A research team has unveiled a crucial mechanism that helps regulate DNA damage repair, with important implications for improving cancer treatment outcomes. The result was published in Cell Death ...

While most bacterial DNA is in the form of plasmids ... He continued that the second telomeric transposon mechanism is found in Streptomyces, which has aided in the development of many antibiotics.

Cornell University researchers have discovered a new mechanism these genes use to survive and propagate in bacteria with linear DNA, with applications ... with benefits for the transposon and ...

Cornell University researchers have discovered a new mechanism these genes use to survive and propagate in bacteria with linear DNA, with applications ... with benefits for the transposon and ...

Something called “selfish dna,” or transposons, are in control of early human ... The research team focused their investigation on a particular type of transposon called LINE-1. While our genes make ...

The IS110 elements are very minimal, consisting only of a gene encoding the recombinase enzyme, plus flanking DNA segments that have, until now, remained a mystery. Visualization of the bridge ...

A new study adds to an emerging, radically new picture of how bacterial cells continually repair faulty sections of their DNA. Published online May 16 in the journal Cell, the report describes the ...

They focused on a single type of mobile genetic element known as a DNA transposon ... These use a mechanism to write genes into the genome called target primed reverse transcription, which ...

This manipulation capacitated the transposon system in targeted integration by combining the “cut-and-paste” mechanism of the transposon system ... However, integration of the backbone DNA of ...

But according to Feschotte’s new study, a transposon can occasionally hop into an intron and ... proteins contain a part called KRAB that is associated with repressing DNA transcription in animals.