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Baptista RP, Li Y, Sateriale A, Sanders MJ, Brooks KL, Tracey A, Ansell BRE, Jex AR, Cooper GW, Smith ED, Xiao R, Dumaine JE, Georgeson P, Pope BJ, Berriman M, Striepen B, Cotton JA, Kissinger JC. Long-read assembly and comparative evidence-based reanalysis of Cryptosporidium genome sequences reveal expanded transporter repertoire and duplication of entire chromosome ends including subtelomeric regions. Genome Res 2022; 32:203-213. [PMID: 34764149 PMCID: PMC8744675 DOI: 10.1101/gr.275325.121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2021] [Accepted: 11/10/2021] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Cryptosporidiosis is a leading cause of waterborne diarrheal disease globally and an important contributor to mortality in infants and the immunosuppressed. Despite its importance, the Cryptosporidium community has only had access to a good, but incomplete, Cryptosporidium parvum IOWA reference genome sequence. Incomplete reference sequences hamper annotation, experimental design, and interpretation. We have generated a new C. parvum IOWA genome assembly supported by Pacific Biosciences (PacBio) and Oxford Nanopore long-read technologies and a new comparative and consistent genome annotation for three closely related species: C. parvum, Cryptosporidium hominis, and Cryptosporidium tyzzeri We made 1926 C. parvum annotation updates based on experimental evidence. They include new transporters, ncRNAs, introns, and altered gene structures. The new assembly and annotation revealed a complete Dnmt2 methylase ortholog. Comparative annotation between C. parvum, C. hominis, and C. tyzzeri revealed that most "missing" orthologs are found, suggesting that the biological differences between the species must result from gene copy number variation, differences in gene regulation, and single-nucleotide variants (SNVs). Using the new assembly and annotation as reference, 190 genes are identified as evolving under positive selection, including many not detected previously. The new C. parvum IOWA reference genome assembly is larger, gap free, and lacks ambiguous bases. This chromosomal assembly recovers all 16 chromosome ends, 13 of which are contiguously assembled. The three remaining chromosome ends are provisionally placed. These ends represent duplication of entire chromosome ends including subtelomeric regions revealing a new level of genome plasticity that will both inform and impact future research.
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- Rodrigo P Baptista
- Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
- Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
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- Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
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- Department of Pathology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
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- The Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, CB10 1SA, United Kingdom
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- The Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, CB10 1SA, United Kingdom
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- The Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, CB10 1SA, United Kingdom
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- Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, The University of Melbourne and Population Health and Immunity Division, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville 3052, Australia
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- Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, The University of Melbourne and Population Health and Immunity Division, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville 3052, Australia
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- Department of Clinical Pathology, The University of Melbourne, Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia
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- Department of Clinical Pathology, The University of Melbourne, Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia
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- Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
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- Department of Pathology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
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- Department of Clinical Pathology, The University of Melbourne, Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia
- Melbourne Bioinformatics, The University of Melbourne, Parkville VIC 3010, Australia
- University of Melbourne Centre for Cancer Research, Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia
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- Department of Clinical Pathology, The University of Melbourne, Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia
- Melbourne Bioinformatics, The University of Melbourne, Parkville VIC 3010, Australia
- Department of Surgery (Royal Melbourne Hospital), Melbourne Medical School, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne 3010, Australia
- Department of Medicine, Central Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne 3004, Australia
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- The Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, CB10 1SA, United Kingdom
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- Department of Pathology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
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- The Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, CB10 1SA, United Kingdom
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- Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
- Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
- Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
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Recombination can either help maintain very short telomeres or generate longer telomeres in yeast cells with weak telomerase activity. EUKARYOTIC CELL 2011; 10:1131-42. [PMID: 21666075 DOI: 10.1128/ec.05079-11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Yeast mutants lacking telomerase are able to elongate their telomeres through processes involving homologous recombination. In this study, we investigated telomeric recombination in several mutants that normally maintain very short telomeres due to the presence of a partially functional telomerase. The abnormal colony morphology present in some mutants was correlated with especially short average telomere length and with a requirement for RAD52 for indefinite growth. Better-growing derivatives of some of the mutants were occasionally observed and were found to have substantially elongated telomeres. These telomeres were composed of alternating patterns of mutationally tagged telomeric repeats and wild-type repeats, an outcome consistent with amplification occurring via recombination rather than telomerase. Our results suggest that recombination at telomeres can produce two distinct outcomes in the mutants we studied. In occasional cells, recombination generates substantially longer telomeres, apparently through the roll-and-spread mechanism. However, in most cells, recombination appears limited to helping to maintain very short telomeres. The latter outcome likely represents a simplified form of recombinational telomere maintenance that is independent of the generation and copying of telomeric circles.
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Recombination can cause telomere elongations as well as truncations deep within telomeres in wild-type Kluyveromyces lactis cells. EUKARYOTIC CELL 2010; 10:226-36. [PMID: 21148753 DOI: 10.1128/ec.00209-10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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In this study, we examined the role of recombination at the telomeres of the yeast Kluyveromyces lactis. We demonstrated that an abnormally long and mutationally tagged telomere was subject to high rates of telomere rapid deletion (TRD) that preferentially truncated the telomere to near-wild-type size. Unlike the case in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, however, there was not a great increase in TRD in meiosis. About half of mitotic TRD events were associated with deep turnover of telomeric repeats, suggesting that telomeres were often cleaved to well below normal length prior to being reextended by telomerase. Despite its high rate of TRD, the long telomere showed no increase in the rate of subtelomeric gene conversion, a highly sensitive test of telomere dysfunction. We also showed that the long telomere was subject to appreciable rates of becoming elongated substantially further through a recombinational mechanism that added additional tagged repeats. Finally, we showed that the deep turnover that occurs within normal-length telomeres was diminished in the absence of RAD52. Taken together, our results suggest that homologous recombination is a significant process acting on both abnormally long and normally sized telomeres in K. lactis.
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Carter SD, Iyer S, Xu J, McEachern MJ, Aström SU. The role of nonhomologous end-joining components in telomere metabolism in Kluyveromyces lactis. Genetics 2007; 175:1035-45. [PMID: 17237517 PMCID: PMC1840097 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.106.067447] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2006] [Accepted: 12/27/2006] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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The relationship between telomeres and nonhomologous end-joining (NHEJ) is paradoxical, as NHEJ proteins are part of the telomere cap, which serves to differentiate telomeres from DNA double-strand breaks. We explored these contradictory functions for NHEJ proteins by investigating their role in Kluyveromyces lactis telomere metabolism. The ter1-4LBsr allele of the TER1 gene resulted in the introduction of sequence altered telomeric repeats and subsequent telomere-telomere fusions (T-TFs). In this background, Lig4 and Ku80 were necessary for T-TFs to form. Nej1, essential for NHEJ at internal positions, was not. Hence, T-TF formation was mediated by an unusual NHEJ mechanism. Rad50 and mre11 strains exhibited stable short telomeres, suggesting that Rad50 and Mre11 were required for telomerase recruitment. Introduction of the ter1-4LBsr allele into these strains failed to result in telomere elongation as normally observed with the ter1-4LBsr allele. Thus, the role of Rad50 and Mre11 in the formation of T-TFs was unclear. Furthermore, rad50 and mre11 mutants had highly increased subtelomeric recombination rates, while ku80 and lig4 mutants displayed moderate increases. Ku80 mutant strains also contained extended single-stranded 3' telomeric overhangs. We concluded that NHEJ proteins have multiple roles at telomeres, mediating fusions of mutant telomeres and ensuring end protection of normal telomeres.
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- Sidney D Carter
- Department of Developmental Biology/Wenner-gren Institute, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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