Transcriptoma de Copaifera multijuga Hayne: montagem e anotação

Abstract

Copaifera multijuga Hayne is a large plant species, popularly known as copaiba, native to Latin America and Africa. They are widely used in Amazonian folk medicine, due to the properties of oleoresin extracted from the trunk of their trees, mainly used as: diuretic, laxative, anti-tetanic, anti-inflammatory, antitussive, healing and anti-tumor. Therefore, it is of great importance for research aimed at identifying in plants substances with potential medical and biotechnological purposes. Therefore, this work aimed to search for the transcriptome of C. multijuga Hayne, which was sequenced using the Roche 454 platform, obtaining a total of 638,576 reads, assembled using the de novo methodology using the MIRA and TRINITY platforms. Being generated, from the assembly by TRINITY 53.319 contigs and 62.839 by assembly MIRA. The transcriptome annotation was performed using BLASTx (NCBI) and the functional annotation through the Gene Ontology (GO) bank. The results were categorized according to GO, where the contigs were grouped in the categories: "Cell Component" with 6.249 contigs involved in this category, "Molecular Function" with a total of 17.208 contigs and "Biological Process" with 9,499 contigs. In the three categories the contigs evidenced are involved in the primary plant metabolism. A total of 184 unigenes were detected in 22 clusters, mainly involved in responses to plant oxidative stress, terpenes, important metabolites involved in the formation of copaiba oleoresin, diterpenes (resinous portion of oleoresin) and sesquiterpenes (volatile components of oil) and unigenes related to vegetal pigmentation such as: flavonoids, carotenoids and anthocyanins. In phylogenetic analysis, evolutionary comparisons of terpene synthase enzymes, copaiba oil formation components, with enzymes from the NCBI database were made. C. multijuga TPS4-2 unigene had similarity to other Copaifera TPS4-2 terpene sequences available from the bank. Thus, in this work the transcriptome of C. multijuga was carried out with new assembly and annotation, which leads to the perspective of studies with the unigenes encoding enzymes components of the oleoresin evidenced in this work, aiming with this future research for biotechnological purposes.