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Background: RNA-seq and its variant differential RNA-seq (dRNA-seq) are today routine methods for transcriptome analysis in bacteria. While expression profiling and transcriptional start site prediction are standard tasks today, the problem of identifying transcriptional units in a genome-wide fashion is still not solved for prokaryotic systems.
Results: We present RNASEG, an algorithm for the prediction of transcriptional units based on dRNA-seq data. A key feature of the algorithm is that, based on the data, it distinguishes between transcribed and un-transcribed genomic segments. Furthermore, the program provides many different predictions in a single run, which can be used to infer the significance of transcriptional units in a consensus procedure. We show the performance of our method based on a well-studied dRNA-seq data set for Helicobacter pylori.
Conclusions: With our algorithm it is possible to identify operons and 5'- and 3'-UTRs in an automated fashion. This alleviates the need for labour intensive manual inspection and enables large-scale studies in the area of comparative transcriptomics.
Die Forschungsergebnisse der letzten Jahre liefern immer mehr Hinweise darauf, dass eine klare Unterscheidung von Fitness- und Virulenzfaktoren in vielen Fällen, insbesondere bei extraintestinal pathogenen Escherichia coli, nicht möglich ist. So lässt sich auch bei Harnwegsinfektionen verursachenden E. coli den bakteriellen und teils stammspezifischen Faktoren oftmals nicht eindeutig eine typische Virulenz- oder Fitness-assoziierte Funktion zuordnen. Zudem werden in neueren Studien immer häufiger atypische uropathogene Isolate von E. coli beschrieben, die in ihrem „Virulenzrepertoire“ deutlich von typischen uropathogenen E. coli (UPEC) abweichen, da sie keine klassischen UPEC-Virulenzfaktoren aufweisen. In dieser Arbeit wurden daher Virulenzeigenschaften typischer als auch atypischer UPEC untersucht.
Der Effekt eines bestimmten bakteriellen Faktors auf den Wirtsorganismus wird teilweise indirekt durch sekundäre Modifikation bedingt. Dies offenbart sich beispielsweise am Autotransporterprotein AIDA-I, dessen Konformation durch posttranslationale Glykosylierung stabilisiert wird, wodurch es seine Funktionalität als Adhäsin erhält. Da bisherige Studien zum AIDA-I homologen Autotransporterprotein Antigen 43 (Ag43) auf der Analyse von künstlich glykosyliertem Protein basieren, lag ein Schwerpunkt dieser Arbeit auf der Untersuchung der natürlichen Glykosylierung von Ag43 in UPEC Stamm 536. Es zeigte sich, dass beide Ag43-Varianten von E. coli Stamm 536 natürlicherweise glykosyliert vorliegen, der Grad der Glykosylierung jedoch wesentlich geringer ausfällt als bei natürlich glykosyliertem AIDA-I. Inwieweit die natürliche Glykosylierung von Ag43 zu dessen Funktionalität beiträgt, kann erst durch die Identifizierung der für die Ag43-Glykosylierung verantwortlichen Glykosyltransferase geklärt werden.
Die in silico-Analyse des Genoms von UPEC Stamm 536 für potentielle Glykosyltransferasen von Ag43 lieferte neun Kandidatengene. Die Gene wurde teils im Wildtyp-Hintergrund, teils im rfaH-negativen Hintergrund von E. coli Stamm 536 deletiert und die Mutanten im Anschluss phänotypisch charakterisiert. Die Deletion der Kandidatengene waaF, waaG und waaQ, die für Glykosyltransferasen des LPS-Biosynthesesystems kodieren, führte zu den deutlichsten Unterschieden in Bezug auf Motilität, Curli/Zellulose-Produktion, Hämolyseaktivität und Expression von Typ 1 Fimbrien. Der Einfluss des „knock-out“ der Kandidatengene auf die Glykosylierung von Ag43 muss in weiterführenden Studien untersucht werden.
Zur Charakterisierung des uropathogenen Virulenzpotentials verschiedener E. coli Stämme in vivo hat sich in den letzten Jahren das murine Modell der aufsteigenden Harnwegsinfektion etabliert. Mit Hilfe dieses Modells wurden in der vorliegenden Arbeit sowohl spezifische Deletionsmutanten prototypischer UPEC als auch atypische E. coli Harnwegsisolate bezüglich ihrer Urovirulenz getestet und verglichen. Bei der Untersuchung der klassischen UPEC lag der Fokus auf der möglichen Urovirulenzmodulation durch die folgenden spezifischen Faktoren: dem Autotransporterprotein Ag43, dem „Response regulator“ UvrY, dem Polyketid Colibactin sowie dem Exopolysaccharid poly-β-1,6-N-Acetylglucosamin (PGA). Für Ag43 war bei der Etablierung einer Harnwegsinfektion keine eindeutige Funktion feststellbar. Es ist jedoch denkbar, dass Ag43 zur Langzeitpersistenz im Harnwegstrakt beitragen kann, was in weiteren Studien belegt werden sollte. Die Expression von UvrY in der natürlichen uvrY-Deletionsmutante UPEC Stamm 536 ließ keine Erhöhung des Urovirulenzpotentials im Mausmodell erkennen. In diesem Zusammenhang konnte allerdings gezeigt werden, dass die Expression des Genotoxins Colibactin in UPEC Stamm 536 dessen Virulenz signifikant herabsetzte. Die Untersuchungen zur Relevanz des Exopolysaccharids PGA belegen deutlich, dass PGA für die Langzeitpersistenz von E. coli im murinen Harnwegstrakt benötigt wird. Für die initiale Kolonisierung scheint PGA hingegen keine Bedeutung zu haben. Für atypische UPEC Isolate, die Charakteristika von STEC und EAEC zeigen und sich in ihrem Virulenzmuster deutlich von prototypischen UPEC unterscheiden, ließ sich im murinen Modell der aufsteigenden Harnwegsinfektion, verglichen mit dem UPEC Modellorganismus 536, ein ähnliches, teils sogar erhöhtes uropathogenes Virulenzpotential nachweisen.
Die Ergebnisse der Arbeit untermauern somit die heutige Vorstellung bezüglich der Entwicklung und Etablierung einer Harnwegsinfektion, dass verschiedene E. coli Stämme unterschiedliche (Kontroll-) Mechanismen entwickelt haben, um erfolgreich den Harnwegstrakt kolonisieren und eine Infektion auslösen zu können. Zudem weisen sie darauf hin, dass diese Fähigkeit nicht auf Isolate typischer phylogenetischer UPEC Entwicklungslinien beschränkt und auf das Vorhandensein charakteristischer UPEC Virulenzfaktoren angewiesen ist.
Background
Advances in high-throughput sequencing have led to the discovery of widespread transcription of natural antisense transcripts (NATs) in a large number of organisms, where these transcripts have been shown to play important roles in the regulation of gene expression. Likewise, the existence of NATs has been observed in Plasmodium but our understanding towards their genome-wide distribution remains incomplete due to the limited depth and uncertainties in the level of strand specificity of previous datasets.
Results
To gain insights into the genome-wide distribution of NATs in P. falciparum, we performed RNA-ligation based strand-specific RNA sequencing at unprecedented depth. Our data indicate that 78.3% of the genome is transcribed during blood-stage development. Moreover, our analysis reveals significant levels of antisense transcription from at least 24% of protein-coding genes and that while expression levels of NATs change during the intraerythrocytic developmental cycle (IDC), they do not correlate with the corresponding mRNA levels. Interestingly, antisense transcription is not evenly distributed across coding regions (CDSs) but strongly clustered towards the 3′-end of CDSs. Furthermore, for a significant subset of NATs, transcript levels correlate with mRNA levels of neighboring genes.
Finally, we were able to identify the polyadenylation sites (PASs) for a subset of NATs, demonstrating that at least some NATs are polyadenylated. We also mapped the PASs of 3443 coding genes, yielding an average 3′ untranslated region length of 523 bp.
Conclusions
Our strand-specific analysis of the P. falciparum transcriptome expands and strengthens the existing body of evidence that antisense transcription is a substantial phenomenon in P. falciparum. For a subset of neighboring genes we find that sense and antisense transcript levels are intricately linked while other NATs appear to be regulated independently of mRNA transcription. Our deep strand-specific dataset will provide a valuable resource for the precise determination of expression levels as it separates sense from antisense transcript levels, which we find to often significantly differ. In addition, the extensive novel data on 3′ UTR length will allow others to perform searches for regulatory motifs in the UTRs and help understand post-translational regulation in P. falciparum.
Enteric pathogens often cycle between virulent and saprophytic lifestyles. To endure these frequent changes in nutrient availability and composition bacteria possess an arsenal of regulatory and metabolic genes allowing rapid adaptation and high flexibility. While numerous proteins have been characterized with regard to metabolic control in pathogenic bacteria, small non-coding RNAs have emerged as additional regulators of metabolism. Recent advances in sequencing technology have vastly increased the number of candidate regulatory RNAs and several of them have been found to act at the interface of bacterial metabolism and virulence factor expression. Importantly, studying these riboregulators has not only provided insight into their metabolic control functions but also revealed new mechanisms of post-transcriptional gene control. This review will focus on the recent advances in this area of host-microbe interaction and discuss how regulatory small RNAs may help coordinate metabolism and virulence of enteric pathogens.
Phenotypically identical cells can dramatically vary with respect to behavior during their lifespan and this variation is reflected in their molecular composition such as the transcriptomic landscape. Singlecell transcriptomics using next-generation transcript sequencing (RNA-seq) is now emerging as a powerful tool to profile cell-to-cell variability on a genomic scale. Its application has already greatly impacted our conceptual understanding of diverse biological processes with broad implications for both basic and clinical research. Different single-cell RNAseq protocols have been introduced and are reviewed here – each one with its own strengths and current limitations. We further provide an overview of the biological questions single-cell RNA-seq has been used to address, the major findings obtained from such studies, and current challenges and expected future developments in this booming field.
Role of oxygen and the OxyR protein in the response to iron limitation in Rhodobacter sphaeroides
(2014)
Background: High intracellular levels of unbound iron can contribute to the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) via the Fenton reaction, while depletion of iron limits the availability of iron-containing proteins, some of which have important functions in defence against oxidative stress. Vice versa increased ROS levels lead to the damage of proteins with iron sulphur centres. Thus, organisms have to coordinate and balance their responses to oxidative stress and iron availability. Our knowledge of the molecular mechanisms underlying the co-regulation of these responses remains limited. To discriminate between a direct cellular response to iron limitation and indirect responses, which are the consequence of increased levels of ROS, we compared the response of the alpha-proteobacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides to iron limitation in the presence or absence of oxygen. Results: One third of all genes with altered expression under iron limitation showed a response that was independent of oxygen availability. The other iron-regulated genes showed different responses in oxic or anoxic conditions and were grouped into six clusters based on the different expression profiles. For two of these clusters, induction in response to iron limitation under oxic conditions was dependent on the OxyR regulatory protein. An OxyR mutant showed increased ROS production and impaired growth under iron limitation. Conclusion: Some R. sphaeroides genes respond to iron limitation irrespective of oxygen availability. These genes therefore reflect a "core iron response" that is independent of potential ROS production under oxic, iron-limiting conditions. However, the regulation of most of the iron-responsive genes was biased by oxygen availability. Most strikingly, the OxyR-dependent activation of a subset of genes upon iron limitation under oxic conditions, including many genes with a role in iron metabolism, revealed that elevated ROS levels were an important trigger for this response. OxyR thus provides a regulatory link between the responses to oxidative stress and to iron limitation in R. sphaeroides.
Noncoding RNAs are integral to a wide range of biological processes, including translation, gene regulation, host-pathogen interactions and environmental sensing. While genomics is now a mature field, our capacity to identify noncoding RNA elements in bacterial and archaeal genomes is hampered by the difficulty of de novo identification. The emergence of new technologies for characterizing transcriptome outputs, notably RNA-seq, are improving noncoding RNA identification and expression quantification. However, a major challenge is to robustly distinguish functional outputs from transcriptional noise. To establish whether annotation of existing transcriptome data has effectively captured all functional outputs, we analysed over 400 publicly available RNA-seq datasets spanning 37 different Archaea and Bacteria. Using comparative tools, we identify close to a thousand highly-expressed candidate noncoding RNAs. However, our analyses reveal that capacity to identify noncoding RNA outputs is strongly dependent on phylogenetic sampling. Surprisingly, and in stark contrast to protein-coding genes, the phylogenetic window for effective use of comparative methods is perversely narrow: aggregating public datasets only produced one phylogenetic cluster where these tools could be used to robustly separate unannotated noncoding RNAs from a null hypothesis of transcriptional noise. Our results show that for the full potential of transcriptomics data to be realized, a change in experimental design is paramount: effective transcriptomics requires phylogeny-aware sampling.
Microcin C (McC) is a peptide-nucleotide antibiotic produced by Escherichia coli cells harboring a plasmid-borne operon mccABCDE. The heptapeptide MccA is converted into McC by adenylation catalyzed by the MccB enzyme. Since MccA is a substrate for MccB, a mechanism that regulates the MccA/MccB ratio likely exists. Here, we show that transcription from a promoter located upstream of mccA directs the synthesis of two transcripts: a short highly abundant transcript containing the mccA ORF and a longer minor transcript containing mccA and downstream ORFs. The short transcript is generated when RNA polymerase terminates transcription at an intrinsic terminator located in the intergenic region between the mccA and mccB genes. The function of this terminator is strongly attenuated by upstream mcc sequences. Attenuation is relieved and transcription termination is induced when ribosome binds to the mccA ORF. Ribosome binding also makes the mccA RNA exceptionally stable. Together, these two effects-ribosome induced transcription termination and stabilization of the message-account for very high abundance of the mccA transcript that is essential for McC production. The general scheme appears to be evolutionary conserved as ribosome-induced transcription termination also occurs in a homologous operon from Helicobacter pylori.
Base J, beta-d-glucosyl-hydroxymethyluracil, is an epigenetic modification of thymine in the nuclear DNA of flagellated protozoa of the order Kinetoplastida. J is enriched at sites involved in RNA polymerase ( RNAP) II initiation and termination. Reduction of J in Leishmania tarentolae via growth in BrdU resulted in cell death and indicated a role of J in the regulation of RNAP II termination. To further explore J function in RNAP II termination among kinetoplastids and avoid indirect effects associated with BrdU toxicity and genetic deletions, we inhibited J synthesis in Leishmania major and Trypanosoma brucei using DMOG. Reduction of J in L. major resulted in genome-wide defects in transcription termination at the end of polycistronic gene clusters and the generation of antisense RNAs, without cell death. In contrast, loss of J in T. brucei did not lead to genome-wide termination defects; however, the loss of J at specific sites within polycistronic gene clusters led to altered transcription termination and increased expression of downstream genes. Thus, J regulation of RNAP II transcription termination genome-wide is restricted to Leishmania spp., while in T. brucei it regulates termination and gene expression at specific sites within polycistronic gene clusters.
The Two-Component System (TCS) AbrA1/A2 from Streptomyces coelicolor M145 is a negative regulator of antibiotic production and morphological differentiation. In this work we show that it is able to auto-regulate its expression, exerting a positive induction of its own operon promoter, and that its activation is dependent on the presence of iron. The overexpression of the abrA2 response regulator (RR) gene in the mutant DabrA1/A2 results in a toxic phenotype. The reason is an excess of phosphorylated AbrA2, as shown by phosphoablative and phosphomimetic AbrA2 mutants. Therefore, non-cognate histidine kinases (HKs) or small phospho-donors may be responsible for AbrA2 phosphorylation in vivo. The results suggest that in the parent strain S. coelicolor M145 the correct amount of phosphorylated AbrA2 is adjusted through the phosphorylation-dephosphorylation activity rate of the HK AbrA1. Furthermore, the ABC transporter system, which is part of the four-gene operon comprising AbrA1/A2, is necessary to de-repress antibiotic production in the TCS null mutant. Finally, in order to test the possible biotechnological applications of the DabrA1/A2 strain, we demonstrate that the production of the antitumoral antibiotic oviedomycin is duplicated in this strain as compared with the production obtained in the wild type, showing that this strain is a good host for heterologous antibiotic production. Thus, this genetically modified strain could be interesting for the biotechnology industry.