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Mandáková T, Krumpolcová A, Matyášek R, Volkov R, Lysak MA, Kovařík A. Uniparental silencing of 5S rRNA genes in plant allopolyploids - insights from Cardamine (Brassicaceae). THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2024. [PMID: 38838061 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.16850] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2024] [Revised: 04/30/2024] [Accepted: 05/14/2024] [Indexed: 06/07/2024]
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While the phenomenon of uniparental silencing of 35S rDNA in interspecific hybrids and allopolyploids is well documented, there is a notable absence of information regarding whether such silencing extends to the 5S RNA component of ribosomes. To address this gap in knowledge, we analyzed the 5S and 35S rDNA expression in Cardamine (Brassicaceae) allopolyploids, namely C. × insueta (2n = 3x = 24, genome composition RRA), C. flexuosa (2n = 4x = 32, AAHH), and C. scutata (2n = 4x = 32, PPAA) which share a common diploid ancestor (AA). We employed high-throughput sequencing of transcriptomes and genomes and phylogenetic analyses of 5S rRNA variants. The genomic organization of rDNA was further scrutinized through clustering and fluorescence in situ hybridization. In the C. × insueta allotriploid, we observed uniparental dominant expression of 5S and 35S rDNA loci. In the C. flexuosa and C. scutata allotetraploids, the expression pattern differed, with the 35S rDNA being expressed from the A subgenome, whereas the 5S rDNA was expressed from the partner subgenome. Both C. flexuosa and C. scutata but not C. × insueta showed copy and locus number changes. We conclude that in stabilized allopolyploids, transcription of ribosomal RNA components occurs from different subgenomes. This phenomenon appears to result in the formation of chimeric ribosomes comprising rRNA molecules derived from distinct parental origins. We speculate that the interplay of epigenetic silencing and rDNA rearrangements introduces an additional layer of variation in multimolecule ribosomal complexes, potentially contributing to the evolutionary success of allopolyploids.
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- Terezie Mandáková
- Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC), Masaryk University, 625 00, Brno, Czech Republic
- Department of Experimental Biology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, 611 37, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Experimental Biology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, 611 37, Brno, Czech Republic
- Department of Molecular Epigenetics, Institute of Biophysics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 612 00, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Molecular Epigenetics, Institute of Biophysics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 612 00, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology, Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, 58012, Chernivtsi, Ukraine
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- Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC), Masaryk University, 625 00, Brno, Czech Republic
- Faculty of Science, National Centre for Biomolecular Research, Masaryk University, 625 00, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Molecular Epigenetics, Institute of Biophysics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 612 00, Brno, Czech Republic
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Tynkevich YO, Shelyfist AY, Kozub LV, Hemleben V, Panchuk II, Volkov RA. 5S Ribosomal DNA of Genus Solanum: Molecular Organization, Evolution, and Taxonomy. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2022; 13:852406. [PMID: 35498650 PMCID: PMC9043955 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.852406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2022] [Accepted: 02/25/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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The Solanum genus, being one of the largest among high plants, is distributed worldwide and comprises about 1,200 species. The genus includes numerous agronomically important species such as Solanum tuberosum (potato), Solanum lycopersicum (tomato), and Solanum melongena (eggplant) as well as medical and ornamental plants. The huge Solanum genus is a convenient model for research in the field of molecular evolution and structural and functional genomics. Clear knowledge of evolutionary relationships in the Solanum genus is required to increase the effectiveness of breeding programs, but the phylogeny of the genus is still not fully understood. The rapidly evolving intergenic spacer region (IGS) of 5S rDNA has been successfully used for inferring interspecific relationships in several groups of angiosperms. Here, combining cloning and sequencing with bioinformatic analysis of genomic data available in the SRA database, we evaluate the molecular organization and diversity of IGS for 184 accessions, representing 137 species of the Solanum genus. It was found that the main mechanisms of IGS molecular evolution was step-wise accumulation of single base substitution or short indels, and that long indels and multiple base substitutions, which arose repeatedly during evolution, were mostly not conserved and eliminated. The reason for this negative selection seems to be association between indels/multiple base substitutions and pseudogenization of 5S rDNA. Comparison of IGS sequences allowed us to reconstruct the phylogeny of the Solanum genus. The obtained dendrograms are mainly congruent with published data: same major and minor clades were found. However, relationships between these clades and position of some species (S. cochoae, S. clivorum, S. macrocarpon, and S. spirale) were different from those of previous results and require further clarification. Our results show that 5S IGS represents a convenient molecular marker for phylogenetic studies on the Solanum genus. In particular, the simultaneous presence of several structural variants of rDNA in the genome enables the detection of reticular evolution, especially in the largest and economically most important sect. Petota. The origin of several polyploid species should be reconsidered.
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- Yurij O. Tynkevich
- Department of Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology, Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, Chernivtsi, Ukraine
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology, Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, Chernivtsi, Ukraine
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology, Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, Chernivtsi, Ukraine
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- Center of Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP), Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology, Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, Chernivtsi, Ukraine
- Center of Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP), Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology, Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, Chernivtsi, Ukraine
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Stepanenko A, Chen G, Hoang PTN, Fuchs J, Schubert I, Borisjuk N. The Ribosomal DNA Loci of the Ancient Monocot Pistia stratiotes L. (Araceae) Contain Different Variants of the 35S and 5S Ribosomal RNA Gene Units. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2022; 13:819750. [PMID: 35310643 PMCID: PMC8928438 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.819750] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2021] [Accepted: 02/10/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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The freshwater plant water lettuce (Pistia stratiotes L.) grows in warm climatic zones and is used for phytoremediation and biomass production. P. stratiotes belongs to the Araceae, an ecologically and structurally diverse early monocot family, but the phylogenetic relationships among Araceae members are poorly understood. Ribosomal DNAs (rDNAs), including the 35S and 5S rDNA, encode the RNA components of ribosomes and are widely used in phylogenetic and evolutionary studies of various plant taxa. Here, we comprehensively characterized the chromosomal locations and molecular organization of 35S and 5S rDNA genes in water lettuce using karyological and molecular methods. Fluorescence in situ hybridization revealed a single location for the 35S and 5S rDNA loci, each on a different pair of the species' 28 chromosomes. Molecular cloning and nucleotide sequencing of 35S rDNA of P. stratiotes, the first representative Araceae sensu stricto in which such a study was performed, displayed typical structural characteristics. The full-length repeat showed high sequence conservation of the regions producing the 18S, 5.8S, and 25S rRNAs and divergence of the internal transcribed spacers ITS1 and ITS2 as well as the large intergenic spacer (IGS). Alignments of the deduced sequence of 18S rDNA with the sequences available for other Araceae and representatives of other clades were used for phylogenetic analysis. Examination of 11 IGS sequences revealed significant intra-genomic length variability due to variation in subrepeat number, with four types of units detected within the 35S rDNA locus of the P. stratiotes genome (estimated size 407 Mb/1C). Similarly, the 5S rDNA locus harbors gene units comprising a conserved 119-bp sequence encoding 5S rRNA and two types of non-transcribed spacer (NTS) sequences. Type I was classified into four subtypes, which apparently originated via progressive loss of subrepeats within the duplicated NTS region containing the 3' part of the 5S rRNA gene. The minor Type II NTS is shorter than Type I and differs in nucleotide composition. Some DNA clones containing two or three consecutive 5S rDNA repeats harbored 5S rDNA genes with different types of NTSs, confirming the mosaic composition of the 5S rDNA locus.
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- Anton Stepanenko
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Eco-Agricultural Biotechnology Around Hongze Lake and Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Centre of Regional Modern Agriculture and Environmental Protection, School of Life Sciences, Huaiyin Normal University, Huai’an, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Eco-Agricultural Biotechnology Around Hongze Lake and Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Centre of Regional Modern Agriculture and Environmental Protection, School of Life Sciences, Huaiyin Normal University, Huai’an, China
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany
- Faculty of Biology, Dalat University, Đà Lạt, Vietnam
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Eco-Agricultural Biotechnology Around Hongze Lake and Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Centre of Regional Modern Agriculture and Environmental Protection, School of Life Sciences, Huaiyin Normal University, Huai’an, China
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Fehrer J, Slavíková R, Paštová L, Josefiová J, Mráz P, Chrtek J, Bertrand YJK. Molecular Evolution and Organization of Ribosomal DNA in the Hawkweed Tribe Hieraciinae (Cichorieae, Asteraceae). FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2021; 12:647375. [PMID: 33777082 PMCID: PMC7994888 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.647375] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2021] [Accepted: 02/19/2021] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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Molecular evolution of ribosomal DNA can be highly dynamic. Hundreds to thousands of copies in the genome are subject to concerted evolution, which homogenizes sequence variants to different degrees. If well homogenized, sequences are suitable for phylogeny reconstruction; if not, sequence polymorphism has to be handled appropriately. Here we investigate non-coding rDNA sequences (ITS/ETS, 5S-NTS) along with the chromosomal organization of their respective loci (45S and 5S rDNA) in diploids of the Hieraciinae. The subtribe consists of genera Hieracium, Pilosella, Andryala, and Hispidella and has a complex evolutionary history characterized by ancient intergeneric hybridization, allele sharing among species, and incomplete lineage sorting. Direct or cloned Sanger sequences and phased alleles derived from Illumina genome sequencing were subjected to phylogenetic analyses. Patterns of homogenization and tree topologies based on the three regions were compared. In contrast to most other plant groups, 5S-NTS sequences were generally better homogenized than ITS and ETS sequences. A novel case of ancient intergeneric hybridization between Hispidella and Hieracium was inferred, and some further incongruences between the trees were found, suggesting independent evolution of these regions. In some species, homogenization of ITS/ETS and 5S-NTS sequences proceeded in different directions although the 5S rDNA locus always occurred on the same chromosome with one 45S rDNA locus. The ancestral rDNA organization in the Hieraciinae comprised 4 loci of 45S rDNA in terminal positions and 2 loci of 5S rDNA in interstitial positions per diploid genome. In Hieracium, some deviations from this general pattern were found (3, 6, or 7 loci of 45S rDNA; three loci of 5S rDNA). Some of these deviations concerned intraspecific variation, and most of them occurred at the tips of the tree or independently in different lineages. This indicates that the organization of rDNA loci is more dynamic than the evolution of sequences contained in them and that locus number is therefore largely unsuitable to inform about species relationships in Hieracium. No consistent differences in the degree of sequence homogenization and the number of 45S rDNA loci were found, suggesting interlocus concerted evolution.
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- Judith Fehrer
- Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Průhonice, Czechia
- *Correspondence: Judith Fehrer,
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- Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Průhonice, Czechia
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- Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Průhonice, Czechia
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- Department of Botany, Charles University, Prague, Czechia
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- Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Průhonice, Czechia
- Department of Botany, Charles University, Prague, Czechia
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Piredda R, Grimm GW, Schulze ED, Denk T, Simeone MC. High-throughput sequencing of 5S-IGS in oaks: Exploring intragenomic variation and algorithms to recognize target species in pure and mixed samples. Mol Ecol Resour 2020; 21:495-510. [PMID: 32997899 DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.13264] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2020] [Revised: 08/28/2020] [Accepted: 09/01/2020] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Measuring biological diversity is a crucial but difficult undertaking, as exemplified in oaks where complex patterns of morphological, ecological, biogeographical and genetic differentiation collide with traditional taxonomy, which measures biodiversity in number of species (or higher taxa). In this pilot study, we generated high-throughput sequencing amplicon data of the intergenic spacer of the 5S nuclear ribosomal DNA cistron (5S-IGS) in oaks, using six mock samples that differ in geographical origin, species composition and pool complexity. The potential of the marker for automated genotaxonomy applications was assessed using a reference data set of 1,770 5S-IGS cloned sequences, covering the entire taxonomic breadth and distribution range of western Eurasian Quercus, and applying similarity (blast) and evolutionary approaches (maximum-likelihood trees and Evolutionary Placement Algorithm). Both methods performed equally well, allowing correct identification of species in sections Ilex and Cerris in the pure and mixed samples, and main lineages shared by species of sect. Quercus. Application of different cut-off thresholds revealed that medium- to high-abundance (>10 or 25) sequences suffice for a net species identification of samples containing one or a few individuals. Lower thresholds identify phylogenetic correspondence with all target species in highly mixed samples (analogous to environmental bulk samples) and include rare variants pointing towards reticulation, incomplete lineage sorting, pseudogenic 5S units and in situ (natural) contamination. Our pipeline is highly promising for future assessments of intraspecific and interpopulation diversity, and of the genetic resources of natural ecosystems, which are fundamental to empower fast and solid biodiversity conservation programmes worldwide.
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- Orléans, France.,Department of Palaeontology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie e Forestali (DAFNE), Università degli studi della Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy
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Evolutionary Diversity in the Intracellular Microsporidian Parasite Nosema sp. Infecting Wild Silkworm Revealed by IGS Nucleotide Sequence Diversity. J Mol Evol 2020; 88:345-360. [PMID: 32166385 DOI: 10.1007/s00239-020-09936-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2019] [Accepted: 02/27/2020] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Intracellular microsporidian Nosema mylitta infects Indian wild silkworm Antheraea mylitta causing pebrine disease. Genetic structure and phylogeny of N. mylitta are analysed using nucleotide variability in 5S ribosomal DNA and intergenic spacer (IGS) sequence from 20 isolates collected from Southern, Northern and Central regions of Jharkhand State. Nucleotide diversity (π) and genetic differentiation Gst were highest in the Central isolates whereas lowest in the North. Among the isolates, absence of nucleotides, transitions and transversions were observed. Haplotyping showed nucleotide variability at 83 positions in IGS and 13 positions in 5S rDNA. Haplotype-based genetic differentiation was 0.96 to 0.97 whereas nucleotide sequence-based genetic differentiation was higher (Ks = 22.29) between Southern and Central isolates. Bottleneck analysis showed negative value for Tajima's D and other summary statistics revealing induction of loss of rare alleles and population explosion. From IGS, 17 ancestral sequences were inferred by Network algorithm. Core of nine closely related nodes having ancient nucleotides and peripheral nodes with highly divergent nucleotides were derived. Most diverged peripheral haplotype was Bero (H11) from the Central region whereas Deoghar (H3) of the Northern region diverged early. Phylogeny of N. mylitta grouped Southern and Northern isolates together revealed weak phylogenetic signal for these locations. Phylogeny of N. mylitta with Nosema sp. infecting other lepidopterans clustered N. mylitta isolates with N. antheraea and N. philosamiae of China indicating genetic similarity whereas other species were dissimilar showing diversity irrespective of country of origin.
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New phagotrophic euglenoid species (new genus Decastava; Scytomonas saepesedens; Entosiphon oblongum), Hsp90 introns, and putative euglenoid Hsp90 pre-mRNA insertional editing. Eur J Protistol 2016; 56:147-170. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejop.2016.08.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2016] [Revised: 07/29/2016] [Accepted: 08/03/2016] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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