Chapter title |
The Engineered SVA Trans-mobilization Assay.
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Chapter number | 14 |
Book title |
Transposons and Retrotransposons
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Published in |
Methods in molecular biology, January 2016
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DOI | 10.1007/978-1-4939-3372-3_14 |
Pubmed ID | |
Book ISBNs |
978-1-4939-3370-9, 978-1-4939-3372-3
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Authors |
Anja Bock, Gerald G. Schumann Ph.D., Gerald G. Schumann |
Editors |
Jose L. Garcia-Pérez |
Abstract |
Mammalian genomes harbor autonomous retrotransposons coding for the proteins required for their own mobilization, and nonautonomous retrotransposons, such as the human SVA element, which are transcribed but do not have any coding capacity. Mobilization of nonautonomous retrotransposons depends on the recruitment of the protein machinery encoded by autonomous retrotransposons. Here, we summarize the experimental details of SVA trans-mobilization assays which address multiple questions regarding the biology of both nonautonomous SVA elements and autonomous LINE-1 (L1) retrotransposons. The assay evaluates if and to what extent a noncoding SVA element is mobilized in trans by the L1-encoded protein machinery, the structural organization of the resulting marked de novo insertions, if they mimic endogenous SVA insertions and what the roles of individual domains of the nonautonomous retrotransposon for SVA mobilization are. Furthermore, the highly sensitive trans-mobilization assay can be used to verify the presence of otherwise barely detectable endogenously expressed functional L1 proteins via their marked SVA trans-mobilizing activity. |
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