Publication Date:
2009-09-12
Description:
Miniature inverted repeat transposable elements (MITEs) are widespread in eukaryotic genomes, where they can attain high copy numbers despite a lack of coding capacity. However, little is known about how they originate and amplify. We performed a genome-wide screen of functional interactions between Stowaway MITEs and potential transposases in the rice genome and identified a transpositionally active MITE that possesses key properties that enhance transposition. Although not directly related to its autonomous element, the MITE has less affinity for the transposase than does the autonomous element but lacks a motif repressing transposition in the autonomous element. The MITE contains internal sequences that enhance transposition. These findings suggest that MITEs achieve high transposition activity by scavenging transposases encoded by distantly related and self-restrained autonomous elements.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Yang, Guojun -- Nagel, Dawn Holligan -- Feschotte, Cedric -- Hancock, C Nathan -- Wessler, Susan R -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2009 Sep 11;325(5946):1391-4. doi: 10.1126/science.1175688.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19745152" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Base Sequence
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*DNA Transposable Elements
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*Genome, Plant
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Inverted Repeat Sequences
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Mutagenesis, Site-Directed
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Oryza/*genetics/metabolism
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Transposases/genetics/*metabolism
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
