Transposable Element Domestication As an Adaptation to Evolutionary Conflicts

Overview

Journal Trends Genet

Specialty Genetics

Date 2017 Aug 29

PMID 28844698

Citations 123

Authors

Diwash Jangam

Cedric Feschotte

Esther Betran

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Abstract

Transposable elements (TEs) are selfish genetic units that typically encode proteins that enable their proliferation in the genome and spread across individual hosts. Here we review a growing number of studies that suggest that TE proteins have often been co-opted or 'domesticated' by their host as adaptations to a variety of evolutionary conflicts. In particular, TE-derived proteins have been recurrently repurposed as part of defense systems that protect prokaryotes and eukaryotes against the proliferation of infectious or invasive agents, including viruses and TEs themselves. We argue that the domestication of TE proteins may often be the only evolutionary path toward the mitigation of the cost incurred by their own selfish activities.

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