Reality check for transposon enhancers.
basic_science · Level V
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 31148541.
- Also identified by DOI 10.7554/eLife.47900 and PMC identifier 6544458.
- Licence recorded as CC BY.
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Abstract
Hundreds of retrovirus-like sequences have features that suggest they might be gene enhancers, but only a small fraction displays gene-regulating activity in experiments on mouse stem cells.
Medical subject headings
- DNA Transposable Elements
- Enhancer Elements, Genetic