期刊
G3-GENES GENOMES GENETICS
卷 5, 期 12, 页码 2843-2856出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1534/g3.115.021931
关键词
Wolbachia; Drosophila; symbiosis; development; cytoplasmic incompatibility
资金
- National Environment Research Council Ph.D. studentship
- Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia postdoctoral fellowship [SFRH/BPD/73420/2010]
- Stowers Institute for Medical Research
- National Science Foundation [NSF-IOS-1456545]
- Human Frontier Science Program [RGY0093/2012]
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/L002817/1]
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [SFRH/BPD/73420/2010] Funding Source: FCT
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/L002817/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Natural Environment Research Council [1279844] Funding Source: researchfish
- BBSRC [BB/L002817/1] Funding Source: UKRI
Symbiotic interactions between microbes and their multicellular hosts have manifold biological consequences. To better understand how bacteria maintain symbiotic associations with animal hosts, we analyzed genome-wide gene expression for the endosymbiotic -proteobacteria Wolbachia pipientis across the entire life cycle of Drosophila melanogaster. We found that the majority of Wolbachia genes are expressed stably across the D. melanogaster life cycle, but that 7.8% of Wolbachia genes exhibit robust stage- or sex-specific expression differences when studied in the whole-organism context. Differentially-expressed Wolbachia genes are typically up-regulated after Drosophila embryogenesis and include many bacterial membrane, secretion system, and ankyrin repeat-containing proteins. Sex-biased genes are often organized as small operons of uncharacterized genes and are mainly up-regulated in adult Drosophila males in an age-dependent manner. We also systematically investigated expression levels of previously-reported candidate genes thought to be involved in host-microbe interaction, including those in the WO-A and WO-B prophages and in the Octomom region, which has been implicated in regulating bacterial titer and pathogenicity. Our work provides comprehensive insight into the developmental dynamics of gene expression for a widespread endosymbiont in its natural host context, and shows that public gene expression data harbor rich resources to probe the functional basis of the Wolbachia-Drosophila symbiosis and annotate the transcriptional outputs of the Wolbachia genome.
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