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BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 466, Issue 3, Pages 450-455Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2015.09.048
Keywords
Panax japonicus; Transcriptome; Triterpenoid saponin
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81274023]
- Educational Commission of Hubei Province of China [Q20141704]
- Major Support Program granted from Wuhan Polytechnic University [2013472]
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Panax japonicus C.A.Mey, the traditional medicinal herb in the Araliaceae family, has been used as a tonic, anti-inflammatory and haemostatic agent in China for more than thousand years. Its clinical effects are mainly due to the presence of triterpenoid saponins. However, little is known at the genetic level about how saponins are biosynthesized in this plant. We have therefore performed the de novo transcriptome assembly and high throughput RNA-seq analysis for P. japonicus. 66,403 unigenes were assembled from 19.6 Gbp raw data, and 34,639 unigenes were annotated. After annotation, 29 unigenes involved in putative backbone biosynthesis of triterpenoid saponin were selected. Additionally, 34 Cytochrome P450 and 18 UDP-glycosyltransferase unigenes were predicted based on the annotation, which were related to the saponin backbone modification. The expression level of related key genes were further verified by qPCR analysis. The results of this study provide the most comprehensive expressed sequence resources for P.japonicus, which will enlarge the available P. japonicus gene pool and facilitate further genome-wide research and analyses in this species. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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