DNA methylation by CcrM contributes to genome maintenance in the Agrobacterium tumefaciens plant pathogen.

Autor:	Martin S; Department of Fundamental Microbiology, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, Lausanne CH-1015, Switzerland., Fournes F; Department of Fundamental Microbiology, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, Lausanne CH-1015, Switzerland., Ambrosini G; Bioinformatics Competence Center, University of Lausanne, Lausanne CH-1015, Switzerland.; Bioinformatics Competence Center, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne CH-1015, Switzerland., Iseli C; Bioinformatics Competence Center, University of Lausanne, Lausanne CH-1015, Switzerland.; Bioinformatics Competence Center, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne CH-1015, Switzerland., Bojkowska K; Lausanne Genomic Technologies Facility, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, Lausanne CH-1015, Switzerland., Marquis J; Lausanne Genomic Technologies Facility, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, Lausanne CH-1015, Switzerland., Guex N; Bioinformatics Competence Center, University of Lausanne, Lausanne CH-1015, Switzerland.; Bioinformatics Competence Center, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne CH-1015, Switzerland., Collier J; Department of Fundamental Microbiology, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, Lausanne CH-1015, Switzerland.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Nucleic acids research [Nucleic Acids Res] 2024 Oct 28; Vol. 52 (19), pp. 11519-11535.
DOI:	10.1093/nar/gkae757
Abstrakt:	The cell cycle-regulated DNA methyltransferase CcrM is conserved in most Alphaproteobacteria, but its role in bacteria with complex or multicentric genomes remains unexplored. Here, we compare the methylome, the transcriptome and the phenotypes of wild-type and CcrM-depleted Agrobacterium tumefaciens cells with a dicentric chromosome with two essential replication origins. We find that DNA methylation has a pleiotropic impact on motility, biofilm formation and viability. Remarkably, CcrM promotes the expression of the repABCCh2 operon, encoding proteins required for replication initiation/partitioning at ori2, and represses gcrA, encoding a conserved global cell cycle regulator. Imaging ori1 and ori2 in live cells, we show that replication from ori2 is often delayed in cells with a hypo-methylated genome, while ori2 over-initiates in cells with a hyper-methylated genome. Further analyses show that GcrA promotes the expression of the RepCCh2 initiator, most likely through the repression of a RepECh2 anti-sense RNA. Altogether, we propose that replication at ori1 leads to a transient hemi-methylation and activation of the gcrA promoter, allowing repCCh2 activation by GcrA and contributing to initiation at ori2. This study then uncovers a novel and original connection between CcrM-dependent DNA methylation, a conserved epigenetic regulator and genome maintenance in an Alphaproteobacterial pathogen. (© The Author(s) 2024. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Nucleic Acids Research.)
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