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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Rattus norvegicus
SUBMITTER: James Bradley Aimone
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-2499 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Muotri Alysson R AR Chu Vi T VT Marchetto Maria C N MC Deng Wei W Moran John V JV Gage Fred H FH
Nature 20050601 7044
Revealing the mechanisms for neuronal somatic diversification remains a central challenge for understanding individual differences in brain organization and function. Here we show that an engineered human LINE-1 (for long interspersed nuclear element-1; also known as L1) element can retrotranspose in neuronal precursors derived from rat hippocampus neural stem cells. The resulting retrotransposition events can alter the expression of neuronal genes, which, in turn, can influence neuronal cell fa ...[more]