{"id":211145,"date":"2025-04-11T01:25:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T06:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/strategic-gene-placement-in-bacteria-offers-insights-into-evolutionary-success"},"modified":"2025-04-11T01:25:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T06:25:00","slug":"strategic-gene-placement-in-bacteria-offers-insights-into-evolutionary-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/strategic-gene-placement-in-bacteria-offers-insights-into-evolutionary-success","title":{"rendered":"Strategic gene placement in bacteria offers insights into evolutionary success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/strategic-gene-placement-in-bacteria-offers-insights-into-evolutionary-success2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bioinformaticians from Heinrich Heine University D\u00fcsseldorf (HHU) and the university in Link\u00f6ping (Sweden) have established that the genes in bacterial genomes are arranged in a meaningful order. In the journal <i>Science<\/i>, they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.adm9928\" target=\"_blank\">explain<\/a> that the genes are arranged by function: If they become increasingly important for faster growth, they are located near the origin of DNA replication. Accordingly, their position influences how their activity changes with the growth rate.<\/p>\n<p>Are genes distributed randomly along the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/bacterial+chromosome\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">bacterial chromosome<\/a>, as if scattered from a salt shaker? This opinion, which is held by a majority of researchers, has now been disputed by a team of bioinformaticians led by Professor Dr. Martin Lercher, head of the research group for Computational Cell Biology at HHU.<\/p>\n<p>When bacteria replicate their <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/genetic+material\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">genetic material<\/a> in preparation for <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/cell+division\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cell division<\/a>, the process starts at a specific point on the bacterial chromosome and continues along the chromosome in both directions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bioinformaticians from Heinrich Heine University D\u00fcsseldorf (HHU) and the university in Link\u00f6ping (Sweden) have established that the genes in bacterial genomes are arranged in a meaningful order. In the journal Science, they explain that the genes are arranged by function: If they become increasingly important for faster growth, they are located near the origin of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}