ArticleThe EMBO journal2013
Mobilization of a plant transposon by expression of the transposon-encoded anti-silencing factor.
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- The role of mobile DNA elements in the dynamics of plant genome plasticity.Journal of experimental botany · 2025Review
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- Forces driving transposable element load variation during Arabidopsis range expansion.The Plant cell · 2024Article
- Functional identification of DNA demethylase geneFrontiers in plant science · 2024Article
- Evolutionary dynamics between transposable elements and their host genomes: mechanisms of suppression and escape.Current opinion in genetics & development · 2023Review
- Arms race between anti-silencing and RdDM in noncoding regions of transposable elements.EMBO reports · 2023Article
- Transposable element finder (TEF): finding active transposable elements from next generation sequencing data.BMC bioinformatics · 2022Article
- Transcription-coupled and epigenome-encoded mechanisms direct H3K4 methylation.Nature communications · 2022Article
- Fast co-evolution of anti-silencing systems shapes the invasiveness of Mu-like DNA transposons in eudicots.The EMBO journal · 2022Article
- The fifth Japanese meeting on biological function and evolution through interactions between hosts and transposable elements.Mobile DNA · 2022Article
- Transposons Hidden inPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
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- A population-level invasion by transposable elements triggers genome expansion in a fungal pathogen.eLife · 2021Article
- The epiallelic potential of transposable elements and its evolutionary significance in plants.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Review
- Which factors contribute most to genome size variation within angiosperms?Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- Adaptive evolution of an essential telomere protein restricts telomeric retrotransposons.eLife · 2020Article
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Abstract
Transposable elements (TEs) have a major impact on genome evolution, but they are potentially deleterious, and most of them are silenced by epigenetic mechanisms, such as DNA methylation. Here, we report the characterization of a TE encoding an activity to counteract epigenetic silencing by the host. In Arabidopsis thaliana, we identified a mobile copy of the Mutator-like element (MULE) with degenerated terminal inverted repeats (TIRs). This TE, named Hiun (Hi), is silent in wild-type plants, but it transposes when DNA methylation is abolished. When a Hi transgene was introduced into the wild-type background, it induced excision of the endogenous Hi copy, suggesting that Hi is the autonomously mobile copy. In addition, the transgene induced loss of DNA methylation and transcriptional activation of the endogenous Hi. Most importantly, the trans-activation of Hi depends on a Hi-encoded protein different from the conserved transposase. Proteins related to this anti-silencing factor, which we named VANC, are widespread in the non-TIR MULEs and may have contributed to the recent success of these TEs in natural Arabidopsis populations.
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