Characterization of telomere-subtelomere junctions in Silene latifolia

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Authors

SÝKOROVÁ Eva CARTAGENA Joyce HORÁKOVÁ Mirka FUKUI Kiichi FAJKUS Jiří

Year of publication 2003
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Mol Gen Genomics
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Faculty of Science

Citation
Field Genetics and molecular biology
Keywords plant telomere-subtelomere junctions; telomere-associated sequences; fluorescence in situ hybridization; extended DNA fibres
Description Telomere-associated regions represent bound-aries between the relatively homogenous telomeres and the subtelomeres, which show much greater heterogeneity in chromatin structure and DNA composition. Although a major fraction of subtelomeres is usually formed by a limited number of highly repeated DNA sequence families, their mutual arrangement, attachment to telomeres and the presence of interspersed unique or low-copy-number sequences make these terminal domains chromosome specific. In this study, we describe the structures of junctions between telomeres and a major subtelomeric repeat of the plant Silene latifolia, X43.1. Our results show that on individual chromosome arms, X43.1 is attached to the telomere either directly at sites corresponding to nucleosome boundaries previously mapped in this sequence, or via other spacer sequences, both previously characterized and newly described ones. Sites of telomere junctions are non-random in all the telomere-associated sequences analysed.
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