| Literature DB >> 26811738 |
Shuhei Ota1,2, Kenshiro Oshima3, Tomokazu Yamazaki1,2, Sangwan Kim3,4, Zhe Yu1, Mai Yoshihara1, Kohei Takeda1, Tsuyoshi Takeshita1, Aiko Hirata5, Kateřina Bišová6, Vilém Zachleder6, Masahira Hattori3, Shigeyuki Kawano1,2.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Algae have attracted attention as sustainable producers of lipid-containing biomass for food, animal feed, and for biofuels. Parachlorella kessleri, a unicellular green alga belonging to the class Trebouxiophyceae, achieves very high biomass, lipid, and starch productivity levels. However, further biotechnological exploitation has been hampered by a lack of genomic information.Entities:
Keywords: 3D-TEM; Genome; Green alga; Lipid body; Parachlorella kessleri; RNA-seq; Transcriptome; Whole-genome sequence
Year: 2016 PMID: 26811738 PMCID: PMC4724957 DOI: 10.1186/s13068-016-0424-2
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biotechnol Biofuels ISSN: 1754-6834 Impact factor: 6.040
The Parachlorella genome assembly statistics
| Characteristic | |
|---|---|
| Genome size | 62.5 Mbp |
| GC (%) | 58.30 % |
| Number of scaffolds | 400 scaffolds |
| Average of scaffold size | 156,382 bp |
| N50 scaffold size (>2k bases: 400 scaffolds) | 543,086 bp |
| N50 scaffold size (>5k bases: 213 scaffolds) | 595,262 bp |
| N50 scaffold size (>10k bases: 193 scaffolds) | 595,262 bp |
| Longest scaffold size | 2,165,932 bp |
| Number of contigs | 5168 contigs |
| Average of contig size | 11,748 bp |
| N50 contig size (>500 bases: 5168 contigs) | 32,688 bp |
| N50 contig size (>5k bases: 2326 contigs) | 36,671 bp |
| N50 contig size (>10k bases: 1643 contigs) | 40,504 bp |
| Longest contig size | 198,966 bp |
| Numbers of genes | 13,057 genes |
| Average of protein length | 467.0 aa |
| Average gene density | 4.8 kb/gene |
| Average number of exons per gene | 7.9 exons |
| Average exon length | 176.3 bp |
| Average coding sequence | 29.30 % |
Fig. 1Phenotypic and transcriptomic response to sulfur deprivation. a Average ± SD (n = 3) growth in TAP (circles) and dSTAP (squares). b Time course of average ± SD (n = 3) starch accumulation. c Time course of average ± SD total lipid accumulation. d Time course of average (n = 3) total lipid yield (% DW). e Heat map of relative expression levels of autophagy-related genes. Values are indicated as the fold change (log2-ratio) of transcript levels under sulfur-deprived conditions relative to sulfur-replete conditions for the three culture phases (early and late log phases and stationary phase). The dendrogram represents hierarchical clustering based on expression values. TAP (solid line) and dSTAP (dashed line) lines are fitted curves as described in “Methods”. Real values and descriptions of autophagy-related genes are as in Additional file 7
Fig. 23D-TEM reconstruction and volumetric analysis of Parachlorella kessleri. a–c 3D-TEM image of a control cell from log-phase culture (stress-free conditions). d–f 3D-TEM image of a starch-rich phase cell (stressed conditions). g–i 3D-TEM image of a lipid-rich phase cell (stressed conditions). j–l Relative volumes of subcellular components and organelles in control cells, starch-rich, and lipid-rich cells, respectively. In each stage, 3D images are shown as a whole-cell, a whole-cell without chloroplast, and lipid body only. Volumes in the pie charts are the means of two representative cells of each stage. All subcellular and graph components are denoted by pseudocolors as indicated in the color legends. See also Additional files 2, 3, 4, and 5 as an image-rotation movie
Fig. 3Metabolic pathway map of Parachlorella kessleri. The metabolic network was reconstructed based on KEGG pathway analysis. Transcriptome analysis under ±sulfur conditions is shown near the pathway as a heat map. The left heat map shows RPKM values. The right heat map shows fold changes in transcript levels relative to 2-day-old TAP culture. If the enzyme is constructed from several subunits, the transcript levels are indicated for each subunit within the heat map, as shown in a small separate box. Color legends are shown at the bottom right of the map. Gene abbreviations are as in Additional file 6