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Insertion of a chimeric retrotransposon sequence in mouse Axin1 locus causes metastable kinky tail phenotype
Author
Wang, ZhuqingMcSwiggin, Hayden
Newkirk, Simon J.
Wang, Yue
Oliver, Daniel K.
Tang, Chong
Lee, Sandy
Wang, Shawn
Yuan, Shuiqiao
Zheng, Huili
Ye, Ping
An, Wenfeng
Yan, Wei
Date
2019Type
ArticleAbstract
Transposable elements (TEs) make up >50% of the human genome, and the majority of retrotransposon insertions are truncated and many are located in introns. However, the effects of retrotransposition on the host genes remain incompletely known.ResultsWe report here that insertion of a chimeric L1 (cL1), but not IAP solo LTR, into intron 6 of Axin1 using CRIPSR/Cas9 induced the kinky tail phenotype with similar to 80% penetrance in heterozygous Axin(cL1) mice. Both penetrant (with kinky tails) and silent (without kinky tails) Axin(cL1) mice, regardless of sex, could transmit the phenotype to subsequent generations with similar penetrance (similar to 80%). Further analyses revealed that a longer Axin1 transcript isoform containing partial cL1-targeted intron was present in penetrant, but absent in silent and wild type mice, and the production of this unique Axin1 transcript appeared to correlate with altered levels of an activating histone modification, H3K9ac.ConclusionsThe mechanism for Axin(cL1) mice is different from those previously identified in mice with spontaneous retrotransposition of IAP, e.g., Axin(Fu) and A(vy), both of which have been associated with DNA methylation changes. Our data suggest that Axin1 locus is sensitive to genetic and epigenetic alteration by retrotransposons and thus, ideally suited for studying the effects of new retrotransposition events on target gene function in mice.
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http://hdl.handle.net/11714/6430Additional Information
Journal Title | Mobile DNA |
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Rights | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International |
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