TY - JOUR
T1 - Soybean transporter database
T2 - A comprehensive database for identification and exploration of natural variants in soybean transporter genes
AU - Deshmukh, Rupesh
AU - Rana, Nitika
AU - Liu, Yang
AU - Zeng, Shuai
AU - Agarwal, Gaurav
AU - Sonah, Humira
AU - Varshney, Rajeev
AU - Joshi, Trupti
AU - Patil, Gunvant B.
AU - Nguyen, Henry T.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors are thankful to the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, for the Ramalingaswami Fellowship Award to RD and HS; United States Soybean Board for funding support to HN and State of Texas' Governor's University Research Initiative (GURI) support to GBP.
Funding Information:
The authors are thankful to the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, for the Ramalingaswami Fellowship Award to RD and HS; United States Soybean Board for funding support to HN and State of Texas' Governor's University Research Initiative (GURI) support to GBP.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society
PY - 2021/4
Y1 - 2021/4
N2 - Transporters, a class of membrane proteins that facilitate exchange of solutes including diverse molecules and ions across the cellular membrane, are vital component for the survival of all organisms. Understanding plant transporters is important to get insight of the basic cellular processes, physiology, and molecular mechanisms including nutrient uptake, signaling, response to external stress, and many more. In this regard, extensive analysis of transporters predicted in soybean and other plant species was performed. In addition, an integrated database for soybean transporter protein, SoyTD, was developed that will facilitate the identification, classification, and extensive characterization of transporter proteins by integrating expression, gene ontology, conserved domain and motifs, gene structure organization, and chromosomal distribution features. A comprehensive analysis was performed to identify highly confident transporters by integrating various prediction tools. Initially, 7541 transmembrane (TM) proteins were predicted in the soybean genome; out of these, 3306 non-redundant transporter genes carrying two or more transmembrane domains were selected for further analysis. The identified transporter genes were classified according to a standard transporter classification (TC) system. Comparative analysis of transporter genes among 47 plant genomes provided insights into expansion and duplication of transporter genes in land plants. The whole genome resequencing (WGRS) and tissue-specific transcriptome datasets of soybean were integrated to investigate the natural variants and expression profile associated with transporter(s) of interest. Overall, SoyTD provides a comprehensive interface to study genetic and molecular function of soybean transporters. SoyTD is publicly available at http://artemis.cyverse.org/soykb_dev/SoyTD/.
AB - Transporters, a class of membrane proteins that facilitate exchange of solutes including diverse molecules and ions across the cellular membrane, are vital component for the survival of all organisms. Understanding plant transporters is important to get insight of the basic cellular processes, physiology, and molecular mechanisms including nutrient uptake, signaling, response to external stress, and many more. In this regard, extensive analysis of transporters predicted in soybean and other plant species was performed. In addition, an integrated database for soybean transporter protein, SoyTD, was developed that will facilitate the identification, classification, and extensive characterization of transporter proteins by integrating expression, gene ontology, conserved domain and motifs, gene structure organization, and chromosomal distribution features. A comprehensive analysis was performed to identify highly confident transporters by integrating various prediction tools. Initially, 7541 transmembrane (TM) proteins were predicted in the soybean genome; out of these, 3306 non-redundant transporter genes carrying two or more transmembrane domains were selected for further analysis. The identified transporter genes were classified according to a standard transporter classification (TC) system. Comparative analysis of transporter genes among 47 plant genomes provided insights into expansion and duplication of transporter genes in land plants. The whole genome resequencing (WGRS) and tissue-specific transcriptome datasets of soybean were integrated to investigate the natural variants and expression profile associated with transporter(s) of interest. Overall, SoyTD provides a comprehensive interface to study genetic and molecular function of soybean transporters. SoyTD is publicly available at http://artemis.cyverse.org/soykb_dev/SoyTD/.
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U2 - 10.1111/ppl.13287
DO - 10.1111/ppl.13287
M3 - Article
C2 - 33231322
AN - SCOPUS:85103232076
VL - 171
SP - 756
EP - 770
JO - Physiologia Plantarum
JF - Physiologia Plantarum
SN - 0031-9317
IS - 4
ER -