Comparative profiling of overlapping transcription in the compacted genomes of microsporidia Antonospora locustae and Encephalitozoon cuniculi

Genomics

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 388-393

  Corradi, Nicolas ^a   Gangaeva, Anna ^a   Keeling, Patrick J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antonospora locustae; Encephalitozoon cuniculi; Genome compaction; Overlapping transcription; Processing points

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CODON; DNA FLANKING REGION; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; MICROSPORUM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; START CODON;

GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOME, FUNGAL; MICROSPORIDIA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANTONOSPORA LOCUSTAE; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; FUNGI; MICROSPORIDIA;

EID: 41049110585     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: 10898646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2007.12.006     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Larsson J.I.R. Identification of microsporidia. Acta Protozool. 38 (1999) 161-197
2. Becnel J.J., and Andreadis T.G. Microsporidia in insects. In: Witter W.L.M. (Ed). The Microsporidia and Microsporidiosis (1999), Am. Soc. Microbiol. Press, Washington, DC 447-501
3. Vossbrinck C.R., Maddox J.V., Friedman S., Debrunner-Vossbrinck B.A., and Woese C.R. Ribosomal RNA sequence suggests microsporidia are extremely ancient eukaryotes. Nature 326 (1987) 411-414
4. Keeling P.J. Congruent evidence from alpha-tubulin and beta-tubulin gene phylogenies for a zygomycete origin of microsporidia. Fungal Genet. Biol. 38 (2003) 298-309
5. Van De Peer Y., Ben Ali A., and Meyer A. Microsporidia: accumulating molecular evidence that a group of amitochondriate and suspectedly primitive eukaryotes are just curious fungi. Gene 246 (2000) 1-8
6. Keeling P.J., and Doolittle W.F. Alpha-tubulin from early-diverging eukaryotic lineages and the evolution of the tubulin family. Mol. Biol. Evol. 13 (1996) 1297-1305
7. Biderre C., Pages M., Metenier G., David D., Bata J., Prensier G., and Vivares C.P. On small genomes in eukaryotic organisms: molecular karyotypes of two microsporidian species (Protozoa) parasites of vertebrates. C. R. Acad. Sci. III 317 (1994) 399-404
8. Peyretaillade E., Biderre C., Peyret P., Duffieux F., Metenier G., Gouy M., Michot B., and Vivares C.P. Microsporidian Encephalitozoon cuniculi, a unicellular eukaryote with an unusual chromosomal dispersion of ribosomal genes and a LSU rRNA reduced to the universal core. Nucleic Acids Res. 26 (1998) 3513-3520
9. Katinka M.D., Duprat S., Cornillot E., Metenier G., Thomarat F., Prensier G., Barbe V., Peyretaillade E., Brottier P., Wincker P., Delvac F., El Alaoui H., Peyret P., Saurin W., Gouy M., Weissenbach J., and Vivares C.P. Genome sequence and gene compaction of the eukaryote parasite Encephalitozoon cuniculi. Nature 414 (2001) 450-453
10. Williams B.A., Slamovits C.H., Patron N.J., Fast N.M., and Keeling P.J. A high frequency of overlapping gene expression in compacted eukaryotic genomes. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 102 (2005) 10936-10941
11. Jacob M.J. Genetic regulatory mechanisms in the synthesis of proteins. J. Mol. Biol. 3 (1961) 318-356
12. Slamovits C.H., and Keeling P.J. Class II photolyase in a microsporidian intracellular parasite. J. Mol. Biol. 341 (2004) 713-721
13. Gerads M., and Ernst J.F. Overlapping coding regions and transcriptional units of two essential chromosomal genes (CCT8, TRP1) in the fungal pathogen Candida albicans. Nucleic Acids Res. 26 (1998) 5061-5066
14. Hansen K., Birse C.E., and Proudfoot N.J. Nascent transcription from the nmt1 and nmt2 genes of Schizosaccharomyces pombe overlaps neighbouring genes. EMBO J. 17 (1998) 3066-3077
15. Nilsen F., Endresen C., and Hordvik I. Molecular phylogeny of microsporidians with particular reference to species that infect the muscles of fish. J. Eukaryot. Microbiol. 45 (1998) 535-543
16. Slamovits C.H., Williams B.A., and Keeling P.J. Transfer of Nosema locustae (Microsporidia) to Antonospora locustae n. comb. based on molecular and ultrastructural data. J. Eukaryot. Microbiol. 51 (2004) 207-213
17. Xu J., Pan G., Fang L., Li J., Tian X., Li T., Zhou Z., and Xiang Z. The varying microsporidian genome: existence of long-terminal repeat retrotransposon in domesticated silkworm parasite Nosema bombycis. Int. J. Parasitol. 36 (2006) 1049-1056
18. Corradi N., Akiyoshi D.E., Morrison H.G., Feng X., Weiss L.M., Tzipori S., and Keeling P.J. Patterns of genome evolution among the microsporidian parasites Encephalitozoon cuniculi, Antonospora locustae and Enterocytozoon bieneusi. PLoS ONE 2 (2007) e1277 10.1371/journal.pone.0001277
19. Bohne W., Ferguson D.J., Kohler K., and Gross U. Developmental expression of a tandemly repeated, glycine- and serine-rich spore wall protein in the microsporidian patogen Encephalitozoon cuniculi. Infect. Immun. 68 (2000) 2268-2275
20. Peuvel I., Peyret P., Metenier G., Vivares C.P., and Delbac F. The microsporidian polar tube: evidence for a third polar tube protein (PTP3) in Encephalitozoon cuniculi. Mol. Biochem. Parasitol. 122 (2002) 69-80
21. Knox D.P., and Skuce P.J. SAGE and the quantitative analysis of gene expression in parasites. Trends Parasitol. 21 (2005) 322-326
22. Monis P.T., Giglio S., Keegan A.R., and Andrew Thompson R.C. Emerging technologies for the detection and genetic characterization of protozoan parasites. Trends Parasitol. 21 (2005) 340-346
23. Gobert G.N., Moertel L.P., and Mcmanus D.P. Microarrays: new tools to unravel parasite transcriptomes. Parasitology 131 (2005) 439-448