The evolution of chronic infection strategies in the alpha-proteobacteria |
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Authors: | Batut Jacques Andersson Siv G E O'Callaghan David |
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Institution: | Laboratory of Plant Microbe Interactions, CNRS-INRA, BP27, 31326 Castanet-Tolosan Cedex, France. |
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Abstract: | Many of the alpha-proteobacteria establish long-term, often chronic, interactions with higher eukaryotes. These interactions range from pericellular colonization through facultative intracellular multiplication to obligate intracellular lifestyles. A common feature in this wide range of interactions is modulation of host-cell proliferation, which sometimes leads to the formation of tumour-like structures in which the bacteria can grow. Comparative genome analyses reveal genome reduction by gene loss in the intracellular alpha-proteobacterial lineages, and genome expansion by gene duplication and horizontal gene transfer in the free-living species. In this review, we discuss alpha-proteobacterial genome evolution and highlight strategies and mechanisms used by these bacteria to infect and multiply in eukaryotic cells. |
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