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ArticlePLoS pathogens2026

The UTRs of Leishmania donovani vary in length and are enriched in potential regulatory structures.

Franck Dumetz, Kaylee J Watson, Melissa Perry, Robin E Bromley, Anushka R Shome, Julie C Dunning Hotopp, Iqbal Hamza, David Serre

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Article in PLoS pathogens, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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8 authors.

Franck DumetzInstitute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, United States of America.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8790-9986
Kaylee J WatsonInstitute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, United States of America.
Melissa PerryCenter for Blood Oxygen Transport and Hemostasis, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, United States of America.
Robin E BromleyInstitute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, United States of America.
Anushka R ShomeInstitute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, United States of America.
Julie C Dunning HotoppInstitute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, United States of America.
Iqbal HamzaCenter for Blood Oxygen Transport and Hemostasis, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, United States of America.
David SerreInstitute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, United States of America.

Funding

Technology CoreU19AI110820 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE · PI FRASER, CLAIRE M., RASKO, DAVID A · 2014 to 2023
$36.5M
NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI110820
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Leishmania spp. regulate gene expression posttranscriptionally, yet untranslated regions (UTRs) that can affect mRNA stability and translation remain poorly delineated. We generated a de novo assembled genome for Leishmania donovani strain 1S2D (Ld1S) using PacBio HiFi and characterized the transcriptomes of promastigotes and axenic amastigotes with Oxford Nanopore direct RNA sequencing. The genome assembly consists of 65 scaffolds totaling ~33.3 Mb. Structural comparisons to LdBPK282A1 revealed numerous rearrangements, including genes reshuffled among polycistronic transcription units and validated by RNA sequencing of polycistronic reads. Promastigote and amastigote RNA sequencing produced 469,010 and 46,729 monocistronic reads containing a spliced-leader and a polyA tail sequences, defining 8,479 transcripts and supporting 7,415 of the 7,969 annotated protein-coding genes, as well as 604 putative long non-coding RNAs. We annotated UTRs for 4,921 genes and observed that putative RNA G-quadruplexes were markedly enriched in these regions. We also noted that 31.9% and 11.5% of genes were expressed into multiple isoforms in promastigotes and amastigotes, respectively. Collectively, these data provide a genome-wide annotation of L. donovani genes and their UTRs and reveal widespread and stage-specific UTR length polymorphisms and, overall, points to an important role of 3' UTRs in post-transcriptional regulation in L. donovani.

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Leishmania donovaniUntranslated RegionsAnimalsGenome, ProtozoanRNA, ProtozoanTranscriptomeRNA, ProtozoanUntranslated Regions

Identifiers

PMID41790860
PMCPMC12978572

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