Journal
VIRUSES-BASEL
Volume 10, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/v10100576
Keywords
gene gang; Chlorovirus; synteny; collinearity; monocistronic; gene neighborhood; functional annotation; operon; mosaicism; genomic island; genomic metabolon
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- Stanley Medical Research Institute [11R-0001]
- NSF-EPSCoR grant [EPS-1004094]
- NIH from the COBRE program of the National Center for Research Resources [P20-RR15635]
- Agricultural Research Division/University of Nebraska
- National Science Foundation [1736030]
- university bridge funding
- [DOE-DE-EE0003142]
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Chloroviruses (family Phycodnaviridae) are dsDNA viruses found throughout the world's inland waters. The open reading frames in the genomes of 41 sequenced chloroviruses (330 +/- 40 kbp each) representing three virus types were analyzed for evidence of evolutionarily conserved local genomic contexts, the organization of biological information into units of a scale larger than a gene. Despite a general loss of synteny between virus types, we informatically detected a highly conserved genomic context defined by groups of three or more genes that we have termed gene gangs. Unlike previously described local genomic contexts, the definition of gene gangs requires only that member genes be consistently co-localized and are not constrained by strand, regulatory sites, or intervening sequences (and therefore represent a new type of conserved structural genomic element). An analysis of functional annotations and transcriptomic data suggests that some of the gene gangs may organize genes involved in specific biochemical processes, but that this organization does not involve their coordinated expression.
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