利用改进的Oligo-capping法构建手掌参全长cDNA文库

Oligo-capping法是构建全长cDNA文库的重要方法之一.以名贵中药手掌参(Gymnadenia conopseaR.Br.)的幼芽组织为材料,通过减少mRNA的用量,用pUC18作载体,设计特异引物对第1链cDNA进行PCR扩增,按片段大小分级回收cDNA,形成了一种以Oligo-capping法为基础,构建珍稀材料全长cDNA文库的快速、简单的技术体系.利用该方法,首次成功地构建了手掌参的全长cDNA文库.经综合评价,文库容量达到了8×105个/μg cDNA,全长cDNA比例达到68%,重组率超过96%,说明本实验的改进非常成功.该文库的建成为手掌参的遗传资源保护和功能基因发掘等理论与应用研究奠定了基础.     

Diversification of the Microtubule System in the Early Stage of Eukaryote Evolution: Elongation Factor 1α and α-Tubulin Protein Phylogeny of Termite Symbiotic Oxymonad and Hypermastigote Protists

The symbiotic protists of the lower termite have been regarded as a model of early-branched eukaryotes because of their simple cellular systems and morphological features. However, cultivation of these symbiotic protists is very difficult. For this reason, these interesting protists have not been well characterized in terms of their molecular biology. In research on these organisms which have not yet been cultivated, we developed a method for retrieving specific genes from a small number of cells, through micromanipulation without axenic cultivation, and we obtained EF-1 alpha and alpha-tubulin genes from members of the Hypermastigida--the parabasalid protist Trichonympha agilis and the oxymonad protists Pyrsonympha grandis and Dinenympha exilis--from the termite Reticulitermes speratus gut community. Results of phylogenetic analysis of the amino acid sequences of both proteins, EF-1 alpha and alpha-tubulin, indicate that the hypermastigid, parabasalid, and oxymonad protists do not share a close common ancestor. In addition, although the EF-1 alpha phylogeny indicates that these two groups of protists branched at an early stage of eukaryotic evolution, the alpha-tubulin phylogeny indicates that these protists can be assigned to two diversified clades. As shown in a recent investigation of alpha-tubulin phylogeny, eukaryotic organisms can be divided into three classes: an animal--parabasalids clade, a plant--protists clade, and the diplomonads. In this study, we show that parabasalids, including hypermastigids, can be classified as belonging to the animal--parabasalids clade and the early-branching eukaryote oxymonads can be classified as belonging to the plant--protists clade. Our findings suggest that these protists have a cellular microtubule system that has diverged considerably, and it seems that such divergence of the microtubule system occurred in the earliest stage of eukaryotic evolution.     

几种全长cDNA文库构建方法比较

全长cDNA文库是高效、大规模获得基因全序列信息的一条有效途径,尤其是对基因组庞大,近期内尚不能进行全基因组测序的生物来说,是一条开展功能基因组研究的重要途径。本文对几种全长cDNA文库的构建方法进行了概述,针对各种方法的原理及优缺点做了分析、比较,并结合本实验室的结果,重点介绍了Cap-trapper法在小麦全长cDNA文库中的应用及文库中全长基因比例判定方法。