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Determination of Repeat Number and Expression States of Phase-Variable Loci Through Next Generation Sequencing and
Luke R Green1, Richard D Haigh1, Christopher D Bayliss2
1Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.
Abstract:
Phase variation (PV) enables high frequency, reversible switches in expression of genetic loci across numerous species of bacteria. A major mechanism of PV in bacteria is the use of slipped strand mispairing across simple sequence repeats (SSRs). The generation and online availability of genomic datasets enables a comprehensive analysis of the distribution and composition of SSRs across multiple bacterial genomes of a species. PhasomeIt is a program that was developed to rapidly identify SSRs, to determine whether these SSRs mediate PV and to find homologous PV loci across multiple genomes. We describe use of this program for analysis of neisserial genomes. We further describe a method to reassemble specific PV loci to allow analysis of large repeat tracts which are often poorly assembled due to inherent drawbacks of the Illumina next generation sequencing (NGS) platform. These methodologies allow for rapid analysis of a major mechanism of PV across numerous species of Neisseria and other bacterial species.
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