English
 
Help Privacy Policy Disclaimer
  Advanced SearchBrowse

Item

ITEM ACTIONSEXPORT

Released

Journal Article

Gain and loss of multiple genes during the evolution of Helicobacter pylori

MPS-Authors
/persons/resource/persons81905

Gressmann,  Helga
Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Max Planck Society;

/persons/resource/persons82017

Linz,  Bodo
Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Max Planck Society;

/persons/resource/persons82098

Pleissner,  Klaus-Peter
Core Facilities / Bioinformatics, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Max Planck Society;

/persons/resource/persons82137

Schlapbach,  Ralph
Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Max Planck Society;

/persons/resource/persons82047

Meyer,  Thomas F.
Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Max Planck Society;

/persons/resource/persons81778

Achtman,  Mark
Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Max Planck Society;

External Resource
No external resources are shared
Fulltext (restricted access)
There are currently no full texts shared for your IP range.
Fulltext (public)

PLOS_Gen_2005_1_419.pdf
(Publisher version), 2MB

Supplementary Material (public)

Figure_S1.pdf
(Supplementary material), 2MB

Figure_S2.pdf
(Supplementary material), 314KB

Table_S2.txt
(Supplementary material), 4KB

Figure_S4.pdf
(Supplementary material), 11KB

Figure_S3.pdf
(Supplementary material), 2MB

Figure_S5.pdf
(Supplementary material), 51KB

Table_S1.txt
(Supplementary material), 153KB

Table_S3.xls
(Supplementary material), 28KB

Table_S4.xls
(Supplementary material), 287KB

Table_S5.txt
(Supplementary material), 15KB

Table_S6.pdf
(Supplementary material), 8KB

Table_S7.pdf
(Supplementary material), 48KB

Citation

Gressmann, H., Linz, B., Ghai, R., Pleissner, K.-P., Schlapbach, R., Yamaoka, Y., et al. (2005). Gain and loss of multiple genes during the evolution of Helicobacter pylori. PLoS Genetics, 1(4), 419-428.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-000E-C428-C
Abstract
Sequence diversity and gene content distinguish most isolates of Helicobacter pylori. Even greater sequence differences differentiate distinct populations of H. pylori from different continents, but it was not clear whether these populations also differ in gene content. To address this question, we tested 56 globally representative strains of H. pylori and four strains of Helicobacter acinonychis with whole genome microarrays. Of the weighted average of 1,531 genes present in the two sequenced genomes, 25% are absent in at least one strain of H. pylori and 21% were absent or variable in H. acinonychis. We extrapolate that the core genome present in all isolates of H. pylori contains 1,111 genes. Variable genes tend to be small and possess unusual GC content; many of them have probably been imported by horizontal gene transfer. Phylogenetic trees based on the microarray data differ from those based on sequences of seven genes from the core genome. These discrepancies are due to homoplasies resulting from independent gene loss by deletion or recombination in multiple strains, which distort phylogenetic patterns. The patterns of these discrepancies versus population structure allow a reconstruction of the timing of the acquisition of variable genes within this species. Variable genes that are located within the cag pathogenicity island were apparently first acquired en bloc after speciation. In contrast, most other variable genes are of unknown function or encode restriction/modification enzymes, transposases, or outer membrane proteins. These seem to have been acquired prior to speciation of H. pylori and were subsequently lost by convergent evolution within individual strains. Thus, the use of microarrays can reveal patterns of gene gain or loss when examined within a phylogenetic context that is based on sequences of core genes.