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Journal of Bacteriology, September 2005, p. 6561-6564, Vol. 187, No. 18
0021-9193/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JB.187.18.6561-6564.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Evolutionary and Diagnostic Implications of Intragenomic Heterogeneity in the 16S rRNA Gene in Aeromonas Strains

Alessia Morandi,1,{dagger} Olga Zhaxybayeva,2,{ddagger} J. Peter Gogarten,2 and Joerg Graf2*

Institute for Infectious Diseases, University of Berne, Berne, Switzerland,1 Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut2

Received 31 May 2005/ Accepted 7 July 2005


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ABSTRACT
 
Sequencing 16S rRNA genes (SSU) cloned from Aeromonas strains revealed that strains contained up to six copies differing by ≤1.5%. The SSU copies from Aeromonas veronii LMG13695 clustered with sequences from four Aeromonas species. These results demonstrate intragenomic heterogeneity of SSU and suggest caution when using SSU to identify aeromonads.


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TEXT
 
Differences in virulence of Aeromonas species, ranging from environmental isolates and digestive-tract symbionts of blood-feeding animals to human pathogens (11, 12, 16, 24, 25), led to the increased use of 16S rRNA gene (SSU) sequences to identify Aeromonas species (4, 9, 10). A potentially complicating factor is that bacteria contain up to 15 copies of the ribosomal operon (17). Evidence suggests that concerted evolution does not always effectively homogenize rRNA operons in bacteria and that intragenomic heterogeneity exists (5, 7, 19, 23, 29, 31, 33). Two investigations of bacterial genomes revealed that differences in the SSU sequence occurred in 54 to 62% of organisms harboring at least two copies of the rRNA operon (1, 7). However, except in rare cases, the differences were less than 1% of the compared nucleotides, and both studies concluded that these minor differences did not have a significant effect on the determination of phylogenetic relationships.

A pioneering study by Martinez-Murcia et al. used the SSU sequence to reconstruct the phylogeny of Aeromonas species (20). This study revealed that some Aeromonas species, for example, A. trota and A. caviae, differ only by up to three nucleotides in the SSU sequence, even though DNA-DNA hybridization values for these species are low (30%), indicating that they are distantly related (20). In contrast, Aeromonas sobria and Aeromonas veronii differ by 12 nucleotides but have a DNA-DNA hybridization value of 60 to 65%, indicating that they are closely related (20). This contradiction and visual inspection of the SSU sequences led Sneath to suggest that lateral gene transfer and recombination could explain this lack of congruence (27). Previously, we undertook a restriction fragment length polymorphism-PCR analysis using multiple reference strains and discovered that several strains produced unexpected restriction patterns (10). In this report, we further analyzed Aeromonas veronii biovar sobria strains A132, A155, A916, AER28, CDC0437-84, and LMG13695, Aeromonas veronii biovar veronii strain AER397, and Aeromonas media strains A6 and CDC0862-83 by sequencing cloned SSU (10), determining the phylogenetic relationship of the different copies of the SSU and evaluating whether the SSU evolved as a single unit.

Sequence analysis of cloned 16S rRNA genes. The strains were grown as previously described (10), and genomic DNA was isolated as described by Nelson and Selander (22), except that the resuspended sample was preheated for 3 min at 65°C. The 16S rRNA gene was amplified by using primers 27F and 1492R (15, 18). The PCR-amplified 16S rRNA genes were cloned into pGEM-T (Promega, Madison, WI) according to the manufacturer's instructions, and the cloned 16S rRNA genes were sequenced and analyzed (15).

In six Aeromonas strains, the copies of the 16S rRNA genes differed by up to 21 nucleotides out of 1,377 bp analyzed (Fig. 1). If differing sequences were detected in at least two plasmids containing SSUs from one strain, we considered them to be heterogeneous copies of SSU and for this discussion call them an allele without implying an associated functional difference. The analysis of the cloned SSUs suggested the presence of at least six alleles in the A. media strain CDC0862-83 and at least five different alleles in the A. veronii biovar sobria strain LMG13695 (Fig. 1). The alleles from A. media CDC0862-83 differed from each other by up to 19 bp and those from A. veronii LMG13695 by up to 21 bp out of 1,377 bp compared. In a recent publication, the presence of two heterogeneous copies of the SSU was suggested for Aeromonas trota but not substantiated (28). It is possible that any of the examined strains contains additional alleles.



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  		FIG. 1. Sequence differences among 16S rRNA gene alleles cloned from A. media and A. veronii strains. The diagram shows the variable sites detected in the strains analyzed in our study and in the 16S rRNA gene from Aeromonas species (modified from reference 27). The species names and the GenBank accession (Acc.) numbers are shown. The allele numbers are shown (Allele), as is how often each allele was cloned (Copies). The numbers in the top row correspond to the Escherichia coli numbering scheme. Yellow shading indicates the sequence of allele 1 from CDC0862-83 and red, green, or blue shading indicates a nucleotide substitution.

Verification of sequence differences by Southern analysis. To confirm the presence of the different SSU sequences in the same genome in a PCR-independent manner, we used Southern analysis of genomic DNA from strain CDC0862-83. Oligonucleotide probes were designed to recognize allele 1 from CDC0862-83, (16S-230-232-A [5'-GGG TTC ATC CAA TCG CG-3']), alleles 2 through 6 from CDC0836-83 (16S-230-232-B [5'-GGG CAT ATC CAA TCG CG-3']), and, as a control, all alleles (27F [5'-AGA GTT TGA TCM TGG CTC AG-3']). The hybridization was done by using a sodium chloride-sodium citrate protocol (3). Oligonucleotide probes (MWG, Münchenstein, Germany) were labeled with [{alpha}-32P]dCTP (3). The membranes were prehybridized for 1.5 h at 37°C, hybridized overnight at 37°C, washed in 6x SSC (1x SSC is 0.15 M NaCl plus 0.015 M sodium citrate) with 0.05% pyrophosphate for 30 min at 48°C, and used to expose BioMax MS film (Kodak, Rochester, N.Y.).

The hybridization patterns of the allele-specific probes demonstrated that the polymorphism at nucleotides 230 through 232 of allele 1 was present in two copies and that the remaining copies hybridized with the probe for alleles 2 through 6. These results indicate that at least two different alleles were present in the genome of A. media strain CDC0862-83 (Fig. 2). The banding pattern suggests the presence of at least eight copies of SSU in CDC0862-83 (Fig. 2).



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  		FIG. 2. Southern analysis of CDC0826-83 demonstrates that the observed variation is not a PCR artifact but encoded on the chromosome. The bacterial (Bact.) probe recognizes most bacterial 16S rRNA genes and each of the 16S rRNA gene copies in Aeromonas. Probe 230-232A anneals only to allele 1 from CDC0862-83, and probe 230-232B anneals to alleles 2 through 6. The hybridization patterns of the membrane probed with 230-232A show two bands hybridizing with the genomic DNA digested with PstI, PvuII, or SmaI, indicating that two copies of this polymorphism characteristic of allele 1 are present in the genome of CDC0862-83.

Phylogenetic analysis. We assessed the significance of the sequence differences by aligning sequences in ClustalW version 1.83 (30) and constructing phylogenetic trees using the PhyML program version 2.4.1 (13) under the HKY85 substitution model (14) with among-site rate variation described through a discrete approximation of the gamma distribution with four rate categories (32). One hundred bootstrap samples were generated and evaluated in PhyML under the same model, and the consensus tree was generated by using the CONSENSE program from the PHYLIP package (8).

The phylogenetic analysis shows that the phylogenetic placement of the SSU is affected by the intragenomic heterogeneity (Fig. 3). The SSU alleles from the A. media strain CDC0862-83 clustered either within the Aeromonas hydrophila-A. media clade that has a 77% bootstrap support value or within a large clade that contained Aeromonas encheleia, Aeromonas eucrenophila, and other species with a 75% bootstrap value. Alleles from the A. veronii strain LMG13695 grouped with sequences of A. veronii, Aeromonas jandaei, and Aeromonas allosaccharophila and with sequences of the A. hydrophila-A. media group. Another A. veronii biovar sobria strain, A155, clustered close to A. allosaccharophila, and A. veronii biovar sobria strain AER28 clustered near A. jandaei and A. veronii. All of these strains are well characterized and were previously identified to the species level by DNA-DNA hybridization (2, 6, 10). Restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of 82 surveyed Aeromonas strains (10, 21) suggests that at least 21% had intragenomic heterogeneous SSU alleles as determined by the presence of faint bands that could not be removed by adding more restriction enzyme (data not shown) indicating that SSU heterogeneity is not a rare phenomenon in this genus. Our results suggest that the SSU sequences may not properly reflect the taxonomic relationship of these strains and are not the best choice for identifying Aeromonas species (10).



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  		FIG. 3. Maximum-likelihood tree from published 16S rRNA genes of Aeromonas species and cloned alleles from the CDC0862-83 and LMG13695 strains. Selected bootstrap support values and posterior probabilities are shown as the first and second numbers, respectively. The tree is calculated from the full-length alignment using PhyML. Individual alleles of the same strain sometimes form sister groups with other Aeromonas species. Moreover, the analyses of bipartitions show that alleles have different phylogenetic relationships among each other if different fragments of the alignment are analyzed (Table 2).

Mosaic evolution of SSU. Visual inspection of the alignment (Fig. 1) suggested that different parts of the sequence from one allele were most similar to SSU sequences from distantly related Aeromonas species. These conflicting phylogenetic relationships suggest that some of the SSU sequences are mosaic. We tested the hypothesis by dividing the alignment into three fragments: nucleotides 1 through 264 (fragment W1), 457 through 476 (fragment W2), and 1009 through 1492 (fragment W3), and we compared the phylogenies derived from each fragment and from the entire sequence. The resulting trees were incongruent (topologies not shown). The approximately unbiased (AU) test (26) demonstrated that each of the trees calculated as optimal for one fragment had a significantly better fit to the data than the alternative trees calculated from the other fragments (Table 1). These results support the concept that the SSU evolved in a mosaic manner. This was further supported by a bipartition analysis that focuses on all significantly supported bipartitions (34) (Table 2). The different fragments strongly supported conflicting bipartitions, i.e., bipartitions that cannot coexist in a single phylogenetic tree.


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  		TABLE 1. Results of AU testa


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  		TABLE 2. Supported bipartitions for relationships among allelesa

One intriguing result is the clustering of A. media CDC0862-83 allele 1 in the branch containing A. encheleia and A. eucrenophila, because in the rpoD-derived phylogenetic tree, A. media clusters with these two species (28), while in the 16S rRNA-derived phylogenetic tree, A. media clusters with A. hydrophila (20). This discrepancy and the previously noted discrepancy between the phylogeny derived by SSU sequences and by DNA-DNA reassociation constants can be explained by the intragenomic heterogeneity. Two possible scenarios can explain the observed data. First, ancient polymorphisms could have preceded the speciation events in the genus Aeromonas, and these polymorphisms could have persisted throughout the history of the species. Our analysis shows that the different alleles do not cluster but intersperse in the reconstructed phylogeny. Although there was sufficient time for alleles from other lineages to be lost over evolution, for some reason, other alleles that are very similar to distantly related species were maintained. The alternative scenario suggested by Sneath (27), horizontal gene transfer, appears more likely. In either case, the alleles present today resulted from recombination between divergent SSUs, and thus, one would not expect that the SSU phylogeny always reflects the evolutionary history of the strain in this genus.

For the identification of Aeromonas spp., it is critical to use multiple molecular markers, such as rpoD and gyrB, in the phylogenetic analysis (28) or an even broader approach utilizing multilocus sequence typing. Whole-genome sequence comparisons of several strains from each species might provide the insight needed to resolve the complex evolutionary history that probably included frequent gene duplication, gene transfer, and recombination events.


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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
 
We thank R. Troller for excellent technical assistance with the Southern hybridization, R. V. M. Rio and A. Laufer for helpful comments on the manuscript, and R. T. Papke for helpful discussion.

The National Science Foundation award MCB-0334627 to J.G., MCB-0237197 to J.P.G., a Sandoz Foundation grant to J.G., and a NASA Exobiology grant to J.P.G. supported this work.


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FOOTNOTES
 
* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, 91 N. Eagleville Rd., Unit-3125, Storrs, CT 06269-3125. Phone: (860) 486-9284. Fax: (860) 486-4331. E-mail: joerg.graf{at}uconn.edu. Back

{dagger} Present address: Servizio Psico-Sociale, Vicolo Scottocorte 4, 6500 Bellinzona, Switzerland. Back

{ddagger} Present address: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Back


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