The Complete Mitochondrial DNA of Trypanosoma cruzi: Maxicircles and Minicircles

The mitochondrial DNA of Trypanosomatids, known as the kinetoplast DNA or kDNA or mtDNA, consists of a few maxicircles and thousands of minicircles concatenated together into a huge complex network. These structures present species-specific sizes, from 20 to 40 Kb in maxicircles and from 0.5 to 10 K...

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Autores: Callejas-Hernández, Francisco, Herreros-Cabello, Alfonso, Del Moral-Salmoral, Javier, Fresno, Manuel, Gironès, Núria
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Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
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Palabra clave:Kinetoplast DNA
Maxicircle
Minicircle
Strain
Trypanosoma cruzi
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spelling The Complete Mitochondrial DNA of Trypanosoma cruzi: Maxicircles and MinicirclesCallejas-Hernández, FranciscoHerreros-Cabello, AlfonsoDel Moral-Salmoral, JavierFresno, ManuelGironès, NúriaKinetoplast DNAMaxicircleMinicircleStrainTrypanosoma cruziThe mitochondrial DNA of Trypanosomatids, known as the kinetoplast DNA or kDNA or mtDNA, consists of a few maxicircles and thousands of minicircles concatenated together into a huge complex network. These structures present species-specific sizes, from 20 to 40 Kb in maxicircles and from 0.5 to 10 Kb in minicircles. Maxicircles are equivalent to other eukaryotic mitochondrial DNAs, while minicircles contain coding guide RNAs involved in U-insertion/deletion editing processes exclusive of Trypanosomatids that produce the maturation of the maxicircle-encoded transcripts. The knowledge about this mitochondrial genome is especially relevant since the expression of nuclear and mitochondrial genes involved in oxidative phosphorylation must be coordinated. In Trypanosoma cruzi (T. cruzi), the mtDNA has a dual relevance; the production of energy, and its use as a phylogenetic marker due to its high conservation among strains. Therefore, this study aimed to assemble, annotate, and analyze the complete repertoire of maxicircle and minicircle sequences of different T. cruzi strains by using DNA sequencing. We assembled and annotated the complete maxicircle sequence of the Y and Bug2148 strains. For Bug2148, our results confirm that the maxicircle sequence is the longest assembled to date, and is composed of 21 genes, most of them conserved among Trypanosomatid species. In agreement with previous results, T. cruzi minicircles show a conserved structure around 1.4 Kb, with four highly conserved regions and other four hypervariable regions interspersed between them. However, our results suggest that the parasite minicircles display several sizes and numbers of conserved and hypervariable regions, contrary to those previous studies. Besides, this heterogeneity is also reflected in the three conserved sequence blocks of the conserved regions that play a key role in the minicircle replication. Our results using sequencing technologies of second and third-generation indicate that the different consensus sequences of the maxicircles and minicircles seem to be more complex than previously described indicating at least four different groups in T. cruzi minicircles.Ministerio de Economı́a y competitividad” and “Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional” (SAF2015-63868-R (MINECO/FEDER) to NG, and SAF2016-75988-R (MINECO/FEDER) to MF); “Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades-Agencia Estatal de Investigación” and “Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional” (PGC2018-096132-B-I00 (MICINN/FEDER) to NG); “Red de Investigación de Centros de Enfermedades Tropicales” (RICETRD12/0018/0004 to MF); Comunidad de Madrid (S-2010/BMD-2332 to MF); Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologı́a” (CONACYT, Mexico) and the “Consejo de Ciencia, Tecnologı́a e Innovación de Hidalgo” (CITNOVA, Mexico)); AH-C was recipient of a FPU contract of the “Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades and “Fundación Ramón Areces” and “Banco de SantanderMinisterio de Economía y Competitividad (España)Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España)Red de Investigación Cooperativa en Enfermedades Tropicales (España)Comunidad de MadridConsejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (México)Consejo de Ciencia y Tecnología e Innovación de HidalgoFundación Ramón ArecesBanco SantanderConsejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]2022202220212022info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501Publisher's versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://hdl.handle.net/10261/270273reponame:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSICinstname:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)Ingléshttp://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fcimb.2021.672448Síinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:digital.csic.es:10261/2702732026-05-22T06:33:51Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv The Complete Mitochondrial DNA of Trypanosoma cruzi: Maxicircles and Minicircles
title The Complete Mitochondrial DNA of Trypanosoma cruzi: Maxicircles and Minicircles
spellingShingle The Complete Mitochondrial DNA of Trypanosoma cruzi: Maxicircles and Minicircles
Callejas-Hernández, Francisco
Kinetoplast DNA
Maxicircle
Minicircle
Strain
Trypanosoma cruzi
title_short The Complete Mitochondrial DNA of Trypanosoma cruzi: Maxicircles and Minicircles
title_full The Complete Mitochondrial DNA of Trypanosoma cruzi: Maxicircles and Minicircles
title_fullStr The Complete Mitochondrial DNA of Trypanosoma cruzi: Maxicircles and Minicircles
title_full_unstemmed The Complete Mitochondrial DNA of Trypanosoma cruzi: Maxicircles and Minicircles
title_sort The Complete Mitochondrial DNA of Trypanosoma cruzi: Maxicircles and Minicircles
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Callejas-Hernández, Francisco
Herreros-Cabello, Alfonso
Del Moral-Salmoral, Javier
Fresno, Manuel
Gironès, Núria
author Callejas-Hernández, Francisco
author_facet Callejas-Hernández, Francisco
Herreros-Cabello, Alfonso
Del Moral-Salmoral, Javier
Fresno, Manuel
Gironès, Núria
author_role author
author2 Herreros-Cabello, Alfonso
Del Moral-Salmoral, Javier
Fresno, Manuel
Gironès, Núria
author2_role author
author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España)
Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España)
Red de Investigación Cooperativa en Enfermedades Tropicales (España)
Comunidad de Madrid
Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (México)
Consejo de Ciencia y Tecnología e Innovación de Hidalgo
Fundación Ramón Areces
Banco Santander
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Kinetoplast DNA
Maxicircle
Minicircle
Strain
Trypanosoma cruzi
topic Kinetoplast DNA
Maxicircle
Minicircle
Strain
Trypanosoma cruzi
description The mitochondrial DNA of Trypanosomatids, known as the kinetoplast DNA or kDNA or mtDNA, consists of a few maxicircles and thousands of minicircles concatenated together into a huge complex network. These structures present species-specific sizes, from 20 to 40 Kb in maxicircles and from 0.5 to 10 Kb in minicircles. Maxicircles are equivalent to other eukaryotic mitochondrial DNAs, while minicircles contain coding guide RNAs involved in U-insertion/deletion editing processes exclusive of Trypanosomatids that produce the maturation of the maxicircle-encoded transcripts. The knowledge about this mitochondrial genome is especially relevant since the expression of nuclear and mitochondrial genes involved in oxidative phosphorylation must be coordinated. In Trypanosoma cruzi (T. cruzi), the mtDNA has a dual relevance; the production of energy, and its use as a phylogenetic marker due to its high conservation among strains. Therefore, this study aimed to assemble, annotate, and analyze the complete repertoire of maxicircle and minicircle sequences of different T. cruzi strains by using DNA sequencing. We assembled and annotated the complete maxicircle sequence of the Y and Bug2148 strains. For Bug2148, our results confirm that the maxicircle sequence is the longest assembled to date, and is composed of 21 genes, most of them conserved among Trypanosomatid species. In agreement with previous results, T. cruzi minicircles show a conserved structure around 1.4 Kb, with four highly conserved regions and other four hypervariable regions interspersed between them. However, our results suggest that the parasite minicircles display several sizes and numbers of conserved and hypervariable regions, contrary to those previous studies. Besides, this heterogeneity is also reflected in the three conserved sequence blocks of the conserved regions that play a key role in the minicircle replication. Our results using sequencing technologies of second and third-generation indicate that the different consensus sequences of the maxicircles and minicircles seem to be more complex than previously described indicating at least four different groups in T. cruzi minicircles.
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