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Mapping the Complex Transcriptional Landscape of the Phytopathogenic Bacterium Dickeya dadantii

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Dickeya dadantii is a phytopathogenic bacterium that causes soft rot in a wide range of plant hosts worldwide and a model organism for studying virulence gene regulation. The present study provides a comprehensive and annotated transcriptomic map of D. dadantii obtained by a computational method combining five independent transcriptomic data sets: (i) paired-end RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) data for a precise reconstruction of the RNA landscape; (ii) DNA microarray data providing transcriptional responses to a broad variety of environmental conditions; (iii) longread Nanopore native RNA-seq data for isoform-level transcriptome validation and determination of transcription termination sites; (iv) differential RNA sequencing (dRNA-seq) data for the precise mapping of transcription start sites; (v) in planta DNA microarray data for a comparison of gene expression profiles between in vitro experiments and the early stages of plant infection. Our results show that transcription units sometimes coincide with predicted operons but are generally longer, most of them comprising internal promoters and terminators that generate alternative transcripts of variable gene composition. We characterize the occurrence of transcriptional read-through at terminators, which might play a basal regulation role and explain the extent of transcription beyond the scale of operons. We finally highlight the presence of noncontiguous operons and excludons in the D. dadantii genome, novel genomic arrangements that might contribute to the basal coordination of transcription. The highlighted transcriptional organization may allow D. dadantii to finely adjust its gene expression program for a rapid adaptation to fast-changing environments. IMPORTANCE This is the first transcriptomic map of a Dickeya species. It may therefore significantly contribute to further progress in the field of phytopathogenicity. It is also one of the first reported applications of long-read Nanopore native RNA-seq in prokaryotes. Our findings yield insights into basal rules of coordination of transcription that might be valid for other bacteria and may raise interest in the field of microbiology in general. In particular, we demonstrate that gene expression is coordinated at the scale of transcription units rather than operons, which are larger functional genomic units capable of generating transcripts with variable gene composition for a fine-tuning of gene expression in response to environmental changes. In line with recent studies, our findings indicate that the canonical operon model is insufficient to explain the complexity of bacterial transcriptomes. KEYWORDS phytopathogen, transcriptional regulation, transcription unit, transcriptional read-through, transcription start and termination sites C lassically, bacterial transcription is described with the model of Jacob and Monod based on operons, defined as sets of contiguous and functionally related genes cotranscribed from a single promoter up to a single terminator (1). In recent years, however, accumulating studies have demonstrated that most operons actually comprise internal promoters and terminators, generating transcripts of variable gene
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hal-03715992 , version 1 (07-07-2022)

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Raphaël Forquet, Xuejiao Jiang, William Nasser, Florence Hommais, Sylvie Reverchon, et al.. Mapping the Complex Transcriptional Landscape of the Phytopathogenic Bacterium Dickeya dadantii. mBio, 2022, 13, ⟨10.1128/mbio.00524-22⟩. ⟨hal-03715992⟩
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