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ArticleHuman molecular genetics2011

Retrotransposition of marked SVA elements by human L1s in cultured cells.

Dustin C Hancks, John L Goodier, Prabhat K Mandal, Ling E Cheung, Haig H Kazazian

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Article in Human molecular genetics, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 133 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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133citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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3 · Its place in the literature

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133 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 193 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Dustin C HancksCell and Molecular Biology Graduate Group, The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
John L Goodier
Prabhat K Mandal
Ling E Cheung
Haig H Kazazian
Johns Hopkins University · US

Funding

PREDOCTORAL TRAINING PROGRAM IN GENETICST32GM008216 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI EPSTEIN, DOUGLAS J · 1987 to 2023
$8.3M
NIGMS NIH HHS T32-GM008216-23
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Human retrotransposons generate structural variation and genomic diversity through ongoing retrotransposition and non-allelic homologous recombination. Cell culture retrotransposition assays have provided great insight into the genomic impact of retrotransposons, in particular, LINE-1(L1) and Alu elements; however, no such assay exists for the youngest active human retrotransposon, SINE-VNTR-Alu (SVA). Here we report the development of an SVA cell culture retrotransposition assay. We marked several SVAs with either neomycin or EGFP retrotransposition indicator cassettes. Engineered SVAs retrotranspose using L1 proteins supplemented in trans in multiple cell lines, including U2OS osteosarcoma cells where SVA retrotransposition is equal to that of an engineered L1. Engineered SVAs retrotranspose at 1-54 times the frequency of a marked pseudogene in HeLa HA cells. Furthermore, our data suggest a variable requirement for L1 ORF1p for SVA retrotransposition. Recovered engineered SVA insertions display all the hallmarks of LINE-1 retrotransposition and some contain 5' and 3' transductions, which are common for genomic SVAs. Of particular interest is the fact that four out of five insertions recovered from one SVA are full-length, with the 5' end of these insertions beginning within 5 nt of the CMV promoter transcriptional start site. This assay demonstrates that SVA elements are indeed mobilized in trans by L1. Previously intractable questions regarding SVA biology can now be addressed.

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Alu ElementsBlotting, NorthernCell LineCell Line, TumorHeLa CellsHumansMinisatellite RepeatsPolymerase Chain ReactionRetroelementsShort Interspersed Nucleotide ElementsTranscription Initiation SiteRetroelements

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PMID21636526
PMCPMC3153304
OpenAlexW2152036273

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