5. Combined ESTs from Plant-Microbe Interactions: Using GC Counting to Determine the Species of Origin
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A diversity of microorganisms establishes intimate associations with plants. Whether pathogenic or symbiotic, such interactions
are the result of complex recognition events between plants and microbes, leading to signaling cascades and regulation of
countless genes involved in the interaction. A key step in unraveling the mysteries of plant-microbe interactions lies in
defining the transcriptional changes that occur in both the host and the microbe during their association. The sum of the
transcripts, from both host and microbe, which are produced during their association, has been defined as the interaction
transcriptome. One approach to analyze interaction transcriptomes is to perform large-scale sequencing of cDNAs (expressed
sequence tags or ESTs) obtained from infected plant tissue and representing a mixture of host and microbe sequences. In some
cases, the two organisms have markedly different GC content, allowing most ESTs to be easily distinguished on this basis.
In this chapter, we describe a GC counting method to determine the species of origin of ESTs obtained from interactions between
plants and oomycetes or other high GC content microbes.
Affiliation(s): (2) Department of Plant Pathology, The Ohio State University Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, Wooster, OH
Book Title: Plant Functional Genomics
Series: Methods in Molecular Biology | Volume: 236 | Pub. Date: Aug-06-2003 | Page Range: 79-83 | DOI: 10.1385/1-59259-413-1:79
Subject: Plant Sciences
Key Words: plant-microbe interactions - Phytophthora - oomycetes - interaction transcriptome - EST annotation - GC content - GC counting
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