Transposable Elements, Inflammation, and Neurological Disease. [PDF]
Frontiers in Neurology, 2019 Transposable Elements (TE) are mobile DNA elements that can replicate and insert themselves into different locations within the host genome. Their propensity to self-propagate has a myriad of consequences and yet their biological significance is not well-
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Full-length autonomous transposable elements are preferentially targeted by expression-dependent forms of RNA-directed DNA methylation [PDF]
Genome Biology, 2016 BackgroundChromatin modifications such as DNA methylation are targeted to transposable elements by small RNAs in a process termed RNA-directed DNA methylation (RdDM). In plants, canonical RdDM functions through RNA polymerase IV to reinforce pre-existing
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Detection of DNA Methylation Changes Surrounding Transposable Elements
Bio-Protocol, 2013 Transposable elements (TEs) are a major component of all genomes, thus the epigenetic mechanisms controlling their activity is an important field of study.
Beery Yaakov, Khalil Kashkush
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Sex and the TEs: transposable elements in sexual development and function in animals
Mobile DNA, 2019 Transposable elements are endogenous DNA sequences able to integrate into and multiply within genomes. They constitute a major source of genetic innovations, as they can not only rearrange genomes but also spread ready-to-use regulatory sequences able to
Corentin Dechaud +3 more
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Satellite DNA and Transposable Elements in Seabuckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides), a Dioecious Plant with Small Y and Large X Chromosomes [PDF]
Genome Biology and Evolution, 2017 Seabuckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides) is a dioecious shrub commonly used in the pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and environmental industry as a source of oil, minerals and vitamins.
Janka Puterová +8 more
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DNA on the move: mechanisms, functions and applications of transposable elements
FEBS Open Bio, 2023 Transposons are mobile genetic elements that have invaded all domains of life by moving between and within their host genomes. Due to their mobility (or transposition), transposons facilitate horizontal gene transfer in bacteria and foster the evolution ...
Michael Schmitz, Irma Querques
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Whole genome resequencing reveals natural target site preferences of transposable elements in Drosophila melanogaster. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Transposable elements are mobile DNA sequences that integrate into host genomes using diverse mechanisms with varying degrees of target site specificity.
Raquel S Linheiro, Casey M Bergman
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Chromatin and siRNA pathways cooperate to maintain DNA methylation of small transposable elements in Arabidopsis [PDF]
, 2005 BACKGROUND: DNA methylation occurs at preferred sites in eukaryotes. In Arabidopsis, DNA cytosine methylation is maintained by three subfamilies of methyltransferases with distinct substrate specificities and different modes of action.
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Transposable Elements: From DNA Parasites to Architects of Metazoan Evolution [PDF]
Genes, 2012 One of the most unexpected insights that followed from the completion of the human genome a decade ago was that more than half of our DNA is derived from transposable elements (TEs). Due to advances in high throughput sequencing technologies it is now clear that TEs comprise the largest molecular class within most metazoan genomes.
Oliver Piskurek, Daniel J. Jackson
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Double insertion of transposable elements provides a substrate for the evolution of satellite DNA [PDF]
Genome Research, 2018 Eukaryotic genomes are replete with repeated sequences in the form of transposable elements (TEs) dispersed across the genome or as satellite arrays, large stretches of tandemly repeated sequences. Many satellites clearly originated as TEs, but it is unclear how mobile genetic parasites can transform into megabase-sized tandem arrays.
Michael P. McGurk, Daniel A. Barbash
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