Transposable elements as essential elements in the control of gene expression

A Gebrie - Mobile DNA, 2023 - Springer
Interspersed repetitions called transposable elements (TEs), commonly referred to as mobile
elements, make up a significant portion of the genomes of higher animals. TEs contribute in …

Principles, mechanisms, and biological implications of translation termination–reinitiation

ME Sherlock, LB Galvis, Q Vicens, JS Kieft… - RNA, 2023 - rnajournal.cshlp.org
The gene expression pathway from DNA sequence to functional protein is not as
straightforward as simple depictions of the central dogma might suggest. Each step is highly …

A novel active transposon creates allelic variation through altered translation rate to influence protein abundance

G Chen, R Wang, Y Jiang, X Dong, J Xu… - Nucleic acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Protein translation is tightly and precisely controlled by multiple mechanisms including
upstream open reading frames (uORFs), but the origins of uORFs and their role in maize are …

Transposable Elements and Epigenetic Regulation

M Shan, A Fatima, Z Amjad, Z Khan - Plant Transposable …, 2023 - taylorfrancis.com
Genomes include many repeated sequences, a significant count of them are transposable
elements (TEs). They have multiple activities: genome size restructuring, chromosome …