▪ Abstract Transposons are mobile genetic elements that can relocate from one genomic
location to another. As well as modulating gene expression and contributing to genome …

Hereditary haemochromatosis (HH), which affects some 1 in 400 and has an estimated
carrier frequency of 1 in 10 individuals of Northern European descent, results in multi–organ …

Genomic silencing is a fundamental mechanism of transcriptional regulation, yet little is
known about conserved mechanisms of silencing. We report here the discovery of four …

Mobile genetic segments, or transposons, are also referred to as jumping genes as they can
shift from one position in the genome to another, thus inducing a chromosomal mutation …

US9115396B2 - Transposon end compositions and methods for modifying nucleic acids -
Google Patents US9115396B2 - Transposon end compositions and methods for modifying …

Estimates of the size and copy number of the retrotransposons in a 240 kb region flanking
theadh1gene of maize suggest that 33–62% of the maize genome is composed of the high …

Using degenerate oligonucleotide primers based on a pumpkin (Cucurbita maxima)
gibberellin (GA) 20-oxidase sequence, six different fragments of dioxygenase genes were …

DUCHENNE muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a severe, progressive muscle-wasting disease
that causes cardiac or respiratory failure1, 2 and results in death at about 20 years of age …

Analysis of the gene cluster from Streptomyces avermitilis that governs the biosynthesis of
the polyketide anthelmintic avermectin revealed that it contains four large ORFs encoding …

The double-stranded RNA-binding domain (dsRBD) is a common RNA-binding motif found
in many proteins involved in RNA maturation and localization. To determine how this …