ReviewCells2021
The Evolutionary Volte-Face of Transposable Elements: From Harmful Jumping Genes to Major Drivers of Genetic Innovation.
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- RNA interference mediated disease resistance in vegetable crops: fundamental discovery to current trends.Molecular biology reports · 2026Review
- Stable genome structures in living fossil fishes.Genome research · 2026Article
- Integration of Repeatome and Cytogenetic Data on Tandem DNAs in a Medicinal PlantInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- Reactivation of retrotransposable elements is associated with environmental stress and ageing.Nature reviews. Genetics · 2025Review
- Exploring transposable elements: new horizons in cancer diagnostics and therapeutics.Mobile DNA · 2025Review
- Physiologic, Genetic and Epigenetic Determinants of Water Deficit Tolerance in Fruit Trees.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
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- Expression of Transposable Elements throughout theNon-coding RNA · 2024Article
- Toward Transgene-Free Transposon-Mediated Biological Mutagenesis for Plant Breeding.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- ChimeraTE: a pipeline to detect chimeric transcripts derived from genes and transposable elements.Nucleic acids research · 2023Article
- Reactivation of a somatic errantivirus and germline invasion in Drosophila ovaries.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Extrachromosomal circular DNA and structural variants highlight genome instability in Arabidopsis epigenetic mutants.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Plant mobile domain proteins ensure Microrchidia 1 expression to fulfill transposon silencing.Life science alliance · 2023Article
- Thermo-Sensitive Spikelet Defects 1 acclimatizes rice spikelet initiation and development to high temperature.Plant physiology · 2023Article
- Diapause-Linked Gene Expression Pattern and Related Candidate Duplicated Genes of the Mountain ButterflyInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- Characterization of Transposon-Derived Accessible Chromatin Regions in Rice (International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Article
- Integration of Maps Enables a Cytogenomics Analysis of the Complete Karyotype inInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2022Article
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- Transposable Elements and Human Diseases: Mechanisms and Implication in the Response to Environmental Pollutants.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Review
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Abstract
Transposable elements (TEs) are self-replicating DNA elements that constitute major fractions of eukaryote genomes. Their ability to transpose can modify the genome structure with potentially deleterious effects. To repress TE activity, host cells have developed numerous strategies, including epigenetic pathways, such as DNA methylation or histone modifications. Although TE neo-insertions are mostly deleterious or neutral, they can become advantageous for the host under specific circumstances. The phenomenon leading to the appropriation of TE-derived sequences by the host is known as TE exaptation or co-option. TE exaptation can be of different natures, through the production of coding or non-coding DNA sequences with ultimately an adaptive benefit for the host. In this review, we first give new insights into the silencing pathways controlling TE activity. We then discuss a model to explain how, under specific environmental conditions, TEs are unleashed, leading to a TE burst and neo-insertions, with potential benefits for the host. Finally, we review our current knowledge of coding and non-coding TE exaptation by providing several examples in various organisms and describing a method to identify TE co-option events.
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