Plant Lineage-Specific Amplification of Transcription Factor Binding Motifs by Miniature Inverted-Repeat Transposable Elements (MITEs).

ABSTRACT: Transposable elements are one of the main drivers of plant genome evolution. Transposon insertions can modify the gene coding capacity or the regulation of their expression, the latter being a more subtle effect, and therefore particularly useful for evolution. Transposons have been show to contain transcription factor binding sites that can be mobilized upon transposition with the potential to integrate new genes into transcriptional networks. Miniature inverted-repeat transposable elements (MITEs) are a type of noncoding DNA transposons that could be particularly suited as a vector to mobilize transcription factor binding sites and modify transcriptional networks during evolution. MITEs are small in comparison to other transposons and can be excised, which should make them less mutagenic

SUBMITTER: Morata J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5950925 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature