Nucleic Acids Research, 2002, Vol. 30, No. 13 2987-2994
© 2002 Oxford University Press
Origin and fate of repeats in bacteria
Structure et Dynamique des Génomes, Institut Jacques Monod, Tour 43-44, 1° Étage, 4 Place Jussieu, F-75251 Paris Cedex 05, France, 1 Atelier de Bioinformatique, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France and 2 URA2171, Unité GGB, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
We investigated 53 complete bacterial chromosomes for intrachromosomal repeats. In previous studies on eukaryote chromosomes, we proposed a model for the dynamics of repeats based on the continuous genesis of tandem repeats, followed by an active process of high deletion rate, counteracted by rearrangement events that may prevent the repeats from being deleted. The present study of long repeats in the genomes of Bacteria and Archaea suggests that our model of interspersed repeats dynamics may apply to them. Thus the duplication process might be a consequence of very ancient mechanisms shared by all three domains. Moreover, we show that there is a strong negative correlation between nucleotide composition bias and the repeat density of genomes. We hypothesise that in highly biased genomes, non-duplicated small repeats arise more frequently by random effects and are used as primers for duplication mechanisms, leading to a higher density of large repeats.
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