龙眼顶芽转录组简单重复序列(SSR)标记信息分析及分子标记开发

随着新一代测序技术的发展,大量的转录组数据和表达序列标签(EST)成为开发简单重复序列(SSR)标记的可利用资源。本研究利用MISA软件筛选龙眼(Dimocarpus longan)顶芽转录组数据库序列,从114 445条龙眼转录组unigene序列中发现11 546个SSR位点,SSR出现频率为10.09%。其中1 975条unigene含有两个或两个以上EST-SSR位点,占所有SSR位点的比例为17.10%,SSR出现的平均距离为7.52 kb。从龙眼转录组SSR核苷酸基序类型来看,二核苷酸(52.11%)和三核苷酸(46.15%)出现频率最高,占所有核苷酸出现频率的99.26%。在龙眼转录组SSR中二核苷酸重复基元出现频率最高的是AG/CT(4 250个,占36.81%),三核苷酸重复基元出现频率最高的是AAG/CTT(1 109个,占9.61%)。对含SSR位点的9 571条unigene序列进行引物设计,共设计出了8 347对SSR位点特异引物。随机挑选合成50对EST-SSR引物,以‘石硖’、‘储良’、‘古山2号’、‘立冬本’等四份龙眼材料的基因组DNA为模板对这批引物进行PCR扩增、筛选,结果表明,其中21对引物能产生理想的PCR产物,有效扩增率为42%;16对引物扩增条带具有多态性,占有效引物的76.2%;16对多态性引物共扩增获得50个条带,其中多态性片段21个,每对引物平均产生1.31个多态性片段。     

油菜EST-SSR标记的建立

在油菜17987条非冗余EST中,共发掘出了2083个EST-SSR,分布于2443条EST中,发生频率是13.58%,平均分布距离为4.34kb。在油菜EST-SSR中,二、三核苷酸重复是主要的重复类型,二者出现的频率相近,占总SSR的89.05%。AG/CT和AAG/CTT是二、三核苷酸中的优势重复类型,分别占二、三核苷酸重复类型的84.31%和37.71%。进一步设计了23对SSR引物,通过梯度PCR试验确定了各引物的适宜退火温度,并利用非变性聚丙烯酰胺凝胶银染对这些引物在10个油菜品种中的扩增情况和多态性进行了检测。有21对引物显示扩增,引物可用率为91.30%;有12对引物显现出多态性,占可扩增引物的57.14%。本研究结果证明根据油菜EST建立SSR标记是有效、可行的。     

茶树EST-SSRs分布特征及标记开发

为了在茶树中开发EST-SSRs功能性标记,利用生物信息学方法对NCBI网上公开的3288条茶树(Camellia sinensis) ESTs序列进行EST-SSRs特征分析。剔除冗余序列,得到非冗余序列2083条。在非冗余序列中发现含不同重复基元SSRs的EST序列有385条,共486个EST-SSRs,平均相隔2.10 kb出现一个SSR。在2-6 bp的重复基元中,二核苷酸重复基元的SSRs出现频率最高(51.97%),其次是三核苷酸(19.55%)。对所有的重复基元类型进行统计分析发现, 所占比例最高的是AG/CT(47.74%),其次分别是AT/TA(4.73%)和AAG/CTT(4.73%)。利用Prime 5 软件,设计了206对EST-SSRs引物,随机选用72对引物进行SSR扩增,发现31对引物可以扩增出条带,其中29对引物具有多态性,多态性比率为93.5%。这些EST-SSRs将有助于茶树基因组学方面的研究。     

马铃薯甲虫基因组SSR位点分析及引物效率的验证

SSR作为一种微卫星分子标记方法,被广泛用于遗传多样性相关的研究,而SSR引物是否高效是影响整个实验结果的重要因素。本研究利用生物信息学手段,对马铃薯甲虫基因组数据进行分析,搜索基因组SSR位点,并设计引物和验证SSR引物的效率。最终在马铃薯甲虫基因组中共检测出SSR位点81 937个,且这些位点中以单核苷酸、二核苷酸、三核苷酸重复为主;从SSR位点的平均分布距离来看,单、三、四核苷酸重复在马铃薯甲虫基因组中平均分布距离较小,分别为2.21 kb、8.39 kb、36.21 kb。马铃薯甲虫基因组SSR位点中,优势基序总数为68 388个,比例高达83.46%,其中,单核苷酸以A/T重复基序占绝对优势,二核苷酸重复的SSR位点中,以AG/CT重复基序为主,三核苷酸重复的位点中,以AAT/ATT重复基序为主;在ClassⅠ长度的SSR位点中,以二核苷酸、三核苷酸重复的数量最多,比例高达82.32%;最后设计19对SSR引物测试效率,其中14对成功扩增条带,11对为多态性引物,其平均多态性条带6.27条。多态性引物的PIC值在0.375-0.794,平均值为0.600,大于平均值的引物为6对,占有效扩增引物的54.5%。研究表明,利用生物信息发掘SSR位点的方法简便高效,这为后续进一步利用SSR引物研究马铃薯甲虫的遗传多样性,及在其它昆虫中开发SSR引物开发奠定研究基础。     

梅EST-SSR标记的开发及利用

利用MISA软件对10 123条梅EST序列进行SSR位点查找,得到含SSR位点的序列935条,SSR位点1233个,平均每100条EST序列中含有12.18个SSR位点.2核苷酸、3核苷酸重复是最主要的重复类型,分别占35.52%和41.36%.设计了40对EST-SSR引物并进行扩增,有24对引物能扩增出理想的PCR 产物,其中17对引物具有较好的扩增多态性.测序后发现13对引物中有73.08%的片段具有相应的SSR位点,对杏DNA指纹中部分谱带的测序结果也证明了是梅扩增出的相应的SSR位点.根据本研究含有SSR位点的测序结果推算,从梅EST中开发真实SSR位点的数目为901.随机选择13对引物对杏和梅进行DNA指纹构建与遗传多样性分析,结果发现,来源于梅的EST-SSR引物在杏中有很高的通用性,这些引物把梅和杏分成了两大群体,说明他们是遗传差异明显的两种植物.     

中间锦鸡儿转录组EST-SSR标记系统性识别与引物筛选

旨在对中间锦鸡儿转录组数据库EST信息进行SSR系统性识别和初步验证,为进一步SSR分子标记开发提供依据。对Hi Seq2000测序技术获得的中间锦鸡儿转录组Unigenes进行SSR位点搜索,共获得45 706个SSR位点,出现频率为10.38%,平均4.30kb出现一个SSR位点。SSR重复类型以单核苷酸重复序列基元为主,所占比例为56.47%;二核苷酸、三核苷酸重复序列基元的数量所占比例分别是20.56%和21.04%;其他数量的基元所占比例仅为1.9%。多核苷酸重复类型中最多的为2核苷酸重复AG/CT;其次为3核苷酸重复AAG/CTT。针对EST-SSR位点随机挑选了150对引物,通过琼脂糖凝胶电泳进行PCR验证,其中有79对能获得扩增条带,21对引物扩增出单一条带,比例为14.0%。     

亚麻EST-SSR信息分析与标记开发

与基因组SSR相比,以EST为基础的EST-SSR分子标记具有自身的优点。本研究从11240条亚麻（Linum sitatissmum L.）EST序列中检索出877条含有SSR的序列,其出现频率为7.8%。其中以三核苷酸重复出现的频率最高,占总SSR序列的60.1%;其次是二核苷酸重复,占21.9%;四、五和六核苷酸重复占18%。根据这些含SSR的EST序列共设计了73对SSR引物,在8份亚麻材料间通过PCR扩增检测,有63对引物扩增出清晰条带,引物可用率86.3%;有17对引物在8份亚麻材料间显现出多态性,占可扩增引物的26.3%。     

基于转录组测序信息的水生植物莕菜SSR标记开发

利用软件MISA对水生植物莕菜转录组测序所获得的79536条EST序列进行分析,共检测出12319个EST-SSR位点。在莕菜的EST-SSR中,二核苷酸和三核苷酸重复单元是主导类型,分别占总SSR的57.31%和30.87%,其中AG/CT、AAG/CTT分别是二、三重复单元类型的优势重复基元,分别占总SSR的29.76%和8.66%。随机挑选了130对EST-SSR引物对莕菜两个居群进行遗传多样性检测,结果发现：78对引物能扩增出清晰可分辨的条带,其中37对能成功检测出多态性,引物多态率为 47.44%。这些多态性引物共检测出114个等位基因,每个位点2~6个,平均3.08个。观测杂合度（H_o）及预期杂合度（H_e）分别在0.229~1.000和0.351~0.756之间,多态信息含量PIC值在0.286~0.698之间,平均达0.495。以上研究结果表明,通过莕菜转录组测序产生的EST数据来开发SSR标记是一种简单而高效的途径,这些新的SSR分子标记为研究莕菜的居群遗传多样性及其遗传结构提供了工具。     

黄瓜基因组EST-SSRs的分布规律及EST-SSR标记开发

从NCBI网站下载黄瓜EST序列6 344条及本课题组对黄瓜叶片cDNA文库测序研究所得的EST 163条,在除去载体、polyA/T等序列后得到6 129条无冗余EST序列,全长为2.98×106bp.采用网络软件SSRIT从这些序列中搜索到784个SSR,分布于673条EST中,出现频率为12.79%,平均分布距离为3.80 kb;单、二和三核苷酸重复是主导类型,分别占EST-SSRs总数的32.91%、28.19%和29.34%;A/T、AG/CT和AAG/CTT分别是单、二和三核苷酸的优势重复基元,分别占EST-SSRs总数的32.40%、20.66%和14.41%.经现已报道的评价方法分析表明,这些EST-SSRs具有较好的多态性和可用性.设计了30对EST-SSR引物对22份黄瓜材料进行PCR检测,18对引物检测到多态性.根据PCR结果,这些材料被聚为三类,聚类结果与材料本身特性一致.结果说明通过黄瓜EST数据库发掘SSR标记是一条可行的途径.     

三种人参属植物的EST-SSR信息分析及其在三七中的应用

为了解人参属植物EST中SSR分布特点及其在三七SSR标记中的应用,利用生物信息学方法,用primer 3软件对dbEST数据库中人参属植物人参、西洋参和三七的EST序列进行搜索,发现人参属植物EST-SSR出现频率为11.54%,平均每4.39 kb出现1个SSR.人参属植物单核苷酸重复基元占主导地位,其次为三核苷酸重复基元和二核苷酸重复基元,分别占总SSR的54.48%、17.31%和16.36%.人参属EST-SSR的优势类型为A/T和AT/TA,分别占54.73%和8.21%.根据人参属植物EST中的SSR设计48对引物,在合适的PCR扩增体系下,用5个三七样品的DNA为模板进行PCR扩增,引物有效扩增率85.42%,其中多态性引物占可扩增引物的70.73%.结果表明,利用人参属EST序列开发三七EST-SSR标记是可行的.     

Identifying Novel Polymorphic Microsatellites from Cultivated Flax (Linum usitatissimum L.) Following Data Mining

One of the major concerns in genetic characterization and breeding of cultivated flax is the lack of informative microsatellite markers (SSRs). In this regard, the development of SSRs using molecular methods might be time-consuming, laborious, and expensive. On the other hand, using bioinformatics to mine sequences in public databases enables a cost-effective discovery of SSRs. A total of 3,242 Linum usitatissimum genomic sequences were surveyed for the identification of SSRs. Among them, 118 non-redundant sequences containing repeats were selected for designing primers. The most abundant motifs were tri- (72.4%) and dinudeotide (16.6%), within which AGG/CCT and AG/CT were predominant. Primers were tested for polymorphism in 60 L. usitatissimum cultivars/accessions including 57 linseed and three fiber flax. Eighty-eight pairs gave amplifications within the expected size range while 60 pairs were found to be polymorphic. The mean number of alleles amplified per primer was 3.0 (range, 2–8; 180 total alleles). The mean polymorphism information content (PIC) value was 0.39 (range, 0.06–0.87), and the highest average PIC was observed in dinucleotide SSRs (0.41). The SSR data mining presented here demonstrates the usefulness of in silico development of microsatellites. These novel genomic SSR markers could be used in genetic diversity studies, the development of genetic linkage maps, quantitative trait loci mapping, association mapping, and marker-assisted selection.     

Development of genomic simple sequence repeat markers in opium poppy by next-generation sequencing

Opium poppy (Papaver somniferum L.) is an important pharmaceutical crop with very few genetic marker resources. To expand these resources, we sequenced genomic DNA using pyrosequencing technology and examined the DNA sequences for simple sequence repeats (SSRs). A total of 1,244,412 sequence reads were obtained covering 474 Mb. Approximately half of the reads (52 %) were assembled into 166,724 contigs representing 105 Mb of the opium poppy genome. A total of 23,283 non-redundant SSRs were identified in 18,944 contigs (11.3 % of total contigs). Trinucleotide and tetranucleotide repeats were the most abundant SSR repeats, accounting for 49.0 and 27.9 % of all SSRs, respectively. The AAG/TTC repeat was the most abundant trinucleotide repeat, representing 19.7 % of trinucleotide repeats. Other SSR repeat types were AT-rich. A total of 23,126 primer pairs (98.7 % of total SSRs) were designed to amplify SSRs. Fifty-three genomic SSR markers were tested in 37 opium poppy accessions and seven Papaver species for determination of polymorphism and transferability. Intraspecific polymorphism information content (PIC) values of the genomic SSR markers were intermediate, with an average 0.17, while the interspecific average PIC value was slightly higher, 0.19. All markers showed at least 88 % transferability among related species. This study increases sequence coverage of the opium poppy genome by sevenfold and the number of opium poppy-specific SSR markers by sixfold. This is the first report of the development of genomic SSR markers in opium poppy, and the genomic SSR markers developed in this study will be useful in diversity, identification, mapping and breeding studies in opium poppy.     

基于陆地棉茎尖转录组序列的genic-SSR标记的开发与评价

利用软件MISA和SSR Locator 对陆地棉（Gossypium hirsutum L.）Coker312茎尖转录组测序得到的73515条Unigene序列进行分析,查找到4507个SSR位点,分布于4039条转录本序列中,SSR出现频率为5.5%,非编码区的SSR位点要显著高于编码区（2853/1654）。SSR重复基元中,三核苷酸重复基元占主导地位（51.03%）,且AAG/CTT （20.08%）类型最多;其次是二核苷酸重复基元（28.76%）,主要为AG/CT（55.47%）。利用引物批量设计软件共开发1569对SSR引物,在陆地棉TM-1、海岛棉3-79 (G. barbadense L.)、阿非利加棉(G. herbaceum L.)、雷蒙德氏棉(G. raimondii Ulbrich.)四个棉种中进行初步评价,其中1117对引物能在四个棉种间扩增出稳定的条带,扩增率为71.2%。选择650对能稳定扩增出条带的引物,在涉及5个棉种（增加了亚洲棉（G. arboreum L.））的13份材料中进一步筛选,83对引物能在13份材料中扩增出特异性条带, PIC变幅在0.121～0.648之间,平均值为0.422,其中80对引物能在7份陆地棉材料中扩增出特异性条带,平均PIC值为0.336;挑选5对在本实验室作图亲本鲁棉研22和鲁原343间有明显多态的引物进行连锁分析,其中4对成功连锁到本实验室构建的遗传图谱上。本研究丰富了棉属genic-SSR的数量,为棉属遗传作图、性状关联分析提供了更多引物选择。     

茶树EST-SSRs分布特征及引物开发

为了在茶树中开发EST-SSRs功能性标记,利用生物信息学方法对NCBI网上公开的3288奈茶树（Camellia subebsus）ESTs序列进行EST-SSRs特征分析。剔除冗余序列,得到非冗余序列2083条。在非冗余序列中发现含不同重复基元SSRs的EST序列有385条,共486个EST-SSRs,平均相隔2．10kb出现1个SSR。在2～6bp的重复基元中,二核苷酸重复基元的SSRs出现频率最高（51．97％）,其次是三核苷酸（19．55％）。对所有的重复基元类型进行统计分析发现,所占比例最高的是AG／CT（47．74％）,其次分别是AT／TA（4．73％）和AAG／CTT（4．73％）。利用Prime5软件,设计了206对EST-SSRs引物,随机选用72对引物进行SSR扩增,发现31对引物可以扩增出条带,其中29对引物具有多态性,多态性比率为93．5％。这些EST-SSRs将有助于茶树基因组学方面的研究。     

Allelic diversity of simple sequence repeats among elite inbred lines of cultivated sunflower.

Simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers were developed for cultivated sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) from the DNA sequences of 970 clones isolated from genomic DNA libraries enriched for (CA)n,, (CT)n, (CAA)n, (CATA)n, or (GATA)n. The clones harbored 632 SSRs, of which 259 were unique. SSR markers were developed for 130 unique SSRs by designing and testing primers for 171 unique SSRs. Of the total, 74 SSR markers were polymorphic when screened for length polymorphisms among 16 elite inbred lines. The mean number of alleles per locus was 3.7 for dinucleotide, 3.6 for trinucleotide, and 9.5 for tetranucleotide repeats and the mean polymorphic information content (PIC) scores were 0.53 for dinucleotide, 0.53 for trinucleotide, and 0.83 for tetranucleotide repeats. Cluster analyses uncovered patterns of genetic diversity concordant with patterns produced by RFLP fingerprinting. SSRs were found to be slightly more polymorphic than RFLPs. Several individual SSRs were significantly more polymorphic than RFLP and other DNA markers in sunflower (20% of the polymorphic SSR markers had PIC scores ranging from 0.70 to 0.93). The newly developed SSRs greatly increase the supply of sequence-based DNA markers for DNA fingerprinting, genetic mapping, and molecular breeding in sunflower; however, several hundred additional SSR markers are needed to routinely construct complete genetic maps and saturate the genome.     

Exploiting EST databases for the mining and characterization of short sequence repeat (SSR) markers in Catharanthus roseus L

Periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus L.) (Family: Apocyanaceae) is a ornamental plants with great medicinal properties. Although it is represented by seven species, little work has been carried out on its genetic characterization due to non-availability of reliable molecular markers. Simple sequence repeats (SSRs) have been widely applied as molecular markers in genetic studies. With the rapid increase in the deposition of nucleotide sequences in the public databases and advent of bioinformatics tools, it has become a cost effective and fast approach to scan for microsatellite repeats and exploit the possibility of converting it into potential genetic markers. Expressed sequence tags (EST's) from Catharanthus roseus were used for the screening of Class I (hyper variable) simple sequence repeats (SSR's). A total of 502 microsatellite repeats were detected from 21730 EST sequences of turmeric after redundancy elimination. The average density of Class I SSRs account to 1 SSR per 10.21 kb of EST. Mononucleotides was the most abundant class of microsatellite motifs. It accounted for 44.02% of the total, followed by the trinucleotide (26.09%) and dinucleotide repeats (14.34%). Among all the repeat motifs, (A/T)n accounted for the highest Proportion (36.25%) followed by (AAG)n. These detected SSRs can be used to design primers that have functional importance and should also facilitate the analysis of genetic diversity, variability, linkage mapping and evolutionary relationships in plants especially medicinal plants.     

Eucalyptus microsatellites mined in silico: survey and evaluation

Eucalyptus is an important short rotation pulpy woody plant, grown widely in the tropics. Recently, many genomic programmes are underway leading to the accumulation of voluminous genomic and expressed sequence tag sequences in public databases. These sequences can be utilized for analysis of simple sequence repeats (SSRs) and single nucleotide polymorphism (SNPs) available in the transcribed genes. In this study, in silico analysis of 15,285 sequences representing partial and full-length mRNA from Eucalyptus species for their use in developing SSRs or microsatellites were carried out. A total of 875 EST-SSRs were identified from 772 SSR containing ESTs. Motif size of 6 for dinucleotide and 5 for trinucleotide, tetranucleotide, and pentanucleotides were considered in locating the microsatellites. The average frequency of identified SSRs was 12.9%. The dinucleotide repeats were the most abundant among the dinucleotide, trinucleotide and tetranucleotide motifs and accounted for 50.9% of the Eucalyptus genome. Primer designing analysis showed that 571 sequences with SSRs had sufficient flanking regions for polymerase chain reaction (PCR) primer synthesis. Evaluation of the usefulness of the SSRs showed that EST-derived SSRs can generate polymorphic markers as all the primers showed allelic diversity among the 16 provenances of E. tereticornis.     

芦笋EST资源的SSR信息分析

为了在芦笋中开发EST-SSR功能性标记,对来源于NCBI公共数据库的8590条芦笋(AsparagusofficinalisL.)EST序列进行简单重复序列SSR搜索。剔除冗余序列,得到非冗余序列8377条。在非冗余序列中共挖掘出469个EST-SSR,平均相隔14.80kb出现1个SSR。在所有的重复基序中,二核苷酸重复基序的SSR所占比例最高40.51%(190/469),其次是三核苷酸34.97%(164/469),六核苷酸21.11%(99/469)。在所有基序里,CT/AG出现的频率最高有62次,占全部重复基序的13.22%(62/469)。选取含SSR的EST序列30条,并利用primer5软件设计引物,进行SSR位点的扩增,其中27对引物扩增产物,24对有较清晰可靠的目标扩增条带,占引物数的80%,且所检测出的芦笋等位基因数量较丰富,平均4.93个/对。这些EST-SSR标记的开发将有助于芦笋群体遗传多样性、遗传图谱构建、基因定位、分子标记和系谱分析等方面的研究。     

GenBank数据库中鳜鱼微卫星位点的筛选及特征分析

微卫星(Microsatellite)是一类由2-6个核苷酸经多次单位串联组成的高度变异重复DNA序列(Schlotterer and Tautz,1992)。它具有按照孟德尔方式分离、突变快、多态信息含量丰富、呈共显性遗传等特点,其核心序列在同一物种中具有保守性,因此,可以根据微卫星的侧翼序列设计合适的引     

Genome Wide Characterization of Short Tandem Repeat Markers in Sweet Orange (Citrus sinensis)

Sweet orange (Citrus sinensis) is one of the major cultivated and most-consumed citrus species. With the goal of enhancing the genomic resources in citrus, we surveyed, developed and characterized microsatellite markers in the ≈347 Mb sequence assembly of the sweet orange genome. A total of 50,846 SSRs were identified with a frequency of 146.4 SSRs/Mbp. Dinucleotide repeats are the most frequent repeat class and the highest density of SSRs was found in chromosome 4. SSRs are non-randomly distributed in the genome and most of the SSRs (62.02%) are located in the intergenic regions. We found that AT-rich SSRs are more frequent than GC-rich SSRs. A total number of 21,248 SSR primers were successfully developed, which represents 89 SSR markers per Mb of the genome. A subset of 950 developed SSR primer pairs were synthesized and tested by wet lab experiments on a set of 16 citrus accessions. In total we identified 534 (56.21%) polymorphic SSR markers that will be useful in citrus improvement. The number of amplified alleles ranges from 2 to 12 with an average of 4 alleles per marker and an average PIC value of 0.75. The newly developed sweet orange primer sequences, their in silico PCR products, exact position in the genome assembly and putative function are made publicly available. We present the largest number of SSR markers ever developed for a citrus species. Almost two thirds of the markers are transferable to 16 citrus relatives and may be used for constructing a high density linkage map. In addition, they are valuable for marker-assisted selection studies, population structure analyses and comparative genomic studies of C. sinensis with other citrus related species. Altogether, these markers provide a significant contribution to the citrus research community.