Development of SSR markers from ESTs of gramineous species and their chromosome location on wheat

A total of 407,663 expressed sequence tags （ESTs） of wheat, barley, maize, rice, and sorghum, obtained from GenBank/dbEST, were used to search for simple sequence repeats （SSRs）. A total of 10,253 EST-SSRs, which accounted for 2.52% of all the ESTs, were identified. Using Primer Premier 5.0, 1367 EST-SSR primer pairs were designed, of which 715 with high quality were synthesized. The 715 primer pairs were tested on wheat, rice, maize, cotton, and soybean under the same PCR conditions, and the effective primer pairs in the five crops were 500 （69.93%）, 383 （53.57%）, 452 （63.22%）, 357 （49.93%）, and 388 （56.27%）, respectively. This indicated a high transferability of EST-SSR markers between far-ranging species. In addition, 139 EST-SSR primer pairs with 240 loci were localized on all the 21 wheat chromosomes by using Chinese Spring nulli-tetrasomic lines of wheat.     

Development, chromosome location and genetic mapping of EST-SSR markers in wheat

A number of 151695 wheat expression sequence tags （ESTs） that originated from GenBank/dbEST from July 14, 2003 to August 24, 2004 were used to search for simple sequence repeats （SSRs） with motif 2-5 bp, and 2038 simple sequence repeats （EST-SSRs）, which accounted for 1.34% of EST database, were identified. Based on these SSR sequences, 249 EST-SSR primer pairs and 166 amplified clear bands in various wheat cultivars were designed. These EST-SSR markers can be used as new molecular markers in wheat and related species. Using Chinese Spring nulli-tetrasomic lines, 93 EST-SSR primer pairs and 193 EST-SSR loci were located on 19 wheat chromosomes except for 4A and 4B. Forty-three loci were mapped on 11 chromosomes of the genetic framework map previously constructed using recombinant inbred lines.     

Analysis of simple sequence repeats markers derived from Phytophthora sojae expressed sequence tags

Five thousand and eight hundred publicly available expressed sequence tags (ESTs) of Phytophthora sojae were electronically searched and 415 simple sequence repeats (SSRs) were identified in 369 ESTs. The average density of SSRs was one SSR per 8.9 kb of EST sequence screened. The most frequent repeats were trinucleotide repeats (50.1%) and the least frequent were tetranucleotide repeats (8.2%). Forty primer pairs were designed and tested on 5 strains of P. sojae. Thirty-three primer pairs had successful PCR amplifications. Of the 33 functional primer pairs, 28 primer pairs produced characteristic SSR bands of the expected size, and 15 primer pairs (45.5%) detected polymorphism among 5 tested strains of P. sojae. Based on the polymorphisms detected with 20 EST-SSR markers, the 5 tested strains of P. sojae were clustered into 3 groups. In this study, the SSR markers of P. sojae were developed for the first time. These markers could be useful for identification, genetic variation study, and molecular mapping of P. sojae and its relative species.     

Mining,characterization, and exploitation of EST-derived microsatellites in <Emphasis Type="Italic">Gossypium barbadense</Emphasis>

Simple sequence repeats (SSRs) have been widely applied as molecular markers in genetic studies. However, the number of ex-pressed sequence tags (ESTs) and SSR markers from Gossypium barbadense is fewer than those from other cotton species. In this study, EST-SSR distribution from G. barbadense was characterized and new G. barbadense-derived EST-SSR markers were de-termined on the basis of the ESTs obtained by randomly sequencing 2 cDNA libraries associated with fiber development in G. barbadense. By mining 9697 non-redundant ESTs, a total of 638 SSR loci derived from 595 ESTs were observed. In G. barba-dense, the frequency of ESTs containing SSRs was 6.13%, with an average of 1 SSR in every 10.4 kb of EST sequence. Further-more, trinucleotide was found to be the most abundant repeat type among 2–6-nucleotide repeat types. It accounted for 26.6% of the total, followed by the hexanucleotide (26.0%) and pentanucleotide repeats (25.9%). Among all the repeat motifs, (AAG)n accounted for the highest proportion. EST-SSR primer pairs were developed using the Primer3 program, and the redundant primers were removed using the virtual PCR approach. As a result, 380 non-redundant EST-SSR primer pairs were developed and used to detect polymorphisms between the mapping parents G. hirsutum ‘TM-1’ and G. barbadense ‘Hai7124’ for constructing linkage groups in cultivated allotetraploid cotton. Out of these, 98 (25.8%) primer pairs detected polymorphisms. Finally, 95 polymorphic loci from 82 primer pairs were integrated into the backbone genetic map; of these, 42 were mapped into the A subgenome and 53 into the D subgenome. The present work provided the foundation for constructing saturated genetic maps and conducting comparative genomic studies on different cotton species.     

Characterization, development and exploitation of EST-derived microsatellites in Gossypium raimondii Ulbrich

COTTON IS AN IMPORTANT GLOBAL CASH CROP. IN THE RECENTYEARS, MOLECULAR MARKER TECHNOLOGY HAS BEEN WIDELY APPLIED TO SUCH STUDIES ON COTTON AS GENETIC MAP- PING[1―4], VARIETY PURITY DETECTION[5], GENETIC DIVERSITY ANALYSIS[6], MOLECULAR MARKER-ASSISTED BR…     

杉木EST-SSR与基因组SSR引物开发

利用已经公布的杉木444条EST序列和未公布的杉木基因组文库中1 142条基因序列,进行引物开发效率的比较。去冗余后,利用MISA 搜索SSR 位点,分别得到109个和39个含有SSR的 位点。杉木EST序列中SSR分布密度为964.58个/Mbp,基因组中平均每Mbp出现1 037.24个SSR。在两个独立来源的数据库序列中,六核苷酸重复均为最多的重复类型,且AT-rich的重复类型占较大比例。AGC/CTG是杉木EST序列和基因组库中最多的三碱基重复,通过Primer 3.0分别设计出SSR引物95对和37对。为考察设计引物在杉木不同种源(群体)中的有效性,取12个种源(个体)的优良个体, 利用随机抽取的10个EST-SSR和8个gSSR(基因组SSR)进行引物筛选,结果表明:EST-SSR和gSSR各有4对引物在12个种源(个体)中表现出明显的多态性,多态率分别为40%和50%。8对多态性的SSR引物共扩增出 25 个多态性等位位点,平均每个引物产生 3.125 个多态性等位位点,平均有效的等位位点为2.399 5,PIC平均值为0.519 1; Hot平均为0.307 4。其中gSSR标记在检测群体间存在较大的分化,4个gSSR比4个EST-SSR扩增出更多的等位位点数、平均等位位点数,以及更大的PIC值。     

湿地松转录组SSR分析及EST-SSR标记开发

【目的】湿地松是南方地区优先推广的优质产脂树种。但湿地松分子遗传基础薄弱,基因组序列信息匮乏,影响了湿地松基因组学的深入研究。目前,湿地松分子研究所用的SSR标记主要来自其他近缘种或利用公共数据库中有限的基因序列资源开发的SSR标记,其多态性和通用性较差。为解决这一问题, 笔者根据湿地松转录组测序数据开发EST-SSR位点,并揭示其在转录组序列中的分布类型及特征,为湿地松分子标记辅助育种奠定基础。【方法】利用MISA软件对转录组序列进行SSRs查找和分布特征分析。查找标准参数设置为: 单核苷酸重复>10次,二核苷酸重复>6次,三、四、五、六核苷酸重复>5次。根据SSR位点两端的保守区域,利用Primer3.0设计并随机挑选120对SSR引物,通过琼脂糖电泳和毛细管电泳对来自美国和吉安的113份家系个体进行遗传多样性分析,确定引物多态性。【结果】79 574条unigenes序列中搜索到3 818个SSR位点,出现频率为4.80%,平均18.27 kb出现1个SSR位点,3 373个unigenes含有SSR位点,SSR发生频率(含SSR位点的序列数/搜索序列总数)为4.24%,其中2 980条序列含1个SSR位点,含1个以上SSR位点的序列有393条。在检测到的3 818个SSR标记中,单核苷酸分布最多,其次是二核苷酸和三核苷酸,SSR数量分别占总数的63.54%、19.15%和16.27%,而四、五、六核苷酸重复类型所占比例较小,分别为0.52%、0.13%和0.31%。SSR重复单元的重复次数分布在5~22次之间,除单核苷酸重复外的1 391个SSR中,重复5次的数量最多,为498个(35.80%);重复6次和7次的次之,分别为417个(29.98%)和198个(14.23%);重复10次以上的仅有38个(2.73%)。在检测到的731个二核苷酸重复SSR中,最常出现的重复单元为AT/AT,数量为491个(12.86%),AG/CT和AC/GT两种类型的重复单元出现的次数次之,分别为156(4.09%)和81个(2.12%)。在检测到的621个三核苷酸重复中,AAT/ATT是出现频率最高的单元,共139个(3.64%),其次是AAG/CTT,共122个(3.20%)。3 818个SSR中有24.59%的位置未知,其余的SSR则分布在非编码区域(untranslated region,UTR)或者编码区(coding sequence,CDS)上,分布数量表现为3'UTR>5'UTR>CDS。参试的120对SSR引物,有92对扩增成功(76.78%),其中24对呈现多态(20%)。24对引物(13个二核苷酸重复、7个三核苷酸重复和4个四核苷酸重复)共检测出81个等位基因,每个位点的等位基因数为2~9,平均为3.38个。多态性信息含量(polymorphism information content,PIC)为0.103~0.726,平均为0.349。【结论】通过对湿地松转录组数据的挖掘,共获得 3 818个SSR位点,主要重复单元为AT/AT和AAT/ATT,可扩增出多态性位点的引物重复单元以二、三核苷酸重复为主。基于湿地松转录组序列的SSR标记开发是可行的。     

Studies of new EST-SSRs derived from Gossypium barbadense

Existing cotton EST-SSR markers are mostly derived from Gossypium arboreum and Gossypium hir-sutum, but EST-SSR markers from Gossypium barbadense are scarce. One hundred and nineteen EST-SSRs were developed based on 98 unique ESTs from a cDNA library constructed in our laboratory using developing fibers from G. barbadense cv. Pima3-79. Among the SSRs, trinucleotide AAG appeared at a high frequency of 11.76%. 36 accessions (consisting of 13 diploids of the A genome, 11 diploids of the D genome and 12 allotetraploids of the AD genome) were employed to test new EST-SSRs. 76 EST-SSRs were successfully amplified, and 313 polymorphic fragments were yielded, with an average of 4.11 fragments per primer pair. The PIC ranged from 0.17 to 0.95 with an average of 0.53. Based on Jaccard’s genetic similarity coefficient, these 36 accessions were clustered into three groups. 21 EST-SSRs exhibited polymorphisms in BC1 population ((Emian22 × Pima3-79) × Emian22), 24 polymor- phic loci were generated, while 22 of the 24 polymorphic loci were integrated with our interspecific BC1 backbone genetic linkage map, and anchored in 12 chromosomes. This study effectively proved that EST-SSRs from G. barbadense are valuable for genetic diversity analysis and genetic mapping.     

Discovery of immune related factors in Fenneropenaeus chinensis by annotation of ESTs

A total of 10446 expressed sequence tags (ESTs) are obtained by a large-scale sequencing of a cDNA library from cephalothorax of adult Fenneropenaeus chinensis.An EST analysis platform was built up based on local computers and bioinformatic techniques were used to annotate these ESTs in order to promptly find possible functional genes, especially for immune related factors.About 4% of the ESTs show similarity to the coding sequences of such factors, including lectin, serine protease, serpin, lysozyme, etc.These ESTs provide a partial profile of the immune system in F.chinensis and useful information for further study on these genes.     

豇豆SSR标记在豌豆中的可转移性与应用初探

利用豇豆SSR引物筛选在豌豆具通用性的SSR引物。13对豇豆SSR引物中检测出8对引物在豌豆中可扩增,其中5对SSR引物表现出多态性,进而分析11个豌豆品种和5个豇豆品种的遗传多样性与遗传关系。结果表明:平均等位基因数、平均有效等位基因数、平均Shannon指数,在豌豆品种群中分别为2.00、1.64、0.55,豇豆品种群中分别为2.00、1.80、0.53,上述遗传参数反映出供试豌豆品种和豇豆品种具有中等水平的遗传多样性;利用UPGMA聚类分析,能将豌豆品种群和豇豆品种群分为两类,且每个品种群内的各个体之间能进行区分,尤其是两个豌豆品种亚群的聚类结果与其地理来源基本一致。     

松属编码区微卫星特征和相应基因功能分析

从GenBank下载453 892条松属EST序列,序列组装后得到20 886条contig。用Sputnik软件从这些contig中查找了2 678个微卫星,其中3碱基重复微卫星占的比例最高,为59.2%,而其他重复长度的微卫星都相对较低,比例分别为:2碱基重复微卫星占12.0%,4碱基重复微卫星占13.3%,5碱基重复微卫星占15.5%。3碱基重复微卫星变化引起的基因读码框改变最小,松属树种基因区3碱基重复微卫星的富集显示了强烈的密码子选择效应。此次研究还对查找到的微卫星进行了引物设计和扩增分析。实验结果显示,设计的微卫星引物在云南松中的扩增成功率是72.9%。从扩增成功的引物中进一步选取了155对引物,对14个松属树种和1个黄杉属树种进行了引物通用性实验分析,结果显示155对引物在14个松属树种间的通用性在71.0%以上,而在黄杉属树种中的通用性只有25.2%。对松属树种中含有微卫星的基因进行了功能分类研究,结果显示基因在是否保留微卫星序列方面有显著分化,微卫星参与了如细胞成分分类的共质体组成、病毒颗粒及病毒颗粒组成、生物节律调控, 以及生长素转运蛋白等生物学过程。     

石刁柏雄性连锁的AFLP及SCAR标记的建立

目的:对石刁柏雌雄株基因组差异进行分析,筛选雄性或雌性连锁的分子标记.方法:利用限制性片段长度多态性技术,设计了多个引物组合,分别对石刁柏雌雄株基因组进行扩增.结果:在使用的72个引物组合中,引物组合E-AAG+M-CAT从雄性基因组中扩增出了一个雄性连锁的标记(MLDA555),该序列长度为555bp,AT含量为59%.Blast检索未发现相似序列.根据该片段序列设计的引物将该标记转化为雄性连锁的大小为523bp的稳定的SCAR标记,经过不同基因型雄性个体的验证证明该标记广泛存在于不同基因型石刁柏雄性个体中.结论:通过AFLP扩增筛选得到了石刁柏雄性连锁的AFLP和SCAR标记,为石刁柏性别决定机制的理解及石刁柏的分子标记辅助育种提供理论资料和技术支持.     

Application of FLUPD-DD-PCR to the study of mRNA expression of glioma cells cultured under the condition of serum starvation

Fluorescently labeled universal primer directed differential display polymerase chain reaction technique (FLUPD-DD-PCR), an improved DD-PCR, is reported for the study of mRNA expression of glioma cells cultured with the serum starvation. The fluorescently labeled universal primer (FLUP) facilitates analysis of PCR products on an auto-sequencer. Compared with the traditional DD-PCR, FLUPD-DD-PCR has advantages of separation of target bands and measurement of mRNA expression quantitatively by adopting Cy5-labeled universal primer. And then the silver staining method has been used to recover the bands for use as template in re-pcr. In this study, 4 differential ESTs, of which 3 are novel ESTs, have been obtained. This work indicates some special novel genes, which can be induced to express under serum absent condition, are involved in coping with serum starvation stress on glioma cells growth.     

Application of FLUPD-DD-PCR to the study of mRNA expression of glioma cells cultured under the condition of serum starvation

Fluorescently labeled universal primer directed differential display polymerase chain reaction technique (FLUPD-DD-PCR), an improved DD-PCR, is reported for the study of mRNA expression of glioma cells cultured with the serum starvation. The fluorescently labeled universal primer (FLUP) facilitates analysis of PCR products on an auto-sequencer. Compared with the traditional DD-PCR, FLUPD-DD-PCR has advantages of separation of target bands and measurement of mRNA expression quantitatively by adopting Cy5-labeled universal primer. And then the silver staining method has been used to recover the bands for use as template in re-pcr. In this study, 4 differential ESTs, of which 3 are novel ESTs, have been obtained. This work indicates some special novel genes, which can be induced to express under serum absent condition, are involved in coping with serum starvation stress on glioma cells growth.     

棉花种质资源多样性的ISSR聚类分析及主成分分析

利用ISSR分子标记对48份棉花种质资源的亲缘关系及遗传多样性进行分析,结果显示,筛选出的10个ISSR引物扩增出的112条带中,多态性条带占101条,为总条带的90.18%.每个引物均可扩增4～21个多态性位点,平均10.10个,引物平均多样性信息指数(PIC)和多态性谱带百分率(PPB)分别为0.76和87.88%.利用NT-SYSpc 2.1统计分析软件中的UPMGA法对48份棉花种质资源构建亲缘关系树状图,在遗传相似性系数(GS)为0.66水平上可将所有参试材料聚成两大类,且与主成分分析(PCA)结果基本吻合.ISSR标记揭示出这48份棉花种质资源遗传多样性较小,遗传基础比较狭窄.     

The locus of sequence-directed and protein-induced DNA bending

The bending locus of trypanosome kinetoplast DNA, identified by gel electrophoresis, has tracts of a simple repeat sequence (CA5-6 T) symmetrically distributed about it, with a repeat interval of 10 base pairs. The analogous bending induced when catabolite gene activating protein binds to its recognition sequence near the promoter of the Escherichia coli lac operon is centred on a site about 5-7 base pairs away from the centre of the protein binding site.     

孝顺竹笋箨全长转录组测序分析

【目的】揭示竹子笋箨的生物学功能与其衰老的分子基础。【方法】利用PacBio Sequel 3代全长转录组测序技术结合生物信息学方法,对孝顺竹不同衰老阶段笋箨全长转录本进行分析。【结果】共获得106 148 条平均长度为3 615 bp的全长转录本。多数转录本长度分布在1.4~7.0 kb。NCBI等注释显示,97.34%的转录本具有注释结果。Mercator注释分析显示笋箨转录本覆盖了其全部34 个类别,其中与蛋白类别相关的序列最多,达到了18 224 条;与microRNA类别相关的最少,仅有9 条。在重要功能基因方面,共获得了2 489 条激素代谢及信号转导相关序列; 8 804 条转录因子序列中393 条与光合作用相关的转录本。其中,注释到的189 条共30 类NAC(NAM/ATAF/CUC)转录因子基因,93.33%的NAC基因,共计28类,其表达量与笋箨衰老呈相关性, 包括已被证实在叶片衰老中具有重要调控作用的NAC002、NAC016、NAC017、NAC029(NAP)、NAC042、NAC055与NAC083等7个NAC转录因子与NAC014等14个被报道在叶片衰老中具有潜在作用的NAC基因。NAC025、NAC028、NAC045、NAC061、NAC086、NAC103与NAC1L (NAC 1 Like) 7 个NAC转录因子表达与孝顺竹笋箨衰老呈正相关,为新发现的正调控笋箨衰老的潜在转录因子。此外,利用MISA程序在76 499 个序列中检测到简单序列重复(simple sequence repeats,SSR)位点,主要以单核苷酸重复(SSRs)为主,占据了全部(SSRs)的55.2%。利用PLEK等软件共获得2 769个长链非编码RNA(long non-coding RNA, lncRNA)。【结论】竹子笋箨基因表达多样化,并具有完整的光合系统基因,显示其具有潜在光合功能;NAC转录因子在孝顺竹笋箨衰老中具有潜在重要调控作用。本研究首次解析了竹子笋箨的全长转录本特征,为今后深入分析竹子笋箨功能及其衰老的分子机制奠定基础。     

基于EST-SSR标记鉴定猴耳环自由授粉的全同胞子代

【目的】猴耳环是重要的药用树种,具有较好的工业应用价值。利用EST-SSR标记对猴耳环自然群体1株母树的自由授粉子代进行父本鉴定,从而确定全同胞子代,为基于全同胞家系的后续研究提供材料基础。【方法】以自然群体中母树ELS31自由授粉产生的1 489株子代及该群体内挂果的38株候选父本为材料,利用15个EST-SSR标记检测子代多样性和标记多态性,基于最大似然法鉴定各子代的父本,母本父本均相同的子代即构成全同胞家系,并估算群体内花粉传播距离,检验各父本对应的全同胞家系的多样性,通过卡方检验判断标记是否合乎预期的孟德尔分离比。【结果】15个EST-SSR标记的引物(对)共扩增出89个等位片段。子代群体期望杂合度(H_e)为0.525,表明群体多样性为中等水平;基于自然群体18株无亲缘关系的单株估算的标记平均多态性信息量(PIC)为0.736,表明标记多态性高。在1 489株自由授粉的子代中,确定了857株子代(57.6%)的34株父本。子代数最多的10个父本产生的子代数为26~184株,其他24个父本仅共产生子代139株。未发现自交子代,表明猴耳环是异交物种,自交的可能性极低。对子代数量20株以上的10个父本对应的全同胞家系观测杂合度(H_o)为0.502~0.693,H_e为0.417~0.544,各家系均是H_o大于H_e,表明存在一定程度的杂合子过剩。花粉传播的范围为10.0~559.1 m,平均119.2 m,但主要传播距离在150 m以内。716株子代(83.5%)的父本(10株)与母树距离在150 m以内。距离最远的父本ELS01 (559.1 m)和ELS02 (552.2 m)分别仅产生了9和12株子代。15个标记在子代20株以上的部分或全部全同胞家系中均有不同程度的偏分离,平均每家系的偏分离标记数为8.6个;偏分离最严重的是标记ARCeSSR141,在父本ELS30的全同胞家系中卡方(χ²)值为164.55。【结论】基于15个EST-SSR标记鉴定了猴耳环自然群体1株母本的1 489株自由授粉子代的父本,获得了子代20株以上的10个父本的全同胞家系。这为后续遗传测定、遗传图谱构建和数量性状位点定位等研究提供了材料基础。     

松属GAs相关EST SSR标记与火炬松×洪都拉斯加勒比松苗高相关性分析

以火炬松×洪都拉斯加勒比松F1代群体为研究对象,从松树PGI（松类基因索引）数据中筛选出13个与赤霉素（GAs）代谢有关的序列。设计了这13条序列的EST SSR引物对,并筛选出4对引物作为F1代检测的较好的标记。4对引物PCR分析显示在2个亲本和39个子代中共扩增出1 014个多态性位点,其中,杂种F1代扩增出的位点数中有50.19 %与父本相同,5217 %与母本相同,这表明母本（火炬松）和父本（加勒比松）杂交能够得到获得双亲遗传物质的新杂种。4个引物检测的26个等位基因位点中有6个与苗龄6个月的苗高有显著或极显著的相关性,有5个位点与苗龄9个月的苗高有显著或极显著相关性。这为早期选择提供了较好的分子标记。