Qiu, Yichun and Köhler, Claudia
(2020).
Mobility connects: transposable elements wire new transcriptional networks by transferring transcription factor binding motifs.
Biochemical Society Transactions. 48
, 1005-1017
[Article Review/Survey]
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Abstract
Transposable elements (TEs) constitute major fractions of plant genomes. Their potential to be mobile provides them with the capacity to cause major genome rearrangements. Those effects are potentially deleterious and enforced the evolution of epigenetic suppressive mechanisms controlling TE activity. However, beyond their deleterious effects, TE insertions can be neutral or even advantageous for the host, leading to long-term retention of TEs in the host genome. Indeed, TEs are increasingly recognized as major drivers of evolutionary novelties by regulating the expression of nearby genes. TEs frequently contain binding motifs for transcription factors and capture binding motifs during transposition, which they spread through the genome by transposition. Thus, TEs drive the evolution and diversification of gene regulatory networks by recruiting lineage-specific targets under the regulatory control of specific transcription factors. This process can explain the rapid and repeated evolution of developmental novelties, such as C-4 photosynthesis and a wide spectrum of stress responses in plants. It also underpins the convergent evolution of embryo nourishing tissues, the placenta in mammals and the endosperm in flowering plants. Furthermore, the gene regulatory network underlying flower development has also been largely reshaped by TE-mediated recruitment of regulatory elements; some of them being preserved across long evolutionary timescales. In this review, we highlight the potential role of TEs as evolutionary toolkits in plants by showcasing examples of TE-mediated evolutionary novelties.
Authors/Creators: | Qiu, Yichun and Köhler, Claudia | ||||||
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Title: | Mobility connects: transposable elements wire new transcriptional networks by transferring transcription factor binding motifs | ||||||
Series Name/Journal: | Biochemical Society Transactions | ||||||
Year of publishing : | 2020 | ||||||
Volume: | 48 | ||||||
Page range: | 1005-1017 | ||||||
Number of Pages: | 13 | ||||||
Publisher: | Portland Press Limited, The Biochemical Society | ||||||
ISSN: | 0300-5127 | ||||||
Language: | English | ||||||
Publication Type: | Article Review/Survey | ||||||
Article category: | Scientific peer reviewed | ||||||
Version: | Published version | ||||||
Copyright: | Creative Commons: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 | ||||||
Full Text Status: | Public | ||||||
Subjects: | (A) Swedish standard research categories 2011 > 1 Natural sciences > 106 Biological Sciences (Medical to be 3 and Agricultural to be 4) > Genetics (medical genetics to be 30107 and agricultural genetics to be 40402) | ||||||
URN:NBN: | urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-p-106934 | ||||||
Permanent URL: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-p-106934 | ||||||
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ID Code: | 17339 | ||||||
Faculty: | NJ - Fakulteten för naturresurser och jordbruksvetenskap | ||||||
Department: | (NL, NJ) > Dept. of Plant Biology and Forest Genetics (until 131231) | ||||||
Deposited By: | SLUpub Connector | ||||||
Deposited On: | 28 Aug 2020 08:04 | ||||||
Metadata Last Modified: | 15 Jan 2021 19:45 |
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