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ArticlePloS one2011

Nuclear importation of Mariner transposases among eukaryotes: motif requirements and homo-protein interactions.

Marie-Véronique Demattei, Sabah Hedhili, Ludivine Sinzelle, Christophe Bressac, Sophie Casteret, Nathalie Moiré, Jeanne Cambefort, Xavier Thomas, Nicolas Pollet, Pascal Gantet and 1 more

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Article in PloS one, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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11 authors at 6 institutions in 1 country.

Marie-Véronique DematteiGICC, UMR CNRS 6239, UFR des Sciences et Techniques, Tours, France.
Sabah Hedhili
Ludivine Sinzelle
Christophe Bressac
Sophie Casteret
Nathalie Moiré
Jeanne Cambefort
Xavier Thomas
Nicolas Pollet
Pascal Gantet
Yves Bigot
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FRUniversité de Tours · FRCentre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement · FRDépartement Biologie et Amélioration des Plantes · FRGenopole (France) · FRUniversité d'Évry Val-d'Essonne · FR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mariner-like elements (MLEs) are widespread transposable elements in animal genomes. They have been divided into at least five sub-families with differing host ranges. We investigated whether the ability of transposases encoded by Mos1, Himar1 and Mcmar1 to be actively imported into nuclei varies between host belonging to different eukaryotic taxa. Our findings demonstrate that nuclear importation could restrict the host range of some MLEs in certain eukaryotic lineages, depending on their expression level. We then focused on the nuclear localization signal (NLS) in these proteins, and showed that the first 175 N-terminal residues in the three transposases were required for nuclear importation. We found that two components are involved in the nuclear importation of the Mos1 transposase: an SV40 NLS-like motif (position: aa 168 to 174), and a dimerization sub-domain located within the first 80 residues. Sequence analyses revealed that the dimerization moiety is conserved among MLE transposases, but the Himar1 and Mcmar1 transposases do not contain any conserved NLS motif. This suggests that other NLS-like motifs must intervene in these proteins. Finally, we showed that the over-expression of the Mos1 transposase prevents its nuclear importation in HeLa cells, due to the assembly of transposase aggregates in the cytoplasm.

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Protein MultimerizationActive Transport, Cell NucleusAmino Acid MotifsAmino Acid SequenceAnimalsCell NucleusComputational BiologyDNA-Binding ProteinsDrosophilaEukaryotic CellsFluorescenceGreen Fluorescent ProteinsHeLa CellsHumansIsoelectric PointMolecular Sequence DataDNA-Binding ProteinsGreen Fluorescent Proteinsmariner transposasesNuclear Localization SignalsRecombinant Fusion ProteinsTransposases

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PMID21876763
PMCPMC3158080
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