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  1. ..., a major group of TEs, function by a copy-and-paste mechanism using an RNA intermediate that can cause DNA damage upon integration into the , thereby leading to instability. In response to TEs, the host coevolved various defense mechanisms to silence and control retrotransposons, which include DNA...
  2. ...them independently. We first characterized the Tdg-deficient-dependent changes in DNA methylation at LTR retrotransposons (also known as endogenous retroviruses [ERVs]) in MEFs. For simplicity, we will collectively further refer to LTR retrotransposons as LTRs. The RMSK database distinguishes between...
  3. ...). In addition, DNA methylation at ICRs interacts with histone modifications, leading to a distinct histone mark signature (Henckel et al. 2009). The methylated allele displays a heterochromatic signature, enriched with repressive marks such as H3K9me3 and H4K20me3. In contrast, the nonmethylated allele...
  4. ...is a common DNA modification among eukaryotes, typically in the form of cytosine methylated on carbon-5 (5-methylcytosine, 5mC). Saccharomyces cerevisiae has no 5mC, and in other fungi methylation is targeted to the scarce repeated DNA ( Selker 1990 ; Rossignol and Faugeron 1994 ). The levels and patterns...
  5. ...deletion in MEFs, it significantly decreased in their ES cell counterparts, albeit not as dramatically as in ES cells deleted for Ehmt2 (G9a), a histone methyltransferase involved in the maintenance of DNA methylation (Fig. 3C, right; Dong et al. 2008; Tachibana et al. 2008). Perhaps explaining this latter...
  6. ...investigated thus far. Here, we have established a high-resolution transcriptome/translatome map for the near-entirety of Arabidopsis thaliana transposons, using two distinct DNA methylation mutants in which transposon expression is broadly de-repressed. The value of this map to study potentially intact...
  7. ...). This chain of events is also thought to occur when a new TE invades a “naïve” (Panda and Slotkin 2013). During transcriptional silencing, the RNA-directed DNA methylation (RdDM) pathway orchestrates the deposition of DNA methylation and heterochromatic histone marks on TEs. The key steps initiate...
  8. ...in somatic ovarian cells. Similar to its endogenous localization in the germarium and embryo, PIWIwas predominantly nuclear in OSS cells, as marked by the overlap with DAPI staining of DNA (Fig. 5C). However, high-magnification deconvolution microscopy revealed that PIWI was largely excluded from the highly...
  9. ...of NF-Y sites are located at enhancers, many of which are tissue specific, and nearly half of the NF-Y sites are in select subclasses of HERV LTR repeats. Unlike most TFs, NF-Y can access its target DNA motif in inactive (nonmodified) or polycomb-repressed chromatin domains. Unexpectedly, NF...
  10. ...). In normal and developed tissues, TEs are often suppressed by epigenetic mechanisms such as DNA methylation, repressive histone marks, and RNA and protein products such as the PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNA) and the Krüppel-associated box (KRAB)-containing zinc finger protein (KZFP) family proteins (Liang et...
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