Quantifying intrachromosomal GC heterogeneity in prokaryotic genomes

Pedro Bernaola-Galván, José L. Oliver, Pedro Carpena, Oliver Clay, Giorgio Bernardi

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The sequencing of prokaryotic genomes covering a wide taxonomic range has sparked renewed interest in intrachromosomal compositional (GC) heterogeneity, largely in view of lateral transfers. We present here a brief overview of some methods for visualizing and quantifying GC variation in prokaryotes. We used these methods to examine heterogeneity levels in sequenced prokaryotes, for a range of scales or stringencies. Some species are consistently homogeneous, whereas others are markedly heterogeneous in comparison, in particular Aeropyrum pernix, Xylella fastidiosa, Mycoplasma genitalium, Enterococcus faecalis, Bacillus subtilis, Pyrobaculum aerophilum, Vibrio vulnificus chromosome I, Deinococcus radiodurans chromosome II and Halobacterium. As we discuss here, the wide range of heterogeneities calls for reexamination of an accepted belief, namely that the endogenous DNA of bacteria and archaea should typically exhibit low intrachromosomal GC contrasts. Supplementary results for all species analyzed are available at our website: http://bioinfo2.ugr.es/prok.

Idioma originalInglés estadounidense
Páginas (desde-hasta)121-133
Número de páginas13
PublicaciónGene
Volumen333
N.º1-2
DOI
EstadoPublicada - may. 26 2004
Publicado de forma externa

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