Epigenetic silencing and unstable inheritance of MuDR activity monitored at four bz2-mu alleles in maize (Zea mays L.)

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• Maize MuDR/Mu elements are one of the most active Class II transposons and are widely used for transposon tagging for gene cloning. The autonomous MuDR encodes a transposase, while diverse non-autonomous elements share similarity to MuDR only within their ~215 bp terminal inverted repeats (TIRs). Four independent Mu-induced mutable alleles of the anthocyanin pigment pathway Bronze2 (Bz2) locus have been sequenced; bz2-mu1, bz2-mu2, and bz2-mu3 contain Mu1 element insertions while bz2-mu4 contains a MuDR insertion. Somatic excision activity can be monitored for each allele as a purple spotted phenotype on the otherwise beige epidermal layer of the kernel. To study epigenetic silencing of Mu elements, we investigated inheritance of somatic transposition of these four reporter alleles, and using samples from leaves just below the ear and the tassel, DNA methylation status and mudrA expression were quantified through three consecutive generations. Percentages of spotted kernels when crossed into bz2 tester as pollen parent were lower than those when crossed with bz2 tester as ear parent in all bz2-mu alleles. The propensity for silencing in kernels with different frequencies of spotting was investigated. In the inactive lines, both MuDR and Mu1 elements were de novo methylated. The transposition frequency was negatively correlated with the level of Mu methylation and positively correlated with the level of mudrA transcript. The most reliable indicator of incipient silencing was a decrease in mudrA transcript levels in the leaf below the tassel, and this transcriptional silencing could precede methylation of Mu elements.

• 2007-10-25

著者

• Takumi Shigeo

  Department Of Biological Sciences Stanford University

• Takumi Shigeo

  Department Of Agrobioscience Graduate School Of Agricultural Science Kobe University

• WALBOT Virginia

  Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University

• Walbot Virginia

  Department Of Biological Sciences Stanford University

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