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Restricting retrotransposons: a review

Overview of attention for article published in Mobile DNA, August 2016
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Title
Restricting retrotransposons: a review
Published in
Mobile DNA, August 2016
DOI 10.1186/s13100-016-0070-z
Pubmed ID
27525044
Authors

John L. Goodier

Abstract

Retrotransposons have generated about 40 % of the human genome. This review examines the strategies the cell has evolved to coexist with these genomic "parasites", focussing on the non-long terminal repeat retrotransposons of humans and mice. Some of the restriction factors for retrotransposition, including the APOBECs, MOV10, RNASEL, SAMHD1, TREX1, and ZAP, also limit replication of retroviruses, including HIV, and are part of the intrinsic immune system of the cell. Many of these proteins act in the cytoplasm to degrade retroelement RNA or inhibit its translation. Some factors act in the nucleus and involve DNA repair enzymes or epigenetic processes of DNA methylation and histone modification. RISC and piRNA pathway proteins protect the germline. Retrotransposon control is relaxed in some cell types, such as neurons in the brain, stem cells, and in certain types of disease and cancer, with implications for human health and disease. This review also considers potential pitfalls in interpreting retrotransposon-related data, as well as issues to consider for future research.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 4 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Mexico 1 <1%
Unknown 519 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 129 24%
Researcher 76 14%
Student > Master 66 13%
Student > Bachelor 53 10%
Student > Postgraduate 47 9%
Other 78 15%
Unknown 78 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 214 41%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 151 29%
Medicine and Dentistry 18 3%
Immunology and Microbiology 10 2%
Neuroscience 10 2%
Other 39 7%
Unknown 85 16%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 193. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 April 2022.
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#147,158
of 21,334,388 outputs
Outputs from Mobile DNA
#1
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#3,337
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