The extent of Ds1 transposon to enrich transcriptomes and proteomes by exonization

Botanical Studies
Yuh-Chyang Charng, Li-Yu Daisy Liu

Abstract

Exonization is an event which an intronic transposed element (TE) provides splice sites and leads to alternatively spliced cassette exons. Without disrupting of the inserted gene's function, TEs can expand the proteome diversity by adding the splice variant that encodes a different, yet functional protein. Previously, we found that the main contribution of Ds exonization for gene divergence is not providing genetic messages but incorporating the intron sequences with different reading frame patterns to enrich the plant proteome. Ds1, another member of Ac/Ds transposon system, differs from Ds by providing 3 splice donor sites and 2 acceptor sites for alternative splicing, which may greatly increase the extent for proteome expansion. In this study, we performed a genome-wide survey of Ds1 exonization events to assess its extent to enrich proteomes in plants. Each Ds1 insertion yielded 11 transcript isoforms by integrating the splice donor and/or acceptor sites, which composed a bulk of all exonized transcript orthologs from the dicot Arabidopsis thaliana and the monocot Oryza sativa (rice). The exonized transcripts were analyzed by the locations of the termination codon (PTC) and the putative targets for the nonsense-mediated dec...Continue Reading

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