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ReviewCurrent opinion in genetics & development2025

Mix-and-match between transposable elements and zinc finger proteins fuels genic and regulatory innovation.

Olga Rosspopoff, Didier Trono, Cédric Feschotte

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Review in Current opinion in genetics & development, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Olga RosspopoffSchool of Life Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland. Electronic address: https://twitter.com/@orspf.
Didier TronoSchool of Life Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland. Electronic address: didier.trono@epfl.ch.
Cédric FeschotteDepartment of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA. Electronic address: cf458@cornell.edu.

Funding

Genomic and Physiological Impact of Transposable Elements.R35GM122550 · NIGMS · CORNELL UNIVERSITY · PI Cedric Feschotte · 2017 to 2026
$4.4M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM122550
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Transposable elements (TEs) are abundant and dynamic components of eukaryotic genomes, subject to regulation by equally adaptive regulatory systems. A coevolution of TEs and zinc finger genes can be documented throughout metazoan evolution. In humans, TEs account for half of the genome, and nearly all TE subfamilies are preferentially bound by at least one of the approximately 400 KRAB zinc finger proteins (ZFPs). The majority of human KRAB-ZFPs appear to tame the cis-regulatory activities of TEs, thereby facilitating their integration within gene regulatory networks. In turn, throughout vertebrate evolution, TE protein domains have fused repeatedly with ZFPs to give rise to new classes of regulatory proteins. Thus, the TE-ZFP interplay has been a powerful catalyst of biological innovation.

Indexed as

DNA Transposable ElementsEvolution, MolecularGene Expression RegulationZinc FingersAnimalsGene Regulatory NetworksHumansDNA Transposable Elements

Identifiers

PMID41240407
PMCPMC12952962

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