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- Title
Visualization and Quantification of Transposon Activity in Caenorhabditis elegans RNAi Pathway Mutants.
- Authors
Wallis, Dylan C.; Nguyen, Dieu An H.; Uebel, Celja J.; Phillips, Carolyn M.
- Abstract
RNA silencing pathways play critical roles in maintaining quiescence of transposons in germ cells to promote genome integrity. However the precise mechanism by which different types of transposons are recognized by these pathways is not fully understood. Furthermore, the location in the germline where this transposition occurs after disruption of transposon silencing was previously unknown. Here we utilize the spatial and temporal organization of the Caenorhabditis elegans germline to demonstrate that transposition of DNA transposons in RNA silencing pathway mutants occur in all stages of adult germ cells. We further demonstrate that the double-strand breaks generated by transposons can restore homologous recombination in a mutant defective for the generation of meiosis-specific double-strand breaks. Finally, we detected clear differences in transposase expression and transposon excision between distinct branches of the RNA silencing pathway, emphasizing that there are multiple mechanisms by which transposons can be recognized and routed for small-RNA-mediated silencing.
- Subjects
TRANSPOSONS; CAENORHABDITIS elegans; RNA interference; GERM cells; VISUALIZATION
- Publication
G3: Genes | Genomes | Genetics, 2019, Vol 9, Issue 11, p3825
- ISSN
2160-1836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1534/g3.119.400639