Laboratorio de Investigación en Genética Evolutiva, Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia, Boyacá, Colombia.
Centro de Investigaciones en Microbiología y Biotecnología-UR (CIMBIUR), Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia.
Sci Rep. 2024 Mar 7;14(1):5578. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-56076-4.
Trypanosoma cruzi causes Chagas disease and has a unique extranuclear genome enclosed in a structure called the kinetoplast, which contains circular genomes known as maxi- and minicircles. While the structure and function of maxicircles are well-understood, many aspects of minicircles remain to be discovered. Here, we performed a high-throughput analysis of the minicirculome (mcDNA) in 50 clones isolated from Colombia's diverse T. cruzi I populations. Results indicate that mcDNA comprises four diverse subpopulations with different structures, lengths, and numbers of interspersed semi-conserved (previously termed ultra-conserved regions mHCV) and hypervariable (mHVPs) regions. Analysis of mcDNA ancestry and inter-clone differentiation indicates the interbreeding of minicircle sequence classes is placed along diverse strains and hosts. These results support evidence of the multiclonal dynamics and random bi-parental segregation. Finally, we disclosed the guide RNA repertoire encoded by mcDNA at a clonal scale, and several attributes of its abundance and function are discussed.
克氏锥虫引起恰加斯病,其独特的核外基因组被包裹在一个称为动基体的结构中,该结构包含被称为大、小环线的圆形基因组。虽然大环线的结构和功能已经得到很好的理解,但小环线的许多方面仍有待发现。在这里,我们对来自哥伦比亚不同 T. cruzi I 群体的 50 个克隆进行了高通量的小环线组(mcDNA)分析。结果表明,mcDNA 由四个不同的亚群组成,具有不同的结构、长度和插入的半保守(以前称为超保守区 mHCV)和高度可变(mHVPs)区的数量。对 mcDNA 祖先和克隆间分化的分析表明,小环线序列类别的杂交发生在不同的菌株和宿主中。这些结果支持多克隆动态和随机双亲分离的证据。最后,我们在克隆水平上揭示了 mcDNA 编码的指导 RNA 库,讨论了其丰度和功能的几个属性。