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Gene Loss in Wolbachia

http://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Wolbachia_pipientis. Gene Loss in Wolbachia. How does an obligately intracellular symbiont differ from a free-living bacterium?. Goals.

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Gene Loss in Wolbachia

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  1. http://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Wolbachia_pipientis Gene Loss in Wolbachia How does an obligately intracellular symbiont differ from a free-living bacterium?

  2. Goals • To demonstrate the power and utility of Bioinformatics to students in my genetics, microbiology and cell biology classes • To help students (and myself) learn to use these tools on real data. • To see if there is a common set of genes shared with other obligately intracellular parasites/endosymbionts (eg. Buchneria, Rickettsia, Wigglesworthia, etc.)

  3. Approach:reinventing the...

  4. Phylogenomics of the Reproductive Parasite WolbachiapipientiswMel: A Streamlined Genome Overrun by Mobile Genetic Elements Wu et al PLoS Biology | http://biology.plosjournals.orgMarch 2004 | Volume 2 | Issue 3 | Page 0327

  5. wMelGenome Features Genome size 1,267,782 Predicted CDS 1,270 Average gene length 852 Percent coding 85.4% Assigned function 719 (56.6%) Conserved hypothetical 123 (9.7%) Unknown function 91 (7.2%) – (in 2004) Hypothetical 337 (26.5%) Transfer RNA 34 Ribosomal RNA 1 each of 5S, 16S, 23S Structural RNAs 2 Prophage 3 GC content 35.2% DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020069.t001

  6. There is more than one kind of wheel out there!

  7. Approaches/Ideas • Use published work as a guide to validate what we are doing • Phylogenetic Profiler to compare the genomes of various endosymbionts • BLAST searches using genes with unknown function • Protein database tools to look for functional domains in genes with unknown function

  8. Foreseeable Problems http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&hl=en&client=firefox-a&sa=N&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&biw=1366&bih=638&tbm=isch&tbnid=OsGCgNryFKx3HM:&imgrefurl=http://findingrest.blogspot.com/2010/09/hurdles.html&docid=Woa9Uw2lzY8m_M&imgurl=http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mP2bjjd5WTY/TI8KB-hIaiI/AAAAAAAABvg/Cvy68ClXkhE/s1600/Hurdles_Runner.gif&w=451&h=443&ei=a6xaT7n9LoLF0AGyrcDSDw&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=772&vpy=83&dur=161&hovh=222&hovw=227&tx=127&ty=109&sig=107588080868887692847&page=2&tbnh=143&tbnw=146&start=21&ndsp=26&ved=1t:429,r:10,s:21

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  10. Little Steps at First! http://www.google.com/imgres?start=202&um=1&hl=en&client=firefox-a&sa=N&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&biw=1366&bih=638&addh=36&tbm=isch&tbnid=HQa1l76Ctw2gHM:&imgrefurl=http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fchat/2358682/posts&docid=kWMWLfJzEZtlpM&imgurl=http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/littleceeg/obamahurdle.jpg&w=500&h=338&ei=La1aTvfGO3J0AGEmumcDw&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=695&vpy=136&dur=593&hovh=184&hovw=273&tx=161&ty=118&sig=107588080868887692847&page=9&tbnh=140&tbnw=195&ndsp=25&ved=1t:429,r:3,s:202

  11. The Biggest Hurdle? The Laws of Physics “A tenured, associate professor at rest tends to stay at rest unless a force can overcome his inertia.”* Thanks for the push ASM! * anonymous

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