Repetitive elements in aging and neurodegeneration

KE Copley, J Shorter - Trends in Genetics, 2023 - cell.com
Repetitive elements (REs), such as transposable elements (TEs) and satellites, comprise
much of the genome. Here, we review how TEs and (peri) centromeric satellite DNA may …

Retrotransposons as a Source of DNA Damage in Neurodegeneration

E Peze-Heidsieck, T Bonnifet, R Znaidi… - Frontiers in aging …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The etiology of aging-associated neurodegenerative diseases (NDs), such as Parkinson's
disease (PD) and Alzheimer's disease (AD), still remains elusive and no curative treatment …

Single-cell epigenome analysis reveals age-associated decay of heterochromatin domains in excitatory neurons in the mouse brain

Y Zhang, ML Amaral, C Zhu, SF Grieco, X Hou, L Lin… - Cell research, 2022 - nature.com
Loss of heterochromatin has been implicated as a cause of pre-mature aging and age-
associated decline in organ functions in mammals; however, the specific cell types and gene …

Transposable elements generate regulatory novelty in a tissue-specific fashion

M Trizzino, A Kapusta, CD Brown - BMC genomics, 2018 - Springer
Background Transposable elements (TE) are an important source of evolutionary novelty in
gene regulation. However, the mechanisms by which TEs contribute to gene expression are …

Properties of LINE-1 proteins and repeat element expression in the context of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

GC Pereira, L Sanchez, PM Schaughency… - Mobile Dna, 2018 - Springer
Background Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease
involving loss of motor neurons and having no known cure and uncertain etiology. Several …

The role of transposable elements of the human genome in neuronal function and pathology

E Chesnokova, A Beletskiy, P Kolosov - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Transposable elements (TEs) have been extensively studied for decades. In recent years,
the introduction of whole-genome and whole-transcriptome approaches, as well as single …

Novel bioinformatics approach identifies transcriptional profiles of lineage-specific transposable elements at distinct loci in the human dorsolateral prefrontal cortex

G Guffanti, A Bartlett, T Klengel… - Molecular biology …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Expression of transposable elements (TE) is transiently activated during human
preimplantation embryogenesis in a developmental stage-and cell type-specific manner and …

Young transposable elements rewired gene regulatory networks in human and chimpanzee hippocampal intermediate progenitors

S Patoori, SM Barnada, C Large, JI Murray… - …, 2022 - journals.biologists.com
The hippocampus is associated with essential brain functions, such as learning and
memory. Human hippocampal volume is significantly greater than expected compared with …

Long Interspersed Nuclear Element-1 Analytes in Extracellular Vesicles as Tools for Molecular Diagnostics of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

EC Bowers, AM Cavalcante, K Nguyen, C Li… - International Journal of …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Aberrant expression of the oncogenic retrotransposon LINE-1 is a hallmark of various
cancer types, including non-small cell lung cancers (NSCLCs). Here, we present proof-of …

LINE-1 cargo and reverse transcriptase activity profiles in extracellular vesicles from lung cancer cells and human plasma

EC Bowers, A Motta, K Knox, BS McKay… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Long Interspersed Element-1 (LINE-1) is an oncogenic human retrotransposon that 'copies
and pastes' DNA into new locations via reverse transcription. Given that enzymatically active …