Taxus yunnanensis genome offers insights into gymnosperm phylogeny and taxol production

Song Chi, Fu Fangfang, Yang Lulu, Niu Yan, Tian Zhaoyang, He Xiangxiang, Yang Xiaoming, Chen Jie, Sun Wei, Wan Tao, Zhang Han, Yang Yicheng, Xiao Tian, Dossa Komivi, Meng Xiangxiao, Cao Fuliang, Van de Peer Yves, Wang Guibin, Chen Shilin. 2021. Taxus yunnanensis genome offers insights into gymnosperm phylogeny and taxol production. Communications Biology, 4:1203, 8 p.

https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02697-8

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Résumé : Taxol, a natural product derived from Taxus, is one of the most effective natural anticancer drugs and the biosynthetic pathway of Taxol is the basis of heterologous bio-production. Here, we report a high-quality genome assembly and annotation of Taxus yunnanensis based on 10.7 Gb sequences assembled into 12 chromosomes with contig N50 and scaffold N50 of 2.89 Mb and 966.80 Mb, respectively. Phylogenomic analyses show that T. yunnanensis is most closely related to Sequoiadendron giganteum among the sampled taxa, with an estimated divergence time of 133.4−213.0 MYA. As with most gymnosperms, and unlike most angiosperms, there is no evidence of a recent whole-genome duplication in T. yunnanensis. Repetitive sequences, especially long terminal repeat retrotransposons, are prevalent in the T. yunnanensis genome, contributing to its large genome size. We further integrated genomic and transcriptomic data to unveil clusters of genes involved in Taxol synthesis, located on the chromosome 12, while gene families encoding hydroxylase in the Taxol pathway exhibited significant expansion. Our study contributes to the further elucidation of gymnosperm relationships and the Taxol biosynthetic pathway.

Mots-clés Agrovoc : phylogénie, génome, taxol, Taxus, séquence nucléotidique, Gymnospermae, expression des gènes, génomique, biosynthèse, Taxaceae, espèce relique, espèce en danger, gène