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SUBMITTER: Fu Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3773815 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fu Yu Y Kawabe Akira A Etcheverry Mathilde M Ito Tasuku T Toyoda Atsushi A Fujiyama Asao A Colot Vincent V Tarutani Yoshiaki Y Kakutani Tetsuji T
The EMBO journal 20130730 17
Transposable elements (TEs) have a major impact on genome evolution, but they are potentially deleterious, and most of them are silenced by epigenetic mechanisms, such as DNA methylation. Here, we report the characterization of a TE encoding an activity to counteract epigenetic silencing by the host. In Arabidopsis thaliana, we identified a mobile copy of the Mutator-like element (MULE) with degenerated terminal inverted repeats (TIRs). This TE, named Hiun (Hi), is silent in wild-type plants, bu ...[more]