Two large-scale analyses of Ty1 LTR-retrotransposon de novo insertion events indicate that Ty1 targets nucleosomal DNA near the H2A/H2B interface [0.03%]
两个大规模分析表明Ty1 LTR- retrotransposon的de novo插入事件指示了Ty1靶向核小体DNA附近的H2A / H2B界面
Antoine Bridier-Nahmias,Pascale Lesage
Antoine Bridier-Nahmias
Background: Over the years, a number of reports have revealed that Ty1 integration occurs in a 1-kb window upstream of Pol III-transcribed genes with an approximate 80-bp periodicity between each integration hotspot and t...
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Mobile DNA. 2012 Dec 17;3(1):22. DOI:10.1186/1759-8753-3-22 2012
Rasika M Harshey
Rasika M Harshey
This article traces the pioneering contributions of phage Mu to our current knowledge of how movable elements move/transpose. Mu provided the first molecular evidence of insertion elements in E. coli, postulated by McClintock to control gen...
Strong purifying selection in endogenous retroviruses in the saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) in the Northern Territory of Australia [0.03%]
澳大利亚北领地咸水鳄鱼(Crocodylus porosus)的内源性逆转录病毒受到强烈的净化选择
Amanda Yoon-Yee Chong,Sarah Jane Atkinson,Sally Isberg et al.
Amanda Yoon-Yee Chong et al.
Background: Endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) are remnants of exogenous retroviruses that have integrated into the nuclear DNA of a germ-line cell. Here we present the results of a survey into the ERV complement of Crocodylu...
Irina R Arkhipova,Mark A Batzer,Juergen Brosius et al.
Irina R Arkhipova et al.
The third international conference on the genomic impact of eukaryotic transposable elements (TEs) was held 24 to 28 February 2012 at the Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, CA, USA. Sponsored in part by the National Institutes of He...
LTRsift: a graphical user interface for semi-automatic classification and postprocessing of de novo detected LTR retrotransposons [0.03%]
LTRsift：一个用于从头检测LTR逆转座子的分类和后期处理的图形用户界面半自动软件包
Sascha Steinbiss,Sascha Kastens,Stefan Kurtz
Sascha Steinbiss
Background: Long terminal repeat (LTR) retrotransposons are a class of eukaryotic mobile elements characterized by a distinctive sequence similarity-based structure. Hence they are well suited for computational identifica...
International Congress on Transposable Elements (ICTE) 2012 in Saint Malo and the sea of TE stories [0.03%]
2012年圣马洛国际转座子大会(ICTE 2012)及转座子故事的海洋
Abdelkader Ainouche,Mireille Bétermier,Mick Chandler et al.
Abdelkader Ainouche et al.
An international conference on Transposable Elements (TEs) was held 21-24 April 2012 in Saint Malo, France. Organized by the French Transposition Community (GDR Elements Génétiques Mobiles et Génomes, CNRS) and the French Society of Gene...
Cell type-specific termination of transcription by transposable element sequences [0.03%]
转座元件序列特异终止细胞类型中的转录
Andrew B Conley,I King Jordan
Andrew B Conley
Background: Transposable elements (TEs) encode sequences necessary for their own transposition, including signals required for the termination of transcription. TE sequences within the introns of human genes show an antis...
Horizontal transfers of Mariner transposons between mammals and insects [0.03%]
哺乳动物与昆虫间的梅纳德转座子水平基因转移
Sarah G Oliveira,Weidong Bao,Cesar Martins et al.
Sarah G Oliveira et al.
Background: Active transposable elements (TEs) can be passed between genomes of different species by horizontal transfer (HT). This may help them to avoid vertical extinction due to elimination by natural selection or sil...
Maríndia Deprá,Adriana Ludwig,Vera Ls Valente et al.
Maríndia Deprá et al.
Background: Miniature inverted-repeat transposable elements (MITEs) are short, nonautonomous DNA elements flanked by subterminal or terminal inverted repeats (TIRs) with no coding capacity. MITEs were originally recognize...
Jenni K Risler,Alison E Kenny,Ryan J Palumbo et al.
Jenni K Risler et al.
Background: Long-terminal repeat (LTR) retrotransposons have complex modes of mobility involving reverse transcription of their RNA genomes in cytoplasmic virus-like particles (VLPs) and integration of the cDNA copies int...