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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2025

Effectidor II: a pan-genomic AI-based algorithm for the prediction of type III secretion system effectors.

Naama Wagner, Ella Baumer, Iris Lyubman, Yair Shimony, Noam Bracha, Leonor Martins, Neha Potnis, Jeff H Chang, Doron Teper, Ralf Koebnik and 1 more

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Naama WagnerThe Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Chaim Levanon St 30, Tel Aviv, 69978, Israel.
Ella BaumerThe Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Chaim Levanon St 30, Tel Aviv, 69978, Israel.
Iris LyubmanThe Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Chaim Levanon St 30, Tel Aviv, 69978, Israel.
Yair ShimonyThe Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Chaim Levanon St 30, Tel Aviv, 69978, Israel.
Noam BrachaThe Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Chaim Levanon St 30, Tel Aviv, 69978, Israel.
Leonor MartinsCIBIO-Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBIO-Laboratório Associado, Universidade do Porto, Vairão, 4485-661, Portugal.
Neha PotnisDepartment of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, 36849, United States of America.
Jeff H ChangDepartment of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, 97331, United States of America.
Doron TeperDepartment of Plant Pathology and Weed Research, Institute of Plant Protection Agricultural Research Organization (ARO), Volcani Center, Rishon LeZion, 7505101, Israel.
Ralf KoebnikPlant Health Institute of Montpellier, University of Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAe, Institut Agro, IRD, Montpellier, 34394, France.
Tal PupkoThe Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Chaim Levanon St 30, Tel Aviv, 69978, Israel.ORCID 0000-0001-9463-2575

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National Institutes of Food and Agriculture
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

motivationType III secretion systems are used by many Gram-negative bacteria to inject type 3 effectors (T3Es) directly into eukaryotic cells, promoting disease or provoking immune response. Because of these opposing evolutionary forces, T3E repertoires often vary within taxonomic groups. Identifying the full effector gene repertoire in genomes of related individuals is crucial for determining core and specialized effectors, understanding the disease dynamics, and developing appropriate management strategies against pathogens. It can also help uncover novel T3Es that have recently emerged in a population. Our previously published Effectidor web server successfully addressed the challenge of identifying T3Es in a single bacterial genome. Here, we enriched the web server with various novel capabilities, including the identification of T3Es from multiple genome sequences simultaneously.

resultsWe present Effectidor II, a web server that relies on machine learning to predict T3E-encoding genes within bacterial pan-genomes. We demonstrate the benefit of learning based on features extracted from the entire sequences comprising the pan-genome and report a novel T3E discovered by it in Xanthomonas euroxanthea. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: Effectidor II is available at: https://effectidor.tau.ac.il and the source code is available at: https://github.com/naamawagner/Effectidor. A stand-alone version of Effectidor II is available at: https://github.com/naamawagner/Effectidor/tree/StandAlone. The source code for the standalone version and the data used in this work are also provided in https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15081636.

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AlgorithmsGenome, BacterialGenomicsSoftwareType III Secretion SystemsBacterial ProteinsInternetMachine LearningXanthomonasBacterial ProteinsType III Secretion Systems

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PMCPMC12085239

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