Transcript Mapping and Genome Annotation of Ascidian mtDNA Using EST Data

• Carmela Gissi

• Graziano Pesole

抄録

Mitochondrial transcripts of two ascidian species were reconstructed through sequence assembly of publicly available ESTs resembling mitochondrial DNA sequences (mt-ESTs). This strategy allowed us to analyze processing and mapping of the mitochondrial transcripts and to investigate the gene organization of a previously uncharacterized mitochondrial genome (mtDNA). This new strategy would greatly facilitate the sequencing and annotation of mtDNAs. In Ciona intestinalis , the assembled mt-ESTs covered 22 mitochondrial genes (∼12,000 bp) and provided the partial sequence of the mtDNA and the prediction of its gene organization. Such sequences were confirmed by amplification and sequencing of the entire Ciona mtDNA. For Halocynthia roretzi , for which the mtDNA sequence was already available, the inferred mt transcripts allowed better definition of gene boundaries (16S rRNA, ND1, ATP6, and tRNA-Ser genes) and the identification of a new gene (an additional Phe-tRNA). In both species, polycistronic and immature transcripts, creation of stop codons by polyadenylation, tRNA signal processing, and rRNA transcript termination signals were identified, thus suggesting that the main features of mitochondrial transcripts are conserved in Chordata.

収録刊行物

• Genome Research

  Genome Research 13 (9), 2203-2212, 2003-01-01

  Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

キーワード

• Genetics (clinical)
• Genetics

詳細情報

• CRID: 1361137045092900608
• NII論文ID: 30018929794
• DOI: 10.1101/gr.1227803
• ISSN: 10889051
• Web Site: https://syndication.highwire.org/content/doi/10.1101/gr.1227803
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