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SUBMITTER: Jacobs JZ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4832573 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jacobs Jake Z JZ Rosado-Lugo Jesus D JD Cranz-Mileva Susanne S Ciccaglione Keith M KM Tournier Vincent V Zaratiegui Mikel M
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20150901 6255
Long terminal repeat (LTR) retrotransposons are an abundant class of genomic parasites that replicate by insertion of new copies into the host genome. Fungal LTR retrotransposons prevent mutagenic insertions through diverse targeting mechanisms that avoid coding sequences, but conserved principles guiding their target site selection have not been established. Here, we show that insertion of the fission yeast LTR retrotransposon Tf1 is guided by the DNA binding protein Sap1 and that the efficienc ...[more]