| Literature DB >> 24681886 |
Xinyi Lu1, Friedrich Sachs2, LeeAnn Ramsay3, Pierre-Étienne Jacques4, Jonathan Göke1, Guillaume Bourque5, Huck-Hui Ng6.
Abstract
Human endogenous retrovirus subfamily H (HERVH) is a class of transposable elements expressed preferentially in human embryonic stem cells (hESCs). Here, we report that the long terminal repeats of HERVH function as enhancers and that HERVH is a nuclear long noncoding RNA required to maintain hESC identity. Furthermore, HERVH is associated with OCT4, coactivators and Mediator subunits. Together, these results uncover a new role of species-specific transposable elements in hESCs.Entities:
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Year: 2014 PMID: 24681886 DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.2799
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nat Struct Mol Biol ISSN: 1545-9985 Impact factor: 15.369