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- Title
Insights into genome plasticity and gene regulation in Orientia tsutsugamushi through genome-wide mining of microsatellite markers.
- Authors
Panda, Subhasmita; Swain, Subrat Kumar; Sahu, Basanta Pravas; Sarangi, Rachita
- Abstract
Microsatellite markers are being used for molecular identification and characterization as well as estimation of evolution patterns due to their highly polymorphic nature. The repeats hold 40% of the entire genome of Orientia tsutsugamushi (OT), but not yet been characterized. Thus, we investigated the genome-wide presence of microsatellites within nine complete genomes of OT and analyzed their distribution pattern, composition, and complexity. The in-silico study revealed that the genome of OT enriched with microsatellites having a total of 126,187 SSRs and 10,374 cSSRs throughout the genome, of which 70% and 30% are represented within the coding and non-coding regions, respectively. The relative density (RD) and relative abundance (RA) of SSRs were 42–44.43/kb and 6.25–6.59/kb, while for cSSRs this value ranged from 7.06 to 8.1/kb and 0.50 to 0.55/kb, respectively. However, RA and RD were weakly correlated with genome size and incidence of microsatellites. The mononucleotide repeats (54.55%) were prevalent over di- (33.22%), tri- (11.88%), tetra- (0.27%), penta- (0.02%), hexanucleotide (0.04%) repeats, with poly (A/T) richness over poly (G/C). The motif composition of cSSRs revealed that maximum cSSRs were made up of two microsatellites having unique duplication patterns such as AT-x-AT and CG-x-CG. To our knowledge, this is the first study of microsatellites in the OT genome, where characterization of such variations in repeat sequences would be important in deciphering the origin, rate of mutation, and role of repeat sequences in the genome. More numbers of microsatellites represented within the coding region provide an insight into the genome plasticity that may interfere with gene regulation to mitigate host–pathogen interaction and evolution of the species.
- Subjects
MICROSATELLITE repeats; GENETIC regulation; GENOME size; COLUMBIA-Suicide Severity Rating Scale; SPECIFIC gravity; GENOMES; GENETIC markers in plants
- Publication
3 Biotech, 2023, Vol 13, Issue 11, p1
- ISSN
2190-572X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s13205-023-03795-6