ArticleMolecular and cellular biology1999
Regulated formation of extrachromosomal circular DNA molecules during development in Xenopus laevis.
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- The adaptive potential of circular DNA accumulation in ageing cells.Current genetics · 2020Review
- Dynamic Evolution of Euchromatic Satellites on the X Chromosome in Drosophila melanogaster and the simulans Clade.Molecular biology and evolution · 2020Article
- Transcription-induced formation of extrachromosomal DNA during yeast ageing.PLoS biology · 2019Article
- Programmed genome rearrangements in Oxytricha produce transcriptionally active extrachromosomal circular DNA.Nucleic acids research · 2019Article
- Extrachromosomal circular DNAs: an extra piece of evidence to depict tumor heterogeneity.Future science OA · 2019Review
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Abstract
Extrachromosomal circular DNA molecules of chromosomal origin have been detected in many organisms and are thought to reflect genomic plasticity in eukaryotic cells. Here we report a developmentally regulated formation of extrachromosomal circular DNA that occurs de novo in preblastula Xenopus embryos. This specific DNA population is not detected in the male or female germ cells and is dramatically reduced in later developmental stages and in adult tissues. The activity responsible for the de novo production of extrachromosomal circles is maternally inherited, is stored in the unfertilized egg, and requires genomic DNA as a template. The formation of circular molecules does not require genomic DNA replication but both processes can occur simultaneously in the early development. The production of extrachromosomal circular DNA does not proceed at random since multimers of the tandemly repeated sequence satellite 1 were over-represented in the circle population, while other sequences (such as ribosomal DNA and JCC31 repeated sequence) were not detected. This phenomenon reveals an unexpected plasticity of the embryonic genome which is restricted to the early developmental stage.
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