Retrotransposons at Drosophila telomeres: Host domestication of a selfish element for the maintenance of genome integrity

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms

Volumn 1819, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 771-775

  Zhang, Liang ^a   Rong, Yikang S ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Non LTR retrotransposon; PiRNA; Telomerase recruitment; Telomere capping; Telomere elongation

Indexed keywords

DNA; HET A PROTEIN; ORF1P PROTEIN; RNA; TAHRE PROTEIN; TART PROTEIN; TELOMERE BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSPOSASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; CELL ADHESION; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME; DNA TRANSPOSITION; DOMESTICATION; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FISH; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENOME; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROVOCATION TEST; RETROPOSON; REVIEW; TELOMERE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES, INSECT; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMANS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RETROELEMENTS; RNA, MESSENGER; TELOMERE;

EID: 84862785410     PISSN: 18749399     EISSN: 18764320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2012.01.018     Document Type: Review

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