TAS3 miR390-dependent loci in non-vascular land plants: Towards a comprehensive reconstruction of the gene evolutionary history

Sergey Y. Morozov; Irina A. Milyutina; Tatiana N. Erokhina; Liudmila V. Ozerova; Alexey V. Troitsky; Andrey G. Solovyev

doi:10.7287/peerj.preprints.26545v1

TAS3 miR390-dependent loci in non-vascular land plants: Towards a comprehensive reconstruction of the gene evolutionary history

Sergey Y. Morozov ¹, Irina A. Milyutina¹, Tatiana N. Erokhina², Liudmila V. Ozerova³, Alexey V. Troitsky¹, Andrey G. Solovyev^1,4

1 Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

2 Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia

3 Tsitsin Main Botanical Garden, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia

4 Institute of Molecular Medicine, Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russia

DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.26545v1

Published: 2018-02-20
Accepted: 2018-02-20

Subject Areas: Bioinformatics, Genomics, Molecular Biology, Plant Science
Keywords: silencing, trans-acting RNA, small interfering RNA, ARF genes, micro RNA, charophyte algae, bryophytes

Copyright: © 2018 Morozov et al.
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Cite this article: Morozov SY, Milyutina IA, Erokhina TN, Ozerova LV, Troitsky AV, Solovyev AG. 2018. TAS3 miR390-dependent loci in non-vascular land plants: Towards a comprehensive reconstruction of the gene evolutionary history. PeerJ Preprints 6:e26545v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.26545v1

Abstract

Trans-acting small interfering RNAs (ta-siRNAs) are transcribed from protein non-coding genomic loci and belong to a plant-specific class of endogenous small RNAs. These siRNAs have been found to regulate gene expression in most taxa including seed plants, gymnosperms, ferns and mosses. In this study, bioinformatic and experimental PCR-based approaches were used as tools to analyze TAS3 and TAS6 loci in transcriptomes and genomic DNAs from representatives of evolutionary distant Bryophyta, Marchantiophyta and Anthocerotophyta. We revealed previously undiscovered TAS3 loci in classes Sphagnopsida and Anthocerotopsida, as well as TAS6 loci in Bryophyta classes Tetraphidiopsida, Polytrichopsida, Andreaeopsida and Takakiopsida. These data further unveil the evolutionary pathway of the miR390-dependent TAS3 loci in land plants. We also identified SGS3-coding sequences in charophytes and hypothesized that the appearance of TAS3-related sequences could take place at a very early step in evolutionary transition from charophyte algae to an earliest common ancestor of land plants.