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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Cytoplasmic organelle DNA preferentially inserts into open chromatin |
Author: | Wang, D. Timmis, J. |
Citation: | Genome Biology and Evolution, 2013; 5(6):1060-1064 |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Issue Date: | 2013 |
ISSN: | 1759-6653 1759-6653 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Dong Wang and Jeremy N. Timmis |
Abstract: | DNA transfer from chloroplasts and mitochondria to the nucleus is ongoing in eukaryotes but the mechanisms involved are poorly understood. Mitochondrial DNA was observed to integrate into the nuclear genome through DNA double-strand break repair in Nicotiana tabacum. Here, 14 nuclear insertions of chloroplast DNA (nupts) that are unique to Oryza sativa subsp. indica were identified. Comparisons with the preinsertion nuclear loci identified in the related subspecies, O. sativa subsp. japonica, which lacked these nupts, indicated that chloroplast DNA had integrated by nonhomologous end joining. Analyzing public DNase-seq data revealed that nupts were significantly more frequent in open chromatin regions of the nucleus. This preference was tested further in the chimpanzee genome by comparing nuclear loci containing integrants of mitochondrial DNA (numts) with their corresponding numt-lacking preinsertion sites in the human genome. Mitochondrial DNAs also tended to insert more frequently into regions of open chromatin revealed by human DNase-seq and Formaldehyde-Assisted Isolation of Regulatory Elements-seq databases |
Keywords: | Endosymbiotic gene transfer chloroplast mitochondrion double-strand break repair open chromatin |
Rights: | © The Author(s) 2013. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution |
DOI: | 10.1093/gbe/evt070 |
Grant ID: | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP0986973 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP0986973 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evt070 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest Molecular and Biomedical Science publications |
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