| Literature DB >> 19884252 |
Jason A Motl1, Douglas L Chalker.
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The ciliate Paramecium tetraurelia must eliminate approximately 60,000 short sequences from its genome to generate uninterrupted coding sequences in its somatic macronucleus. In this issue of Genes & Development, Baudry and colleagues (pp. 2478-2483) identify the protein that excises these noncoding sequences: a domesticated piggyBac transposase that has been adapted to remove what are likely the remnants of transposon insertions. This new study reveals how addition of a transposase to small RNA-directed silencing machinery can guide major genome reorganization.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID: 19884252 PMCID: PMC2779744 DOI: 10.1101/gad.1864609
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Genes Dev ISSN: 0890-9369 Impact factor: 11.361