Journal
GENE
Volume 533, Issue 2, Pages 541-546Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2013.10.009
Keywords
PacBio sequencing; Gene family; Gluten diversity; Copy number variation; Repetitive sequence
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- Selman Waksman Chair in Molecular Genetics
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Amino acids in wheat (Triticum aestivum) seeds mainly accumulate in storage proteins called gliadins and glutenins. Gliadins contain alpha/beta-, gamma- and omega-types whereas glutenins contain HMW- and LMW-types. Known gliadin and glutenin sequences were largely determined through cloning and sequencing by capillary electrophoresis. This time-consuming process prevents us to intensively study the variation of each orthologous gene copy among cultivars. The throughput and sequencing length of Pacific Bioscience RS (PacBio) single molecule sequencing platform make it feasible to construct contiguous and non-chimeric RNA sequences. We assembled 424 wheat storage protein transcripts from ten wheat cultivars by using just one single-molecule-real-time cell. The protein genes from wheat cultivar Chinese Spring are comparable to known sequences from NCBI. We demonstrated real-time sequencing of gene families with high-throughput and low-cost. This method can be applied to studies of gene amplification and copy number variation among species and cultivars. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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