Improving the prediction of mRNA extremities in the parasitic protozoan Leishmania.

Abstract:

BACKGROUND:Leishmania and other members of the Trypanosomatidae family diverged early on in eukaryotic evolution and consequently display unique cellular properties. Their apparent lack of transcriptional regulation is compensated by complex post-transcriptional control mechanisms, including the processing of polycistronic transcripts by means of coupled trans-splicing and polyadenylation. Trans-splicing signals are often U-rich polypyrimidine (poly(Y)) tracts, which precede AG splice acceptor sites. However, as opposed to higher eukaryotes there is no consensus polyadenylation signal in trypanosomatid mRNAs. RESULTS:We refined a previously reported method to target 5' splice junctions by incorporating the pyrimidine content of query sequences into a scoring function. We also investigated a novel approach for predicting polyadenylation (poly(A)) sites in-silico, by comparing query sequences to polyadenylated expressed sequence tags (ESTs) using position-specific scanning matrices (PSSMs). An additional analysis of the distribution of putative splice junction to poly(A) distances helped to increase prediction rates by limiting the scanning range. These methods were able to simplify splice junction prediction without loss of precision and to increase polyadenylation site prediction from 22% to 47% within 100 nucleotides. CONCLUSION:We propose a simplified trans-splicing prediction tool and a novel poly(A) prediction tool based on comparative sequence analysis. We discuss the impact of certain regions surrounding the poly(A) sites on prediction rates and contemplate correlating biological mechanisms. This work aims to sharpen the identification of potentially functional untranslated regions (UTRs) in a large-scale, comparative genomics framework.

journal_name

BMC Bioinformatics

journal_title

BMC bioinformatics

authors

Smith M,Blanchette M,Papadopoulou B

doi

10.1186/1471-2105-9-158

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2008-03-20 00:00:00

pages

158

issn

1471-2105

pii

1471-2105-9-158

journal_volume

9

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