期刊
JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY
卷 232, 期 -, 页码 2-11出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2015.09.008
关键词
Genomic islands; Pathogenicity islands; Resistance islands; Symbiotic islands; Metabolic islands; Horizontal gene transfer; Genome plasticity
Bacteria are highly diverse organisms that are able to adapt to a broad range of environments and hosts due to their high genomic plasticity. Horizontal gene transfer plays a pivotal role in this genome plasticity and in evolution by leaps through the incorporation of large blocks of genome sequences, ordinarily known as genomic islands (GEIs). GEIs may harbor genes encoding virulence, metabolism, antibiotic resistance and symbiosis-related functions, namely pathogenicity islands (PAIs), metabolic islands (MIs), resistance islands (RIs) and symbiotic islands (SIs). Although many software for the prediction of GEIs exist, they only focus on PAI prediction and present other limitations, such as complicated installation and inconvenient user interfaces. Here, we present GIPSy, the genomic island prediction software, a standalone and user-friendly software for the prediction of GEIs, built on our previously developed pathogenicity island prediction software (PIPS). We also present four application cases in which we crosslink data from literature to PAls, MIs, RIs and SIs predicted by GIPSy. Briefly, GIPSy correctly predicted the following previously described GEIs: 13 PAls larger than 30 kb in Escherichia coli CFT073; 1 MI for Burkholderia pseudomallei 1(96243, which seems to be a miscellaneous island; 1 RI of Acinetobacter baumannii AYE, named AbaRl; and, 1 SI of Mesorhizobium loti MAFF303099 presenting a mosaic structure. GIPSy is the first life-style-specific genomic island prediction software to perform analyses of PAIs, MIs, RIs and SIs, opening a door for a better understanding of bacterial genome plasticity and the adaptation to new traits. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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