Journal
COMPUTATIONAL AND STRUCTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL
Volume 19, Issue -, Pages 1928-1932Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.csbj.2021.04.007
Keywords
Ciliated protozoa; Tetrahymena; Complete genome; Nanopore sequencing; Telomeres
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31672281, 31872221, 31900316, 31525021]
- Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Youth Innovation Promotion Association, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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By utilizing third-generation sequencing technologies, researchers have developed a simple strategy to assemble the complete MAC genome of ciliates, achieving telomere-to-telomere assembly of the MAC genomes in two ciliate species. This established strategy and high-quality genome data will serve as valuable resources for further biological, evolutionary, and population genomic studies.
Ciliates contain two kinds of nuclei: the germline micronucleus (MIC) and the somatic macronucleus (MAC) in a single cell. The MAC usually have fragmented chromosomes. These fragmented chromosomes, capped with telomeres at both ends, could be gene size to several megabases in length among different ciliate species. So far, no telomere-to-telomere assembly of entire MAC genome in ciliate species has been finished. Development of the third generation sequencing technologies allows to generate sequencing reads up to megabases in length that could possibly span an entire MAC chromosome. Taking advantage of the ultra-long Nanopore reads, we established a simple strategy for the complete assembly of ciliate MAC genomes. Using this strategy, we assembled the complete MAC genomes of two ciliate species Tetrahymena thermophila and Tetrahymena shanghaiensis, composed of 181 and 214 chromosomes telomere-to-telomere respectively. The established strategy as well as the high-quality genome data will provide a useful approach for ciliate genome assembly, and a valuable community resource for further biological, evolutionary and population genomic studies. (C) 2021 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of Research Network of Computational and Structural Biotechnology.
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