DNA transposons favor de novo transcript emergence through enrichment of transcription factor binding motifs

Lebherz Marie Kristin, Fouks Bertrand, Schmidt Julian, Bornberg-Bauer Erich, Grandchamp Anna. 2024. DNA transposons favor de novo transcript emergence through enrichment of transcription factor binding motifs. Genome Biology and Evolution, 16 (7), 16 p.

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Résumé : De novo genes emerge from noncoding regions of genomes via succession of mutations. Among others, such mutations activate transcription and create a new open reading frame (ORF). Although the mechanisms underlying ORF emergence are well documented, relatively little is known about the mechanisms enabling new transcription events. Yet, in many species a continuum between absent and very prominent transcription has been reported for essentially all regions of the genome. In this study, we searched for de novo transcripts by using newly assembled genomes and transcriptomes of seven inbred lines of Drosophila melanogaster, originating from six European and one African population. This setup allowed us to detect sample specific de novo transcripts, and compare them to their homologous nontranscribed regions in other samples, as well as genic and intergenic control sequences. We studied the association with transposable elements (TEs) and the enrichment of transcription factor motifs upstream of de novo emerged transcripts and compared them with regulatory elements. We found that de novo transcripts overlap with TEs more often than expected by chance. The emergence of new transcripts correlates with regions of high guanine-cytosine content and TE expression. Moreover, upstream regions of de novo transcripts are highly enriched with regulatory motifs. Such motifs are more enriched in new transcripts overlapping with TEs, particularly DNA TEs, and are more conserved upstream de novo transcripts than upstream their 'nontranscribed homologs'. Overall, our study demonstrates that TE insertion is important for transcript emergence, partly by introducing new regulatory motifs from DNA TE families.

Mots-clés Agrovoc : Transcription génique, transcription d'ADN, transposon, génome, facteur de transcription, transcription, expression des gènes, séquence nucléotidique, gène, adn, Drosophila