Little fish, big data: zebrafish as a model for cardiovascular and metabolic disease

P Gut, S Reischauer, DYR Stainier… - Physiological …, 2017 - journals.physiology.org
The burden of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases worldwide is staggering. The
emergence of systems approaches in biology promises new therapies, faster and cheaper …

Contemporary Transposon Tools: A Review and Guide through Mechanisms and Applications of Slee** Beauty, piggyBac and Tol2 for Genome Engineering

N Sandoval-Villegas, W Nurieva, M Amberger… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Transposons are mobile genetic elements evolved to execute highly efficient integration of
their genes into the genomes of their host cells. These natural DNA transfer vehicles have …

Comparative analysis of transposable element vector systems in human cells

I Grabundzija, M Irgang, L Mátés, E Belay, J Matrai… - Molecular therapy, 2010 - cell.com
Transposon-based gene vectors have become indispensable tools in vertebrate genetics for
applications ranging from insertional mutagenesis and transgenesis in model species to …

TIR-Learner, a new ensemble method for TIR transposable element annotation, provides evidence for abundant new transposable elements in the maize genome

W Su, X Gu, T Peterson - Molecular plant, 2019 - cell.com
Transposable elements (TEs) make up a large and rapidly evolving proportion of plant
genomes. Among Class II DNA TEs, TIR elements are flanked by characteristic terminal …

Efficient genetic modification and germ-line transmission of primordial germ cells using piggyBac and Tol2 transposons

J Macdonald, L Taylor, A Sherman… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
The derivation of germ-line competent avian primordial germ cells establishes a cell-based
model system for the investigation of germ cell differentiation and the production of …

The expanding universe of transposon technologies for gene and cell engineering

Z Ivics, Z Izsvák - Mobile DNA, 2010 - Springer
Transposable elements can be viewed as natural DNA transfer vehicles that, similar to
integrating viruses, are capable of efficient genomic insertion. The mobility of class II …

Preclinical and clinical advances in transposon-based gene therapy

J Tipanee, YC Chai, T VandenDriessche… - Bioscience …, 2017 - portlandpress.com
Transposons derived from Slee** Beauty (SB), piggyBac (PB), or Tol2 typically require
cotransfection of transposon DNA with a transposase either as an expression plasmid or …

Whole Genome Resequencing Reveals Natural Target Site Preferences of Transposable Elements in Drosophila melanogaster

RS Linheiro, CM Bergman - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Transposable elements are mobile DNA sequences that integrate into host genomes using
diverse mechanisms with varying degrees of target site specificity. While the target site …

Transposons as tools for functional genomics in vertebrate models

K Kawakami, DA Largaespada, Z Ivics - Trends in Genetics, 2017 - cell.com
Genetic tools and mutagenesis strategies based on transposable elements are currently
under development with a vision to link primary DNA sequence information to gene …

[HTML][HTML] Transposons: moving forward from preclinical studies to clinical trials

K ChuahMarinee - Human gene therapy, 2017 - liebertpub.com
Transposons have emerged as promising vectors for gene therapy that can potentially
overcome some of the limitations of commonly used viral vectors. Transposons stably …