A Helitron transposon reconstructed from bats reveals a novel mechanism of genome shuffling in eukaryotes
oleh: Ivana Grabundzija, Simon A. Messing, Jainy Thomas, Rachel L. Cosby, Ilija Bilic, Csaba Miskey, Andreas Gogol-Döring, Vladimir Kapitonov, Tanja Diem, Anna Dalda, Jerzy Jurka, Ellen J. Pritham, Fred Dyda, Zsuzsanna Izsvák, Zoltán Ivics
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| Diterbitkan: | Nature Portfolio 2016-03-01 |
Deskripsi
Helitron elements are proposed rolling-circle transposons in eukaryotic genomes, but experimental evidence for their transposition has been lacking. Here, Grabundzija et al. reconstruct an active Helitron from bats which they name Helraiser, and characterize its mechanism of transposition in cell-free reactions and in human cell cultures in vitro.