Comparative genome analysis of Wolbachia strain wAu

BMC Genomics

Steven P Sinkins²  Julian Parkhill¹  Simon R Harris¹  Elizabeth R Sutton³ 

[1] Pathogen Genomics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK;Biomedical and Life Sciences, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK;Department of Zoology and Peter Medawar Building for Pathogen Research, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

关键词: PacBio sequencing;    Transcriptional regulator;    Prophage;    Cytoplasmic incompatibility;    Genome;    wMel;    wAu;    Wolbachia;   

Others  :  1128429
DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2164-15-928

 received in 2014-04-22, accepted in 2014-10-15,  发布年份 2014

【 摘 要 】

Background

Wolbachia intracellular bacteria can manipulate the reproduction of their arthropod hosts, including inducing sterility between populations known as cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI). Certain strains have been identified that are unable to induce or rescue CI, including wAu from Drosophila. Genome sequencing and comparison with CI-inducing related strain wMel was undertaken in order to better understand the molecular basis of the phenotype.

Results

Although the genomes were broadly similar, several rearrangements were identified, particularly in the prophage regions. Many orthologous genes contained single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) between the two strains, but a subset containing major differences that would likely cause inactivation in wAu were identified, including the absence of the wMel ortholog of a gene recently identified as a CI candidate in a proteomic study. The comparative analyses also focused on a family of transcriptional regulator genes implicated in CI in previous work, and revealed numerous differences between the strains, including those that would have major effects on predicted function.

Conclusions

The study provides support for existing candidates and novel genes that may be involved in CI, and provides a basis for further functional studies to examine the molecular basis of the phenotype.

【 授权许可】

   
2014 Sutton et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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