PMID- 30588288 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20201001 IS - 1993-0771 (Print) IS - 1993-078X (Electronic) IS - 1993-0771 (Linking) VI - 12 IP - 4 DP - 2018 TI - Pilot satellitome analysis of the model plant, Physcomitrellapatens, revealed a transcribed and high-copy IGS related tandem repeat. PG - 493-513 LID - 10.3897/CompCytogen.v12i4.31015 [doi] AB - Satellite DNA (satDNA) constitutes a substantial part of eukaryotic genomes. In the last decade, it has been shown that satDNA is not an inert part of the genome and its function extends beyond the nuclear membrane. However, the number of model plant species suitable for studying the novel horizons of satDNA functionality is low. Here, we explored the satellitome of the model "basal" plant, Physcomitrellapatens (Hedwig, 1801) Bruch & Schimper, 1849 (moss), which has a number of advantages for deep functional and evolutionary research. Using a newly developed pyTanFinder pipeline (https://github.com/Kirovez/pyTanFinder) coupled with fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), we identified five high copy number tandem repeats (TRs) occupying a long DNA array in the moss genome. The nuclear organization study revealed that two TRs had distinct locations in the moss genome, concentrating in the heterochromatin and knob-rDNA like chromatin bodies. Further genomic, epigenetic and transcriptomic analysis showed that one TR, named PpNATR76, was located in the intergenic spacer (IGS) region and transcribed into long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs). Several specific features of PpNATR76 lncRNAs make them very similar with the recently discovered human lncRNAs, raising a number of questions for future studies. This work provides new resources for functional studies of satellitome in plants using the model organism P.patens, and describes a list of tandem repeats for further analysis. FAU - Kirov, Ilya AU - Kirov I AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-3885-3837 AD - Laboratory of functional genomics and proteomics of plants, Shemyakin and Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Moscow, Russian Federation Shemyakin and Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry Moscow Russia. FAU - Gilyok, Marina AU - Gilyok M AD - Laboratory of functional genomics and proteomics of plants, Shemyakin and Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Moscow, Russian Federation Shemyakin and Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry Moscow Russia. FAU - Knyazev, Andrey AU - Knyazev A AD - Laboratory of functional genomics and proteomics of plants, Shemyakin and Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Moscow, Russian Federation Shemyakin and Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry Moscow Russia. FAU - Fesenko, Igor AU - Fesenko I AD - Laboratory of functional genomics and proteomics of plants, Shemyakin and Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Moscow, Russian Federation Shemyakin and Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry Moscow Russia. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20181213 PL - Bulgaria TA - Comp Cytogenet JT - Comparative cytogenetics JID - 101503807 PMC - PMC6302065 OTO - NOTNLM OT - Bryophyta OT - Physcomitrella patens OT - chromosomes OT - fluorescence in situ hybridization OT - long non-coding RNAs OT - rDNA OT - satellite DNA EDAT- 2018/12/28 06:00 MHDA- 2018/12/28 06:01 PMCR- 2018/12/13 CRDT- 2018/12/28 06:00 PHST- 2018/11/02 00:00 [received] PHST- 2018/11/27 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2018/12/28 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2018/12/28 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2018/12/28 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2018/12/13 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.3897/CompCytogen.v12i4.31015 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Comp Cytogenet. 2018 Dec 13;12(4):493-513. doi: 10.3897/CompCytogen.v12i4.31015. eCollection 2018.