Early fate of exogenous promoters in E. coli

Author:

Yousuf Malikmohamed12,Iuliani Ilaria13,Veetil Reshma T45ORCID,Seshasayee Aswin Sai Narain4,Sclavi Bianca13ORCID,Cosentino Lagomarsino Marco6789ORCID

Affiliation:

1. LBPA, UMR 8113, CNRS, ENS Paris-Saclay, 61 Avenue du President Wilson, 94235 Cachan, France

2. Current Affiliation: Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH16 4SB, UK

3. Current Affiliation: LCQB, UMR 7238, Sorbonne Université, 4 Place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France

4. National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore 560065, Karnataka, India

5. School of Life science, The University of Trans-Disciplinary Health Sciences and Technology (TDU), Bengaluru 560064, Karnataka, India

6. Sorbonne Université, Campus Pierre and Marie Curie, 4 Place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France

7. CNRS, UMR7238, 4 Place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France

8. Current Affiliation: IFOM, FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, Via Adamello 16, 20143 Milan, Italy

9. Current Affiliation: Physics Department, University of Milan, and I.N.F.N., Via Celoria 16, 20133 Milan, Italy

Abstract

Abstract Gene gain by horizontal gene transfer is a major pathway of genome innovation in bacteria. The current view posits that acquired genes initially need to be silenced and that a bacterial chromatin protein, H-NS, plays a role in this silencing. However, we lack direct observation of the early fate of a horizontally transferred gene to prove this theory. We combine sequencing, flow cytometry and sorting, followed by microscopy to monitor gene expression and its variability after large-scale random insertions of a reporter gene in a population of Escherichia coli bacteria. We find that inserted promoters have a wide range of gene-expression variability related to their location. We find that high-expression clones carry insertions that are not correlated with H-NS binding. Conversely, binding of H-NS correlates with silencing. Finally, while most promoters show a common level of extrinsic noise, some insertions show higher noise levels. Analysis of these high-noise clones supports a scenario of switching due to transcriptional interference from divergent ribosomal promoters. Altogether, our findings point to evolutionary pathways where newly-acquired genes are not necessarily silenced, but may immediately explore a wide range of expression levels to probe the optimal ones.

Funder

IFCPAR

CEFIPRA

Wellcome Trust

IFOM

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

Genetics

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