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Tnt1 transposition events are induced by in vitro transformation of Arabidopsis thaliana, and transposed copies integrate into genes

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Tissue culture has been shown to induce the transposition of plant transposable elements; their insertion at novel sites results in somaclonal variation. Introduction of the tobacco retrotransposon Tnt1 into Arabidopsis thaliana by co-cultivation of root explants with Agrobacterium tumefaciens induces its transposition at a high frequency, but no transposed copies are found in plants transformed by the in planta procedure. Transposition occurs in the transformed root cells or in the calli derived from them, allowing the regeneration of transformed plants with up to 26 transposed copies of Tnt1. Analysis of Tnt1 integration sites in Arabidopsis shows that the Tnt1 endonuclease does not show any cleavage-site specificity at the sequence level. The insertion sites are unlinked and distributed on all five Arabidopsis chromosomes. The fact that the majority of the integration sites are located in coding regions, and none in repeated sequences, demonstrates the potential of Tnt1 as a tool for gene tagging.

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Courtial, B., Feuerbach, F., Eberhard, S. et al. Tnt1 transposition events are induced by in vitro transformation of Arabidopsis thaliana, and transposed copies integrate into genes. Mol Gen Genomics 265, 32–42 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s004380000387

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