Caracterização de seqüências expressas do genoma café potencialmente relacionadas com a resistência a doenças

• Autor(a) principal: Alvarenga, Samuel Mazzinghy
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: LOCUS Repositório Institucional da UFV
• Texto Completo: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/4825
• topic: Coffea; Genômica; Marcadores moleculares; Coffea; Genome; Molecular markers; CNPQ::CIENCIAS BIOLOGICAS::GENETICA::GENETICA VEGETAL

Sequences potentially involved with the coffee resistance were identified, by in silico analyses, using information generated by the Projeto Brasileiro do Genoma Café (PBGC). For that, three strategies were used. Initially, keywords related to the plants resistance mechanism to pathogens were searched in scientific literature and used as drivers for data mining. Using the available tools at the PBGC bioinformatics platform, ESTs (Expressed Sequence Tags) related to each one of these words were identified. The search for similarities between some published sequences and sequences from the PBGC, by using the BLAST program was another strategy. The Electronic Northern, a tool developed by the Laboratório de Genômica e Expressão (LGE), was also used. Those strategies allowed the identification of 14,060 sequences of the PBGC. These sequences were similar to proteins known to be related to de plant disease defense process, for instance chitinase, kinase protein, cytochrome P450, disease resistance protein, pathogenesis related protein, LRR and NBS proteins, hypersensibility induced protein among others. The biological processes with witch these sequences are involved included metabolism, transport, transcription regulation, protein folding, biosynthesis and others. The ontology-based global analysis for molecular function showed that the genes are involved with metabolism, external stimulus response, cellular differentiation, nucleic acid binding, nucleotide binding, defense response, apoptosis and others. Aiming to verify the involvement of these sequences with the coffee tree resistance to leaf rust, 40 primers were designed to amplify the mined sequences. The primers were synthesized using the computational program Primer3 and their stability was tested by the program PrimerSelect. Different PCR conditions were tested. Using optimized reaction and amplification conditions, those 40 primers were tested in 12 resistant and 12 susceptible genotypes to Hemileia vastatrix, fungus that causes coffee leaf rust. Twenty nine of those resulted in unique and sharp bands, and only one of these was polymorphic. The 40 primers permitted to find one molecular marker polymorphic between the resistant and susceptible genotypes. This marker amplifies a region of the DNA which corresponds to a Coffea Arabica ORF for disease resistance protein.