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Incomplete prophage tolerance by type III-A CRISPR-Cas systems reduces the fitness of lysogenic hosts.


ABSTRACT: CRISPR-Cas systems offer an immune mechanism through which prokaryotic hosts can acquire heritable resistance to genetic parasites, including temperate phages. Co-transcriptional DNA and RNA targeting by type III-A CRISPR-Cas systems restricts temperate phage lytic infections while allowing lysogenic infections to be tolerated under conditions where the prophage targets are transcriptionally repressed. However, long-term consequences of this phenomenon have not been explored. Here we show that maintenance of conditionally tolerant type III-A systems can produce fitness costs within populations of Staphylococcus aureus lysogens. The fitness costs depend on the activity of prophage-internal promoters and type III-A Cas nucleases implicated in targeting, can be more severe in double lysogens, and are alleviated by spacer-target mismatches which do not abrogate immunity during the lytic cycle. These findings suggest that persistence of type III-A systems that target endogenous prophages could be enhanced by spacer-target mismatches, particularly among populations that are prone to polylysogenization.

SUBMITTER: Goldberg GW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5754349 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Incomplete prophage tolerance by type III-A CRISPR-Cas systems reduces the fitness of lysogenic hosts.

Goldberg Gregory W GW   McMillan Elizabeth A EA   Varble Andrew A   Modell Joshua W JW   Samai Poulami P   Jiang Wenyan W   Marraffini Luciano A LA  

Nature communications 20180104 1


CRISPR-Cas systems offer an immune mechanism through which prokaryotic hosts can acquire heritable resistance to genetic parasites, including temperate phages. Co-transcriptional DNA and RNA targeting by type III-A CRISPR-Cas systems restricts temperate phage lytic infections while allowing lysogenic infections to be tolerated under conditions where the prophage targets are transcriptionally repressed. However, long-term consequences of this phenomenon have not been explored. Here we show that m  ...[more]

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