Abstract
Viruses, especially bacteriophages, are thought to have important functions in the deep-sea ecosystem, but little is known about the induction mechanism of benthic phages in response to environmental change. Our prior work characterized a cold-active filamentous phage SW1 that infects the deep-sea bacterium Shewanella piezotolerans WP3; however, the underlying mechanism of the putative thermo-regulated genetic switch of SW1 is still unclear. In this study, the DNA copy number and mRNA abundance of the deep-sea phage SW1 were quantified in the whole life cycle of its host S. piezotolerans WP3 at different temperatures. Our results demonstrated that the induction of SW1 is dependent on a threshold temperature (4°C), but this dependency is not proportional to temperature gradient. RNA-Seq analyses revealed two highly transcribed regions at 4°C and verified the presence of a long 3' untranslated region (UTR) in the SW1 genome. Interestingly, recruitment analysis showed that SW1-like inoviruses prevail in deep sea (depth >1000 m) and photic epipelagic and mesopelagic zones (depth <1000 m), which suggested that the thermo-regulated genetic switch revealed in SW1 may be widely distributed in the ocean.
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