Units of plasticity in bacterial genomes: new insight from the comparative genomics of two bacteria interacting with invertebrates, Photorhabdus and Xenorhabdus
Autor: | Patrick Tailliez, Robert Zumbihl, Alain Givaudan, Alexandra Calteau, Sophie Gaudriault, Jean-Claude Ogier, Steve Forst, Heidi Goodrich-Blair, Garret Suen, David Roche, Claudine Médigue, Zoé Rouy |
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Přispěvatelé: | Diversité, Génomes et Interactions Microorganismes-Insectes, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Department of Biological Sciences, The Open University [Milton Keynes] (OU), Department of Bacteriology, Veterinary Laboratories Agency, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ecologie microbienne des insectes et interactions hôte-pathogène (EMIP) |
Jazyk: | francouzština |
Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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[SDV.SA]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Agricultural sciences
Time Factors Biodiversité et Ecologie GENOMIQUE INSECTE RGPs RGPFinder xenorhabdus Xenorhabdus Genome RNA Ribosomal 16S Genomic island invertébré Phylogeny ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS Sequence Deletion nématode Gene Rearrangement bactérie Genetics 0303 health sciences biology Chromosome Mapping Genomics Chromosomes Bacterial Host-Pathogen Interactions Female bactérie pathogène Photorhabdus Research Article Biotechnology lcsh:QH426-470 lcsh:Biotechnology Bacterial genome size Synteny Bacterial genetics Evolution Molecular Biodiversity and Ecology photorhabdus 03 medical and health sciences Phylogenetics lcsh:TP248.13-248.65 Animals Humans 030304 developmental biology Comparative genomics 030306 microbiology génome plasticité Genetic Variation biology.organism_classification Invertebrates lcsh:Genetics Genes Bacterial Genetic Loci Evolutionary biology [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology Genome Bacterial |
Zdroj: | 4. Congress of the FEMS 4. Congress of the FEMS, Jun 2011, Geneva, Suisse. 2011 4. Congress of the FEMS, Jun 2011, Geneva, Suisse., 2011 BMC Genomics BMC Genomics, BioMed Central, 2010, 11, ⟨10.1186/1471-2164-11-568⟩ BMC Genomics (11), . (2010) BMC Genomics, Vol 11, Iss 1, p 568 (2010) BMC Genomics, 2010, 11, ⟨10.1186/1471-2164-11-568⟩ |
ISSN: | 1471-2164 |
Popis: | Background Flexible genomes facilitate bacterial evolution and are classically organized into polymorphic strain-specific segments called regions of genomic plasticity (RGPs). Using a new web tool, RGPFinder, we investigated plasticity units in bacterial genomes, by exhaustive description of the RGPs in two Photorhabdus and two Xenorhabdus strains, belonging to the Enterobacteriaceae and interacting with invertebrates (insects and nematodes). Results RGPs account for about 60% of the genome in each of the four genomes studied. We classified RGPs into genomic islands (GIs), prophages and two new classes of RGP without the features of classical mobile genetic elements (MGEs) but harboring genes encoding enzymes catalyzing DNA recombination (RGPmob), or with no remarkable feature (RGPnone). These new classes accounted for most of the RGPs and are probably hypervariable regions, ancient MGEs with degraded mobilization machinery or non canonical MGEs for which the mobility mechanism has yet to be described. We provide evidence that not only the GIs and the prophages, but also RGPmob and RGPnone, have a mosaic structure consisting of modules. A module is a block of genes, 0.5 to 60 kb in length, displaying a conserved genomic organization among the different Enterobacteriaceae. Modules are functional units involved in host/environment interactions (22-31%), metabolism (22-27%), intracellular or intercellular DNA mobility (13-30%), drug resistance (4-5%) and antibiotic synthesis (3-6%). Finally, in silico comparisons and PCR multiplex analysis indicated that these modules served as plasticity units within the bacterial genome during genome speciation and as deletion units in clonal variants of Photorhabdus. Conclusions This led us to consider the modules, rather than the entire RGP, as the true unit of plasticity in bacterial genomes, during both short-term and long-term genome evolution. |
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