Journal
GENOME BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
Volume 12, Issue 11, Pages 1975-1987Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evaa175
Keywords
Diaphorina; defensive symbiont; reduced genome; secondary metabolite; diaphorin; hemolysin
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Funding
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science KAKENHI [26292174, 20H02998]
- Tatematsu foundation
- Nagase Science and Technology Foundation
- European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program [742739]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [20H02998, 26292174] Funding Source: KAKEN
- European Research Council (ERC) [742739] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
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The Asian citrus psyllid Diaphorina citri (Insecta: Hemiptera: Psylloidea), a serious pest of citrus species worldwide, harbors vertically transmitted intracellular mutualists, Candidatus Profftella armatura (Profftella_DC, Gammaproteobacteria: Burkholderiales) and Candidatus Carsonella ruddii (Carsonella_DC, Gammaproteobacteria: Oceanospirillales). Whereas Carsonella_DC is a typical nutritional symbiont, Profftella_DC is a unique defensive symbiont with organelle-like features, including intracellular localization within the host, perfect infection in host populations, vertical transmission over evolutionary time, and drastic genome reduction down to much less than 1 Mb. Large parts of the 460-kb genome of Profftella_DC are devoted to genes for synthesizing a polyketide toxin; diaphorin. To better understand the evolution of this unusual symbiont, the present study analyzed the genome of Profftella_Dco, a sister lineage to Profftella_DC, using Diaphorina cf. continua, a host psyllid congeneric with D. citri. The genome of coresiding Carsonella (Carsonella_Dco) was also analyzed. The analysis revealed nearly perfect synteny conservation in these genomes with their counterparts from D. citri. The substitution rate analysis further demonstrated genomic stability of Profftella which is comparable to that of Carsonella. Profftella_Dco and Profftella_DC shared all genes for the biosynthesis of diaphorin, hemolysin, riboflavin, biotin, and carotenoids, underlining multiple roles of Profftella, which may contribute to stabilizing symbiotic relationships with the host. However, acyl carrier proteins were extensively amplified in polyketide synthases DipP and DipT for diaphorin synthesis in Profftella_Dco. This level of acyl carrier protein augmentation, unprecedented in modular polyketide synthases of any known organism, is not thought to influence the polyketide structure but may improve the synthesis efficiency.
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