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Reprogramming triggers endogenous L1 and Alu retrotransposition in human induced pluripotent stem cells

Overview of attention for article published in Nature Communications, January 2016
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Title
Reprogramming triggers endogenous L1 and Alu retrotransposition in human induced pluripotent stem cells
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Nature Communications, January 2016
DOI 10.1038/ncomms10286
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Sabine Klawitter, Nina V. Fuchs, Kyle R. Upton, Martin Muñoz-Lopez, Ruchi Shukla, Jichang Wang, Marta Garcia-Cañadas, Cesar Lopez-Ruiz, Daniel J. Gerhardt, Attila Sebe, Ivana Grabundzija, Sylvia Merkert, Patricia Gerdes, J. Andres Pulgarin, Anja Bock, Ulrike Held, Anett Witthuhn, Alexandra Haase, Balázs Sarkadi, Johannes Löwer, Ernst J. Wolvetang, Ulrich Martin, Zoltán Ivics, Zsuzsanna Izsvák, Jose L. Garcia-Perez, Geoffrey J. Faulkner, Gerald G. Schumann

Abstract

Human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) are capable of unlimited proliferation and can differentiate in vitro to generate derivatives of the three primary germ layers. Genetic and epigenetic abnormalities have been reported by Wissing and colleagues to occur during hiPSC derivation, including mobilization of engineered LINE-1 (L1) retrotransposons. However, incidence and functional impact of endogenous retrotransposition in hiPSCs are yet to be established. Here we apply retrotransposon capture sequencing to eight hiPSC lines and three human embryonic stem cell (hESC) lines, revealing endogenous L1, Alu and SINE-VNTR-Alu (SVA) mobilization during reprogramming and pluripotent stem cell cultivation. Surprisingly, 4/7 de novo L1 insertions are full length and 6/11 retrotransposition events occurred in protein-coding genes expressed in pluripotent stem cells. We further demonstrate that an intronic L1 insertion in the CADPS2 gene is acquired during hiPSC cultivation and disrupts CADPS2 expression. These experiments elucidate endogenous retrotransposition, and its potential consequences, in hiPSCs and hESCs.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Spain 3 2%
United States 2 1%
Japan 2 1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Norway 1 <1%
Unknown 173 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 42 23%
Student > Ph. D. Student 38 21%
Student > Master 20 11%
Student > Bachelor 16 9%
Student > Postgraduate 9 5%
Other 28 15%
Unknown 31 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 65 35%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 64 35%
Medicine and Dentistry 13 7%
Neuroscience 3 2%
Immunology and Microbiology 2 1%
Other 3 2%
Unknown 34 18%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 34. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 May 2023.
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