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Porubiaková, Otília, Havlík, Jan, Indu, Šedý, Michal, Přepechalová, Veronika, Bartas, Martin, Bidula, Stefan 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3790-7138, Šťastný, Jiří, Fojta, Miroslav and Brázda, Václav
(2023)
Variability of inverted repeats in all available genomes of bacteria.
Microbiology Spectrum, 11 (4).
ISSN 2165-0497
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Abstract
Noncanonical secondary structures in nucleic acids have been studied intensively in recent years. Important biological roles of cruciform structures formed by inverted repeats (IRs) have been demonstrated in diverse organisms, including humans. Using Palindrome analyser, we analyzed IRs in all accessible bacterial genome sequences to determine their frequencies, lengths, and localizations. IR sequences were identified in all species, but their frequencies differed significantly across various evolutionary groups. We detected 242,373,717 IRs in all 1,565 bacterial genomes. The highest mean IR frequency was detected in the Tenericutes (61.89 IRs/kbp) and the lowest mean frequency was found in the Alphaproteobacteria (27.08 IRs/kbp). IRs were abundant near genes and around regulatory, tRNA, transfer-messenger RNA (tmRNA), and rRNA regions, pointing to the importance of IRs in such basic cellular processes as genome maintenance, DNA replication, and transcription. Moreover, we found that organisms with high IR frequencies were more likely to be endosymbiotic, antibiotic producing, or pathogenic. On the other hand, those with low IR frequencies were far more likely to be thermophilic. This first comprehensive analysis of IRs in all available bacterial genomes demonstrates their genomic ubiquity, nonrandom distribution, and enrichment in genomic regulatory regions.
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| Additional Information: | Funding information: This research was funded by the Czech Science Foundation, grant number 22-21903S, and the SYMBIT project (registration number CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/15_003/0000477) financed by the ERDF. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | bacteria domain,bacterial genome analysis,inverted repeats,palindrome analyser,physiology,ecology,immunology and microbiology(all),genetics,microbiology (medical),cell biology,infectious diseases ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1300/1314 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Pharmacy (former - to 2024) |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Pathogen Biology Group |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Jul 2023 14:31 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Sep 2024 17:23 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/92602 |
| DOI: | 10.1128/spectrum.01648-23 |
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