Cloning of Maize TED Transposon into Escherichia coli Reveals the Polychromatic Sequence Landscape of Refractorily Propagated Plasmids

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第一作者： Cong, Chunsheng

作者： Cong, Chunsheng;Tan, Jingsheng;Li, Chuxi;Zhu, Li;Li, Yubin;Liu, Fangyuan;Yu, Qian;Li, Yubin

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关键词： maize; Mutator superfamily; TED; Jittery; cloning; Escherichia coli; plasmid

期刊名称：INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES （ 影响因子：6.208； 五年影响因子：6.628 ）

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年卷期： 2022 年 23 卷 19 期

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摘要： MuDR, the founder member of the Mutator superfamily and its MURA transcripts, has been identified as toxic sequences to Escherichia coli (E. coli), which heavily hindered the elucidation of the biochemical features of MURA transposase and confined the broader application of the Mutator system in other organisms. To harness less constrained systems as alternatives, we attempted to clone TED and Jittery, two recently isolated autonomous Mutator-like elements (MULEs) from maize, respectively. Their full-length transcripts and genomic copies are successfully cloned when the incubation time for bacteria to recover from heat shock is extended appropriately prior to plating. However, during their proliferation in E. coli, TED transformed plasmids are unstable, as evidenced by derivatives from which frameshift, deletion mutations, or IS transposon insertions are readily detected. Our results suggest that neither leaky expression of the transposase nor the presence of terminal inverse repeats (TIRs) are responsible for the cloning barriers, which were once ascribed to the presence of the Shine-Dalgarno-like sequence. Instead, the internal sequence of TED (from 1250 to 2845 bp), especially the exons in this region, was the most likely causer. The findings provide novel insights into the property and function of the Mutator superfamily and shed light on the dissection of toxic effects on cloning from MULEs.

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