The Complete Chloroplast Genome Sequence of Clerodendranthus Spicatus, A Medicinal Plant For Preventing And Treating Kidney Diseases From Lamiaceae Family

Abstract Clerodendranthus spicatus (Thunb.) C.Y.Wu is one of the most important medicine for the treatment of nephrology which distributes in south-east of China. In this study, we obtained the complete chloroplast genome of C. spicatus with a length of 152155bp, including a large single copy (LSC) region of 83098bp, small single copy (SSC) region of 17665bp and a pair of inverted repeat (IR) regions of 25696bp with the GC content of 37.86%. The genome contains 36 tRNA, 8 rRNA and 87 protein-coding genes. Most of them have one intron except the ycf3, rps12 and clpP genes. The length of rRNAs varies from 131bp to 2811bp and the GC contents are between 45.28% and 56.54%. The frequency of Isoleucine is fruitful accounting for 4.17%. The codons of AUG, UUA and AGA codon had presence of higher codon usage bias. For the repetitive sequence analysis, Thirty-six tandem repeats were identified with certain conditions. Forty interspersed repeats were identified, including 22 palindromic repeats and 18 direct repeats. The diverse positions of the specific rps19, ycf1, rpl2, trnH, psbA genes within the IR boundary analysis. The genetic distance analysis of the intergenic spacer regions for 5 relative species showed the areas of ndhG-ndhI, accD-psaI, rps15-ycf1, rpl20-clpP, ccsA-ndhD had high K2p value to distinguish the species through developing the molecular markers. From phylogenetic tree, C. spicatu was closely related to the genus of two Salvia speices, Tectona grandis, Cistanche deserticola and Glechoma longituba belonged to the Lamiales.