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Augustin de Vanssay1, Anne-Laure Bougé, Antoine Boivin
1Laboratoire Biologie du Développement, UMR7622, CNRS-Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 9 quai Saint Bernard, 75005 Paris, France.
Nature
|August 28, 2012
Resumen
La paramutación epigenéticamente silencia los transgenes a través de generaciones en animales. Este proceso, mediado por los piRNAs, convierte los transgenes no silenciadores en potentes silenciadores epigenéticos, estableciendo nuevos loci de piRNA.
Área de la Ciencia:
- La epigenética es la epigenética.
- Biología Molecular Biología Molecular
- Genética La genética.
Sus antecedentes:
- La paramutación implica una modificación epigenética hereditaria de alelos sin cambios en la secuencia de ADN.
- El efecto transsilenciante (TSE) es un mecanismo de silenciamiento dependiente de la homología para elementos P-transponibles.
- La paramutación puede conducir a la transmisión a largo plazo de estados epigenéticos a lo largo de generaciones.
Objetivo del estudio:
- Para describir un nuevo caso de paramutación en animales con transmisión generacional a largo plazo.
- Investigar el papel de los ARN que interactúan con Piwi (piARN) en la mediación de la parmutación.
- Establecer un modelo genético para la aparición de los loci de piRNA y la represión transgeneracional.
Principales métodos:
- Estudió grupos de transgenes derivados del elemento P capaces de inducir EET.
- Investigó la conversión de grupos de transgénicos no TSE en silenciadores fuertes.
- Analizó el papel de la herencia materna del citoplasma que contiene piRNAs.
- Examinó los efectos de las mutaciones de aubergine y Dicer-2 en la paramutación.
Principales resultados:
- Los grupos transgénicos de elementos P que inducen EET fuertes convirtieron los grupos homólogos no EET en silenciadores fuertes durante 50 generaciones.
- La paramutación se produjo sin emparejamiento cromosómico y fue mediada por los piRNA maternos.
- La pérdida de función de la mutación aubergine abolió la represión, mientras que la mutación Dicer-2 no lo hizo.
- Los loci paramutados se volvieron estables, fuertes productores de piRNA y eran ellos mismos paramutagenicos.
Conclusiones:
- Este estudio presenta un modelo genético para la paramutación en animales mediados por piRNAs.
- Los hallazgos demuestran la represión transgeneracional mediada por ARN de elementos transponibles.
- La paramutación puede conducir a la emergencia de novo de los loci funcionales del piRNA.
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