Identification of novel open reading frames in the intergenic regions of Mycobacterium leprae genome and detection of transcript by qRT-PCR

Sharma, Mukul and Das, Madhusmita and D, Diana and Wedderburn, Anna and Roy, Anindya (2018) Identification of novel open reading frames in the intergenic regions of Mycobacterium leprae genome and detection of transcript by qRT-PCR. Microbial Pathogenesis, 124. pp. 316-321. ISSN 0882-4010

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Abstract

Mycobacterium leprae is an unculturable obligate pathogen and causative agent for debilitating human disease leprosy. Due to reductive genome evolution M leprae genome harbours large number of pseudogenes and small number of genes (∼1600 genes and ∼1300 pseudogenes). How M leprae remained a successful human parasite with small set of genes remains poorly understood and provided us the impetus to investigate the intergenic regions of M leprae genome for the presence of possible open reading frames (ORFs). In this work, we have manually scanned all the intergenic regions of M leprae genome and identified 106 potential ORFs. Among these, 12 are large ORFs: encoding hypothetical proteins (HP) of more than 100 amino acids. We have also found 67 ORFs encoding 50–100 amino acids proteins and another 27 ORFs for 30–50 amino acids peptides. We have validated the presence of transcripts for large HPs by quantitative reverse transcriptase PCR (qRT-PCR). Our results suggest that some of the M leprae large HPs are indeed expressed at low level in leprosy patients. The present results will shed light on the intergenic ORFs of M leprae and further our understanding of the pathogenesis of leprosy.

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Roy, Anindyahttp://orcid.org/0000-0001-8561-907X
Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Mycobacterium leprae, Pseudogenes, Leprosy, Small ORFs, Intergenic region, qRT-PCR
Subjects: Others > Biotechnology
Divisions: Department of Biotechnology
Depositing User: Team Library
Date Deposited: 05 Sep 2018 04:48
Last Modified: 05 Sep 2018 04:48
URI: http://raiith.iith.ac.in/id/eprint/4424
Publisher URL: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.micpath.2018.08.062
OA policy: http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/0882-4010/
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