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1 Essentiality in B. subtilis 100% 75% Essential genes Non-essential genes Lagging 50% 25% Leading 0% non-highly expressed highly expressed non-highly expressed highly expressed 1 adanchin@pasteur.fr

2 Distribution of highly expressed genes Fast growers Slow growers 70% 60% 50% B. subtilis E. coli C. crescentus M. tuberculosis Highly expressed genes cluster near the origin in fast-growing bacteria 40% 30% 20% Origin Middle Ori 10% Terminus 0% Ter E. Rocha 2 adanchin@pasteur.fr

3 . E. Rocha Gene order conservation Buchnera Bp Chlamydia muridarum 16S:.076 Buchnera Ap nt-1 Chlamydia pneumoniae 16S:.071 nt -1 Escherichia coli origin terminus Bacillus subtilis 16S:.063 nt -1 Yersinia Genetics pestisof Bacterial Genomes Institut Pasteur Bacillus halodurans 3 adanchin@pasteur.fr 16S:.051 nt -1

4 Exploring neighborhoods Genes do not operate in isolation Proteins are part of complexes, as are parts in an engine It is important to understand their relationships, as those in the planks which make a boat 4 adanchin@pasteur.fr

5 Exploring neighborhoods To make discoveries we explore the general «neighborhoods» of genes of interest: proximity in the chromosome, in evolution, in the literature, in biochemical complexes, in metabolism etc. Comparative genomics is essential, hence the launching of several parallel genome programs 5 adanchin@pasteur.fr

6 Gene vicinity: synteny C. Médigue 6 adanchin@pasteur.fr

7 What is Life? Three processes are needed for Life: Information transfer: groups of co-variant gene expression Driving force for a coupling between the genome structure and the structure of the cell: Metabolism (Internal organisation) Compartmentalization (General structure) 7 adanchin@pasteur.fr

8 Co-variation of gene expression Collecting data using large scale genomics techniques : DNA chips and protein fingerprinting 8 adanchin@pasteur.fr

9 Expression neighborhood: all genes on a chip Green: First condition Red: Second condition Yellow: no difference Two conditions are compared on the same chip 9 adanchin@pasteur.fr

10 Protein fingerprinting A technique named «twodimensional gel electrophoresis» allows one to separate all the proteins of a cell, and to color them. Once colored, proteins are sorted and identified by «mass spectrometry». Different cells or cells in different environments have a different pattern, exactly as individuals have different fingerprints adanchin@pasteur.fr

11 What is Life? Three processes are needed for Life: Information transfer Driving force for a coupling between the genome structure and the structure of the cell: Metabolism (Internal organisation) Compartmentalization (General structure) 11 adanchin@pasteur.fr

12 Metabolic neighborhoods: Chemical pathways Often, drug targets are found in metabolic pathways. The idea is to mimick a normal molecule in the cell and to replace it by a similar one which kills the activity of some protein: this is exactly what poisons do! Antibiotics are poisons of a special kind, which act against microbes: to discover a new antibiotic is to discover a self-consistent pathway 12 adanchin@pasteur.fr

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