title: The diversity and evolution of Wolbachia ankyrin repeat domain genes.
abstract: Ankyrin repeat domain-encoding genes are common in the eukaryotic and viral domains of life, but they are rare in bacteria, the exception being a few obligate or facultative intracellular Proteobacteria species. Despite having a reduced genome, the arthropod strains of the alphaproteobacterium Wolbachia contain an unusually high number of ankyrin repeat domain-encoding genes ranging from 23 in wMel to 60 in wPip strain. This group of genes has attracted considerable attention for their astonishing large number as well as for the fact that ankyrin proteins are known to participate in protein-protein interactions, suggesting that they play a critical role in the molecular mechanism that determines host-Wolbachia symbiotic interactions. We present a comparative evolutionary analysis of the wMel-related ankyrin repeat domain-encoding genes present in different Drosophila-Wolbachia associations. Our results show that the ankyrin repeat domain-encoding genes change in size by expansion and contraction mediated by short directly repeated sequences. We provide examples of intra-genic recombination events and show that these genes are likely to be horizontally transferred between strains with the aid of bacteriophages. These results confirm previous findings that the Wolbachia genomes are evolutionary mosaics and illustrate the potential that these bacteria have to generate diversity in proteins potentially involved in the symbiotic interactions.
authors: Department of Environmental and Natural Resources Management, University of Western Greece, Agrinio, Greece.
authors: Stefanos
authors: S
authors: Siozios
authors: Panagiotis
authors: P
authors: Ioannidis
authors: Lisa
authors: L
authors: Klasson
authors: Siv G E
authors: SG
authors: Andersson
authors: Henk R
authors: HR
authors: Braig
authors: Kostas
authors: K
authors: Bourtzis
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D017089:Ankyrin Repeat / Q000235:genetics*; D017487:Ankyrins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D001435:Bacteriophages / Q000235:genetics; D001483:Base Sequence; D004330:Drosophila / Q000145:classification / Q000382:microbiology; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D022761:Gene Transfer, Horizontal; D014644:Genetic Variation; D016680:Genome, Bacterial; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D013559:Symbiosis / Q000235:genetics*; D020577:Wolbachia / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D017487:Ankyrins; D001426:Bacterial Proteins
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