Characterisation of Type II DNA Methyltransferases of Metamycoplasma hominis .
Microorganisms(2023)
摘要
Bacterial virulence, persistence and defence are affected by epigenetic modifications, including DNA methylation. Solitary DNA methyltransferases modulate a variety of cellular processes and influence bacterial virulence; as part of a restriction-modification (RM) system, they act as a primitive immune system in methylating the own DNA, while unmethylated foreign DNA is restricted. We identified a large family of type II DNA methyltransferases in , comprising six solitary methyltransferases and four RM systems. Motif-specific 5mC and 6mA methylations were identified with a tailored Tombo analysis on Nanopore reads. Selected motifs with methylation scores >0.5 fit with the gene presence of DAM1 and DAM2, DCM2, DCM3, and DCM6, but not for DCM1, whose activity was strain-dependent. The activity of DCM1 for CCWGG and of both DAM1 and DAM2 for GATC was proven in methylation-sensitive restriction and finally for recombinant rDCM1 and rDAM2 against a -, -negative background. A hitherto unknown 8/3 gene fusion containing a (TA) repeat region of varying length was characterized within a single strain, suggesting the expression of DCM8/DAM3 phase variants. The combination of genetic, bioinformatics, and enzymatic approaches enabled the detection of a huge family of type II DNA MTases in , whose involvement in virulence and defence can now be characterized in future work.
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<i>dam</i>,<i>dcm</i>,DNA MTase,<i>Metamycoplasma hominis</i>,RM system,orphan
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