An antisense promoter in mouse L1 retrotransposon open reading frame-1 initiates expression of diverse fusion transcripts and limits retrotransposition

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 4546-4562

  Li, Jingfeng ^a,b   Kannan, Manoj ^b,e   Trivett, Anna L ^b,f   Liao, Hongling ^c,g   Wu, Xiaolin ^c   Akagi, Keiko ^a,b   Symer, David E ^a,b,d  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE   (India)

^f FREDERICK NATIONAL LABORATORY FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (United States)

^g NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DICER; RNA POLYMERASE II;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUSION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MAPPING; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; LONG INTERSPERSED REPEAT; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID PROBE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RETROPOSON; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; HUMANS; LONG INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

EID: 84899020502     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku091     Document Type: Article

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