Sequence and analysis of chromosome 1 of the plant Arabidopsis thaliana

Authors
Theologis, A Ecker, JR Palm, CJ Federspiel, NA Kaul, S White, O Alonso, J Altafi, H Araujo, R Bowman, CL Brooks, SY Buehler, E Chan, A Chao, QM Chen, HM Cheuk, RF Chin, CW Chung, MK Conn, L Conway, AB Conway, AR Creasy, TH Dewar, K Dunn, P Etgu, P Feldblyum, TV Feng, JD Fong, B Fujii, CY Gill, JE Goldsmith, AD Haas, B Hansen, NF Hughes, B Huizar, L Hunter, JL Jenkins, J Johnson-Hopson, C Khan, S Khaykin, E Kim, CJ Koo, HL Kremenetskaia, I Kurtz, DB Kwan, A Lam, B Langin-Hooper, S Lee, A Lee, JM Lenz, CA Li, JH Li, YP Lin, XY Liu, SX Liu, ZA Luros, JS Maiti, R Marziali, A Militscher, J Miranda, M Nguyen, M Nierman, WC Osborne, BI Pai, G Peterson, J Pham, PK Rizzo, M Rooney, T Rowley, D Sakano, H Salzberg, SL Schwartz, JR Shinn, P Southwick, AM Sun, H Tallon, LJ Tambunga, G Toriumi, MJ Town, CD Utterback, T Van Aken, S Vaysberg, M Vysotskaia, VS Walker, M Wu, DY Yu, GX Fraser, CM Venter, JC Davis, RW
Citation
A. Theologis et al., Sequence and analysis of chromosome 1 of the plant Arabidopsis thaliana, NATURE, 408(6814), 2000, pp. 816-820
Citations number
43
Categorie Soggetti
Multidisciplinary,Multidisciplinary,Multidisciplinary
Journal title
NATURE
ISSN journal
00280836 → ACNP
Volume
408
Issue
6814
Year of publication
2000
Pages
816 - 820
Database
ISI
SICI code
0028-0836(200012)408:6814<816:SAAOC1>2.0.ZU;2-N
Abstract
The genome of the flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana has five chromosomes (1,2). Here we report the sequence of the largest, chromosome 1, in two con tigs of around 14.2 and 14.6 megabases. The contigs extend from the telomer es to the centromeric borders, regions rich in transposons, retrotransposon s and repetitive elements such as the 180-base-pair repeat. The chromosome represents 25% of the genome and contains about 6,850 open reading frames, 236 transfer RNAs (tRNAs) and 12 small nuclear RNAs. There are two clusters of tRNA genes at different places on the chromosome. One consists of 27 tR NA Pro genes and the other contains 27 tandem repeats of tRNA(Tyr)-tRNA(Tyr )-tRNA(Ser) genes. Chromosome 1 contains about 300 gene families with clust ered duplications. There are also many repeat elements, representing 8% of the sequence.