Journal
FEBS LETTERS
Volume 580, Issue 27, Pages 6361-6365Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2006.10.048
Keywords
intron loss; intron exclusion; double strand break; homologous recombination; alcohol dehydrogenase; genome streamlining
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Mechanisms for loss and gain of introns are elusive. Reported here is a new pattern of intron loss which features a random loss of a single intron in a multiple-intron gene with its neighboring introns remained, which process is defined as intron exclusion. Intron exclusion is reminiscent of removal of a limited stretch of non-homologous sequence in a homologous recombination (HR) triggered by a double strand break (DSB), and therefore lends further evidence for a theory of intron loss through HR between a cDNA and its genomic intron-containing locus. Thus, a model for intron loss is formulated. (c) 2006 Federation of European Biochemical Societies. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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