GENOMIC COMPARISON AMONG THREE ARABIDOPSIS SPECIES REVEALED HEAVY METAL RESPONSIVE GENES
S. M. Jazayeri1*, L. C. García Cruzatty2 and R. Villamar-Torres3,4,5,6
1Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia; 2Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad Técnica de Manabí, Campus La Teodomira, Portoviejo, Manabí 130105, Ecuador; 3Programa de Maestría en Agricultura, mención Protección Vegetal, Centro de Posgrado de la Universidad Técnica de Babahoyo, km 2,5 vía Babahoyo – Montalvo; 4Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Universidad Técnica Estatal de Quevedo, Los Ríos, Ecuador; 5Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France; 6Facultad de Ingeniería Agronómica. Universidad Técnica de Manabí. Campus Experimental “La Teodomira”, km 13 ½ vía Santa Ana, EC131301, Santa Ana - Ecuador
*Corresponding author’s Email: smjazayeri@unal.edu.co
Abstract
Arabidopsis is the ever most well-known plant model. Publishing genome of A. thaliana has restructured biological sciences towards more knowledge on multi and interdisciplinary researches based on genomic data. Eleven approved species of Arabidopsis were classified into 4 groups. Despite of its importance in biology, only three Arabidopsis species genomes are available. Genomes, proteins and gene models in three Arabidopsis species including A. halleri, A. lyrata and A. thaliana were compared. Genomic comparison disclosed 80-90 % of similarity for proteins and gene models among three species. The clustered protein sets showed 79% of common orthologue proteins among three species. Transcript pairwise comparisons among three species showed a similarity range of 82-92%. Twenty-six species-specific clustered proteins related to heavy metal response are highlighted in A. halleri. They function in transport, phytochelat, protein degradation, cell wall formation, detoxification and signaling.
Key words: Arabidopsis, genes, genomic comparison, heavy metal, tolerance.
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