McCarter, James P. and Mitreva, Makedonka and Martin, John and Dante, Mike and Wylie, Todd and Rao, Uma and Pape, Deana and Bowers, Yvette and Theising, Brenda and Murphy, Claire V and Kloek, Andrew P and Chiapelli, Brandi J and Clifton, Sandra W. and Bird, David M. and Waterston, Robert H. (2003) Analysis and functional classification of transcripts from the nematode Meloidogyne incognita. Genome Biology, 4 (4). R26.1-R26.19.
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Abstract
Background: Plant parasitic nematodes are major pathogens of most crops. Molecular characterization of these species as well as the development of new techniques for control can benefit from genomic approaches. As an entrée to characterizing plant parasitic nematode genomes, we analyzed 5,700 expressed sequence tags (ESTs) from second-stage larvae (L2) of the root-knot nematode Meloidogyne incognita.
Results: From these, 1,625 EST clusters were formed and classified by function using the Gene
Ontology (GO) hierarchy and the Kyoto KEGG database. L2 larvae, which represent the infective
stage of the life cycle before plant invasion, express a diverse array of ligand-binding proteins and
abundant cytoskeletal proteins. L2 are structurally similar to Caenorhabditis elegans dauer larva
and the presence of transcripts encoding glyoxylate pathway enzymes in the M. incognita clusters
suggests that root-knot nematode larvae metabolize lipid stores while in search of a host. Homology to other species was observed in 79% of translated cluster sequences, with the C. elegans genome providing more information than any other source. In addition to identifying putative nematode-specific and Tylenchida-specific genes, sequencing revealed previously uncharacterized horizontal gene transfer candidates in Meloidogyne with high identity to
rhizobacterial genes including homologs of nodL acetyltransferase and novel cellulases.
Conclusions: With sequencing from plant parasitic nematodes accelerating, the approaches to transcript characterization described here can be applied to more extensive datasets and also provide a foundation for more complex genome analyses.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | Medical and Health Sciences > Basic medicine |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Medical Science |
| Depositing User: | Mirjana Kocaleva Vitanova |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Dec 2012 11:51 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Dec 2012 11:51 |
| URI: | https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/id/eprint/2895 |
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