Large scale and significant expression from pseudogenes in Sodalis glossinidius - a facultative bacterial endosymbiont
Large scale and significant expression from pseudogenes in Sodalis glossinidius - a facultative bacterial endosymbiont
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兼性细菌内共生体 Sodalis glsinidius 中假基因的大规模和显着表达
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10.1101/124388
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2017
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Goodhead I
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Goodhead I
The majority of bacterial genomes have high coding efficiencies, but there are some genomes of intracellular bacteria that have low gene density. The genome of the endosymbiontSodalis glossinidiuscontains almost 50 % pseudogenes containing mutations that putatively silence them at the genomic level. We have applied multiple ‘omic’ strategies, combining Illumina and Pacific Biosciences Single-Molecule Real-Time DNA sequencing and annotation, stranded RNA sequencing and proteome analysis to better understand the transcriptional and translational landscape ofSodalispseudogenes, and potential mechanisms for their control. Between 53 and 74 % of theSodalistranscriptome remains active in cell-free culture. The mean sense transcription from coding domain sequences (CDSs) is four times greater than that from pseudogenes. Comparative genomic analysis of six Illumina-sequencedSodalisisolates from different hostGlossinaspecies shows pseudogenes make up ~40 % of the 2729 genes in the core genome, suggesting that they are stable and/or thatSodalisis a recent introduction across the genusGlossinaas a facultative symbiont. These data shed further light on the importance of transcriptional and translational control in deciphering host–microbe interactions. The combination of genomics, transcriptomics and proteomics gives a multidimensional perspective for studying prokaryotic genomes with a view to elucidating evolutionary adaptation to novel environmental niches.