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ArticleCommunications biology2021

Ultra-deep sequencing reveals dramatic alteration of organellar genomes in Physcomitrella patens due to biased asymmetric recombination.

Masaki Odahara, Kensuke Nakamura, Yasuhiko Sekine, Taku Oshima

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Article in Communications biology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Masaki Odahara *Department of Life Science, Rikkyo (St. Paul's) University, Tokyo, Japan. masaki.odahara@riken.jp.ORCID 0000-0002-3752-5447
Kensuke Nakamura *Department of Life Science and Informatics, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Gunma, Japan.
Yasuhiko SekineDepartment of Life Science, Rikkyo (St. Paul's) University, Tokyo, Japan.
Taku OshimaDepartment of Biotechnology, Toyama Prefectural University, Toyama, Japan. taku@pu-toyama.ac.jp.ORCID 0000-0002-0949-5543
Rikkyo University · JPMaebashi Institute of Technology · JPToyama Prefectural University · JP

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Destabilization of organelle genomes causes organelle dysfunction that appears as abnormal growth in plants and diseases in human. In plants, loss of the bacterial-type homologous recombination repair (HRR) factors RECA and RECG induces organelle genome instability. In this study, we show the landscape of organelle genome instability in Physcomitrella patens HRR knockout mutants by deep sequencing in combination with informatics approaches. Genome-wide maps of rearrangement positions in the organelle genomes, which exhibited prominent mutant-specific patterns, were highly biased in terms of direction and location and often associated with dramatic variation in read depth. The rearrangements were location-dependent and mostly derived from the asymmetric products of microhomology-mediated recombination. Our results provide an overall picture of organelle-specific gross genomic rearrangements in the HRR mutants, and suggest that chloroplasts and mitochondria share common mechanisms for replication-related rearrangements.

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BryopsidaChloroplastsDNA, MitochondrialGene RearrangementGenome, PlantGenomic InstabilityHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingMitochondriaOrganellesPlant ProteinsRecombination, GeneticDNA, MitochondrialPlant Proteins

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PMID34045660
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