A domesticated PiggyBac transposase interacts with heterochromatin and catalyzes reproducible DNA elimination in Tetrahymena.

The somatic genome of the ciliated protist Tetrahymena undergoes DNA elimination of defined sequences called internal eliminated sequences (IESs), which account for ~30% of the germline genome. During DNA elimination, IES regions are heterochromatinized and assembled into heterochromatin bodies in t...

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Main Authors: Alexander Vogt, Kazufumi Mochizuki
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3861120?pdf=render