Characterization of the endogenous retrovirus insertion in

Aromatase Chicken ERV Endogenous retrovirus Henny feather LTR

Journal

Mobile DNA
ISSN: 1759-8753
Titre abrégé: Mob DNA
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101519891

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
2019
Historique:
received: 20 05 2019
accepted: 14 08 2019
entrez: 31 8 2019
pubmed: 31 8 2019
medline: 31 8 2019
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Henny feathering in chickens is determined by a dominant mutation that transforms male-specific plumage to female-like plumage. Previous studies indicated that this phenotype is caused by ectopic expression in skin of We used publicly available whole genome sequence data to determine the flanking sequences of the ERV, and then PCR amplified the entire insertion and sequenced it using Nanopore long reads and Sanger sequencing. The 7524 bp insertion contains an intact endogenous retrovirus that was not found in chickens representing 31 different breeds not showing henny feathering or in samples of the ancestral red junglefowl. The sequence shows over 99% sequence identity to the avian leukosis virus ev-1 and ev-21 strains, suggesting a recent integration. The ERV 3'LTR, containing a powerful transcriptional enhancer and core promoter with TATA box together with binding sites for EFIII and Ig/EBP inside the We demonstrate that the henny feathering allele harbors an insertion of an intact avian leukosis virus at the 5'end of

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BACKGROUND BACKGROUND
Henny feathering in chickens is determined by a dominant mutation that transforms male-specific plumage to female-like plumage. Previous studies indicated that this phenotype is caused by ectopic expression in skin of
RESULTS RESULTS
We used publicly available whole genome sequence data to determine the flanking sequences of the ERV, and then PCR amplified the entire insertion and sequenced it using Nanopore long reads and Sanger sequencing. The 7524 bp insertion contains an intact endogenous retrovirus that was not found in chickens representing 31 different breeds not showing henny feathering or in samples of the ancestral red junglefowl. The sequence shows over 99% sequence identity to the avian leukosis virus ev-1 and ev-21 strains, suggesting a recent integration. The ERV 3'LTR, containing a powerful transcriptional enhancer and core promoter with TATA box together with binding sites for EFIII and Ig/EBP inside the
CONCLUSIONS CONCLUSIONS
We demonstrate that the henny feathering allele harbors an insertion of an intact avian leukosis virus at the 5'end of

Identifiants

pubmed: 31467598
doi: 10.1186/s13100-019-0181-4
pii: 181
pmc: PMC6712707
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

38

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Competing interestsThe authors declare that they have no competing interest.

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Auteurs

Jingyi Li (J)

1Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843 USA.

Brian W Davis (BW)

1Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843 USA.

Patric Jern (P)

2Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden.

Ben J Dorshorst (BJ)

4Department of Animal and Poultry Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, 24061 USA.

Paul B Siegel (PB)

4Department of Animal and Poultry Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, 24061 USA.

Leif Andersson (L)

1Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843 USA.
2Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden.
3Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SE-7507 Uppsala, Sweden.

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