Analysis of plant LTR-retrotransposons at the fine-scale family level reveals individual molecular patterns

dc.contributorUniversidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
dc.creatorDomingues, Douglas S.
dc.creatorCruz, Guilherme M. Q.
dc.creatorMetcalfe, Cushla J.
dc.creatorNogueira, Fabio Tebaldi Silveira
dc.creatorVicentini, Renato
dc.creatorAlves, Cristiane de S.
dc.creatorVan Sluys, Marie-Anne
dc.date2014-05-20T13:50:29Z
dc.date2014-05-20T13:50:29Z
dc.date2012-04-16
dc.date.accessioned2017-04-05T21:03:36Z
dc.date.available2017-04-05T21:03:36Z
dc.identifierBmc Genomics. London: Biomed Central Ltd., v. 13, p. 13, 2012.
dc.identifier1471-2164
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/11449/18018
dc.identifier10.1186/1471-2164-13-137
dc.identifierWOS:000304156300001
dc.identifierWOS000304156300001.pdf
dc.identifierhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-13-137
dc.identifier.urihttp://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/864360
dc.descriptionBackground: Sugarcane is an important crop worldwide for sugar production and increasingly, as a renewable energy source. Modern cultivars have polyploid, large complex genomes, with highly unequal contributions from ancestral genomes. Long Terminal Repeat retrotransposons (LTR-RTs) are the single largest components of most plant genomes and can substantially impact the genome in many ways. It is therefore crucial to understand their contribution to the genome and transcriptome, however a detailed study of LTR-RTs in sugarcane has not been previously carried out.Results: Sixty complete LTR-RT elements were classified into 35 families within four Copia and three Gypsy lineages. Structurally, within lineages elements were similar, between lineages there were large size differences. FISH analysis resulted in the expected pattern of Gypsy/heterochromatin, Copia/euchromatin, but in two lineages there was localized clustering on some chromosomes. Analysis of related ESTs and RT-PCR showed transcriptional variation between tissues and families. Four distinct patterns were observed in sRNA mapping, the most unusual of which was that of Ale1, with very large numbers of 24nt sRNAs in the coding region. The results presented support the conclusion that distinct small RNA-regulated pathways in sugarcane target the lineages of LTR-RT elements.Conclusions: Individual LTR-RT sugarcane families have distinct structures, and transcriptional and regulatory signatures. Our results indicate that in sugarcane individual LTR-RT families have distinct behaviors and can potentially impact the genome in diverse ways. For instance, these transposable elements may affect nearby genes by generating a diverse set of small RNA's that trigger gene silencing mechanisms. There is also some evidence that ancestral genomes contribute significantly different element numbers from particular LTR-RT lineages to the modern sugarcane cultivar genome.
dc.descriptionFundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)
dc.descriptionConselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)
dc.descriptionCoordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherBiomed Central Ltd.
dc.relationBMC Genomics
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subjectLTR Retrotransposons
dc.subjectSugarcane
dc.subjectGenome
dc.subjectFISH
dc.subjectEpigenetic
dc.subjectSmall RNA
dc.titleAnalysis of plant LTR-retrotransposons at the fine-scale family level reveals individual molecular patterns
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