PMID- 24251068
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20211021
IS  - 2159-2543 (Print)
IS  - 2159-256X (Electronic)
IS  - 2159-2543 (Linking)
VI  - 3
IP  - 5
DP  - 2013 Sep 1
TI  - Horizontal transfer of potential mobile units in phytoplasmas.
PG  - e26145
LID - e26145
AB  - Phytoplasmas are uncultivated phytopathogenic bacteria that cause diseases in a 
      wide range of economically important plants. Through secretion of effector 
      proteins, they are able to manipulate their plant hosts to facilitate their 
      multiplication and dispersal by insect vectors. The genome sequences of several 
      phytoplasmas have been characterized to date and a group of putative composite 
      transposons called potential mobile units (PMUs) are found in these highly 
      reduced genomes. Recently, our team reported the genome sequence and comparative 
      analysis of a peanut witches' broom (PnWB) phytoplasma, the first representative 
      of the phytoplasma 16SrII group. Comparisons between the species phylogeny and 
      the phylogenies of the PMU genes revealed that the PnWB PMU is likely to have 
      been transferred from the 16SrI group. This indicates that PMUs are not only the 
      DNA unit for transposition within a genome, but also for horizontal transfer 
      among divergent phytoplasma lineages. Given the association of PMUs with effector 
      genes, the mobility of PMUs across genomes has important implications for 
      phytoplasma ecology and evolution.
FAU - Ku, Chuan
AU  - Ku C
AD  - Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology; Academia Sinica; Taipei, Taiwan.
FAU - Lo, Wen-Sui
AU  - Lo WS
FAU - Kuo, Chih-Horng
AU  - Kuo CH
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20130820
PL  - United States
TA  - Mob Genet Elements
JT  - Mobile genetic elements
JID - 101564504
CON - Chung W-C, Chen L-L, Lo W-S, Lin C-P, Kuo C-H. Comparative analysis of the peanut 
      witches'-broom phytoplasma genome reveals horizontal transfer of potential mobile 
      units and effectors. PLoS One. 2013;8:e62770. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062770.
PMC - PMC3827095
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Mollicutes
OT  - composite transposon
OT  - effector
OT  - horizontal gene transfer
OT  - phytoplasma
OT  - potential mobile unit
EDAT- 2013/11/20 06:00
MHDA- 2013/11/20 06:01
PMCR- 2014/09/01
CRDT- 2013/11/20 06:00
PHST- 2013/06/19 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2013/08/11 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2013/08/13 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2013/11/20 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2013/11/20 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2013/11/20 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2014/09/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 2013MGE0021R [pii]
AID - 10.4161/mge.26145 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Mob Genet Elements. 2013 Sep 1;3(5):e26145. doi: 10.4161/mge.26145. Epub 2013 Aug 
      20.