Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Dridi S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3820591 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Alus, the short interspersed repeated sequences (SINEs), are retrotransposons that litter the human genomes and have long been considered junk DNA. However, recent findings that these mobile elements are transcribed, both as distinct RNA polymerase III transcripts and as a part of RNA polymerase II transcripts, suggest biological functions and refute the notion that Alus are biologically unimportant. Indeed, Alu RNAs have been shown to control mRNA processing at several levels, to have complex r ...[more]