Recurrent acquisition of cytosine methyltransferases into eukaryotic retrotransposons

Autor: Alex de Mendoza, Amandine Bonnet, Dulce B. Vargas-Landin, Nanjing Ji, Hongfei Li, Feng Yang, Ling Li, Koichi Hori, Jahnvi Pflueger, Sam Buckberry, Hiroyuki Ohta, Nedeljka Rosic, Pascale Lesage, Senjie Lin, Ryan Lister
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Nature Communications, Vol 9, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2018)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-03724-9
Popis: Cytosine methyltransferases (DNMTs) often silence transposons in eukaryotic genomes. Here the authors describe the recurrent acquisition of DNMTs by transposons from two distantly-related eukaryotes and suggest that methylation of CG dinucleotides by transposon DNMTs could modify the host epigenome in dinoflagellates.
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