Roles of transposable elements in the regulation of mammalian transcription

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The diverse roles of DNA methylation in mammalian development and disease

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Gene Regulation for Higher Cells: A Theory

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Unmasked: transposable elements as drivers and targets in cancer

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Evolutionarily recent retrotransposons contribute to schizophrenia

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Competition for H2A.Z underlies the developmental impacts of repetitive element de-repression

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Evolutionary Innovations in Conserved Regulatory Elements Associate With Developmental Genes in Mammals

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The regulation of totipotency transcription: Perspective from in vitro and in vivo totipotency

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The Role of Transposable Elements in Sexual Development

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Genome-wide identification, evolution and expression profiles analysis of bHLH gene family in Castanea mollissima

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Asymmetric and parallel subgenome selection co-shape common carp domestication

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Endogenous retroelement expression in the gut microenvironment of people living with HIV-1

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The dynamic genomes of Hydra and the anciently active repeat complement of animal chromosomes

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Promiscuous splicing-derived hairpins are dominant substrates of tailing-mediated defense of miRNA biogenesis in mammals

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ZMYM2 controls human transposable element transcription through distinct co-regulatory complexes

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Strategy for Developing a Stable CHO Cell Line that Produces Large Titers of Trastuzumab Antibody

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Statistical learning quantifies transposable element-mediated cis-regulation

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Genomic profiling of six human somatic histone H1 variants denotes that H1X accumulates at recently incorporated transposable elements

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Gapped-kmer sequence modeling robustly identifies regulatory vocabularies and distal enhancers conserved between evolutionarily distant mammals

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Transposable elements may enhance antiviral resistance in HIV-1 elite controllers

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A subset of transposable elements as mechano-response enhancer elements in controlling human embryonic stem cell fate

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Navigating the brain and aging: exploring the impact of transposable elements from health to disease

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Combining EHMT and PARP Inhibition: A Strategy to Diminish Therapy-Resistant Ovarian Cancer Tumor Growth while Stimulating Immune Activation

Nguyen, L. L., Watson, Z. L., Ortega, R., Woodruff, E. R., Jordan, K. R., Iwanaga, R., Yamamoto, T. M., Bailey, C. A., To, F., Jeong, A. D., et al. (2024) · Molecular Cancer Therapeutics · doi:10.1158/1535-7163.mct-23-0613 · Cited by 11

Pioneer Transcription Factors: The First Domino in Zygotic Genome Activation

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Evolutionary patterns and functional effects of 3D chromatin structures in butterflies with extensive genome rearrangements

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Comprehensive Analysis and Drug Modulation of Human Endogenous Retrovirus in Hepatocellular Carcinomas

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Extensive horizontal transfer of transposable elements shapes fungal mobilomes

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Pig H3K4me3, H3K27ac, and gene expression profiles reveal reproductive tissue-specific activity of transposable elements

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Cis-Regulatory Elements in Mammals

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PR-SET7 epigenetically restrains uterine interferon response and cell death governing proper postnatal stromal development

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Drosophila Piwi distinguishes transposons from mRNAs by piRNA complementarity and abundance

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METTL3-dependent m6A RNA methylation regulates transposable elements and represses human naïve pluripotency through transposable element-derived enhancers

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Transposable elements in health and disease: Molecular basis and clinical implications

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Young KRAB-zinc finger gene clusters are highly dynamic incubators of ERV-driven genetic heterogeneity in mice

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TET Proteins in the Spotlight: Emerging Concepts of Epigenetic Regulation in T Cell Biology

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Transposon waves at the water-to-land transition

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Retrotransposons and Telomeres

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Locus-specific human endogenous retroviruses reveal lymphoma subtypes

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Remodeling of H3K9me3 during the pluripotent to totipotent-like state transition

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Precise Gene Knock‐In Tools with Minimized Risk of DSBs: A Trend for Gene Manipulation

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From the genome's perspective: Bearing somatic retrotransposition to leverage the regulatory potential of L1 RNAs

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Rescuing DNMT1 fails to fully reverse the molecular and functional repercussions of its loss in mouse embryonic stem cells

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Cancer cell type-specific derepression of transposable elements by inhibition of chromatin modifier enzymes

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Enhancer adoption by an LTR retrotransposon generates viral-like particles, causing developmental limb phenotypes

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Human Endogenous Retroviruses and Diseases

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Stress does not induce a general transcription of transposable elements in Drosophila

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Transposable elements in normal and malignant hematopoiesis

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Ribosomal profiling of human endogenous retroviruses in healthy tissues

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The role of transposon activity in shapingcis-regulatory element evolution after whole-genome duplicationPreprint

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Targeting transposable elements in cancer: developments and opportunities

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Structural Variants Contribute to Phenotypic Variation in Maize

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Retroelement co-option disrupts the cancer transcriptional programme

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Endogenous double-stranded RNA: Bridging immune activation and cancer therapeutics

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Single-cell long-read Hi-C, scNanoHi-C2, details 3D genome reorganization in embryonic-stage germ cells

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Transposon invasion of primate genomes shaped human inflammatory enhancers and susceptibility to inflammatory diseases

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Hiker, a new family of DNA transposons encoding transposases with DD35E motifs, displays a distinct phylogenetic relationship with most known DNA transposon families of IS630-Tc1-mariner (ITm)

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The Molecular Impacts of Retrotransposons in Development and Diseases

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CRISPR-TE: a web-based tool to generate single guide RNAs targeting transposable elements

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TEENA: an integrated web server for transposable element enrichment analysis in various model and non-model organisms

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A phylogenetic approach uncovers cryptic endogenous retrovirus subfamilies in the primate lineage

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Vitamin C activates young LINE-1 elements in mouse embryonic stem cells via H3K9me3 demethylation

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Dynamic co-evolution of transposable elements and the piRNA pathway in African cichlid fishes

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Single-cell transcriptome profiling reveals the spatiotemporal distribution of triterpenoid saponin biosynthesis and transposable element activity in Gynostemma pentaphyllum shoot apexes and leaves

Li, R., Du, K., Zhang, C., Shen, X., Yun, L., Wang, S., Li, Z., Sun, Z., Wei, J., Li, Y., et al. (2024) · Frontiers in Plant Science · doi:10.3389/fpls.2024.1394587 · Cited by 8

The impact of retrotransposons on zygotic genome activation and the chromatin landscape of early embryos

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Multiomic analyses on the contribution of transposable elements to the cis-regulatory landscape of different types of immune cells

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Constructing eRNA-mediated gene regulatory networks to explore the genetic basis of muscle and fat-relevant traits in pigs

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Tumor-suppressive activities for pogo transposable element derived with KRAB domain via ribosome biogenesis restriction

Tu, Z., Bassal, M. A., Bell, G. W., Zhang, Y., Hu, Y. P., Quintana, L. M., Gokul, D., Tenen, D. G., & Karnoub, A. E. (2024) · Molecular Cell · doi:10.1016/j.molcel.2024.09.025 · Cited by 7

Viral Mimicry Response Is Associated With Clinical Outcome in Pleural Mesothelioma

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Loss of heterochromatin at endogenous retroviruses creates competition for transcription factor bindingPreprint

O’Hara, R. A., & Banaszynski, L. A. (2022) · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · doi:10.1101/2022.04.28.489907 · Cited by 7

Adenovirus small E1A directs activation of Alu transcription at YAP/TEAD- and AP-1-bound enhancers through interactions with the EP400 chromatin remodeler

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Disruption of TAD hierarchy promotes LTR co-option in cancer

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DNA hypomethylation traits define human regulatory T cells in cutaneous tissue and identify their blood recirculating counterparts

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Transposable elements drive species-specific and tissue-specific transcriptomes in human development

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Integrated enhancer regulatory network by enhancer–promoter looping in gastric cancer

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Novelty versus innovation of gene regulatory elements in human evolution and disease

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Rewiring of SINE-MIR enhancer topology and Esrrb modulation in expanded and naive pluripotency

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RetroSeeker reveals the characteristics, expression, and evolution of a large set of novel retrotransposons

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A butterfly pan-genome reveals a large amount of structural variation underlies the evolution of chromatin accessibilityPreprint

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Altered AP-1, RUNX and EGR chromatin dynamics drive fibrotic lung diseasePreprint

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Convergence and conflict among telomere-specialized transposons across 60 million years of Drosophilid evolutionPreprint

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