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Bentley SD Chater KF Cerdeño-Tárraga AM Challis GL Thomson NR James KD Harris DE Quail MA Kieser H Harper D Bateman A Brown S Chandra G Chen CW Collins M Cronin A Fraser A Goble A Hidalgo J Hornsby T Howarth S Huang CH Kieser T Larke L Murphy L Oliver K O'Neil S Rabbinowitsch E Rajandream MA Rutherford K Rutter S Seeger K Saunders D Sharp S Squares R Squares S Taylor K Warren T Wietzorrek A Woodward J Barrell BG Parkhill J Hopwood DA 《Nature》2002,417(6885):141-147
Streptomyces coelicolor is a representative of the group of soil-dwelling, filamentous bacteria responsible for producing most natural antibiotics used in human and veterinary medicine. Here we report the 8,667,507 base pair linear chromosome of this organism, containing the largest number of genes so far discovered in a bacterium. The 7,825 predicted genes include more than 20 clusters coding for known or predicted secondary metabolites. The genome contains an unprecedented proportion of regulatory genes, predominantly those likely to be involved in responses to external stimuli and stresses, and many duplicated gene sets that may represent 'tissue-specific' isoforms operating in different phases of colonial development, a unique situation for a bacterium. An ancient synteny was revealed between the central 'core' of the chromosome and the whole chromosome of pathogens Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Corynebacterium diphtheriae. The genome sequence will greatly increase our understanding of microbial life in the soil as well as aiding the generation of new drug candidates by genetic engineering. 相似文献
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Quantitative epigenetics 总被引:4,自引:0,他引:4
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The genetic basis of most conditions characterized by congenital contractures is largely unknown. Here we show that mutations in the embryonic myosin heavy chain (MYH3) gene cause Freeman-Sheldon syndrome (FSS), one of the most severe multiple congenital contracture (that is, arthrogryposis) syndromes, and nearly one-third of all cases of Sheldon-Hall syndrome (SHS), the most common distal arthrogryposis. FSS and SHS mutations affect different myosin residues, demonstrating that MYH3 genotype is predictive of phenotype. A structure-function analysis shows that nearly all of the MYH3 mutations are predicted to interfere with myosin's catalytic activity. These results add to the growing body of evidence showing that congenital contractures are a shared outcome of prenatal defects in myofiber force production. Elucidation of the genetic basis of these syndromes redefines congenital contractures as unique defects of the sarcomere and provides insights about what has heretofore been a poorly understood group of disorders. 相似文献
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Complete genome sequence of a multiple drug resistant Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi CT18. 总被引:33,自引:0,他引:33
J Parkhill G Dougan K D James N R Thomson D Pickard J Wain C Churcher K L Mungall S D Bentley M T Holden M Sebaihia S Baker D Basham K Brooks T Chillingworth P Connerton A Cronin P Davis R M Davies L Dowd N White J Farrar T Feltwell N Hamlin A Haque T T Hien S Holroyd K Jagels A Krogh T S Larsen S Leather S Moule P O'Gaora C Parry M Quail K Rutherford M Simmonds J Skelton K Stevens S Whitehead B G Barrell 《Nature》2001,413(6858):848-852
Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi (S. typhi) is the aetiological agent of typhoid fever, a serious invasive bacterial disease of humans with an annual global burden of approximately 16 million cases, leading to 600,000 fatalities. Many S. enterica serovars actively invade the mucosal surface of the intestine but are normally contained in healthy individuals by the local immune defence mechanisms. However, S. typhi has evolved the ability to spread to the deeper tissues of humans, including liver, spleen and bone marrow. Here we have sequenced the 4,809,037-base pair (bp) genome of a S. typhi (CT18) that is resistant to multiple drugs, revealing the presence of hundreds of insertions and deletions compared with the Escherichia coli genome, ranging in size from single genes to large islands. Notably, the genome sequence identifies over two hundred pseudogenes, several corresponding to genes that are known to contribute to virulence in Salmonella typhimurium. This genetic degradation may contribute to the human-restricted host range for S. typhi. CT18 harbours a 218,150-bp multiple-drug-resistance incH1 plasmid (pHCM1), and a 106,516-bp cryptic plasmid (pHCM2), which shows recent common ancestry with a virulence plasmid of Yersinia pestis. 相似文献
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Genome sequence of Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague 总被引:59,自引:0,他引:59
Parkhill J Wren BW Thomson NR Titball RW Holden MT Prentice MB Sebaihia M James KD Churcher C Mungall KL Baker S Basham D Bentley SD Brooks K Cerdeño-Tárraga AM Chillingworth T Cronin A Davies RM Davis P Dougan G Feltwell T Hamlin N Holroyd S Jagels K Karlyshev AV Leather S Moule S Oyston PC Quail M Rutherford K Simmonds M Skelton J Stevens K Whitehead S Barrell BG 《Nature》2001,413(6855):523-527
The Gram-negative bacterium Yersinia pestis is the causative agent of the systemic invasive infectious disease classically referred to as plague, and has been responsible for three human pandemics: the Justinian plague (sixth to eighth centuries), the Black Death (fourteenth to nineteenth centuries) and modern plague (nineteenth century to the present day). The recent identification of strains resistant to multiple drugs and the potential use of Y. pestis as an agent of biological warfare mean that plague still poses a threat to human health. Here we report the complete genome sequence of Y. pestis strain CO92, consisting of a 4.65-megabase (Mb) chromosome and three plasmids of 96.2 kilobases (kb), 70.3 kb and 9.6 kb. The genome is unusually rich in insertion sequences and displays anomalies in GC base-composition bias, indicating frequent intragenomic recombination. Many genes seem to have been acquired from other bacteria and viruses (including adhesins, secretion systems and insecticidal toxins). The genome contains around 150 pseudogenes, many of which are remnants of a redundant enteropathogenic lifestyle. The evidence of ongoing genome fluidity, expansion and decay suggests Y. pestis is a pathogen that has undergone large-scale genetic flux and provides a unique insight into the ways in which new and highly virulent pathogens evolve. 相似文献
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Mutations in the colony stimulating factor 1 receptor (CSF1R) gene cause hereditary diffuse leukoencephalopathy with spheroids 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Rademakers R Baker M Nicholson AM Rutherford NJ Finch N Soto-Ortolaza A Lash J Wider C Wojtas A DeJesus-Hernandez M Adamson J Kouri N Sundal C Shuster EA Aasly J MacKenzie J Roeber S Kretzschmar HA Boeve BF Knopman DS Petersen RC Cairns NJ Ghetti B Spina S Garbern J Tselis AC Uitti R Das P Van Gerpen JA Meschia JF Levy S Broderick DF Graff-Radford N Ross OA Miller BB Swerdlow RH Dickson DW Wszolek ZK 《Nature genetics》2012,44(2):200-205
Hereditary diffuse leukoencephalopathy with spheroids (HDLS) is an autosomal-dominant central nervous system white-matter disease with variable clinical presentations, including personality and behavioral changes, dementia, depression, parkinsonism, seizures and other phenotypes. We combined genome-wide linkage analysis with exome sequencing and identified 14 different mutations affecting the tyrosine kinase domain of the colony stimulating factor 1 receptor (encoded by CSF1R) in 14 families with HDLS. In one kindred, we confirmed the de novo occurrence of the mutation. Follow-up sequencing identified an additional CSF1R mutation in an individual diagnosed with corticobasal syndrome. In vitro, CSF-1 stimulation resulted in rapid autophosphorylation of selected tyrosine residues in the kinase domain of wild-type but not mutant CSF1R, suggesting that HDLS may result from partial loss of CSF1R function. As CSF1R is a crucial mediator of microglial proliferation and differentiation in the brain, our findings suggest an important role for microglial dysfunction in HDLS pathogenesis. 相似文献
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Gardner MJ Hall N Fung E White O Berriman M Hyman RW Carlton JM Pain A Nelson KE Bowman S Paulsen IT James K Eisen JA Rutherford K Salzberg SL Craig A Kyes S Chan MS Nene V Shallom SJ Suh B Peterson J Angiuoli S Pertea M Allen J Selengut J Haft D Mather MW Vaidya AB Martin DM Fairlamb AH Fraunholz MJ Roos DS Ralph SA McFadden GI Cummings LM Subramanian GM Mungall C Venter JC Carucci DJ Hoffman SL Newbold C Davis RW Fraser CM Barrell B 《Nature》2002,419(6906):498-511
The parasite Plasmodium falciparum is responsible for hundreds of millions of cases of malaria, and kills more than one million African children annually. Here we report an analysis of the genome sequence of P. falciparum clone 3D7. The 23-megabase nuclear genome consists of 14 chromosomes, encodes about 5,300 genes, and is the most (A + T)-rich genome sequenced to date. Genes involved in antigenic variation are concentrated in the subtelomeric regions of the chromosomes. Compared to the genomes of free-living eukaryotic microbes, the genome of this intracellular parasite encodes fewer enzymes and transporters, but a large proportion of genes are devoted to immune evasion and host-parasite interactions. Many nuclear-encoded proteins are targeted to the apicoplast, an organelle involved in fatty-acid and isoprenoid metabolism. The genome sequence provides the foundation for future studies of this organism, and is being exploited in the search for new drugs and vaccines to fight malaria. 相似文献
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Massive gene decay in the leprosy bacillus 总被引:73,自引:0,他引:73
Cole ST Eiglmeier K Parkhill J James KD Thomson NR Wheeler PR Honoré N Garnier T Churcher C Harris D Mungall K Basham D Brown D Chillingworth T Connor R Davies RM Devlin K Duthoy S Feltwell T Fraser A Hamlin N Holroyd S Hornsby T Jagels K Lacroix C Maclean J Moule S Murphy L Oliver K Quail MA Rajandream MA Rutherford KM Rutter S Seeger K Simon S Simmonds M Skelton J Squares R Squares S Stevens K Taylor K Whitehead S Woodward JR Barrell BG 《Nature》2001,409(6823):1007-1011
Leprosy, a chronic human neurological disease, results from infection with the obligate intracellular pathogen Mycobacterium leprae, a close relative of the tubercle bacillus. Mycobacterium leprae has the longest doubling time of all known bacteria and has thwarted every effort at culture in the laboratory. Comparing the 3.27-megabase (Mb) genome sequence of an armadillo-derived Indian isolate of the leprosy bacillus with that of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (4.41 Mb) provides clear explanations for these properties and reveals an extreme case of reductive evolution. Less than half of the genome contains functional genes but pseudogenes, with intact counterparts in M. tuberculosis, abound. Genome downsizing and the current mosaic arrangement appear to have resulted from extensive recombination events between dispersed repetitive sequences. Gene deletion and decay have eliminated many important metabolic activities including siderophore production, part of the oxidative and most of the microaerophilic and anaerobic respiratory chains, and numerous catabolic systems and their regulatory circuits. 相似文献
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