scholarly journals Dose–Sensitivity, Conserved Non-Coding Sequences, and Duplicate Gene Retention Through Multiple Tetraploidies in the Grasses

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
James C. Schnable ◽  
Brent S. Pedersen ◽  
Sabarinath Subramaniam ◽  
Michael Freeling
Development ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 129 (10) ◽  
pp. 2339-2354 ◽  
Author(s):  
James M. McClintock ◽  
Mazen A. Kheirbek ◽  
Victoria E. Prince

We have used a morpholino-based knockdown approach to investigate the functions of a pair of zebrafish Hox gene duplicates, hoxb1a and hoxb1b, which are expressed during development of the hindbrain. We find that the zebrafish hoxb1 duplicates have equivalent functions to mouse Hoxb1 and its paralogue Hoxa1. Thus, we have revealed a ‘function shuffling’ among genes of paralogue group 1 during the evolution of vertebrates. Like mouse Hoxb1, zebrafish hoxb1a is required for migration of the VIIth cranial nerve branchiomotor neurons from their point of origin in hindbrain rhombomere 4 towards the posterior. By contrast, zebrafish hoxb1b, like mouse Hoxa1, is required for proper segmental organization of rhombomere 4 and the posterior hindbrain. Double knockdown experiments demonstrate that the zebrafish hoxb1 duplicates have partially redundant functions. However, using an RNA rescue approach, we reveal that these duplicated genes do not have interchangeable biochemical functions: only hoxb1a can properly pattern the VIIth cranial nerve. Despite this difference in protein function, we provide evidence that the hoxb1 duplicate genes were initially maintained in the genome because of complementary degenerative mutations in defined cis-regulatory elements.


2007 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Hughes ◽  
Diana Ekman ◽  
Himanshu Ardawatia ◽  
Arne Elofsson ◽  
David A Liberles

2008 ◽  
Vol 25 (11) ◽  
pp. 2445-2455 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. S. Barker ◽  
N. C. Kane ◽  
M. Matvienko ◽  
A. Kozik ◽  
R. W. Michelmore ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (23) ◽  
Author(s):  
Si Chul Kim ◽  
Hyo Jung Lee

Here, we report the draft genome sequence of Pseudorhodobacter sp. strain E13, a Gram-negative, aerobic, nonflagellated, and rod-shaped bacterium which was isolated from the Yellow Sea in South Korea. The assembled genome sequence is 3,878,578 bp long with 3,646 protein-coding sequences in 159 contigs.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayako Nishizawa ◽  
Kazuki Kumada ◽  
Keiko Tateno ◽  
Maiko Wagata ◽  
Sakae Saito ◽  
...  

AbstractPreeclampsia is a pregnancy-induced disorder that is characterized by hypertension and is a leading cause of perinatal and maternal–fetal morbidity and mortality. HLA-G is thought to play important roles in maternal–fetal immune tolerance, and the associations between HLA-G gene polymorphisms and the onset of pregnancy-related diseases have been explored extensively. Because contiguous genomic sequencing is difficult, the association between the HLA-G genotype and preeclampsia onset is controversial. In this study, genomic sequences of the HLA-G region (5.2 kb) from 31 pairs of mother–offspring genomic DNA samples (18 pairs from normal pregnancies/births and 13 from preeclampsia births) were obtained by single-molecule real-time sequencing using the PacBio RS II platform. The HLA-G alleles identified in our cohort matched seven known HLA-G alleles, but we also identified two new HLA-G alleles at the fourth-field resolution and compared them with nucleotide sequences from a public database that consisted of coding sequences that cover the 3.1-kb HLA-G gene span. Intriguingly, a potential association between preeclampsia onset and the poly T stretch within the downstream region of the HLA-G*01:01:01:01 allele was found. Our study suggests that long-read sequencing of HLA-G will provide clues for characterizing HLA-G variants that are involved in the pathophysiology of preeclampsia.


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