Recently, Brachypodium distachyon has emerged as a model plant for studying monocot grasses and cereal crops. Using assembled expressed transcript sequences and subsequent mapping to the corresponding genome, we identified 1219 alternative splicing (AS) events spanning across 2021 putatively assembled transcripts generated from 941 genes. Approximately, 6.3% of expressed genes are alternatively spliced in B. distachyon. We observed that a majority of the identified AS events were related to retained introns (55.5%), followed by alternative acceptor sites (16.7%).We also observed a low percentage of exon skipping (5.0%) and alternative donor site events (8.8%). The ‘complex event’ that consists of a combination of two or more basic splicing events accounted for ≈14.0%. Comparative AS transcript analysis revealed 163 and 39 homologous pairs between B. distachyon and Oryza sativa and between B. distachyon and Arabidopsis thaliana, respectively. In all, we found 16 AS transcripts to be conserved in all 3 species. AS events and related putative assembled transcripts annotation can be systematically browsed at Plant Alternative Splicing Database (http://proteomics.ysu.edu/altsplice/plant/).

Walters, B.; Lum, G.; Sablok, G.; Min, X. (2013). Genome-wide landscape of alternative splicing events in Brachypodium distachyon. DNA RESEARCH, 20 (2): 163-171. doi: 10.1093/dnares/dss041 handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10449/21832

Genome-wide landscape of alternative splicing events in Brachypodium distachyon

Sablok, Gaurav;
2013-01-01

Abstract

Recently, Brachypodium distachyon has emerged as a model plant for studying monocot grasses and cereal crops. Using assembled expressed transcript sequences and subsequent mapping to the corresponding genome, we identified 1219 alternative splicing (AS) events spanning across 2021 putatively assembled transcripts generated from 941 genes. Approximately, 6.3% of expressed genes are alternatively spliced in B. distachyon. We observed that a majority of the identified AS events were related to retained introns (55.5%), followed by alternative acceptor sites (16.7%).We also observed a low percentage of exon skipping (5.0%) and alternative donor site events (8.8%). The ‘complex event’ that consists of a combination of two or more basic splicing events accounted for ≈14.0%. Comparative AS transcript analysis revealed 163 and 39 homologous pairs between B. distachyon and Oryza sativa and between B. distachyon and Arabidopsis thaliana, respectively. In all, we found 16 AS transcripts to be conserved in all 3 species. AS events and related putative assembled transcripts annotation can be systematically browsed at Plant Alternative Splicing Database (http://proteomics.ysu.edu/altsplice/plant/).
Alternative splicing
Brachypodium distachyon
Expressed sequence tags
Functional ontology
Intron retention
Settore BIO/18 - GENETICA
2013
Walters, B.; Lum, G.; Sablok, G.; Min, X. (2013). Genome-wide landscape of alternative splicing events in Brachypodium distachyon. DNA RESEARCH, 20 (2): 163-171. doi: 10.1093/dnares/dss041 handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10449/21832
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