In silico identification and characterization of AGO, DCL and RDR gene families and their associated regulatory elements in sweet orange (Citrus sinensis L.)
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Article Title | In silico identification and characterization of AGO, DCL and RDR gene families and their associated regulatory elements in sweet orange (Citrus sinensis L.) |
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ERA Journal ID | 39745 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Mosharaf, Md. Parvez, Rahman, Hafizur, Ahsan, Md. Asif, Akond, Zobaer, Ahmed, Fee Faysal, Islam, Md. Mazharul, Moni, Mohammad Ali and Mollah, Md. Nurul Haque |
Journal Title | PLoS One |
Journal Citation | 15 (12 December) |
Article Number | e0228233 |
Number of Pages | 33 |
Year | 2020 |
Publisher | Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
Place of Publication | United States |
ISSN | 1932-6203 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0228233 |
Web Address (URL) | https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0228233 |
Abstract | RNA interference (RNAi) plays key roles in post-transcriptional and chromatin modification levels as well as regulates various eukaryotic gene expressions which are involved in stress responses, development and maintenance of genome integrity during developmental stages. The whole mechanism of RNAi pathway is directly involved with the gene-silencing process by the interaction of Dicer-Like (DCL), Argonaute (AGO) and RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RDR) gene families and their regulatory elements. However, these RNAi gene families and their sub-cellular locations, functional pathways and regulatory components were not extensively investigated in the case of economically and nutritionally important fruit plant sweet orange (Citrus sinensis L.). Therefore, in silico characterization, gene diversity and regulatory factor analysis of RNA silencing genes in C. sinensis were conducted by using the integrated bioinformatics approaches. Genome-wide comparison analysis based on phylogenetic tree approach detected 4 CsDCL, 8 CsAGO and 4 CsRDR as RNAi candidate genes in C. sinensis corresponding to the RNAi genes of model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. The domain and motif composition and gene structure analyses for all three gene families exhibited almost homogeneity within the same group members. The Gene Ontology enrichment analysis clearly indicated that the predicted genes have direct involvement into the gene-silencing and other important pathways. The key regulatory transcription factors (TFs) MYB, Dof, ERF, NAC, MIKC_MADS, WRKY and bZIP were identified by their interaction network analysis with the predicted genes. The cis-acting regulatory elements associated with the predicted genes were detected as responsive to light, stress and hormone functions. Furthermore, the expressed sequence tag (EST) analysis showed that these RNAi candidate genes were highly expressed in fruit and leaves indicating their organ specific functions. Our genome-wide comparison and integrated bioinformatics analyses provided some necessary information about sweet orange RNA silencing components that would pave a ground for further investigation of functional mechanism of the predicted genes and their regulatory factors. |
Keywords | Argonaute Proteins; Citrus sinensis; Computer Simulation; Expressed Sequence Tags; Fruit; Gene Expression Profiling; Gene Expression Regulation, Plant; Genes, Plant; Genome, Plant; Multigene Family; Phylogeny; Plant Proteins; Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid; Ribonuclease III; RNA Interference; RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase; Transcription Factors |
Contains Sensitive Content | Does not contain sensitive content |
Byline Affiliations | University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh |
Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute, Bangladesh | |
Jashore University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh | |
University of Sydney |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/yy7y7/in-silico-identification-and-characterization-of-ago-dcl-and-rdr-gene-families-and-their-associated-regulatory-elements-in-sweet-orange-citrus-sinensis-l
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