Rescuing Alu: Recovery of New Inserts Shows LINE-1 Preserves Alu Activity through A-Tail Expansion

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Wagstaff, Bradley J ^a   Hedges, Dale J ^b   Derbes, Rebecca S ^a   Campos Sanchez, Rebeca ^c   Chiaromonte, Francesca ^c   Makova, Kateryna D ^c   Roy Engel, Astrid M ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN ORF2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

A TAIL SEQUENCE; ALU SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA MODIFICATION; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE VECTOR; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LONG INTERSPERSED REPEAT; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE; RETROPOSON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; RNA EDITING; SHORT INTERSPERSED REPEAT;

3' FLANKING REGION; 5' FLANKING REGION; ALU ELEMENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; ENDONUCLEASES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; GENOME, HUMAN; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; INTRONS; LONG INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 84866166604     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002842     Document Type: Article

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