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Ghanim GE, Rio DC, Teixeira FK. Mechanism and regulation of P element transposition. Open Biol 2020; 10:200244. [PMID: 33352068 PMCID: PMC7776569 DOI: 10.1098/rsob.200244] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2020] [Accepted: 11/26/2020] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
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P elements were first discovered in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster as the causative agents of a syndrome of aberrant genetic traits called hybrid dysgenesis. This occurs when P element-carrying males mate with females that lack P elements and results in progeny displaying sterility, mutations and chromosomal rearrangements. Since then numerous genetic, developmental, biochemical and structural studies have culminated in a deep understanding of P element transposition: from the cellular regulation and repression of transposition to the mechanistic details of the transposase nucleoprotein complex. Recent studies have revealed how piwi-interacting small RNA pathways can act to control splicing of the P element pre-mRNA to modulate transposase production in the germline. A recent cryo-electron microscopy structure of the P element transpososome reveals an unusual DNA architecture at the transposon termini and shows that the bound GTP cofactor functions to position the transposon ends within the transposase active site. Genome sequencing efforts have shown that there are P element transposase-homologous genes (called THAP9) in other animal genomes, including humans. This review highlights recent and previous studies, which together have led to new insights, and surveys our current understanding of the biology, biochemistry, mechanism and regulation of P element transposition.
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- George E. Ghanim
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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Seifert BA, Dejosez M, Zwaka TP. Ronin influences the DNA damage response in pluripotent stem cells. Stem Cell Res 2017; 23:98-104. [PMID: 28715716 DOI: 10.1016/j.scr.2017.06.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2017] [Revised: 06/20/2017] [Accepted: 06/29/2017] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Early mammalian embryonic cells must maintain a particularly robust DNA repair system, as mutations at this developmental point have detrimental consequences for the organism. How the repair system can be tuned to fulfill such elevated requirements is largely unknown, but it may involve transcriptional regulation. Ronin (Thap11) is a transcriptional regulator responsible for vital programs in pluripotent cells. Here, we report that this protein also modulates the DNA damage response of such cells. We show that conditional Ronin knockout sensitizes embryonic stem cells (ESCs) to UV-C-induced DNA damage in association with Atr pathway activation and G2/M arrest. Ronin binds to and regulates the genes encoding several DNA repair factors, including Gtf2h4 and Rad18, providing a potential mechanism for this phenotype. Our results suggest that the unique DNA repair requirements of the early embryo are not met by a static system, but rather via highly regulated processes.
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- Bryce A Seifert
- Graduate Program in Molecular and Human Genetics at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
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- Huffington Center for Cell-Based Research in Parkinson's Disease, Black Family Stem Cell Institute, Department of Cell, Developmental & Regenerative Biology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, New York, NY 10029, USA.
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- Huffington Center for Cell-Based Research in Parkinson's Disease, Black Family Stem Cell Institute, Department of Cell, Developmental & Regenerative Biology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, New York, NY 10029, USA.
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The involvement of host factors is critical to our understanding of underlying mechanisms of transposition and the applications of transposon-based technologies. Modified piggyBac (PB) is one of the most potent transposon systems in mammals. However, varying transposition efficiencies of PB among different cell lines have restricted its application. We discovered that the DNA-PK complex facilitates PB transposition by binding to PB transposase (PBase) and promoting paired-end complex formation. Mass spectrometry analysis and coimmunoprecipitation revealed physical interaction between PBase and the DNA-PK components Ku70, Ku80, and DNA-PKcs Overexpression or knockdown of DNA-PK components enhances or suppresses PB transposition in tissue culture cells, respectively. Furthermore, germ-line transposition efficiency of PB is significantly reduced in Ku80 heterozygous mutant mice, confirming the role of DNA-PK in facilitating PB transposition in vivo. Fused dimer PBase can efficiently promote transposition. FRET experiments with tagged dimer PBase molecules indicated that DNA-PK promotes the paired-end complex formation of the PB transposon. These data provide a mechanistic explanation for the role of DNA-PK in facilitating PB transposition and suggest a transposition-promoting manipulation by enhancing the interaction of the PB ends. Consistent with this, deletions shortening the distance between the two PB ends, such as PB vectors with closer ends (PB-CE vectors), have a profound effect on transposition efficiency. Taken together, our study indicates that in addition to regulating DNA repair fidelity during transposition, DNA-PK also affects transposition efficiency by promoting paired-end complex formation. The approach of CE vectors provides a simple practical solution for designing efficient transposon vectors.
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Yushkova E, Zainullin V. Interaction between gene repair and mobile elements-induced activity systems after low-dose irradiation. Int J Radiat Biol 2016; 92:485-92. [DOI: 10.1080/09553002.2016.1206221] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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- Elena Yushkova
- Institute of Biology of Komi Science Centre Ural Division of the Russian Academy of Science, Syktyvkar, Russia
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- Institute of Biology of Komi Science Centre Ural Division of the Russian Academy of Science, Syktyvkar, Russia
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Skipper KA, Andersen PR, Sharma N, Mikkelsen JG. DNA transposon-based gene vehicles - scenes from an evolutionary drive. J Biomed Sci 2013; 20:92. [PMID: 24320156 PMCID: PMC3878927 DOI: 10.1186/1423-0127-20-92] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2013] [Accepted: 11/27/2013] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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DNA transposons are primitive genetic elements which have colonized living organisms from plants to bacteria and mammals. Through evolution such parasitic elements have shaped their host genomes by replicating and relocating between chromosomal loci in processes catalyzed by the transposase proteins encoded by the elements themselves. DNA transposable elements are constantly adapting to life in the genome, and self-suppressive regulation as well as defensive host mechanisms may assist in buffering ‘cut-and-paste’ DNA mobilization until accumulating mutations will eventually restrict events of transposition. With the reconstructed Sleeping Beauty DNA transposon as a powerful engine, a growing list of transposable elements with activity in human cells have moved into biomedical experimentation and preclinical therapy as versatile vehicles for delivery and genomic insertion of transgenes. In this review, we aim to link the mechanisms that drive transposon evolution with the realities and potential challenges we are facing when adapting DNA transposons for gene transfer. We argue that DNA transposon-derived vectors may carry inherent, and potentially limiting, traits of their mother elements. By understanding in detail the evolutionary journey of transposons, from host colonization to element multiplication and inactivation, we may better exploit the potential of distinct transposable elements. Hence, parallel efforts to investigate and develop distinct, but potent, transposon-based vector systems will benefit the broad applications of gene transfer. Insight and clever optimization have shaped new DNA transposon vectors, which recently debuted in the first DNA transposon-based clinical trial. Learning from an evolutionary drive may help us create gene vehicles that are safer, more efficient, and less prone for suppression and inactivation.
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- Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Wilh, Meyers Allé 4, DK-8000, Aarhus C, Denmark.
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Interactions of Transposons with the Cellular DNA Repair Machinery. TRANSPOSONS AND THE DYNAMIC GENOME 2009. [DOI: 10.1007/7050_2008_043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
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Liang X, Sved JA. Repair of P element ends following hybrid element excision leads to recombination in Drosophila melanogaster. Heredity (Edinb) 2008; 102:127-32. [PMID: 18781165 DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2008.87] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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P elements are thought to replicate themselves starting with the association of the left and right ends, followed by a cut-copy-paste process. An abnormal form of this process has been shown to occur when the associated left and right ends come from sister elements rather than from the same element, leading to formation of a 'hybrid element.' These ends can insert nearby in the genome to produce recombination, with associated structural changes. We have previously increased the frequency of such 'hybrid element insertion' by combining end-deleted elements in trans in a genotype with a left-end on one chromosome and a right-end on the homologous chromosome. Although many recombinants produced by this genotype have structural changes expected with insertion, nearly 50% of the predicted insertional recombinants contain no structural change. We present evidence using RFLP markers closely linked to the end-deleted elements that in these cases the P element ends dissociate before insertion, and are subsequently ligated together following a process analogous to synthesis-dependent strand annealing. The results suggest that broken ends containing P elements are resolved by the same repair process as ends not containing P elements, and that such repair from hybrid element events may occur in the majority of cases.
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- X Liang
- School of Biological Sciences A12, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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PCR detection of excision suggests mobility of the medaka fish Tol1 transposable element in the frog Xenopus laevis. Genet Res (Camb) 2008; 89:201-6. [PMID: 18208625 DOI: 10.1017/s0016672307008889] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Tol1 is a DNA-based transposable element identified in the medaka fish Oryzias latipes and a member of the hAT (hobo/Activator/Tam3) transposable element family. Its mobility has already been demonstrated in the human and mouse, in addition to its original host species. This element is thus expected to be useful in a wide range of vertebrates as a genomic manipulation tool. Herein, we show that the Tol1 element can undergo excision in the African clawed frog Xenopus laevis, a major model organism for vertebrate genetics and developmental biology. An indicator plasmid carrying a Tol1 element was injected into 2- or 4-cell-stage embryos together with either a helper plasmid coding for the full-length Tol1 transposase or a modified helper plasmid yielding a truncated protein, and recovered from tailbud-stage embryos. Deletion of the Tol1 region of the indicator plasmid was observed in the experiment with the full-length transposase, and not in the other case. The deletion was associated with various footprint sequences at breakpoints, as frequently observed with many DNA-based transposable elements. These results indicate that the Tol1 element was excised from the indicator plasmid by catalysis of the transposase, and suggest that the Tol1 element is mobile in this frog species.
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Johnson-Schlitz DM, Flores C, Engels WR. Multiple-pathway analysis of double-strand break repair mutations in Drosophila. PLoS Genet 2007; 3:e50. [PMID: 17432935 PMCID: PMC1851981 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0030050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2007] [Accepted: 02/20/2007] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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The analysis of double-strand break (DSB) repair is complicated by the existence of several pathways utilizing a large number of genes. Moreover, many of these genes have been shown to have multiple roles in DSB repair. To address this complexity we used a repair reporter construct designed to measure multiple repair outcomes simultaneously. This approach provides estimates of the relative usage of several DSB repair pathways in the premeiotic male germline of Drosophila. We applied this system to mutations at each of 11 repair loci plus various double mutants and altered dosage genotypes. Most of the mutants were found to suppress one of the pathways with a compensating increase in one or more of the others. Perhaps surprisingly, none of the single mutants suppressed more than one pathway, but they varied widely in how the suppression was compensated. We found several cases in which two or more loci were similar in which pathway was suppressed while differing in how this suppression was compensated. Taken as a whole, the data suggest that the choice of which repair pathway is used for a given DSB occurs by a two-stage "decision circuit" in which the DSB is first placed into one of two pools from which a specific pathway is then selected.
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- Dena M Johnson-Schlitz
- Department of Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
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- Department of Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
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- Department of Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
- * To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail:
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Lennon PA, Cooper ML, Curtis MA, Lim C, Ou Z, Patel A, Cheung SW, Bacino CA. Array-based comparative genomic hybridization facilitates identification of breakpoints of a novel der(1)t(1;18)(p36.3;q23)dn in a child presenting with mental retardation. Am J Med Genet A 2006; 140:1156-63. [PMID: 16688748 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.31243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Monosomy of distal 1p36 represents the most common terminal deletion in humans and results in one of the most frequently diagnosed mental retardation syndromes. This deletion is considered a contiguous gene deletion syndrome, and has been shown to vary in deletion sizes that contribute to the spectrum of phenotypic anomalies seen in patients with monosomy 1p36. We report on an 8-year-old female with characteristics of the monosomy 1p36 syndrome who demonstrated a novel der(1)t(1;18)(p36.3;q23). Initial G-banded karyotype analysis revealed a deleted chromosome 1, with a breakpoint within 1p36.3. Subsequent FISH and array-based comparative genomic hybridization not only confirmed and partially characterized the deletion of chromosome 1p36.3, but also uncovered distal trisomy for 18q23. In this patient, the duplicated 18q23 is translocated onto the deleted 1p36.3 region, suggesting telomere capture. Molecular characterization of this novel der(1)t(1;18)(p36.3;q23), guided by our clinical array-comparative genomic hybridization, demonstrated a 3.2 Mb terminal deletion of chromosome 1p36.3 and a 200 kb duplication of 18q23 onto the deleted 1p36.3, presumably stabilizing the deleted chromosome 1. DNA sequence analysis around the breakpoints demonstrated no homology, and therefore this telomere capture of distal 18q is apparently the result of a non-homologous recombination. Partial trisomy for 18q23 has not been previously reported. The importance of mapping the breakpoints of all balanced and unbalanced translocations found in the clinical laboratory, when phenotypic abnormalities are found, is discussed.
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- P A Lennon
- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
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Preston CR, Flores CC, Engels WR. Differential usage of alternative pathways of double-strand break repair in Drosophila. Genetics 2005; 172:1055-68. [PMID: 16299390 PMCID: PMC1456205 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.105.050138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Double-strand DNA breaks can be repaired by any of several alternative mechanisms that differ greatly in the nature of the final repaired products. We used a reporter construct, designated "Repair reporter 3" (Rr3), to measure the relative usage of these pathways in Drosophila germ cells. The method works by creating a double-strand break at a specific location such that expression of the red fluorescent protein, DsRed, in the next generation can be used to infer the frequency at which each pathway was used. A key feature of this approach is that most data come from phenotypic scoring, thus allowing large sample sizes and considerable precision in measurements. Specifically, we measured the proportion of breaks repaired by (1) conversion repair, (2) nonhomologous end joining (NHEJ), or (3) single-strand annealing (SSA). For conversion repair, the frequency of mitotic crossing over in the germ line indicates the relative prevalence of repair by double Holliday junction (DHJ) formation vs. the synthesis-dependent strand annealing (SDSA) pathway. We used this method to show that breaks occurring early in germ-line development were much more frequently repaired via single-strand annealing and much less likely to be repaired by end joining compared with identical breaks occurring later in development. Conversion repair was relatively rare when breaks were made either very early or very late in development, but was much more frequent in between. Significantly, the changes in relative usage occurred in a compensatory fashion, such that an increase in one pathway was accompanied by decreases in others. This negative correlation is interpreted to mean that the pathways for double-strand break repair compete with each other to handle a given breakage event.
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- Christine R Preston
- Department of Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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