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ReviewInternational journal of molecular sciences2025

Host Factors Promoting the LTR Retrotransposon Life Cycle in Plant Cells: Current Knowledge and Future Directions.

Pavel Merkulov, Alexander Polkhovskiy, Elizaveta Kamarauli, Kirill Tiurin, Alexander Soloviev, Ilya Kirov

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Review in International journal of molecular sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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6 authors.

Pavel MerkulovMoscow Center for Advanced Studies, Kulakova Str. 20, 123592 Moscow, Russia.ORCID 0000-0001-6011-1376
Alexander PolkhovskiyMoscow Center for Advanced Studies, Kulakova Str. 20, 123592 Moscow, Russia.ORCID 0000-0003-0746-1902
Elizaveta KamarauliMoscow Center for Advanced Studies, Kulakova Str. 20, 123592 Moscow, Russia.ORCID 0009-0009-2838-0782
Kirill TiurinMoscow Center for Advanced Studies, Kulakova Str. 20, 123592 Moscow, Russia.ORCID 0009-0001-4046-0859
Alexander SolovievAll-Russia Research Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology, Timiryazevskaya Str. 42, 127550 Moscow, Russia.
Ilya KirovMoscow Center for Advanced Studies, Kulakova Str. 20, 123592 Moscow, Russia.ORCID 0000-0003-3885-3837

Funding

Russian Science Foundation 22-64-00076
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Long Terminal Repeat (LTR) retrotransposons (LTR-RTEs) comprise up to 90% of some plant genomes and drive genome diversification through their amplification. Novel insertions arise during the final stages of the LTR-RTE life cycle, which depends on both LTR-RTE-encoded proteins and host cellular factors. The LTR-RTE elements require host transcriptional machinery for RNA production, followed by nuclear processing/export, translation, virus-like particle assembly, reverse transcription, and genomic integration. This review addresses the following question: What host proteins promote LTR-RTE transposition in plants? Our analysis of recent literature on host factors and cellular compartments implicated in the retrotransposition cycle reveals the extensive integration of LTR-RTEs into host processes. Nonetheless, the precise mechanisms remain poorly resolved, especially in plants with their rich repertoire of LTR-RTEs. We propose integrating plant mobilomics with transposition reporters, genome editing, synthetic biology, and interactomics to elucidate plant-specific mechanisms.

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Plant CellsPlantsRetroelementsTerminal Repeat SequencesGenome, PlantPlant ProteinsPlant ProteinsRetroelementsgenome evolutionhost factorsinteractomicsLTR retrotransposonsmobilomemultiomicsplant genomesreporter systemsretrotranspositionretrotransposon life cycle

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