Shun-ichi Sasanuma

Publications (5)13.95 Total impact

• Article: Novel genes differentially expressed between posterior and median silk gland identified by SAGE-aided transcriptome analysis.

  Corinne Royer, Jérôme Briolay, Annie Garel, Patrick Brouilly, Shun-ichi Sasanuma, Motoe Sasanuma, Michihiko Shimomura, Céline Keime, Olivier Gandrillon, Yongping Huang, Gérard Chavancy, Kazuei Mita, Pierre Couble
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  ABSTRACT: Serial analysis of gene expression (SAGE) profiles, from posterior and median cells of the silk gland of Bombyx mori, were analyzed and compared, so as to identify their respective distinguishing functions. The annotation of the SAGE libraries was performed with a B. mori reference tag collection, which was extracted from a novel set of Bombyx ESTs, sequenced from the 3' side. Most of the tags appeared at similar relative concentration within the two libraries, and corresponded with region-specific and highly abundant silk proteins. Strikingly, in addition to tags from silk protein mRNAs, 19 abundant tags were found (≥ 0.1%), in the median cell library, which were absent in the posterior cell tag collection. With the exception of tags from SP1 mRNA, no PSG specific tags were found in this subset class. The analysis of some of the MSG-specific transcripts, suggested that middle silk gland cells have diversified functions, in addition to their well characterized role in silk sericins synthesis and secretion.
  Insect biochemistry and molecular biology 11/2010; 41(2):118-24. · 3.25 Impact Factor
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  Available from: Keiko Kadono-Okuda

  Article: A BAC-based integrated linkage map of the silkworm Bombyx mori.

  Kimiko Yamamoto, Junko Nohata, Keiko Kadono-Okuda, Junko Narukawa, Motoe Sasanuma, Shun-Ichi Sasanuma, Hiroshi Minami, Michihiko Shimomura, Yoshitaka Suetsugu, Yutaka Banno, Kazutoyo Osoegawa, Pieter J de Jong, Marian R Goldsmith, Kazuei Mita
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  ABSTRACT: In 2004, draft sequences of the model lepidopteran Bombyx mori were reported using whole-genome shotgun sequencing. Because of relatively shallow genome coverage, the silkworm genome remains fragmented, hampering annotation and comparative genome studies. For a more complete genome analysis, we developed extended scaffolds combining physical maps with improved genetic maps. We mapped 1,755 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers from bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) end sequences onto 28 linkage groups using a recombining male backcross population, yielding an average inter-SNP distance of 0.81 cM (about 270 kilobases). We constructed 6,221 contigs by fingerprinting clones from three BAC libraries digested with different restriction enzymes, and assigned a total of 724 single copy genes to them by BLAST (basic local alignment search tool) search of the BAC end sequences and high-density BAC filter hybridization using expressed sequence tags as probes. We assigned 964 additional expressed sequence tags to linkage groups by restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of a nonrecombining female backcross population. Altogether, 361.1 megabases of BAC contigs and singletons were integrated with a map containing 1,688 independent genes. A test of synteny using Oxford grid analysis with more than 500 silkworm genes revealed six versus 20 silkworm linkage groups containing eight or more orthologs of Apis versus Tribolium, respectively. The integrated map contains approximately 10% of predicted silkworm genes and has an estimated 76% genome coverage by BACs. This provides a new resource for improved assembly of whole-genome shotgun data, gene annotation and positional cloning, and will serve as a platform for comparative genomics and gene discovery in Lepidoptera and other insects.
  Genome biology 02/2008; 9(1):R21. · 6.63 Impact Factor
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  Available from: Hiroshi Minami

  Article: End-sequencing and characterization of silkworm (Bombyx mori) bacterial artificial chromosome libraries.

  Yoshitaka Suetsugu, Hiroshi Minami, Michihiko Shimomura, Shun-ichi Sasanuma, Junko Narukawa, Kazuei Mita, Kimiko Yamamoto
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  ABSTRACT: We performed large-scale bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) end-sequencing of two BAC libraries (an EcoRI- and a BamHI-digested library) and conducted an in silico analysis to characterize the obtained sequence data, to make them a useful resource for genomic research on the silkworm (Bombyx mori). More than 94000 BAC end sequences (BESs), comprising more than 55 Mbp and covering about 10.4% of the silkworm genome, were sequenced. Repeat-sequence analysis with known repeat sequences indicated that the long interspersed nuclear elements (LINEs) were abundant in BamHI BESs, whereas DNA-type elements were abundant in EcoRI BESs. Repeat-sequence analysis revealed that the abundance of LINEs might be due to a GC bias of the restriction sites and that the GC content of silkworm LINEs was higher than that of mammalian LINEs. In a BLAST-based sequence analysis of the BESs against two available whole-genome shotgun sequence data sets, more than 70% of the BESs had a BLAST hit with an identity of > or = 99%. About 14% of EcoRI BESs and about 8% of BamHI BESs were paired-end clones with unique sequences at both ends. Cluster analysis of the BESs clarified the proportion of BESs containing protein-coding regions. As a result of this characterization, the identified BESs will be a valuable resource for genomic research on Bombyx mori, for example, as a base for construction of a BAC-based physical map. The use of multiple complementary BAC libraries constructed with different restriction enzymes also makes the BESs a more valuable genomic resource. The GenBank accession numbers of the obtained end sequences are DE283657-DE378560.
  BMC Genomics 01/2007; 8:314. · 4.07 Impact Factor
• Article: A BAC-based integrated linkage map of the silkworm Bombyx mori

  Kimiko Yamamoto, Junko Nohata, Keiko Kadono-Okuda, Junko Narukawa, Motoe Sasanuma, Shun-ichi Sasanuma, Hiroshi Minami, Michihiko Shimomura, Yoshitaka Suetsugu, Yutaka Banno, Kazutoyo Osoegawa, Pieter J de Jong, Marian R Goldsmith, Kazuei Mita
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  ABSTRACT: An integrated map of the Bombyx mori genome has been constructed using 361.1 Mb of BAC contigs and singletons together with a genetic map containing 1689 independent genes and synteny among Apis, Tribolium, and Bombyx was examined.
• Article: A mutation in the largest (catalytic) subunit of RNA polymerase II and its relation to the arrest of the cell cycle in G1 phase

  Kimihiko Sugaya, Shun-ichi Sasanuma, Peter R. Cook, Kazuei Mita
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  ABSTRACT: Transcriptional activity of RNA polymerase II is modulated during the cell cycle. We previously identified a temperature-sensitive mutation in the largest (catalytic) subunit of RNA polymerase II (RPB1) that causes cell cycle arrest and genome instability. We now characterize a different cell line that has a temperature-sensitive defect in cell cycle progression, and find that it also has a mutation in RPB1. The temperature-sensitive mutant, tsAF8, of the Syrian hamster cell line, BHK21, arrests at the non-permissive temperature in the mid-G1 phase. We show that RPB1 in tsAF8 – which is found exclusively in the nucleus at the permissive temperature – is also found in the cytoplasm at the non-permissive temperature. Comparison of the DNA sequences of the RPB1 gene in the wild-type and mutant shows the mutant phenotype results from a (hemizygous) C-to-A variation at nucleotide 944 in one RPB1 allele; this gives rise to an ala-to-asp substitution at residue 315 in the protein. Aligning the amino acid sequences from various species reveals that ala315 is highly conserved in eukaryotes.
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