Transcriptional disruption by the L1 retrotransposon and implications for mammalian transcriptomes

Nature

Volumn 429, Issue 6989, 2004, Pages 268-274

  Han, Jeffrey S ^a   Szak, Suzanne T ^b   Boeke, Jef D ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BIOGEN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; GENES; PROTEINS; RNA;

BIOINFORMATIC DATA; GENE EXPRESSIONS; OVEREXPRESSION SYSTEMS;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

ENDONUCLEASE; RNA; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE III; MESSENGER RNA;

BIOLOGY; MAMMAL;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; RNA STABILITY; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL LINE; DOWN REGULATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENETICS; HALF LIFE TIME; LONG INTERSPERSED REPEAT; MAMMAL; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DOWN-REGULATION; ENDONUCLEASES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEEDBACK, BIOCHEMICAL; HALF-LIFE; HUMANS; LONG INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS; MAMMALS; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; OPEN READING FRAMES; RNA POLYMERASE III; RNA STABILITY; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 2442667886     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02536     Document Type: Article

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