Figure 2 Overview of the Brassica juncea seed coat transcriptome assembly. (A) The size distribution of the scaffolds; (B) The size distribution of unigenes.
Figure 3. Characteristics of homology search of Brassica juncea seed coat unigenes. (A) E-value distribution of the top Blastx hits against the non-redundant (Nr) protein database for each unigene; (B) Similarity distribution of the best Blastx hits for each unigene; (C) Number of unigenes matching the 20 top species using Blastx in the Nr database.
Figure 4. GO classification of unigenes of B.juncea seed coat.
Figure 5. COG function classification of transcriptome.
KEGG分類:通過Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG)分析69,605個基因,顯示14,998個基因能比對到258條信號通路。最主要的信號通路為代謝通路(3,506個基因,大約占23.37%),其次為次生代謝物的合成 (1,785,11.9%),不同環境中微生物的代謝(802,5.35%),RNA降解(538, 3.59%)以及核糖體(535, 3.57%)。研究者將目光聚焦到了與薺菜型油菜種皮著色相關的次生代謝物合成通路,發現154個基因與苯丙素生物合成相關,114個基因與苯丙氨酸、酪氨酸、色氨酸生物合成相關,46個基因與類黃酮生物合成相關,9個基因與黃酮以及黃酮醇生物合成相關。
種皮轉綠組中轉錄因子的鑒定:將所有拼接得到的基因通過Blastx比對到AGRIS (Arabidopsis Gene Regulatory Information Server)數據庫,E-value值小于10-5,identity大于70%,2,347個基因被推定屬于48個轉錄因子家族,其中MYB(100個基因)以及bHLH(190個基因)兩個家族在植物中與類黃酮生物合成相關。
Figure 9. qRT-PCR validation of RPKM analysis of the eight unigenes involved in flavonoid biosynthesis of Brassica juncea seed coat.
原文出處:De Novo Transcriptome of Brassica juncea Seed Coat and Identification of Genes for the Biosynthesis of Flavonoids
Abstract:Brassica juncea, a worldwide cultivated crop plant, produces seeds of different colors. Seed pigmentation is due to the deposition in endothelial cells of proanthocyanidins (PAs), end products from a branch of flavonoid biosynthetic pathway.
To elucidate the gene regulatory network of seed pigmentation in B. juncea, transcriptomes in seed coat of a yellow-seeded inbred line and its brown-seeded near -isogenic line were sequenced using the next-generation sequencing platform
Illumina/Solexa and de novo assembled. Over 116 million high-quality reads were assembled into 69,605 unigenes, of which about 71.5% (49,758 unigenes) were aligned to Nr protein database with a cut-off E-value of 1025. RPKM analysis showed
that the brown-seeded testa up-regulated 802 unigenes and down-regulated 502 unigenes as compared to the yellow seeded one. Biological pathway analysis revealed the involvement of forty six unigenes in flavonoid biosynthesis. The unigenes encoding dihydroflavonol reductase (DFR), leucoantho-cyanidin dioxygenase (LDOX) and anthocyanidin reductase (ANR) for late flavonoid biosynthesis were not expressed at all or at a very low level in the yellow-seeded testa, which implied that these genes for PAs biosynthesis be associated with seed color of B. juncea, as confirmed by qRT-PCR analysis of these genes. To our knowledge, it is the first time to sequence the transcriptome of seed coat in Brassica juncea. The unigene sequences obtained in this study will not only lay the foundations for insight into the molecular mechanisms
underlying seed pigmentation in B.juncea, but also provide the basis for further genomics research on this species or its allies.