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Sci Rep ; 9(1): 1356, 2019 02 04.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30718603

ABSTRACT

Spliced leader trans-splicing (SLTS) plays a part in the maturation of pre-mRNAs in select species across multiple phyla but is particularly prevalent in Nematoda. The role of spliced leaders (SL) within the cell is unclear and an accurate assessment of SL occurrence within an organism is possible only after extensive sequencing data are available, which is not currently the case for many nematode species. SL discovery is further complicated by an absence of SL sequences from high-throughput sequencing results due to incomplete sequencing of the 5'-ends of transcripts during RNA-seq library preparation, known as 5'-bias. Existing datasets and novel methodology were used to identify both conserved SLs and unique hypervariable SLs within Heterodera glycines, the soybean cyst nematode. In H. glycines, twenty-one distinct SL sequences were found on 2,532 unique H. glycines transcripts. The SL sequences identified on the H. glycines transcripts demonstrated a high level of promiscuity, meaning that some transcripts produced as many as nine different individual SL-transcript combinations. Most uniquely, transcriptome analysis revealed that H. glycines is the first nematode to demonstrate a higher SL trans-splicing rate using a species-specific SL over well-conserved Caenorhabditis elegans SL-like sequences.


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Caenorhabditis elegans/genetics , Nematoda/genetics , RNA Splicing/genetics , RNA, Spliced Leader/genetics , Animals , Base Sequence , Gene Dosage , Gene Ontology , Genome , RNA, Messenger/genetics , RNA, Messenger/metabolism , RNA, Spliced Leader/chemistry , Species Specificity , Trans-Splicing/genetics , Transcriptome/genetics
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Mol Plant Pathol ; 19(10): 2263-2276, 2018 10.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29719112

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Cyst nematodes are plant pathogens that infect a wide range of economically important crops. One parasitic mechanism employed by cyst nematodes is the production and in planta delivery of effector proteins to modify plant cells and suppress defences to favour parasitism. This study focuses on GLAND4, an effector of Heterodera glycines and H. schachtii, the soybean and sugar beet cyst nematodes, respectively. We show that GLAND4 is recognized by the plant cellular machinery and is transported to the plant nucleus, an organelle for which little is known about plant nematode effector functions. We show that GLAND4 has DNA-binding ability and represses reporter gene expression in a plant transcriptional assay. One DNA fragment that binds to GLAND4 is localized in an Arabidopsis chromosomal region associated with the promoters of two lipid transfer protein genes (LTP). These LTPs have known defence functions and are down-regulated in the nematode feeding site. When expressed in Arabidopsis, the presence of GLAND4 causes the down-regulation of the two LTP genes in question, which is also associated with increased susceptibility to the plant-pathogenic bacterium Pseudomonas syringae. Furthermore, overexpression of one of the LTP genes reduces plant susceptibility to H. schachtii and P. syringae, confirming that LTP repression probably suppresses plant defences. This study makes GLAND4 one of a small subset of characterized plant nematode nuclear effectors and identifies GLAND4 as the first DNA-binding, plant-parasitic nematode effector.


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Arabidopsis/microbiology , Plant Diseases/microbiology , Arabidopsis Proteins/genetics , Arabidopsis Proteins/metabolism , Gene Expression Regulation, Plant , Host-Parasite Interactions
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