ReviewBMC biology2011
Learning to live together: mutualism between self-splicing introns and their hosts.
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44 citing papers in PubMed.
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- An intron endonuclease facilitates interference competition between coinfecting viruses.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2024Article
- Genomic diversity and biogeographic distributions of a novel lineage of bacteriophages that infect marine OM43 bacteria.Microbiology spectrum · 2023Article
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- Recruitment of Mobile Genetic Elements for Diverse Cellular Functions in Prokaryotes.Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2022Review
- Distinct Expansion of Group II Introns During Evolution of Prokaryotes and Possible Factors Involved in Its Regulation.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- Genic Selection Within Prokaryotic Pangenomes.Genome biology and evolution · 2021Review
- Organellar Introns in Fungi, Algae, and Plants.Cells · 2021Review
- A Phylogenetic Approach to Structural Variation in Organization of Nuclear Group I Introns and Their Ribozymes.Non-coding RNA · 2021Article
- Analysis of metagenome-assembled viral genomes from the human gut reveals diverse putative CrAss-like phages with unique genomic features.Nature communications · 2021Article
- The Mitogenomes ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2021Article
- Discovery of new group I-D introns leads to creation of subtypes and link to an adaptive response of the mitochondrial genome in fungi.RNA biology · 2020Article
- The Coevolution of Fungal Mitochondrial Introns and Their Homing Endonucleases (GIY-YIG and LAGLIDADG).Genome biology and evolution · 2020Article
- Intra-specific comparison of mitochondrial genomes reveals host gene fragment exchange via intron mobility in Tremella fuciformis.BMC genomics · 2020Article
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Abstract
Group I and II introns can be considered as molecular parasites that interrupt protein-coding and structural RNA genes in all domains of life. They function as self-splicing ribozymes and thereby limit the phenotypic costs associated with disruption of a host gene while they act as mobile DNA elements to promote their spread within and between genomes. Once considered purely selfish DNA elements, they now seem, in the light of recent work on the molecular mechanisms regulating bacterial and phage group I and II intron dynamics, to show evidence of co-evolution with their hosts. These previously underappreciated relationships serve the co-evolving entities particularly well in times of environmental stress.
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