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ArticleGenome research2012

Genome-wide analysis of mutations in mutant lineages selected following fast-neutron irradiation mutagenesis of Arabidopsis thaliana.

Eric J Belfield, Xiangchao Gan, Aziz Mithani, Carly Brown, Caifu Jiang, Keara Franklin, Elizabeth Alvey, Anjar Wibowo, Marko Jung, Kit Bailey and 4 more

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Article in Genome research, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 71 papers.

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14 authors at 7 institutions in 4 countries.

Eric J BelfieldDepartment of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom;
Xiangchao Gan
Aziz Mithani
Carly Brown
Caifu Jiang
Keara Franklin
Elizabeth Alvey
Anjar Wibowo
Marko Jung
Kit Bailey
Sharan Kalwani
Jiannis Ragoussis
Richard Mott
Nicholas P Harberd
University of Oxford · GBCentre for Human Genetics · GBKing Abdullah University of Science and Technology · SALahore University of Management Sciences · PKUniversity of Bristol · GBUniversity of Cambridge · GBUniversity of Warwick · GB

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/F020759/1Wellcome Trust 090532Wellcome Trust 090532/Z/09/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ionizing radiation has long been known to induce heritable mutagenic change in DNA sequence. However, the genome-wide effect of radiation is not well understood. Here we report the molecular properties and frequency of mutations in phenotypically selected mutant lines isolated following exposure of the genetic model flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana to fast neutrons (FNs). Previous studies suggested that FNs predominantly induce deletions longer than a kilobase in A. thaliana. However, we found a higher frequency of single base substitution than deletion mutations. While the overall frequency and molecular spectrum of fast-neutron (FN)-induced single base substitutions differed substantially from those of "background" mutations arising spontaneously in laboratory-grown plants, G:C>A:T transitions were favored in both. We found that FN-induced G:C>A:T transitions were concentrated at pyrimidine dinucleotide sites, suggesting that FNs promote the formation of mutational covalent linkages between adjacent pyrimidine residues. In addition, we found that FNs induced more single base than large deletions, and that these single base deletions were possibly caused by replication slippage. Our observations provide an initial picture of the genome-wide molecular profile of mutations induced in A. thaliana by FN irradiation and are particularly informative of the nature and extent of genome-wide mutation in lines selected on the basis of mutant phenotypes from FN-mutagenized A. thaliana populations.

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Genome, PlantPoint MutationArabidopsisChromosome AberrationsChromosomes, PlantDNA Mutational AnalysisDNA, PlantDNA ReplicationFast NeutronsINDEL MutationPhenotypePyrimidine NucleotidesSequence DeletionDNA, PlantPyrimidine Nucleotides

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PMID22499668
PMCPMC3396371
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