Regulatory activities of transposable elements: from conflicts to benefits

EB Chuong, NC Elde, C Feschotte - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2017 - nature.com
Transposable elements (TEs) are a prolific source of tightly regulated, biochemically active
non-coding elements, such as transcription factor-binding sites and non-coding RNAs. Many …

piRNAs: from biogenesis to function

EM Weick, EA Miska - Development, 2014 - journals.biologists.com
Distinguishing self from non-self plays a crucial role in safeguarding the germlines of
metazoa from mobile DNA elements. Since their discovery less than a decade ago, Piwi …

TEtranscripts: a package for including transposable elements in differential expression analysis of RNA-seq datasets

Y Jin, OH Tam, E Paniagua, M Hammell - Bioinformatics, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: Most RNA-seq data analysis software packages are not designed to handle the
complexities involved in properly apportioning short sequencing reads to highly repetitive …

Modeling of TREX1-dependent autoimmune disease using human stem cells highlights L1 accumulation as a source of neuroinflammation

CA Thomas, L Tejwani, CA Trujillo, PD Negraes… - Cell stem cell, 2017 - cell.com
Three-prime repair exonuclease 1 (TREX1) is an anti-viral enzyme that cleaves nucleic
acids in the cytosol, preventing accumulation and a subsequent type I interferon-associated …

Tau activates transposable elements in Alzheimer's disease

C Guo, HH Jeong, YC Hsieh, HU Klein, DA Bennett… - Cell reports, 2018 - cell.com
Aging and neurodegenerative disease are characterized by genomic instability in neurons,
including aberrant activation and mobilization of transposable elements (TEs). Integrating …

Ubiquitous L1 mosaicism in hippocampal neurons

KR Upton, DJ Gerhardt, JS Jesuadian, SR Richardson… - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
Summary Somatic LINE-1 (L1) retrotransposition during neurogenesis is a potential source
of genotypic variation among neurons. As a neurogenic niche, the hippocampus supports …

PIWI proteins and PIWI-interacting RNAs in the soma

RJ Ross, MM Weiner, H Lin - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
The discovery of millions of PIWI-interacting RNAs revealed a fascinating and unanticipated
dimension of biology. The PIWI–piRNA pathway has been commonly perceived as germline …

Pan-arthropod analysis reveals somatic piRNAs as an ancestral defence against transposable elements

SH Lewis, KA Quarles, Y Yang, M Tanguy… - Nature ecology & …, 2018 - nature.com
In animals, small RNA molecules termed PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) silence
transposable elements (TEs), protecting the germline from genomic instability and mutation …

The influence of LINE‐1 and SINE retrotransposons on mammalian genomes

SR Richardson, AJ Doucet, HC Kopera… - Mobile DNA …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Transposable elements (TEs) or “jumping genes” historically have been disparaged as a
class of “junk DNA” in mammalian genomes (1, 2). The advent of whole genome DNA …

Chromatin accessibility: methods, mechanisms, and biological insights

AR Mansisidor, VI Risca - Nucleus, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Access to DNA is a prerequisite to the execution of essential cellular processes that include
transcription, replication, chromosomal segregation, and DNA repair. How the proteins that …