Published online 12 May 2006
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GREM, a technique for genome-wide isolation and quantitative analysis of promoter active repeats
Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry 16/10 Miklukho-Maklaya, Moscow 117997, Russia
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Received March 16, 2006. Revised April 7, 2006. Accepted April 15, 2006.
We developed a technique called GREM (Genomic Repeat Expression Monitor) that can be applied to genome-wide isolation and quantitative analysis of any kind of transcriptionally active repetitive elements. Briefly, the technique includes three major stages: (i) generation of a transcriptome wide library of cDNA 5' terminal fragments, (ii) selective amplification of repeat-flanking genomic loci and (iii) hybridization of the cDNA library (i) to the amplicon (ii) with subsequent selective amplification and cloning of the cDNA-genome hybrids. The sequences obtained serve as tags for promoter active repetitive elements. The advantage of GREM is an unambiguous mapping of individual promoter active repeats at a genome-wide level. We applied GREM for genome-wide experimental identification of human-specific endogenous retroviruses and their solitary long terminal repeats (LTRs) acting in vivo as promoters. Importantly, GREM tag frequencies linearly correlated with the corresponding LTR-driven transcript levels found using RTPCR. The GREM technique enabled us to identify 54 new functional human promoters created by retroviral LTRs.
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