Recurrent acquisition of cytosine methyltransferases into eukaryotic retrotransposons

Alex de Mendoza; Amandine Bonnet; Dulce B. Vargas-Landin; Nanjing Ji; Hongfei Li; Feng Yang; Ling Li; Koichi Hori; Jahnvi Pflueger; Sam Buckberry; Hiroyuki Ohta; Nedeljka Rosic; Pascale Lesage; Senjie Lin; Ryan Lister

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-03724-9

Nature Communications (Apr 2018)

Recurrent acquisition of cytosine methyltransferases into eukaryotic retrotransposons

Alex de Mendoza,
Amandine Bonnet,
Dulce B. Vargas-Landin,
Nanjing Ji,
Hongfei Li,
Feng Yang,
Ling Li,
Koichi Hori,
Jahnvi Pflueger,
Sam Buckberry,
Hiroyuki Ohta,
Nedeljka Rosic,
Pascale Lesage,
Senjie Lin,
Ryan Lister

Affiliations

Alex de Mendoza: Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, School of Molecular Sciences, The University of Western Australia
Amandine Bonnet: Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, INSERM U944, CNRS UMR 7212, Institut Universitaire d’Hématologie, Hôpital St. Louis
Dulce B. Vargas-Landin: Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, School of Molecular Sciences, The University of Western Australia
Nanjing Ji: State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science and College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University
Hongfei Li: State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science and College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University
Feng Yang: State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science and College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University
Ling Li: State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science and College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University
Koichi Hori: School of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Jahnvi Pflueger: Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, School of Molecular Sciences, The University of Western Australia
Sam Buckberry: Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, School of Molecular Sciences, The University of Western Australia
Hiroyuki Ohta: School of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Nedeljka Rosic: School of Health and Human Sciences, Southern Cross University
Pascale Lesage: Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, INSERM U944, CNRS UMR 7212, Institut Universitaire d’Hématologie, Hôpital St. Louis
Senjie Lin: State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science and College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University
Ryan Lister: Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, School of Molecular Sciences, The University of Western Australia

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03724-9
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Cytosine methyltransferases (DNMTs) often silence transposons in eukaryotic genomes. Here the authors describe the recurrent acquisition of DNMTs by transposons from two distantly-related eukaryotes and suggest that methylation of CG dinucleotides by transposon DNMTs could modify the host epigenome in dinoflagellates.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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