Roles of transposable elements in the regulation of mammalian transcription

R Fueyo, J Judd, C Feschotte, J Wysocka - Nature reviews Molecular …, 2022 - nature.com
Transposable elements (TEs) comprise about half of the mammalian genome. TEs often
contain sequences capable of recruiting the host transcription machinery, which they use to …

Regulatory activities of transposable elements: from conflicts to benefits

EB Chuong, NC Elde, C Feschotte - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2017 - nature.com
Transposable elements (TEs) are a prolific source of tightly regulated, biochemically active
non-coding elements, such as transcription factor-binding sites and non-coding RNAs. Many …

Transposable elements in human genetic disease

LM Payer, KH Burns - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2019 - nature.com
Transposable elements are abundant in the human genome, and great strides have been
made in pinpointing variations in these repetitive sequences using whole-genome …

Mammalian transposable elements and their impacts on genome evolution

RN Platt, MW Vandewege, DA Ray - Chromosome Research, 2018 - Springer
Transposable elements (TEs) are genetic elements with the ability to mobilize and replicate
themselves in a genome. Mammalian genomes are dominated by TEs, which can reach …

Long terminal repeats: from parasitic elements to building blocks of the transcriptional regulatory repertoire

PJ Thompson, TS Macfarlan, MC Lorincz - Molecular cell, 2016 - cell.com
The life cycle of endogenous retroviruses (ERVs), also called long terminal repeat (LTR)
retrotransposons, begins with transcription by RNA polymerase II followed by reverse …

Mammalian genome innovation through transposon domestication

AJ Modzelewski, J Gan Chong, T Wang, L He - Nature cell biology, 2022 - nature.com
Since the discovery of transposons, their sheer abundance in host genomes has puzzled
many. While historically viewed as largely harmless 'parasitic'DNAs during evolution …

Transposable elements contribute to cell and species-specific chromatin loo** and gene regulation in mammalian genomes

AG Diehl, N Ouyang, AP Boyle - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Chromatin loo** is important for gene regulation, and studies of 3D chromatin structure
across species and cell types have improved our understanding of the principles governing …

[HTML][HTML] Ancient transposable elements transformed the uterine regulatory landscape and transcriptome during the evolution of mammalian pregnancy

VJ Lynch, MC Nnamani, A Kapusta, K Brayer, SL Plaza… - Cell reports, 2015 - cell.com
A major challenge in biology is determining how evolutionarily novel characters originate;
however, mechanistic explanations for the origin of new characters are almost completely …

FunSeq2: a framework for prioritizing noncoding regulatory variants in cancer

Y Fu, Z Liu, S Lou, J Bedford, XJ Mu, KY Yip… - Genome biology, 2014 - Springer
Identification of noncoding drivers from thousands of somatic alterations in a typical tumor is
a difficult and unsolved problem. We report a computational framework, FunSeq2, to …

Comparative genomics as a tool to understand evolution and disease

J Alföldi, K Lindblad-Toh - Genome research, 2013 - genome.cshlp.org
When the human genome project started, the major challenge was how to sequence a 3
billion letter code in an organized and cost-effective manner. When completed, the project …