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Lianjun Sun
China Agricultural University
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Purpose
Curtobacterium flaccumfaciens is a Gram-positive bacterium which has been isolated from different plants and abiotic environment. Curtobacterium. flaccumfaciens pv. flaccumfaciens (Cff) is a pathogenic bacterium that infects legume, which is causing great economic losses. At the genomic level, the metabolic and phylogenetic characteristics, and differences in pathogenicity between pathogenic and nonpathogenic C. flaccumfaciens strains have not been analyzed in detail.
Methods
Therefore, in order to discuss the differences in genome, phylogeny, gene function and mobile genetic elements between pathogenic and nonpathogenic strains, pangenomics and comparative genomics were used in this study to analyze 12 C. flaccumfaciens strains.
Result
The pangenome of C. flaccumfaciens is open. Phylogenetic analysis showed that there was no correlation between the phylogeny and pathogenicity of C. flaccumfaciens. KAAS annotation of the core genome shows that the citrate cycle was incomplete. In addition, gene islands analysis of the three pathogenicity-related genes encoding for pectate lyase, serine protease and cellulases showed that they only existed in the Cffs and LMG3645 strains. LMG3645 might be a pathogenic strain.
Conclusion
This study clearly and reliably revealed the differences between the pathogenic and nonpathogenic strains of C. flaccumfaciens at the genomic level, and paves the way for further research on its pathogenicity.
Keywords
Phaseolus vulgaris, pathogenicity, Curtobacterium flaccumfaciens, mobile genetic elements, pangenome
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Table S1 Genes and COGs shared by Cff and LMG 3645 but not by other 8 strains. (A) RNA processing and modification; (B) chromatin structure and dynamics; (C) energy production and conversion; (D) cell cycle control, cell division, chromosome partitioning; (E) amino acid transport and metabolism; (F) nucleotide transport and metabolism; (G) carbohydrate transport and metabolism; (H) coenzyme transport and metabolism; (I) lipid transport and metabolism; (J) translation, ribosomal structure, and biogenesis; (K) transcription; (L) replication, recombination, and repair; (M) cell wall/membrane/envelope biogenesis; (N) cell motility; (O) posttranslational modification, protein turnover, chaperones; (P) inorganic ion transport and metabolism; (Q) secondary metabolite biosynthesis, transport, and catabolism; (S) function unknown; (T) signal transduction mechanisms; (U) intracellular trafficking, secretion, and vesicular transport; (V) defense mechanisms; and (W) extracellular structures.
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Purpose
Curtobacterium flaccumfaciens is a Gram-positive bacterium which has been isolated from different plants and abiotic environment. Curtobacterium. flaccumfaciens pv. flaccumfaciens (Cff) is a pathogenic bacterium that infects legume, which is causing great economic losses. At the genomic level, the metabolic and phylogenetic characteristics, and differences in pathogenicity between pathogenic and nonpathogenic C. flaccumfaciens strains have not been analyzed in detail.
Methods
Therefore, in order to discuss the differences in genome, phylogeny, gene function and mobile genetic elements between pathogenic and nonpathogenic strains, pangenomics and comparative genomics were used in this study to analyze 12 C. flaccumfaciens strains.
Result
The pangenome of C. flaccumfaciens is open. Phylogenetic analysis showed that there was no correlation between the phylogeny and pathogenicity of C. flaccumfaciens. KAAS annotation of the core genome shows that the citrate cycle was incomplete. In addition, gene islands analysis of the three pathogenicity-related genes encoding for pectate lyase, serine protease and cellulases showed that they only existed in the Cffs and LMG3645 strains. LMG3645 might be a pathogenic strain.
Conclusion
This study clearly and reliably revealed the differences between the pathogenic and nonpathogenic strains of C. flaccumfaciens at the genomic level, and paves the way for further research on its pathogenicity.
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