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Article Dans Une Revue Nucleic Acids Research Année : 2021

Cassette recruitment in the chromosomal Integron of Vibrio cholerae

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Integrons are genetic systems conferring to bacteria a rapid adaptation capability. The integron integrase is able to capture, stockpile and shuffle novel functions embedded in cassettes. This involves the recognition of both substrates, the attI site, and the cassette associated attC sites. Integrons can be sedentary and chromosomally located (SCI) or, carried by conjugative plasmids (Mobile Integron, MI), hence favoring their dissemination among bacteria. Here, for the first time, we investigate the cassette recruitment in the Vibrio cholerae SCI during conjugation and natural transformation. We demonstrated that horizontally transferred cassette can be recruited inside the chromosomal integron. The endogenous integrase expression is sufficiently triggered, after SOS response induction mediated by the entry of single-stranded cassettes during conjugation and natural transformation, to mediate significant cassette insertion. We demonstrate that the attIA insertion is preferential, despite the presence of 180 attC sites in the integron array. Thanks to the presence of a promoter in the attIA site vicinity, all these newly inserted cassettes are expressed and prone to adaptive selection. We also show that the RecA protein is critical for cassette recruitment in V. cholerae SCI but not in MIs. Moreover, a contrario to MIs, the V. cholerae SCI is not active in others bacterial hosts. MIs might have evolved from the SCIs by overcoming host factors, which would explain their large dissemination in bacteria and their role in the antibioresistance expansion.
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hal-03084487 , version 1 (22-12-2020)

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Claire Vit, Egill Richard, Florian Fournes, Clémence Whiteway, Xavier Eyer, et al.. Cassette recruitment in the chromosomal Integron of Vibrio cholerae. Nucleic Acids Research, 2021, 49 (10), pp.5654-5670. ⟨10.1093/nar/gkab412⟩. ⟨hal-03084487⟩
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