Background: The complex dynamics of gene regulation in plants are still far from being fully understood. Among many factors involved, alternative splicing (AS) in particular is one of the least well documented. For many years, AS has been considered of less relevant in plants, especially when compared to animals, however, since the introduction of next generation sequencing techniques the number of plant genes believed to be alternatively spliced has increased exponentially. Results: Here, we performed a comprehensive high-throughput transcript sequencing of ten different grapevine cultivars, which resulted in the first high coverage atlas of the grape berry transcriptome. We also developed findAS, a software tool for the analysis of alternatively spliced junctions. We demonstrate that at least 44 % of multi-exonic genes undergo AS and a large number of low abundance splice variants is present within the 131.622 splice junctions we have annotated from Pinot noir. Conclusions: Our analysis shows that ~70 % of AS events have relatively low expression levels, furthermore alternative splice sites seem to be enriched near the constitutive ones in some extent showing the noise of the splicing mechanisms. However, AS seems to be extensively conserved among the 10 cultivars.

Potenza, E.; Racchi, M.L.; Sterck, L.; Coller, E.; Asquini, E.; Tosatto, S.C.E.; Velasco, R.; Van de Peer, Y.; Cestaro, A. (2015). Exploration of alternative splicing events in ten different grapevine cultivars. BMC GENOMICS, 16 (706): 1-9. doi: 10.1186/s12864-015-1922-5 handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10449/27700

Exploration of alternative splicing events in ten different grapevine cultivars

Potenza, Emilio;Coller, Emanuela;Asquini, Elisa;Velasco, Riccardo;Cestaro, Alessandro
2015-01-01

Abstract

Background: The complex dynamics of gene regulation in plants are still far from being fully understood. Among many factors involved, alternative splicing (AS) in particular is one of the least well documented. For many years, AS has been considered of less relevant in plants, especially when compared to animals, however, since the introduction of next generation sequencing techniques the number of plant genes believed to be alternatively spliced has increased exponentially. Results: Here, we performed a comprehensive high-throughput transcript sequencing of ten different grapevine cultivars, which resulted in the first high coverage atlas of the grape berry transcriptome. We also developed findAS, a software tool for the analysis of alternatively spliced junctions. We demonstrate that at least 44 % of multi-exonic genes undergo AS and a large number of low abundance splice variants is present within the 131.622 splice junctions we have annotated from Pinot noir. Conclusions: Our analysis shows that ~70 % of AS events have relatively low expression levels, furthermore alternative splice sites seem to be enriched near the constitutive ones in some extent showing the noise of the splicing mechanisms. However, AS seems to be extensively conserved among the 10 cultivars.
Alternative splicing
Vitis vinifera
RNA-Seq
Stochastic noise
Settore AGR/07 - GENETICA AGRARIA
2015
Potenza, E.; Racchi, M.L.; Sterck, L.; Coller, E.; Asquini, E.; Tosatto, S.C.E.; Velasco, R.; Van de Peer, Y.; Cestaro, A. (2015). Exploration of alternative splicing events in ten different grapevine cultivars. BMC GENOMICS, 16 (706): 1-9. doi: 10.1186/s12864-015-1922-5 handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10449/27700
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