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Restricting retrotransposons: a review
Retrotransposons have generated about 40 % of the human genome. This review examines the strategies the cell has evolved to coexist with these genomic “parasites”, focussing on the non-long terminal repeat retrotransposons of humans and mice. Some of the restriction factors for retrotransposition, i...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4982230/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27525044 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13100-016-0070-z |
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description | Retrotransposons have generated about 40 % of the human genome. This review examines the strategies the cell has evolved to coexist with these genomic “parasites”, focussing on the non-long terminal repeat retrotransposons of humans and mice. Some of the restriction factors for retrotransposition, including the APOBECs, MOV10, RNASEL, SAMHD1, TREX1, and ZAP, also limit replication of retroviruses, including HIV, and are part of the intrinsic immune system of the cell. Many of these proteins act in the cytoplasm to degrade retroelement RNA or inhibit its translation. Some factors act in the nucleus and involve DNA repair enzymes or epigenetic processes of DNA methylation and histone modification. RISC and piRNA pathway proteins protect the germline. Retrotransposon control is relaxed in some cell types, such as neurons in the brain, stem cells, and in certain types of disease and cancer, with implications for human health and disease. This review also considers potential pitfalls in interpreting retrotransposon-related data, as well as issues to consider for future research. |
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spelling | pubmed-49822302016-08-13 Restricting retrotransposons: a review Goodier, John L. Mob DNA Review Retrotransposons have generated about 40 % of the human genome. This review examines the strategies the cell has evolved to coexist with these genomic “parasites”, focussing on the non-long terminal repeat retrotransposons of humans and mice. Some of the restriction factors for retrotransposition, including the APOBECs, MOV10, RNASEL, SAMHD1, TREX1, and ZAP, also limit replication of retroviruses, including HIV, and are part of the intrinsic immune system of the cell. Many of these proteins act in the cytoplasm to degrade retroelement RNA or inhibit its translation. Some factors act in the nucleus and involve DNA repair enzymes or epigenetic processes of DNA methylation and histone modification. RISC and piRNA pathway proteins protect the germline. Retrotransposon control is relaxed in some cell types, such as neurons in the brain, stem cells, and in certain types of disease and cancer, with implications for human health and disease. This review also considers potential pitfalls in interpreting retrotransposon-related data, as well as issues to consider for future research. BioMed Central 2016-08-11 /pmc/articles/PMC4982230/ /pubmed/27525044 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13100-016-0070-z Text en © The Author(s). 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Review Goodier, John L. Restricting retrotransposons: a review |
title | Restricting retrotransposons: a review |
title_full | Restricting retrotransposons: a review |
title_fullStr | Restricting retrotransposons: a review |
title_full_unstemmed | Restricting retrotransposons: a review |
title_short | Restricting retrotransposons: a review |
title_sort | restricting retrotransposons: a review |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4982230/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27525044 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13100-016-0070-z |
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