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Maternally inherited piRNAs direct transient heterochromatin formation at active transposons during early Drosophila embryogenesis
The PIWI-interacting RNA (piRNA) pathway controls transposon expression in animal germ cells, thereby ensuring genome stability over generations. In Drosophila, piRNAs are intergenerationally inherited through the maternal...
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Becoming a Selfish Clan
Transposable elements (TEs) are parasitic DNA bits capable of mobilization and mutagenesis, typically suppressed by host's epigenetic silencing. Since the selfish DNA concept, it is appreciated that genomes are also molded by...
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ZFP57 regulation of transposable elements and gene expression within and beyond imprinted domains
Abstract: Background: KRAB zinc finger proteins (KZFPs) represent one of the largest families of DNA-binding proteins in vertebrate genomes and appear to have evolved to silence transposable elements (TEs) including endogenous...
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Transposon-Derived Non-coding RNAs and Their Function in Plants.
Jungnam Cho
Sep 08, 2018
Transposable elements (TEs) are often regarded as harmful genomic factors and indeed they are strongly suppressed by the epigenetic silencing mechanisms. On the other hand, the mobilization of TEs brings about variability of...
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