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First published online August 6, 2004; 10.1104/pp.104.043323 Plant Physiology 136:3023-3033 (2004) © 2004 American Society of Plant Biologists Utility of Different Gene Enrichment Approaches Toward Identifying and Sequencing the Maize Gene Space1,[w]Center for Plant and Microbial Genomics, Department of Plant Biology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota 55108 (N.M.S.); and Donald Danforth Plant Sciences Center, St. Louis, Missouri 63132 (X.X., W.B.B.)
Maize (Zea mays) possesses a large, highly repetitive genome, and subsequently a number of reduced-representation sequencing approaches have been used to try and enrich for gene space while eluding difficulties associated with repetitive DNA. This article documents the ability of publicly available maize expressed sequence tag and Genome Survey Sequences (GSSs; many of which were isolated through the use of reduced representation techniques) to recognize and provide coverage of 78 maize full-length cDNAs (FLCs). All 78 FLCs in the dataset were identified by at least three GSSs, indicating that the majority of maize genes have been identified by at least one currently available GSS. Both methyl-filtration and high-Cot enrichment methods provided a 7- to 8-fold increase in gene discovery rates as compared to random sequencing. The available maize GSSs aligned to 75% of the FLC nucleotides used to perform searches, while the expressed sequence tag sequences aligned to 73% of the nucleotides. Our data suggest that at least approximately 95% of maize genes have been tagged by at least one GSS. While the GSSs are very effective for gene identification, relatively few (18%) of the FLCs are completely represented by GSSs. Analysis of the overlap of coverage and bias due to position within a gene suggest that RescueMu, methyl-filtration, and high-Cot methods are at least partially nonredundant.
1 This work was supported by the National Science Foundation (grant no. DBI0227310 to N.M.S. and grant no. DBI0221536 to W.B.B.). [w] The online version of this article contains Web-only data. www.plantphysiol.org/cgi/doi/10.1104/pp.104.043323. * Corresponding author; e-mail springer{at}umn.edu; fax 6126251738 * Corresponding author; e-mail bbarbazuk{at}danforthcenter.org; fax 3145871378. Received March 22, 2004; returned for revision May 27, 2004; accepted June 1, 2004. This article has been cited by other articles:
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