1. High-Throughput Profiling of Extrachromosomal Linear DNAs of Long Terminal Repeat Retrotransposons by ALE-seq.
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Wang L, Kim EY, and Cho J
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- Evolution, Molecular, Genome, Plant, High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing, Reverse Transcription, Plants genetics, Retroelements, Sequence Analysis, DNA methods, Terminal Repeat Sequences
- Abstract
Extrachromosomal linear DNA (eclDNA) is the reverse-transcribed cDNA intermediate derived from long terminal repeat (LTR) transposable elements (TEs) (Cho et al., Nat Plants 5:26-33, 2018). Given that the eclDNAs are the final intermediate of LTR-TE life cycle prior to integration to the host chromosomes, their presence is considered a strong indication of active LTR retrotransposons (Cho et al., Nat Plants 5:26-33, 2018; Lanciano et al., PLoS Genet 13:e1006630, 2017). Here, we describe a method of amplification of LTR extrachromosomal DNA followed by sequencing (ALE-seq) which determines the 5' LTR sequences of eclDNAs. Briefly, ALE-seq consists of two steps of amplification, in vitro transcription of adaptor-ligated eclDNAs and subsequent reverse transcription to cDNAs primed at the conserved primer binding site (PBS) (Cho et al., Nat Plants 5:26-33, 2018). ALE-seq allows the high-throughput identification of novel LTR-TEs which are active in plants that could be potentially useful for crop biotechnology.
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- 2021
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