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PROTIST
Volume 152, Issue 2, Pages 139-147Publisher
ELSEVIER GMBH
DOI: 10.1078/1434-4610-00052
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Partial sequencing of cDNA libraries to generate expressed sequence tags (ESTs) is an effective means of gene discovery, generation of molecular markers and characterization of transcription patterns. We have constructed an EST-database of the scaly green flagellate Scherffelia dubia (Chlorophyta) containing 361 sequences. cDNAs were obtained from interphase cells and from cells regenerating flagella. Analysis of the ESTs identified 138 EST-groups with significant similarity to known sequences. 134 EST-groups showed no significant similarity to any sequences in the databases. Most of the ESTs with similarity to known proteins are associated with typical interphase cell functions of a photosynthetic plant cell: assimilation of nutrients and biosynthesis of proteins. Others are related to the activation of the secretory pathway or the biogenesis of scales (e.g. kdo-synthase). Comparison of S. dubia ESTs with the genome of Arabidopsis thaliana and the EST database of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii revealed that S. dubia ESTs with similarity to known proteins were more similar to sequences in C. reinhardtii than to those of A. thaliana. Additionally, ESTs for guanylyl cyclase and cGMP phosphodiesterase are present in the two flagellates, but so far these gene products have not been found in embryophytes.
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