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Sequential displacement of Type VI Secretion System effector genes leads to
evolution of diverse immunity gene arrays in Vibrio cholerae
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Kirchberger PC
; Unterweger D
; Provenzano D
; Pukatzki S
; Boucher Y
Sci Rep
2017[Mar]; 7
(?): 45133
PMID28327641
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Type VI secretion systems (T6SS) enable bacteria to engage neighboring cells in
contact-dependent competition. In Vibrio cholerae, three chromosomal clusters
each encode a pair of effector and immunity genes downstream of those encoding
the T6SS structural machinery for effector delivery. Different combinations of
effector-immunity proteins lead to competition between strains of V. cholerae,
which are thought to be protected only from the toxicity of their own effectors.
Screening of all publically available V. cholerae genomes showed that numerous
strains possess long arrays of orphan immunity genes encoded in the 3' region of
their T6SS clusters. Phylogenetic analysis reveals that these genes are highly
similar to those found in the effector-immunity pairs of other strains,
indicating acquisition by horizontal gene transfer. Extensive genomic comparisons
also suggest that successive addition of effector-immunity gene pairs replaces
ancestral effectors, yet retains the cognate immunity genes. The retention of old
immunity genes perhaps provides protection against nearby kin bacteria in which
the old effector was not replaced. This mechanism, combined with frequent
homologous recombination, is likely responsible for the high diversity of T6SS
effector-immunity gene profiles observed for V. cholerae and closely related
species.
|Computational Biology/methods
[MESH]
|Gene Transfer, Horizontal
[MESH]
|Genome, Bacterial
[MESH]
|Genomics/methods
[MESH]
|Immunity/*genetics
[MESH]
|Molecular Sequence Annotation
[MESH]
|Phylogeny
[MESH]
|Recombination, Genetic
[MESH]
|Type VI Secretion Systems/*genetics/*immunology
[MESH]