Distribution of chromosome length variation in natural isolates of Escherichia coli.

Abstract:

:Large-scale variation in chromosome size was analyzed in 35 natural isolates of Escherichia coli by physical mapping with a restriction enzyme whose sites are restricted to rDNA operons. Although the genetic maps and chromosome lengths of the laboratory strains E. coli K12 and Salmonella enterica sv. Typhimurium LT2 are highly congruent, chromosome lengths among natural strains of E. coli can differ by as much as 1 Mb, ranging from 4.5 to 5.5 Mb in length. This variation has been generated by multiple changes dispersed throughout the genome, and these alterations are correlated; i.e., additions to one portion of the chromosome are often accompanied by additions to other chromosomal regions. This pattern of variation is most probably the result of selection acting to maintain equal distances between the replication origin and terminus on each side of the circular chromosome. There is a large phylogenetic component to the observed size variation: natural isolates from certain subgroups of E. coli have consistently larger chromosome, suggesting that much of the additional DNA in larger chromosomes is shared through common ancestry. There is no significant correlation between genome sizes and growth rates, which counters the view that the streamlining of bacterial genomes is a response to selection for faster growth rates in natural populations.

journal_name

Mol Biol Evol

authors

Bergthorsson U,Ochman H

doi

10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025847

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1998-01-01 00:00:00

pages

6-16

issue

1

eissn

0737-4038

issn

1537-1719

journal_volume

15

pub_type

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