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ArticleScientific reports2018

Third-generation Sequencing Reveals Extensive Polycistronism and Transcriptional Overlapping in a Baculovirus.

Norbert Moldován, Dóra Tombácz, Attila Szűcs, Zsolt Csabai, Zsolt Balázs, Emese Kis, Judit Molnár, Zsolt Boldogkői

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Article in Scientific reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers.

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Norbert MoldovánDepartment of Medical Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Szeged, Szeged, 6720, Hungary.ORCID 0000-0003-4138-586X
Dóra TombáczDepartment of Medical Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Szeged, Szeged, 6720, Hungary.
Attila SzűcsDepartment of Medical Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Szeged, Szeged, 6720, Hungary.
Zsolt CsabaiDepartment of Medical Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Szeged, Szeged, 6720, Hungary.
Zsolt BalázsDepartment of Medical Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Szeged, Szeged, 6720, Hungary.
Emese KisSolvo Biotechnology, Szeged, 6720, Hungary.
Judit MolnárSolvo Biotechnology, Szeged, 6720, Hungary.
Zsolt BoldogkőiDepartment of Medical Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Szeged, Szeged, 6720, Hungary. boldogkoi.zsolt@med.u-szeged.hu.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Autographa californica multiple nucleopolyhedrovirus (AcMNPV) is an insect-pathogen baculovirus. In this study, we applied the Oxford Nanopore Technologies platform for the analysis of the polyadenylated fraction of the viral transcriptome using both cDNA and direct RNA sequencing methods. We identified and annotated altogether 132 novel transcripts and transcript isoforms, including 4 coding and 4 non-coding RNA molecules, 47 length variants, 5 splice isoforms, as well as 23 polycistronic and 49 complex transcripts. All of the identified novel protein-coding genes were 5'-truncated forms of longer host genes. In this work, we demonstrated that in the case of transcript start site isoforms, the promoters and the initiator sequence of the longer and shorter variants belong to the same kinetic class. Long-read sequencing also revealed a complex meshwork of transcriptional overlaps, the function of which needs to be clarified. Additionally, we developed bioinformatics methods to improve the transcript annotation and to eliminate the non-specific transcription reads generated by template switching and false priming.

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GenesGenes, ViralTranscription, GeneticGene Expression ProfilingHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingMolecular Sequence AnnotationNucleopolyhedrovirusesTranscription Initiation Site

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PMID29872099
PMCPMC5988703

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