期刊
APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY
卷 84, 期 17, 页码 -出版社
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01178-18
关键词
Prochlorococcus; genome evolution; genome rearrangement; genomic backbone
资金
- Public Science and Technology Research Fund Projects for Ocean Research [201505003-3]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41522603, 31570172]
- Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology [QNLM2016ORP0303]
- RV Kexue [KEXUE2018G07]
Prochlorococcus is the most abundant and smallest known free-living photosynthetic microorganism and is a key player in marine ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles. Prochlorococcus can be broadly divided into high-light-adapted (HL) and low-light-adapted (LL) clades. In this study, we isolated two low-light-adapted Glade I (LLI) strains from the western Pacific Ocean and obtained their genomic data. We reconstructed Prochlorococcus evolution based on genome rearrangement. Our results showed that genome rearrangement might have played an important role in Prochlorococcus evolution. We also found that the Prochlorococcus clades with streamlined genomes maintained relatively high synteny throughout most of their genomes, and several regions served as rearrangement hotspots. Backbone analysis showed that different clades shared a conserved backbone but also had clade-specific regions, and the genes in these regions were associated with ecological adaptations. IMPORTANCE Prochlorococcus, the most abundant and smallest known free-living photosynthetic microorganism, plays a key role in marine ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles. Prochlorococcus genome evolution is a fundamental issue related to how Prochlorococcus clades adapted to different ecological niches. Recent studies revealed that the gene gain and loss is crucial to the Glade differentiation. The significance of our research is that we interpreted the Prochlorococcus genome evolution from the perspective of genome structure and associated the genome rearrangement with the Prochlorococcus Glade differentiation and subsequent ecological adaptation.
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