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SINE Exaptation as Cellular Regulators Occurred Numerous Times During Eukaryote Evolution

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Exaptation is defined as a successful adaptation by acquiring a new function from previously useless DNA sequences. I review here recent evidences suggesting that Short INterspersed Elements (SINEs) were exapted numerous times during eukaryote evolution. I propose that the ubiquitous presence of SINEs in eukaryotes depends mainly on their parasitic nature coupled to the facility by which their RNA can be exapted and preserved long after the SINE family responsible for its biogenesis stopped amplifying. Therefore, exapted SINE RNAs (and loci responsible for their production) represent a reservoir to initiate new rounds of retroposition (and new SINE families) that in turn generate new materials for further exaptation events. While most examples of SINE exaptation come from animals, the ubiquitous nature of SINEs in plants coupled with the recent availability of a significant number of fully sequenced plant genomes should soon reveal new examples of plant SINE exaptation.

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Deragon, JM. (2012). SINE Exaptation as Cellular Regulators Occurred Numerous Times During Eukaryote Evolution. In: Grandbastien, MA., Casacuberta, J. (eds) Plant Transposable Elements. Topics in Current Genetics, vol 24. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31842-9_13

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