期刊
GENOME BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
卷 4, 期 5, 页码 628-640出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evs043
关键词
homologous recombination; horizontal transfer; population genomics; species; Helicobacter pylori
资金
- JSPS
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT) of the Japanese Government
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [21370001]
- MEXT
- Urakami Foundation
- Takeda Foundation
- Sumitomo Foundation
- Kato Memorial Bioscience Foundation
- Naito Foundation
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [22406026, 24113506, 24790412] Funding Source: KAKEN
The nature of a species remains a fundamental and controversial question. The era of genome/metagenome sequencing has intensified the debate in prokaryotes because of extensive horizontal gene transfer. In this study, we conducted a genome-wide survey of outcrossing homologous recombination in the highly sexual bacterial species Helicobacter pylori. We conducted multiple genome alignment and analyzed the entire data set of one-to-one orthologous genes for its global strains. We detected mosaic structures due to repeated recombination events and discordant phylogenies throughout the genomes of this species. Most of these genes including the core set of genes and horizontally transferred genes showed at least one recombination event. Taking into account the relationship between the nucleotide diversity and the minimum number of recombination events per nucleotide, we evaluated the recombination rate in every gene. The rate appears constant across the genome, but genes with a particularly high or low recombination rate were detected. Interestingly, genes with high recombination included those for DNA transformation and for basic cellular functions, such as biosynthesis and metabolism. Several highly divergent genes with a high recombination rate included those for host interaction, such as outer membrane proteins and lipopolysaccharide synthesis. These results provide a global picture of genome-wide distribution of outcrossing homologous recombination in a bacterial species for the first time, to our knowledge, and illustrate how a species can be shaped by mutual homologous recombination.
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