Sequence and analysis of chromosome 4 of the plant Arabidopsis thaliana

Mayer, K., Schuller, C., Wambutt, R., Murphy, G., Volckaert, G., Pohl, T., Dusterhoft, A., Stiekema, W., Entian, K. D., Terryn, N., Harris, B., Ansorge, W., Brandt, P., Grivell, L., Rieger, M., Weichselgartner, M., de Simone, V., Obermaier, B., Mache, R., Muller, M., Kreis, M., Delseny, M., Puigdomenech, P., Watson, M., Schmidtheini, T., Reichert, B., Portatelle, D., Perez-Alonso, M., Boutry, M., Bancroft, I., Vos, P., Hoheisel, J., Zimmermann, W., Wedler, H., Ridley, P., Langham, S. A., McCullagh, B., Bilham, L., Robben, J., Van der Schueren, J., Grymonprez, B., Chuang, Y. J., Vandenbussche, F., Braeken, M., Weltjens, I., Voet, M., Bastiaens, I., Aert, R., Defoor, E., Weitzenegger, T., Bothe, G., Ramsperger, U., Hilbert, H., Braun, M., Holzer, E., Brandt, A., Peters, S., van Staveren, M., Dirske, W., Mooijman, P., Klein Lankhorst, R., Rose, M., Hauf, J., Kotter, P., Berneiser, S., Hempel, S., Feldpausch, M., Lamberth, S., Van den Daele, H., De Keyser, A., Buysshaert, C., Gielen, J., Villarroel, R., De Clercq, R., Van Montagu, M., Rogers, J., Cronin, A., Quail, M., Bray-Allen, S., Clark, L., Doggett, J., Hall, S., Kay, M., Lennard, N., McLay, K., Mayes, R., Pettett, A., Rajandream, M. A., Lyne, M., Benes, V., Rechmann, S., Borkova, D., Blocker, H., Scharfe, M., Grimm, M., Lohnert, T. H., Dose, S., de Haan, M., Maarse, A., Schafer, M., Müller-Auer, S., Gabel, C., Fuchs, M., Fartmann, B., Granderath, K., Dauner, D., Herzl, A., Neumann, S., Argiriou, A., Vitale, D., Liguori, R., Piravandi, E., Massenet, O., Quigley, F., Clabauld, G., Mundlein, A., Felber, R., Schnabl, S., Hiller, R., Schmidt, W., Lecharny, A., Aubourg, S., Chefdor, F., Berger, C., Montfort, A., Casacuberta, E., Gibbons, T., Weber, N., Vandenbol, M., Bargues, M., Terol, J., Perez-Perez, A., Purnelle, B., Bent, E., Johnson, S., Tacon, D., Jesse, T., Heijnen, L., Schwarz, S., Scholler, P., Heber, S., Francs, P., Bielke, C., Frishman, D., Haase, D., Lemcke, K., Mewes, H. W., Stocker, S., Zaccaria, P., Bevan, M., Wilson, R. K., de la Bastide, M., Habermann, K., Parnell, L., Dedhia, N., Gnoj, L., Schutz, K., Huang, E., Spiegel, L., Sehkon, M., Murray, J., Sheet, P., Cordes, M., Abu-Threideh, J., Stoneking, T., Kalicki, J., Graves, T., Harmon, G., Edwards, J., Latreille, P., Courtney, L., Cloud, J., Abbott, A., Scott, K., Johnson, D., Minx, P., Bentley, D., Fulton, B., Miller, N., Greco, T., Kemp, K., Kramer, J., Fulton, L., Mardis, E., Pepin, K., Hillier, L., Nelson, J., Spieth, J., Ryan, E., Andrews, S., Geisel, C., Layman, D., Du, H., Ali, J., Berghoff, A., Jones, K., Drone, K., Cotton, M., Joshu, C., Antonoiu, B., Zidanic, M., Strong, C., Sun, H., Lamar, B., Yordan, C., Ma, P., Zhong, J., Preston, R., Vil, D., Shekher, M., Matero, A., Shah, R., Swaby, I.K., O'Shaughnessy, A., Rodriguez, M., Hoffmann, J., Till, S., Granat, S., Shohdy, N., Hasegawa, A., Hameed, A., Lodhi, M., Johnson, A., Chen, E., Marra, M., Martienssen, R., McCombie, W. R. (December 1999) Sequence and analysis of chromosome 4 of the plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Nature, 402 (6763). pp. 769-77. ISSN 0028-0836 (Print)0028-0836 (Linking)

Abstract

The higher plant Arabidopsis thaliana (Arabidopsis) is an important model for identifying plant genes and determining their function. To assist biological investigations and to define chromosome structure, a coordinated effort to sequence the Arabidopsis genome was initiated in late 1996. Here we report one of the first milestones of this project, the sequence of chromosome 4. Analysis of 17.38 megabases of unique sequence, representing about 17% of the genome, reveals 3,744 protein coding genes, 81 transfer RNAs and numerous repeat elements. Heterochromatic regions surrounding the putative centromere, which has not yet been completely sequenced, are characterized by an increased frequency of a variety of repeats, new repeats, reduced recombination, lowered gene density and lowered gene expression. Roughly 60% of the predicted protein-coding genes have been functionally characterized on the basis of their homology to known genes. Many genes encode predicted proteins that are homologous to human and Caenorhabditis elegans proteins.

Item Type: Paper
Uncontrolled Keywords: Animals Arabidopsis/*genetics Chromosomes *Chromosomes, Human, Pair 4 *DNA, Plant *Genes, Plant/physiology Heterochromatin Humans Molecular Sequence Data Multigene Family Plant Proteins/chemistry/genetics Protein Conformation Sequence Analysis, DNA Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
Subjects: bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > analysis and processing
organism description > plant > Arabidopsis
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > chromosome
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > chromosomes, structure and function > chromosome
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > Chromatin dynamics > heterochromatin
organism description > plant
CSHL Authors:
Communities: CSHL labs > Hengartner lab
CSHL labs > Malinow lab
CSHL labs > Martienssen lab
CSHL labs > McCombie lab
CSHL labs > Skowronski lab
CSHL labs > Yin lab
Depositing User: Kathleen Darby
Date: 16 December 1999
Date Deposited: 23 Apr 2014 14:59
Last Modified: 19 Dec 2014 16:09
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URI: https://repository.cshl.edu/id/eprint/29857

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