Novel Structural Variation and Evolutionary Characteristics of Chloroplast tRNA in Gossypium Plants

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第一作者： Zhang, Ting-Ting

作者： Zhang, Ting-Ting;Yang, Yang;Song, Xiao-Yu;Gao, Xin-Yu;Li, Zhong-Hu;Zhang, Xian-Liang;Zhao, Jun-Jie;Zhou, Ke-Hai;Zhao, Chang-Bao;Li, Wei;Yang, Dai-Gang;Ma, Xiong-Feng

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关键词： cotton; chloroplast tRNA; evolution; phylogenetic relationship; structural variation

期刊名称：GENES （ 影响因子：4.096； 五年影响因子：4.339 ）

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年卷期： 2021 年 12 卷 6 期

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摘要： Cotton is one of the most important fiber and oil crops in the world. Chloroplast genomes harbor their own genetic materials and are considered to be highly conserved. Transfer RNAs (tRNAs) act as "bridges" in protein synthesis by carrying amino acids. Currently, the variation and evolutionary characteristics of tRNAs in the cotton chloroplast genome are poorly understood. Here, we analyzed the structural variation and evolution of chloroplast tRNA (cp tRNA) based on eight diploid and two allotetraploid cotton species. We also investigated the nucleotide evolution of chloroplast genomes in cotton species. We found that cp tRNAs in cotton encoded 36 or 37 tRNAs, and 28 or 29 anti-codon types with lengths ranging from 60 to 93 nucleotides. Cotton chloroplast tRNA sequences possessed specific conservation and, in particular, the psi-loop contained the conserved U-U-C-X3-U. The cp tRNAs of Gossypium L. contained introns, and cp tRNA(Ile) contained the anti-codon (C-A-U), which was generally the anti-codon of tRNA(Met). The transition and transversion analyses showed that cp tRNAs in cotton species were iso-acceptor specific and had undergone unequal rates of evolution. The intergenic region was more variable than coding regions, and non-synonymous mutations have been fixed in cotton cp genomes. On the other hand, phylogeny analyses indicated that cp tRNAs of cotton were derived from several inferred ancestors with greater gene duplications. This study provides new insights into the structural variation and evolution of chloroplast tRNAs in cotton plants. Our findings could contribute to understanding the detailed characteristics and evolutionary variation of the tRNA family.

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