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Transfer of Non-coding DNA Drives Regulatory Rewiring in Bacteria


ABSTRACT: The rapid pace of evolution in bacteria is widely attributed to the promiscuous horizontal transfer and recombination of protein-coding genes. However, it is not known whether the same forces also drive the evolution of non-coding regulatory regions. Here we demonstrate that regulatory region can M-bM-^@M-^XswitchM-bM-^@M-^Y between non-homologous alternatives and that such switching is ubiquitous, occurring across the bacterial domain. We show that such regulatory switching strongly impacts promoter architecture and expression divergence. We further show that regulatory transfer facilitates rapid phenotypic diversification of a human pathogen. This regulatory mobility enables bacterial genes to access a vast pool of potential regulatory elements, facilitating efficient exploration of the regulatory landscape. Examination of 2 E. coli strains in 2 conditions

ORGANISM(S): Escherichia coli CFT073

SUBMITTER: Yaara Oren 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-59468 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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Transfer of noncoding DNA drives regulatory rewiring in bacteria.

Oren Yaara Y   Smith Mark B MB   Johns Nathan I NI   Kaplan Zeevi Millie M   Biran Dvora D   Ron Eliora Z EZ   Corander Jukka J   Wang Harris H HH   Alm Eric J EJ   Pupko Tal T  

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20141013 45


Understanding the mechanisms that generate variation is a common pursuit unifying the life sciences. Bacteria represent an especially striking puzzle, because closely related strains possess radically different metabolic and ecological capabilities. Differences in protein repertoire arising from gene transfer are currently considered the primary mechanism underlying phenotypic plasticity in bacteria. Although bacterial coding plasticity has been extensively studied in previous decades, little is  ...[more]

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