Title: In silico analysis of plant and animal transposable elements

Authors: Mo-Li Huang; Songsak Wattanachaisaereekul; Yu-Jun Han; Wanwipa Vongsangnak

Addresses: Center for Systems Biology, Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, China ' Pilot Plant Development and Training Institute, King Mongkut's University of Technology, Thonburi, Bangkhunthian, Bangkok 10150, Thailand ' Center for Human Genome Variation, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27708, USA ' Center for Systems Biology, Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, China

Abstract: Transposable Elements (TEs) play important roles in the evolution of eukaryotic organisms. TEs widely distribute depending on their properties present in the genome. This study elucidated the molecular characteristics of TEs in land plants and animals using bioinformatics and in silico mutational approach. We discovered that the GC-rich class I TEs is the predominant class of TEs in animal, but the AT-rich class II TEs is prevalent in plants. The GC-rich class I TEs appears to be evolved within the animals. On contrary, the preserved in AT-rich in class II TEs is believed to be contributed in host defence systems.

Keywords: eukaryotic organisms; bioinformatics; genome sequence; in silico mutation; transposable elements; land plants; animals; host defence systems.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBRA.2014.060763

International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications, 2014 Vol.10 No.3, pp.297 - 306

Received: 19 Mar 2012
Accepted: 23 Jul 2012
Published online: 24 Oct 2014 *

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