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Inter-species horizontal transfer resulting in core-genome and niche-adaptive variation within Helicobacter pylori
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Saunders, Nigel J., Boonmee, Prawit , Peden, John F. and Jarvis, Stephen A. (2005) Inter-species horizontal transfer resulting in core-genome and niche-adaptive variation within Helicobacter pylori. BMC Genomics, Vol.6 (No.9). doi:10.1186/1471-2164-6-9 ISSN 1471-2164.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-6-9
Abstract
Background
Horizontal gene transfer is central to evolution in most bacterial species. The detection of exchanged regions is often based upon analysis of compositional characteristics and their comparison to the organism as a whole. In this study we describe a new methodology combining aspects of established signature analysis with textual analysis approaches. This approach has been used to analyze the two available genome sequences of H. pylori.
Results
This gene-by-gene analysis reveals a wide range of genes related to both virulence behaviour and the strain differences that have been relatively recently acquired from other sequence backgrounds. These frequently involve single genes or small numbers of genes that are not associated with transposases or bacteriophage genes, nor with inverted repeats typically used as markers for horizontal transfer. In addition, clear examples of horizontal exchange in genes associated with 'core' metabolic functions were identified, supported by differences between the sequenced strains, including: ftsK, xerD and polA. In some cases it was possible to determine which strain represented the 'parent' and 'altered' states for insertion-deletion events. Different signature component lengths showed different sensitivities for the detection of some horizontally transferred genes, which may reflect different amelioration rates of sequence components.
Conclusion
New implementations of signature analysis that can be applied on a gene-by-gene basis for the identification of horizontally acquired sequences are described. These findings highlight the central role of the availability of homologous substrates in evolution mediated by horizontal exchange, and suggest that some components of the supposedly stable 'core genome' may actually be favoured targets for integration of foreign sequences because of their degree of conservation.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | Q Science > QR Microbiology | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Computer Science | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Gene transformation, Helicobacter pylori, Virulence (microbiology) -- Genetic aspects | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | BMC Genomics | ||||
Publisher: | BioMed Central Ltd. | ||||
ISSN: | 1471-2164 | ||||
Official Date: | 27 January 2005 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.6 | ||||
Number: | No.9 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1186/1471-2164-6-9 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) |
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