosomes and the programmed fusion of synthetic chromosomes to generate genomes with user-defined inversions and translocations. We further combine genome fission, chromosome transplant, and chromosome fusion to assemble genomic regions from different strains into a single genome. Thus, we program the scarless assembly of new genomes with nucleotide precision, a key step in the convergent synthesis of genomes from diverse progenitors. This work provides a set of precise, rapid, large-scale (megabase) genome-engineering operations for creating diverse synthetic genomes.
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- Kaihang Wang
- Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge, England, UK
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- Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge, England, UK
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- Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge, England, UK
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- Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge, England, UK.
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Sousa TDJ, Parise D, Profeta R, Parise MTD, Gomide ACP, Kato RB, Pereira FL, Figueiredo HCP, Ramos R, Brenig B, Costa da Silva ALD, Ghosh P, Barh D, Góes-Neto A, Azevedo V. Re-sequencing and optical mapping reveals misassemblies and real inversions on Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis genomes. Sci Rep 2019; 9:16387. [PMID: 31705053 PMCID: PMC6841979 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-52695-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2019] [Accepted: 10/18/2019] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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The number of draft genomes deposited in Genbank from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is higher than the complete ones. Draft genomes are assemblies that contain fragments of misassembled regions (gaps). Such draft genomes present a hindrance to the complete understanding of the biology and evolution of the organism since they lack genomic information. To overcome this problem, strategies to improve the assembly process are developed continuously. Also, the greatest challenge to the assembly progress is the presence of repetitive DNA regions. This article highlights the use of optical mapping, to detect and correct assembly errors in Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis. We also demonstrate that choosing a reference genome should be done with caution to avoid assembly errors and loss of genetic information.
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- Thiago de Jesus Sousa
- Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- National Reference Laboratory for Aquatic Animal Diseases (AQUACEN) of Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- National Reference Laboratory for Aquatic Animal Diseases (AQUACEN) of Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Pará, Belém, Pará, Brazil
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- Institute of Veterinary Medicine, University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Computer Science, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, United States
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- Institute of Integrative Omics and Applied Biotechnology, Nonakuri West Bengal, India
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- Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
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Biological Impact of a Large-Scale Genomic Inversion That Grossly Disrupts the Relative Positions of the Origin and Terminus Loci of the Streptococcus pyogenes Chromosome. J Bacteriol 2019; 201:JB.00090-19. [PMID: 31235514 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00090-19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2019] [Accepted: 06/17/2019] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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A large-scale genomic inversion encompassing 0.79 Mb of the 1.816-Mb-long Streptococcus pyogenes serotype M49 strain NZ131 chromosome spontaneously occurs in a minor subpopulation of cells, and in this report genetic selection was used to obtain a stable lineage with this chromosomal rearrangement. This inversion, which drastically displaces the ori site relative to the terminus, changes the relative length of the replication arms so that one replichore is approximately 0.41 Mb while the other is about 1.40 Mb in length. Genomic reversion to the original chromosome constellation is not observed in PCR-monitored analyses after 180 generations of growth in rich medium. Compared to the parental strain, the inversion surprisingly demonstrates a nearly identical growth pattern in the first phase of the exponential phase, but differences do occur when resources in the medium become limited. When cultured separately in rich medium during prolonged stationary phase or in an experimental acute infection animal model (Galleria mellonella), the parental strain and the invertant have equivalent survival rates. However, when they are coincubated together, both in vitro and in vivo, the survival of the invertant declines relative to the level for the parental strain. The accompanying aspect of the study suggests that inversions taking place near oriC always happen to secure the linkage of oriC to DNA sequences responsible for chromosome partition. The biological relevance of large-scale inversions is also discussed.IMPORTANCE Based on our previous work, we created to our knowledge the largest asymmetric inversion, covering 43.5% of the S. pyogenes genome. In spite of a drastic replacement of origin of replication and the unbalanced size of replichores (1.4 Mb versus 0.41 Mb), the invertant, when not challenged with its progenitor, showed impressive vitality for growth in vitro and in pathogenesis assays. The mutant supports the existing idea that slightly deleterious mutations can provide the setting for secondary adaptive changes. Furthermore, comparative analysis of the mutant with previously published data strongly indicates that even large genomic rearrangements survive provided that the integrity of the oriC and the chromosome partition cluster is preserved.
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Nguyen TV, Wibberg D, Vigil-Stenman T, Berckx F, Battenberg K, Demchenko KN, Blom J, Fernandez MP, Yamanaka T, Berry AM, Kalinowski J, Brachmann A, Pawlowski K. Frankia-Enriched Metagenomes from the Earliest Diverging Symbiotic Frankia Cluster: They Come in Teams. Genome Biol Evol 2019; 11:2273-2291. [PMID: 31368478 PMCID: PMC6735867 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evz153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/10/2019] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Frankia strains induce the formation of nitrogen-fixing nodules on roots of actinorhizal plants. Phylogenetically, Frankia strains can be grouped in four clusters. The earliest divergent cluster, cluster-2, has a particularly wide host range. The analysis of cluster-2 strains has been hampered by the fact that with two exceptions, they could never be cultured. In this study, 12 Frankia-enriched metagenomes of Frankia cluster-2 strains or strain assemblages were sequenced based on seven inoculum sources. Sequences obtained via DNA isolated from whole nodules were compared with those of DNA isolated from fractionated preparations enhanced in the Frankia symbiotic structures. The results show that cluster-2 inocula represent groups of strains, and that strains not represented in symbiotic structures, that is, unable to perform symbiotic nitrogen fixation, may still be able to colonize nodules. Transposase gene abundance was compared in the different Frankia-enriched metagenomes with the result that North American strains contain more transposase genes than Eurasian strains. An analysis of the evolution and distribution of the host plants indicated that bursts of transposition may have coincided with niche competition with other cluster-2 Frankia strains. The first genome of an inoculum from the Southern Hemisphere, obtained from nodules of Coriaria papuana in Papua New Guinea, represents a novel species, postulated as Candidatus Frankia meridionalis. All Frankia-enriched metagenomes obtained in this study contained homologs of the canonical nod genes nodABC; the North American genomes also contained the sulfotransferase gene nodH, while the genome from the Southern Hemisphere only contained nodC and a truncated copy of nodB.
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- Thanh Van Nguyen
- Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Stockholm University, Sweden
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- Center for Biotechnology (CeBiTec), Bielefeld University, Germany
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- Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Stockholm University, Sweden
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis
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- Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Plant Development, Komarov Botanical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Biology, All-Russia Research Institute for Agricultural Microbiology, Saint Petersburg, Russia
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- Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Justus Liebig University, Gießen, Germany
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- Ecologie Microbienne, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR 5557, Université Lyon I, Villeurbanne Cedex, France
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis
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- Center for Biotechnology (CeBiTec), Bielefeld University, Germany
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- Biocenter, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Planegg-Martinsried, Germany
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- Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Stockholm University, Sweden
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Lamrabet O, Plumbridge J, Martin M, Lenski RE, Schneider D, Hindré T. Plasticity of Promoter-Core Sequences Allows Bacteria to Compensate for the Loss of a Key Global Regulatory Gene. Mol Biol Evol 2019; 36:1121-1133. [PMID: 30825312 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msz042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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Transcription regulatory networks (TRNs) are of central importance for both short-term phenotypic adaptation in response to environmental fluctuations and long-term evolutionary adaptation, with global regulatory genes often being targets of natural selection in laboratory experiments. Here, we combined evolution experiments, whole-genome resequencing, and molecular genetics to investigate the driving forces, genetic constraints, and molecular mechanisms that dictate how bacteria can cope with a drastic perturbation of their TRNs. The crp gene, encoding a major global regulator in Escherichia coli, was deleted in four different genetic backgrounds, all derived from the Long-Term Evolution Experiment (LTEE) but with different TRN architectures. We confirmed that crp deletion had a more deleterious effect on growth rate in the LTEE-adapted genotypes; and we showed that the ptsG gene, which encodes the major glucose-PTS transporter, gained CRP (cyclic AMP receptor protein) dependence over time in the LTEE. We then further evolved the four crp-deleted genotypes in glucose minimal medium, and we found that they all quickly recovered from their growth defects by increasing glucose uptake. We showed that this recovery was specific to the selective environment and consistently relied on mutations in the cis-regulatory region of ptsG, regardless of the initial genotype. These mutations affected the interplay of transcription factors acting at the promoters, changed the intrinsic properties of the existing promoters, or produced new transcription initiation sites. Therefore, the plasticity of even a single promoter region can compensate by three different mechanisms for the loss of a key regulatory hub in the E. coli TRN.
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- Otmane Lamrabet
- Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, TIMC-IMAG, Grenoble, France
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- CNRS UMR8261, Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Institut de Biologie Physico-chimique, Paris, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, TIMC-IMAG, Grenoble, France
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- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.,BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, TIMC-IMAG, Grenoble, France
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Latino L, Midoux C, Vergnaud G, Pourcel C. Investigation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain PcyII-10 variants resisting infection by N4-like phage Ab09 in search for genes involved in phage adsorption. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0215456. [PMID: 30990839 PMCID: PMC6467409 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0215456] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2018] [Accepted: 04/02/2019] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Bacteria and their bacteriophages coexist and coevolve for the benefit of both in a mutualistic association. Multiple mechanisms are used by bacteria to resist phages in a trade-off between survival and maintenance of fitness. In vitro studies allow inquiring into the fate of virus and host in different conditions aimed at mimicking natural environment. We analyse here the mutations emerging in a clinical Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain in response to infection by Ab09, a N4-like lytic podovirus and describe a variety of chromosomal deletions and mutations conferring resistance. Some deletions result from illegitimate recombination taking place during long-term maintenance of the phage genome. Phage variants with mutations in a tail fiber gene are selected during pseudolysogeny with the capacity to infect resistant cells and produce large plaques. These results highlight the complex host/phage association and suggest that phage Ab09 promotes bacterial chromosome rearrangements. Finally this study points to the possible role of two bacterial genes in Ab09 phage adhesion to the cell, rpsB encoding protein S2 of the 30S ribosomal subunit and ORF1587 encoding a Wzy-like membrane protein involved in LPS biosynthesis.
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- Libera Latino
- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette cedex, France
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette cedex, France
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette cedex, France
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette cedex, France
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Sentausa E, Basso P, Berry A, Adrait A, Bellement G, Couté Y, Lory S, Elsen S, Attrée I. Insertion sequences drive the emergence of a highly adapted human pathogen. Microb Genom 2019; 6. [PMID: 30946644 PMCID: PMC7643977 DOI: 10.1099/mgen.0.000265] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a highly adaptive opportunistic pathogen that can have serious health consequences in patients with lung disorders. Taxonomic outliers of P. aeruginosa of environmental origin have recently emerged as infectious for humans. Here, we present the first genome-wide analysis of an isolate that caused fatal haemorrhagic pneumonia. In two clones, CLJ1 and CLJ3, sequentially recovered from a patient with chronic pulmonary disease, insertion of a mobile genetic element into the P. aeruginosa chromosome affected major virulence-associated phenotypes and led to increased resistance to the antibiotics used to combat the infection. Comparative genome, proteome and transcriptome analyses revealed that this ISL3-family insertion sequence disrupted the genes for flagellar components, type IV pili, O-specific antigens, translesion polymerase and enzymes producing hydrogen cyanide. Seven-fold more insertions were detected in the later isolate, CLJ3, than in CLJ1, some of which modified strain susceptibility to antibiotics by disrupting the genes for the outer-membrane porin OprD and the regulator of β-lactamase expression AmpD. In the Galleria mellonella larvae model, the two strains displayed different levels of virulence, with CLJ1 being highly pathogenic. This study revealed insertion sequences to be major players in enhancing the pathogenic potential of a P. aeruginosa taxonomic outlier by modulating both its virulence and its resistance to antimicrobials, and explains how this bacterium adapts from the environment to a human host.
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- Erwin Sentausa
- Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS ERL5261, INSERM U1036, CEA, Laboratory Biology of Cancer and Infection, Bacterial Pathogenesis and Cellular Responses, Biosciences and Biotechnology Institute of Grenoble, 38000 Grenoble, France.,Present address: Evotec ID (Lyon) SAS, Marcy l'Étoile, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS ERL5261, INSERM U1036, CEA, Laboratory Biology of Cancer and Infection, Bacterial Pathogenesis and Cellular Responses, Biosciences and Biotechnology Institute of Grenoble, 38000 Grenoble, France.,Present address: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS ERL5261, INSERM U1036, CEA, Laboratory Biology of Cancer and Infection, Bacterial Pathogenesis and Cellular Responses, Biosciences and Biotechnology Institute of Grenoble, 38000 Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, CEA, Inserm, BIG-BGE, 38000 Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS ERL5261, INSERM U1036, CEA, Laboratory Biology of Cancer and Infection, Bacterial Pathogenesis and Cellular Responses, Biosciences and Biotechnology Institute of Grenoble, 38000 Grenoble, France.,Université Grenoble Alpes, CEA, Inserm, BIG-BGE, 38000 Grenoble, France.,Present address: Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, CEA, Inserm, BIG-BGE, 38000 Grenoble, France
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS ERL5261, INSERM U1036, CEA, Laboratory Biology of Cancer and Infection, Bacterial Pathogenesis and Cellular Responses, Biosciences and Biotechnology Institute of Grenoble, 38000 Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS ERL5261, INSERM U1036, CEA, Laboratory Biology of Cancer and Infection, Bacterial Pathogenesis and Cellular Responses, Biosciences and Biotechnology Institute of Grenoble, 38000 Grenoble, France
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Press MO, Hall AN, Morton EA, Queitsch C. Substitutions Are Boring: Some Arguments about Parallel Mutations and High Mutation Rates. Trends Genet 2019; 35:253-264. [PMID: 30797597 PMCID: PMC6435258 DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2019.01.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2018] [Revised: 12/20/2018] [Accepted: 01/14/2019] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Extant genomes are largely shaped by global transposition, copy-number fluctuation, and rearrangement of DNA sequences rather than by substitutions of single nucleotides. Although many of these large-scale mutations have low probabilities and are unlikely to repeat, others are recurrent or predictable in their effects, leading to stereotyped genome architectures and genetic variation in both eukaryotes and prokaryotes. Such recurrent, parallel mutation modes can profoundly shape the paths taken by evolution and undermine common models of evolutionary genetics. Similar patterns are also evident at the smaller scales of individual genes or short sequences. The scale and extent of this 'non-substitution' variation has recently come into focus through the advent of new genomic technologies; however, it is still not widely considered in genotype-phenotype association studies. In this review we identify common features of these disparate mutational phenomena and comment on the importance and interpretation of these mutational patterns.
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 91895, USA; Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 91895, USA
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 91895, USA
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 91895, USA.
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Berube PM, Rasmussen A, Braakman R, Stepanauskas R, Chisholm SW. Emergence of trait variability through the lens of nitrogen assimilation in Prochlorococcus. eLife 2019; 8:41043. [PMID: 30706847 PMCID: PMC6370341 DOI: 10.7554/elife.41043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2018] [Accepted: 01/31/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Intraspecific trait variability has important consequences for the function and stability of marine ecosystems. Here we examine variation in the ability to use nitrate across hundreds of Prochlorococcus genomes to better understand the modes of evolution influencing intraspecific allocation of ecologically important functions. Nitrate assimilation genes are absent in basal lineages but occur at an intermediate frequency that is randomly distributed within recently emerged clades. The distribution of nitrate assimilation genes within clades appears largely governed by vertical inheritance, gene loss, and homologous recombination. By mapping this process onto a model of Prochlorococcus’ macroevolution, we propose that niche-constructing adaptive radiations and subsequent niche partitioning set the stage for loss of nitrate assimilation genes from basal lineages as they specialized to lower light levels. Retention of these genes in recently emerged lineages has likely been facilitated by selection as they sequentially partitioned into niches where nitrate assimilation conferred a fitness benefit.
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- Paul M Berube
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States.,Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States
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Bochkareva OO, Moroz EV, Davydov II, Gelfand MS. Genome rearrangements and selection in multi-chromosome bacteria Burkholderia spp. BMC Genomics 2018; 19:965. [PMID: 30587126 PMCID: PMC6307245 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-018-5245-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2018] [Accepted: 11/14/2018] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The genus Burkholderia consists of species that occupy remarkably diverse ecological niches. Its best known members are important pathogens, B. mallei and B. pseudomallei, which cause glanders and melioidosis, respectively. Burkholderia genomes are unusual due to their multichromosomal organization, generally comprised of 2-3 chromosomes. RESULTS We performed integrated genomic analysis of 127 Burkholderia strains. The pan-genome is open with the saturation to be reached between 86,000 and 88,000 genes. The reconstructed rearrangements indicate a strong avoidance of intra-replichore inversions that is likely caused by selection against the transfer of large groups of genes between the leading and the lagging strands. Translocated genes also tend to retain their position in the leading or the lagging strand, and this selection is stronger for large syntenies. Integrated reconstruction of chromosome rearrangements in the context of strains phylogeny reveals parallel rearrangements that may indicate inversion-based phase variation and integration of new genomic islands. In particular, we detected parallel inversions in the second chromosomes of B. pseudomallei with breakpoints formed by genes encoding membrane components of multidrug resistance complex, that may be linked to a phase variation mechanism. Two genomic islands, spreading horizontally between chromosomes, were detected in the B. cepacia group. CONCLUSIONS This study demonstrates the power of integrated analysis of pan-genomes, chromosome rearrangements, and selection regimes. Non-random inversion patterns indicate selective pressure, inversions are particularly frequent in a recent pathogen B. mallei, and, together with periods of positive selection at other branches, may indicate adaptation to new niches. One such adaptation could be a possible phase variation mechanism in B. pseudomallei.
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- Olga O. Bochkareva
- Kharkevich Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Moscow, Russia
- Center of Life Sciences Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia
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- Kharkevich Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution & Department of Computational Biology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Kharkevich Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Moscow, Russia
- Center of Life Sciences Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia
- Faculty of Computer Science, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
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Ohkura M, Cotty PJ, Orbach MJ. Comparative Genomics of Aspergillus flavus S and L Morphotypes Yield Insights into Niche Adaptation. G3 (BETHESDA, MD.) 2018; 8:3915-3930. [PMID: 30361280 PMCID: PMC6288828 DOI: 10.1534/g3.118.200553] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2018] [Accepted: 10/15/2018] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Aspergillus flavus, the primary causal agent for aflatoxin contamination on crops, consists of isolates with two distinct morphologies: isolates of the S morphotype produce numerous small sclerotia and lower numbers of conidia while isolates of the L morphotype produce fewer large sclerotia and abundant conidia. The morphotypes also differ in aflatoxin production with S isolates consistently producing high concentrations of aflatoxin, whereas L isolates range from atoxigenic to highly toxigenic. The production of abundant sclerotia by the S morphotype suggests adaptation for long-term survival in the soil, whereas the production of abundant conidia by the L morphotype suggests adaptation for aerial dispersal to the phyllosphere. To identify genomic changes that support differential niche adaption, the sequences of three S and three L morphotype isolates were compared. Differences in genome structure and gene content were identified between the morphotypes. A >530 kb inversion between the morphotypes affect a secondary metabolite gene cluster and a cutinase gene. The morphotypes also differed in proteins predicted to be involved in carbon/nitrogen metabolism, iron acquisition, antimicrobial defense, and evasion of host immunity. The S morphotype genomes contained more intact secondary metabolite clusters indicating there is higher selection pressure to maintain secondary metabolism in the soil and that it is not limited to aflatoxin production. The L morphotype genomes were enriched in amino acid transporters, suggesting efficient nitrogen transport may be critical in the nutrient limited phyllosphere. These findings indicate the genomes of the two morphotypes differ beyond developmental genes and have diverged as they adapted to their respective niches.
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- Mana Ohkura
- School of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721
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- USDA-ARS, School of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721
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- School of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721
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Jha V, Tikariha H, Dafale NA, Purohit HJ. Exploring the rearrangement of sensory intelligence in proteobacteria: insight of Pho regulon. World J Microbiol Biotechnol 2018; 34:172. [DOI: 10.1007/s11274-018-2551-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2018] [Accepted: 10/26/2018] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Gutiérrez R, Markus B, Carstens Marques de Sousa K, Marcos-Hadad E, Mugasimangalam RC, Nachum-Biala Y, Hawlena H, Covo S, Harrus S. Prophage-Driven Genomic Structural Changes Promote Bartonella Vertical Evolution. Genome Biol Evol 2018; 10:3089-3103. [PMID: 30346520 PMCID: PMC6257571 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evy236] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/19/2018] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Bartonella is a genetically diverse group of vector-borne bacteria. Over 40 species have been characterized to date, mainly from mammalian reservoirs and arthropod vectors. Rodent reservoirs harbor one of the largest Bartonella diversity described to date, and novel species and genetic variants are continuously identified from these hosts. Yet, it is still unknown if this significant genetic diversity stems from adaptation to different niches or from intrinsic high mutation rates. Here, we explored the vertical occurrence of spontaneous genomic alterations in 18 lines derived from two rodent-associated Bartonella elizabethae-like strains, evolved in nonselective agar plates under conditions mimicking their vector- and mammalian-associated temperatures, and the transmission cycles between them (i.e., 26 °C, 37 °C, and alterations between the two), using mutation accumulation experiments. After ∼1,000 generations, evolved genomes revealed few point mutations (average of one-point mutation per line), evidencing conserved single-nucleotide mutation rates. Interestingly, three large structural genomic changes (two large deletions and an inversion) were identified over all lines, associated with prophages and surface adhesin genes. Particularly, a prophage, deleted during constant propagation at 37 °C, was associated with an increased autonomous replication at 26 °C (the flea-associated temperature). Complementary molecular analyses of wild strains, isolated from desert rodents and their fleas, further supported the occurrence of structural genomic variations and prophage-associated deletions in nature. Our findings suggest that structural genomic changes represent an effective intrinsic mechanism to generate diversity in slow-growing bacteria and emphasize the role of prophages as promoters of diversity in nature.
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- Ricardo Gutiérrez
- Koret School of Veterinary Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel
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- The Nancy and Stephen Grand Israel National Center for Personalized Medicine, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel
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- Koret School of Veterinary Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel
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- Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel
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- Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel
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- Koret School of Veterinary Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel
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Zoledowska S, Motyka-Pomagruk A, Sledz W, Mengoni A, Lojkowska E. High genomic variability in the plant pathogenic bacterium Pectobacterium parmentieri deciphered from de novo assembled complete genomes. BMC Genomics 2018; 19:751. [PMID: 30326842 PMCID: PMC6192338 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-018-5140-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2018] [Accepted: 10/03/2018] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Pectobacterium parmentieri is a newly established species within the plant pathogenic family Pectobacteriaceae. Bacteria belonging to this species are causative agents of diseases in economically important crops (e.g. potato) in a wide range of different environmental conditions, encountered in Europe, North America, Africa, and New Zealand. Severe disease symptoms result from the activity of P. parmentieri virulence factors, such as plant cell wall degrading enzymes. Interestingly, we observe significant phenotypic differences among P. parmentieri isolates regarding virulence factors production and the abilities to macerate plants. To establish the possible genomic basis of these differences, we sequenced 12 genomes of P. parmentieri strains (10 isolated in Poland, 2 in Belgium) with the combined use of Illumina and PacBio approaches. De novo genome assembly was performed with the use of SPAdes software, while annotation was conducted by NCBI Prokaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline. RESULTS The pan-genome study was performed on 15 genomes (12 de novo assembled and three reference strains: P. parmentieri CFBP 8475T, P. parmentieri SCC3193, P. parmentieri WPP163). The pan-genome includes 3706 core genes, a high number of accessory (1468) genes, and numerous unique (1847) genes. We identified the presence of well-known genes encoding virulence factors in the core genome fraction, but some of them were located in the dispensable genome. A significant fraction of horizontally transferred genes, virulence-related gene duplications, as well as different CRISPR arrays were found, which can explain the observed phenotypic differences. Finally, we found also, for the first time, the presence of a plasmid in one of the tested P. parmentieri strains isolated in Poland. CONCLUSIONS We can hypothesize that a large number of the genes in the dispensable genome and significant genomic variation among P. parmentieri strains could be the basis of the potential wide host range and widespread diffusion of P. parmentieri. The obtained data on the structure and gene content of P. parmentieri strains enabled us to speculate on the importance of high genomic plasticity for P. parmentieri adaptation to different environments.
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- S Zoledowska
- Department of Biotechnology, Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Gdansk and Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland
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- Department of Biotechnology, Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Gdansk and Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland
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- Department of Biotechnology, Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Gdansk and Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland
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- Department of Biology, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy
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- Department of Biotechnology, Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Gdansk and Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland.
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