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ArticleGenetics2005

Two distinct domains in Drosophila melanogaster telomeres.

Harald Biessmann, Sudha Prasad, Valery F Semeshin, Eugenia N Andreyeva, Quang Nguyen, Marika F Walter, James M Mason

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Article in Genetics, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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25citing papers in PubMed
6.2field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed, 35 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Harald BiessmannDepartment of Biological Chemistry, University of California-Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA.
Sudha Prasad
Valery F Semeshin
Eugenia N Andreyeva
Quang Nguyen
Marika F Walter
James M Mason
University of California, Irvine · USInstitute of Cytology and Genetics · RUNational Institute of Environmental Health Sciences · US

Funding

TELOMERE STRUCTURE IN DROSOPHILAZ01ES021054 · NIEHS · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES · PI MASON, JAMES M · 1994 to 2008
$2.2M
TELOMERE CHROMATIN STRUCTURER01GM056729 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE · PI BIESSMANN, HARALD · 1999 to 2002
$831k
Intramural NIH HHSNIEHS NIH HHS Z01 ES021054-12NIGMS NIH HHS GM 56729NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM056729NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM056729-04
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Telomeres are generally considered heterochromatic. On the basis of DNA composition, the telomeric region of Drosophila melanogaster contains two distinct subdomains: a subtelomeric region of repetitive DNA, termed TAS, and a terminal array of retrotransposons, which perform the elongation function instead of telomerase. We have identified several P-element insertions into this retrotransposon array and compared expression levels of transgenes with similar integrations into TAS and euchromatic regions. In contrast to insertions in TAS, which are silenced, reporter genes in the terminal HeT-A, TAHRE, or TART retroelements did not exhibit repressed expression in comparison with the same transgene construct in euchromatin. These data, in combination with cytological studies, provide evidence that the subtelomeric TAS region exhibits features resembling heterochromatin, while the terminal retrotransposon array exhibits euchromatic characteristics.

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AnimalsBase SequenceBlotting, SouthernChromosomesComputational BiologyDNA PrimersDrosophila melanogasterGene ComponentsGenomic LibraryHeterochromatinIn Situ HybridizationMicroscopy, ElectronMolecular Sequence DataRetroelementsSequence Analysis, DNATelomereDNA PrimersHeterochromatinRetroelements

Identifiers

PMID16143601
PMCPMC1382029
OpenAlexW2142983636

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