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SUBMITTER: Zhang J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4270019 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zhang Jianbo J Zuo Tao T Wang Dafang D Peterson Thomas T
eLife 20141118
Every DNA segment in a eukaryotic genome normally replicates once and only once per cell cycle to maintain genome stability. We show here that this restriction can be bypassed through alternative transposition, a transposition reaction that utilizes the termini of two separate, nearby transposable elements (TEs). Our results suggest that alternative transposition during S phase can induce re-replication of the TEs and their flanking sequences. The DNA re-replication can spontaneously abort to ge ...[more]