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ArticleBMC genomics2014

Guanine quadruplexes are formed by specific regions of human transposable elements.

Matej Lexa, Pavlina Steflova, Tomas Martinek, Michaela Vorlickova, Boris Vyskot, Eduard Kejnovsky

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Article in BMC genomics, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

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6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Matej Lexa
Pavlina Steflova
Tomas Martinek
Michaela Vorlickova
Boris Vyskot
Eduard KejnovskyDepartment of Plant Developmental Genetics, Institute of Biophysics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Královopolská 135, 61265 Brno, Czech Republic. kejnovsk@ibp.cz.
Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Biophysics · CZBrno University of Technology · CZMasaryk University · CZ

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundTransposable elements form a significant proportion of eukaryotic genomes. Recently, Lexa et al. (Nucleic Acids Res 42:968-978, 2014) reported that plant long terminal repeat (LTR) retrotransposons often contain potential quadruplex sequences (PQSs) in their LTRs and experimentally confirmed their ability to adopt four-stranded DNA conformations.

resultsHere, we searched for PQSs in human retrotransposons and found that PQSs are specifically localized in the 3'-UTR of LINE-1 elements, in LTRs of HERV elements and are strongly accumulated in specific regions of SVA elements. Circular dichroism spectroscopy confirmed that most PQSs had adopted monomolecular or bimolecular guanine quadruplex structures. Evolutionarily young SVA elements contained more PQSs than older elements and their propensity to form quadruplex DNA was higher. Full-length L1 elements contained more PQSs than truncated elements; the highest proportion of PQSs was found inside transpositionally active L1 elements (PA2 and HS families).

conclusionsConservation of quadruplexes at specific positions of transposable elements implies their importance in their life cycle. The increasing quadruplex presence in evolutionarily young LINE-1 and SVA families makes these elements important contributors toward present genome-wide quadruplex distribution.

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DNA Transposable ElementsG-QuadruplexesAlu ElementsChromosome MappingEndogenous RetrovirusesGenomicsHumansLong Interspersed Nucleotide ElementsRepetitive Sequences, Nucleic AcidDNA Transposable Elements

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