Evolutionary conservation of essential and highly expressed genes in <it>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</it>
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The constant increase in development and spread of bacterial resistance to antibiotics poses a serious threat to human health. New sequencing technologies are now on the horizon that will yield massive increases in our capacity for D...
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| author | Scharfe Maren Jarek Michael Klawonn Frank Dötsch Andreas Blöcker Helmut Häussler Susanne |
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| description | <p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The constant increase in development and spread of bacterial resistance to antibiotics poses a serious threat to human health. New sequencing technologies are now on the horizon that will yield massive increases in our capacity for DNA sequencing and will revolutionize the drug discovery process. Since essential genes are promising novel antibiotic targets, the prediction of gene essentiality based on genomic information has become a major focus.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>In this study we demonstrate that pooled sequencing is applicable for the analysis of sequence variations of strain collections with more than 10 individual isolates. Pooled sequencing of 36 clinical <it>Pseudomonas aeruginosa </it>isolates revealed that essential and highly expressed proteins evolve at lower rates, whereas extracellular proteins evolve at higher rates. We furthermore refined the list of experimentally essential <it>P. aeruginosa </it>genes, and identified 980 genes that show no sequence variation at all. Among the conserved nonessential genes we found several that are involved in regulation, motility and virulence, indicating that they represent factors of evolutionary importance for the lifestyle of a successful environmental bacterium and opportunistic pathogen.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>The detailed analysis of a comprehensive set of <it>P. aeruginosa </it>genomes in this study clearly disclosed detailed information of the genomic makeup and revealed a large set of highly conserved genes that play an important role for the lifestyle of this microorganism. Sequencing strain collections enables for a detailed and extensive identification of sequence variations as potential bacterial adaptation processes, e.g., during the development of antibiotic resistance in the clinical setting and thus may be the basis to uncover putative targets for novel treatment strategies.</p> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-bee27e5311ef4e038e12e03aec4b9e2e2022-12-21T18:35:10ZengBMCBMC Genomics1471-21642010-04-0111123410.1186/1471-2164-11-234Evolutionary conservation of essential and highly expressed genes in <it>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</it>Scharfe MarenJarek MichaelKlawonn FrankDötsch AndreasBlöcker HelmutHäussler Susanne<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The constant increase in development and spread of bacterial resistance to antibiotics poses a serious threat to human health. New sequencing technologies are now on the horizon that will yield massive increases in our capacity for DNA sequencing and will revolutionize the drug discovery process. Since essential genes are promising novel antibiotic targets, the prediction of gene essentiality based on genomic information has become a major focus.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>In this study we demonstrate that pooled sequencing is applicable for the analysis of sequence variations of strain collections with more than 10 individual isolates. Pooled sequencing of 36 clinical <it>Pseudomonas aeruginosa </it>isolates revealed that essential and highly expressed proteins evolve at lower rates, whereas extracellular proteins evolve at higher rates. We furthermore refined the list of experimentally essential <it>P. aeruginosa </it>genes, and identified 980 genes that show no sequence variation at all. Among the conserved nonessential genes we found several that are involved in regulation, motility and virulence, indicating that they represent factors of evolutionary importance for the lifestyle of a successful environmental bacterium and opportunistic pathogen.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>The detailed analysis of a comprehensive set of <it>P. aeruginosa </it>genomes in this study clearly disclosed detailed information of the genomic makeup and revealed a large set of highly conserved genes that play an important role for the lifestyle of this microorganism. Sequencing strain collections enables for a detailed and extensive identification of sequence variations as potential bacterial adaptation processes, e.g., during the development of antibiotic resistance in the clinical setting and thus may be the basis to uncover putative targets for novel treatment strategies.</p>http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/11/234 |
| spellingShingle | Scharfe Maren Jarek Michael Klawonn Frank Dötsch Andreas Blöcker Helmut Häussler Susanne Evolutionary conservation of essential and highly expressed genes in <it>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</it> BMC Genomics |
| title | Evolutionary conservation of essential and highly expressed genes in <it>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</it> |
| title_full | Evolutionary conservation of essential and highly expressed genes in <it>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</it> |
| title_fullStr | Evolutionary conservation of essential and highly expressed genes in <it>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</it> |
| title_full_unstemmed | Evolutionary conservation of essential and highly expressed genes in <it>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</it> |
| title_short | Evolutionary conservation of essential and highly expressed genes in <it>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</it> |
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