| Literature DB >> 20497996 |
Frank M You1, Humphrey Wanjugi, Naxin Huo, Gerard R Lazo, Ming-Cheng Luo, Olin D Anderson, Jan Dvorak, Yong Q Gu.
Abstract
Transposable elements (TE) exist in the genomes of nearly all eukaryotes. TE mobilization through 'cut-and-paste' or 'copy-and-paste' mechanisms causes their insertions into other repetitive sequences, gene loci and other DNA. An insertion of a TE commonly creates a unique TE junction in the genome. TE junctions are also randomly distributed along chromosomes and therefore useful for genome-wide marker development. Several TE-based marker systems have been developed and applied to genetic diversity assays, and to genetic and physical mapping. A software tool 'RJPrimers' reported here allows for accurate identification of unique repeat junctions using BLASTN against annotated repeat databases and a repeat junction finding algorithm, and then for fully automated high-throughput repeat junction-based primer design using Primer3 and BatchPrimer3. The software was tested using the rice genome and genomic sequences of Aegilops tauschii. Over 90% of repeat junction primers designed by RJPrimers were unique. At least one RJM marker per 10 Kb sequence of A. tauschii was expected with an estimate of over 0.45 million such markers in a genome of 4.02 Gb, providing an almost unlimited source of molecular markers for mapping large and complex genomes. A web-based server and a command line-based pipeline for RJPrimers are both available at http://wheat.pw.usda.gov/demos/RJPrimers/.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 20497996 PMCID: PMC2896120 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq425
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nucleic Acids Res ISSN: 0305-1048 Impact factor: 16.971
Figure 1.Workflow chart of RJPrimers.
Figure 2.Repeat junction types in a short sequence. (a) Type 1: a repeat junction between two different TEs. (b) Type 2: two repeat junctions involving two different TE and an unknown or gene sequence. (c) Type 3: a repeat junction with a TE in one side and a fragment of an unknown or gene sequence on the other side. (d) Type 4: a nested repeat junction caused by a TE inserting into another TE.
Figure 3.Schematic primer design strategies of different TE junction-based primers. (a–e) represent different types of repeat junction-based markers as indicated in the right side of each diagram.
Abundance and uniqueness of repeat junctions and RJM primers
| Source | Sequence size (Mb) | No. of repeat junctions identified | No. of junctions per kb | No. of RJM markers designed | Unique RJM markers (%) | Unique RJM markers per kb |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 401 | 59 182 | 0.148 | 16 280 | 90.8 | 0.041 | |
| 3.7 | 674 | 0.183 | 244 | 92.3 | 0.169 | |
| 1093.6 | 123 683 | 0.113 | 37 102 | 90.7 | 0.102 |
aEstimated from wet lab PCR amplification of a random sample (see details in Table 2).
Wet lab PCR amplification of RJM primers designed by RJPrimers from Roche 454 reads and Sanger shotgun sequences of A. tauschii
| No. of primers designed | No. of primers with amplification | No. of primers failed to amply | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single product | Multiple products | |||
| Roche 454 reads | 55 | 49 | 5 | 1 |
| Shotgun sequences | 16 | 12 | 1 | 3 |
| Total | 71 | 61 | 6 | 4 |
| Retrotransposon–retrotransposon | 24 | 22 | 2 | 1 |
| Retrotransposon–DNA transposon | 19 | 16 | 2 | 1 |
| Retrotranspson–unknown | 19 | 17 | 1 | 1 |
| DNA transposon–DNA transposon | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| DNA transposon unknown | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| Total | 71 | 62 | 6 | 4 |
Figure 4.Distribution of unique and non-unique primers designed from rice genome (Oryza sativa L. ssp indica) in different types of repeat junctions.
Figure 5.PCR amplification using RJM primers designed by RJPrimers and A. tauschii genomic DNA. The DNA sequences used for primer design were Roche 454 reads from A. tauschii genomic DNA. A single PCR product (single band) indicates that the primer pair amplifies unique marker. The image shows the amplification products of 19 primer pairs.
Comparison of different types of TE junction based primers using e-PCR
| Primer type | No. of repeat junctions | No. of designed primer pairs | Unique primer pairs (%) | Unique primer pairs per Kb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RJM | 4234 | 1897 | 91.8 | 0.038 |
| RJJM | 4234 | 28 | 92.9 | 0.001 |
| ISBP | 4234 | 1837 | 91.6 | 0.037 |
| RBIP | 4234 | 443 | 90.3 | 0.009 |
| IRAP | 4234 | 30 | 93.0 | 0.001 |
aChromosome 1 sequence of Oryza sativa L. ssp indica was used for repeat junction identification and primer design.