Nature Communications (Sep 2021)

Dynamics of the compartmentalized Streptomyces chromosome during metabolic differentiation

  • Virginia S. Lioy,
  • Jean-Noël Lorenzi,
  • Soumaya Najah,
  • Thibault Poinsignon,
  • Hervé Leh,
  • Corinne Saulnier,
  • Bertrand Aigle,
  • Sylvie Lautru,
  • Annabelle Thibessard,
  • Olivier Lespinet,
  • Pierre Leblond,
  • Yan Jaszczyszyn,
  • Kevin Gorrichon,
  • Nelle Varoquaux,
  • Ivan Junier,
  • Frédéric Boccard,
  • Jean-Luc Pernodet,
  • Stéphanie Bury-Moné

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25462-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Streptomyces bacteria have a linear chromosome, with core genes located in the central region and gene clusters for specialized metabolite biosynthesis found in the ‘arms’. Here, Lioy et al. show that such chromosome structure correlates with genetic compartmentalization, and the onset of metabolic differentiation is accompanied by a rearrangement of chromosome architecture.