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Vol. 10, Issue 12, 1996-2005, December 2000

LETTER
A Random Sequencing Approach for the Analysis of the Trypanosoma cruzi Genome: General Structure, Large Gene and Repetitive DNA Families, and Gene Discovery

Fernán Agüero,1 Ramiro E. Verdún,1 Alberto Carlos C. Frasch, and Daniel O. Sánchez2

Instituto de Investigaciones Biotecnológicas, Instituto Tecnológico de Chascomús, Universidad Nacional de General San Martín, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, San Martín, Provincia de Buenos Aires, 1650 Argentina

A random sequence survey of the genome of Trypanosoma cruzi, the agent of Chagas disease, was performed and 11,459 genomic sequences were obtained, resulting in ~4.3 Mb of readable sequences or ~10% of the parasite haploid genome. The estimated total GC content was 50.9%, with a high representation of A and T di- and trinucleotide repeats. Out of the estimated 5000 parasite genes, 947 putative new genes were identified. Another 1723 sequences corresponded to genes detected previously in T. cruzi through expression sequence tag analysis. 7735 sequences had no matches in the database, but the presence of open reading frames that passed Fickett's test suggests that some might contain coding DNA. The survey was highly redundant, with ~35% of the sequences included in a few large sequence families. Some of them code for protein families present in dozens of copies, including proteins essential for parasite survival and retrotransposons. Other sequence families include repetitive DNA present in thousands of copies per haploid genome. Some families in the latter group are new, parasite-specific, repetitive DNAs. These results suggest that T. cruzi could constitute an interesting model to analyze gene and genome evolution due to its plasticity in terms of sequence amplification and divergence. Additional information can be found at http://www.iib.unsam.edu.ar/tcruzi.gss.html.

[The sequence data described in this paper have been submitted to the dbGSS database under the following GenBank accession nos.: AQ443439-AQ443513, AQ443743-AQ445667, AQ902981-AQ911366, AZ049857-AZ051184, and AZ302116-AZ302563.]

1 These authors contributed equally to this work.

2 Corresponding author.

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