Abstract
Extrachromosomal linear DNA (eclDNA) is the reverse-transcribed cDNA intermediate derived from long terminal repeat (LTR) transposable elements (TEs) (Cho et al., Nat Plants 5:26–33, 2018). Given that the eclDNAs are the final intermediate of LTR-TE life cycle prior to integration to the host chromosomes, their presence is considered a strong indication of active LTR retrotransposons (Cho et al., Nat Plants 5:26–33, 2018; Lanciano et al., PLoS Genet 13:e1006630, 2017). Here, we describe a method of amplification of LTR extrachromosomal DNA followed by sequencing (ALE-seq) which determines the 5′ LTR sequences of eclDNAs. Briefly, ALE-seq consists of two steps of amplification, in vitro transcription of adaptor-ligated eclDNAs and subsequent reverse transcription to cDNAs primed at the conserved primer binding site (PBS) (Cho et al., Nat Plants 5:26–33, 2018). ALE-seq allows the high-throughput identification of novel LTR-TEs which are active in plants that could be potentially useful for crop biotechnology.
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This work was supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDB27030209) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31970518) granted to J.C.
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Wang, L., Kim, E.Y., Cho, J. (2021). High-Throughput Profiling of Extrachromosomal Linear DNAs of Long Terminal Repeat Retrotransposons by ALE-seq. In: Cho, J. (eds) Plant Transposable Elements. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2250. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1134-0_9
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