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Closing the gaps on the viral photosystem‐I psaDCAB gene organization
Marine photosynthesis is largely driven by cyanobacteria, namely Synechococcus and Prochlorococcus. Genes encoding for photosystem (PS) I and II reaction centre proteins are found in cyanophages and are believed to increase their fitness. Two viral PSI gene arrangements are known, psaJF→C→A→B→K→E→D...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5019241/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26310718 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.13036 |
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author | Roitman, Sheila Flores‐Uribe, José Philosof, Alon Knowles, Ben Rohwer, Forest Ignacio‐Espinoza, J. Cesar Sullivan, Matthew B. Cornejo‐Castillo, Francisco M. Sánchez, Pablo Acinas, Silvia G. Dupont, Chris L. Béjà, Oded |
author_facet | Roitman, Sheila Flores‐Uribe, José Philosof, Alon Knowles, Ben Rohwer, Forest Ignacio‐Espinoza, J. Cesar Sullivan, Matthew B. Cornejo‐Castillo, Francisco M. Sánchez, Pablo Acinas, Silvia G. Dupont, Chris L. Béjà, Oded |
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description | Marine photosynthesis is largely driven by cyanobacteria, namely Synechococcus and Prochlorococcus. Genes encoding for photosystem (PS) I and II reaction centre proteins are found in cyanophages and are believed to increase their fitness. Two viral PSI gene arrangements are known, psaJF→C→A→B→K→E→D and psaD→C→A→B. The shared genes between these gene cassettes and their encoded proteins are distinguished by %G + C and protein sequence respectively. The data on the psaD→C→A→B gene organization were reported from only two partial gene cassettes coming from Global Ocean Sampling stations in the Pacific and Indian oceans. Now we have extended our search to 370 marine stations from six metagenomic projects. Genes corresponding to both PSI gene arrangements were detected in the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic oceans, confined to a strip along the equator (30°N and 30°S). In addition, we found that the predicted structure of the viral PsaA protein from the psaD→C→A→B organization contains a lumenal loop conserved in PsaA proteins from Synechococcus, but is completely absent in viral PsaA proteins from the psaJF→C→A→B→K→E→D gene organization and most Prochlorococcus strains. This may indicate a co‐evolutionary scenario where cyanophages containing either of these gene organizations infect cyanobacterial ecotypes biogeographically restricted to the 30°N and 30°S equatorial strip. |
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spelling | pubmed-50192412016-09-23 Closing the gaps on the viral photosystem‐I psaDCAB gene organization Roitman, Sheila Flores‐Uribe, José Philosof, Alon Knowles, Ben Rohwer, Forest Ignacio‐Espinoza, J. Cesar Sullivan, Matthew B. Cornejo‐Castillo, Francisco M. Sánchez, Pablo Acinas, Silvia G. Dupont, Chris L. Béjà, Oded Environ Microbiol Research Articles Marine photosynthesis is largely driven by cyanobacteria, namely Synechococcus and Prochlorococcus. Genes encoding for photosystem (PS) I and II reaction centre proteins are found in cyanophages and are believed to increase their fitness. Two viral PSI gene arrangements are known, psaJF→C→A→B→K→E→D and psaD→C→A→B. The shared genes between these gene cassettes and their encoded proteins are distinguished by %G + C and protein sequence respectively. The data on the psaD→C→A→B gene organization were reported from only two partial gene cassettes coming from Global Ocean Sampling stations in the Pacific and Indian oceans. Now we have extended our search to 370 marine stations from six metagenomic projects. Genes corresponding to both PSI gene arrangements were detected in the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic oceans, confined to a strip along the equator (30°N and 30°S). In addition, we found that the predicted structure of the viral PsaA protein from the psaD→C→A→B organization contains a lumenal loop conserved in PsaA proteins from Synechococcus, but is completely absent in viral PsaA proteins from the psaJF→C→A→B→K→E→D gene organization and most Prochlorococcus strains. This may indicate a co‐evolutionary scenario where cyanophages containing either of these gene organizations infect cyanobacterial ecotypes biogeographically restricted to the 30°N and 30°S equatorial strip. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2015-10-14 2015-12 /pmc/articles/PMC5019241/ /pubmed/26310718 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.13036 Text en © 2015 The Authors. Environmental Microbiology published by Society for Applied Microbiology and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Articles Roitman, Sheila Flores‐Uribe, José Philosof, Alon Knowles, Ben Rohwer, Forest Ignacio‐Espinoza, J. Cesar Sullivan, Matthew B. Cornejo‐Castillo, Francisco M. Sánchez, Pablo Acinas, Silvia G. Dupont, Chris L. Béjà, Oded Closing the gaps on the viral photosystem‐I psaDCAB gene organization |
title | Closing the gaps on the viral photosystem‐I
psaDCAB gene organization |
title_full | Closing the gaps on the viral photosystem‐I
psaDCAB gene organization |
title_fullStr | Closing the gaps on the viral photosystem‐I
psaDCAB gene organization |
title_full_unstemmed | Closing the gaps on the viral photosystem‐I
psaDCAB gene organization |
title_short | Closing the gaps on the viral photosystem‐I
psaDCAB gene organization |
title_sort | closing the gaps on the viral photosystem‐i
psadcab gene organization |
topic | Research Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5019241/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26310718 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.13036 |
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