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Mining Bacillus subtilis chromosome heterogeneities using hidden Markov models.

Pierre Nicolas1, Laurent Bize, Florence Muri

  • 1Laboratoire de Mathématique, Informatique et Génome, INRA, Route de Saint-Cyr, F-78026 Versailles cedex, France. nicolas@versailles.inra.fr

Nucleic Acids Research
|March 9, 2002
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A novel statistical method segments the Bacillus subtilis genome by DNA composition, revealing distinct genomic regions. This analysis identified known and new horizontally transferred DNA, highlighting their AT-rich nature and potential remote origins.

Area of Science:

  • Genomics
  • Bioinformatics
  • Computational Biology

Background:

  • The Bacillus subtilis genome exhibits compositional heterogeneity.
  • Understanding DNA composition is crucial for identifying functional regions and evolutionary events.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To apply a new statistical segmentation method for analyzing the Bacillus subtilis chromosome.
  • To identify and characterize DNA compositional classes and their biological significance.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a hidden Markov model with maximum likelihood parameter estimation (expectation-maximization algorithm) for DNA sequence segmentation.
  • Compared segmented compositional classes with existing genomic annotations, including physical maps, homologies, and repeat regions.

Main Results:

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  • The method successfully segmented the genome, distinguishing coding and non-coding strands.
  • Identified heterogeneities linked to horizontal gene transfer, hydrophobic protein coding, and highly expressed genes.
  • Discovered 14 new regions of atypical composition, 9 known prophages, with 10 total gene transfer regions identified.
  • Detected regions were significantly AT-rich compared to the host genome.

Conclusions:

  • The statistical segmentation method effectively reveals genomic compositional variations in Bacillus subtilis.
  • The identified AT-rich regions suggest significant horizontal gene transfer events with potentially distant origins.
  • This approach aids in discovering novel genomic features and understanding genome evolution.