Journal
COMPARATIVE CYTOGENETICS
Volume 12, Issue 4, Pages 493-513Publisher
PENSOFT PUBL
DOI: 10.3897/CompCytogen.v12i4.31015
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Physcomitrella patens; Bryophyta; satellite DNA; chromosomes; fluorescence in situ hybridization; long non-coding RNAs; rDNA
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- Russian Science Foundation [17-14-01189]
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Satellite DNA (satDNA) constitutes a substantial part of eukaryotic genomes. In the last decade, it has been shown that satDNA is not an inert part of the genome and its function extends beyond the nuclear membrane. However, the number of model plant species suitable for studying the novel horizons of satDNA functionality is low. Here, we explored the satellitome of the model basal plant, Physcomitrella patens (Hedwig, 1801) Bruch & Schimper, 1849 (moss), which has a number of advantages for deep functional and evolutionary research. Using a newly developed pyTanFinder pipeline (https://github.com/Kirovez/pyTanFinder) coupled with fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), we identified five high copy number tandem repeats (TRs) occupying a long DNA array in the moss genome. The nuclear organization study revealed that two TRs had distinct locations in the moss genome, concentrating in the heterochromatin and knob-rDNA like chromatin bodies. Further genomic, epigenetic and transcriptomic analysis showed that one TR, named PpNATR76, was located in the intergenic spacer (IGS) region and transcribed into long non-coding RNAs (IncRNAs). Several specific features of PpNATR76 IncRNAs make them very similar with the recently discovered human IncRNAs, raising a number of questions for future studies. This work provides new resources for functional studies of satellitome in plants using the model organism P. patens, and describes a list of tandem repeats for further analysis.
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