The Macronuclear Genome of Stentor coeruleus Reveals Tiny Introns in a Giant Cell.

Autor:	Slabodnick MM; Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA., Ruby JG; Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA., Reiff SB; Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA., Swart EC; Institute of Cell Biology, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland., Gosai S; Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA., Prabakaran S; Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA., Witkowska E; Department of Ob/Gyn, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA., Larue GE; Department of Biology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 94132, USA., Fisher S; Department of Ob/Gyn, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA., Freeman RM Jr; Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA., Gunawardena J; Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA., Chu W; Department of Biology, Bradley University, Peoria, IL 61625, USA., Stover NA; Department of Biology, Bradley University, Peoria, IL 61625, USA., Gregory BD; Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA., Nowacki M; Institute of Cell Biology, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland., Derisi J; Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA., Roy SW; Department of Biology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 94132, USA. Electronic address: scottwroy@gmail.com., Marshall WF; Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA. Electronic address: wallace.marshall@ucsf.edu., Sood P; Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA. Electronic address: psood1@gmail.com.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Current biology : CB [Curr Biol] 2017 Feb 20; Vol. 27 (4), pp. 569-575. Date of Electronic Publication: 2017 Feb 09.
DOI:	10.1016/j.cub.2016.12.057
Abstrakt:	The giant, single-celled organism Stentor coeruleus has a long history as a model system for studying pattern formation and regeneration in single cells. Stentor [1, 2] is a heterotrichous ciliate distantly related to familiar ciliate models, such as Tetrahymena or Paramecium. The primary distinguishing feature of Stentor is its incredible size: a single cell is 1 mm long. Early developmental biologists, including T.H. Morgan [3], were attracted to the system because of its regenerative abilities-if large portions of a cell are surgically removed, the remnant reorganizes into a normal-looking but smaller cell with correct proportionality [2, 3]. These biologists were also drawn to Stentor because it exhibits a rich repertoire of behaviors, including light avoidance, mechanosensitive contraction, food selection, and even the ability to habituate to touch, a simple form of learning usually seen in higher organisms [4]. While early microsurgical approaches demonstrated a startling array of regenerative and morphogenetic processes in this single-celled organism, Stentor was never developed as a molecular model system. We report the sequencing of the Stentor coeruleus macronuclear genome and reveal key features of the genome. First, we find that Stentor uses the standard genetic code, suggesting that ciliate-specific genetic codes arose after Stentor branched from other ciliates. We also discover that ploidy correlates with Stentor's cell size. Finally, in the Stentor genome, we discover the smallest spliceosomal introns reported for any species. The sequenced genome opens the door to molecular analysis of single-cell regeneration in Stentor. (Copyright © 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.)
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