The germ line limited M element of Tetrahymena is targeted for elimination from the somatic genome by a homology-dependent mechanism.

Abstract:

:A RNA interference (RNAi) like mechanism is involved in elimination of thousands of DNA segments from the developing somatic macronucleus of Tetrahymena, yet how specific internal eliminated sequences (IESs) are recognized remains to be fully elucidated. To define requirements for DNA rearrangement, we performed mutagenesis of the M element, a well-studied IES. While sequences within the macronucleus-retained DNA are known to determine the excision boundaries, we show that sequences internal to these boundaries are required to promote this IES's rearrangement. However, this element does not contain any specific sequence required in cis as removal of its entire left or right side was insufficient to abolish all rearrangement. Instead, rearrangement efficiency correlated with the overall size of the M element sequence within a given construct, with a lower limit of nearly 300 bp. Also, the observed minimal region necessary to epigenetically block excision supports this size limit. Truncated M element constructs that exhibited impaired rearrangement still showed full transcriptional activity, which suggests that their defect was due to inefficient recognition. This study indicates that IESs are targeted for elimination upon their recognition by homologous small RNAs and further supports the idea that DNA elimination is a RNAi-related mechanism involved in genome surveillance.

journal_name

Nucleic Acids Res

journal_title

Nucleic acids research

authors

Kowalczyk CA,Anderson AM,Arce-Larreta M,Chalker DL

doi

10.1093/nar/gkl699

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2006-01-01 00:00:00

pages

5778-89

issue

20

eissn

0305-1048

issn

1362-4962

pii

gkl699

journal_volume

34

pub_type

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