A mammalian conserved element derived from SINE displays enhancer properties recapitulating Satb2 expression in early-born callosal projection neurons.

Short interspersed repetitive elements (SINEs) are highly repeated sequences that account for a significant proportion of many eukaryotic genomes and are usually considered "junk DNA". However, we previously discovered that many AmnSINE1 loci are evolutionarily conserved across mammalian g...

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Main Authors: Kensuke Tashiro, Anne Teissier, Naoki Kobayashi, Akiko Nakanishi, Takeshi Sasaki, Kuo Yan, Victor Tarabykin, Lisa Vigier, Kenta Sumiyama, Mika Hirakawa, Hidenori Nishihara, Alessandra Pierani, Norihiro Okada
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3234267?pdf=render