Telomeric Trans-Silencing: an epigenetic repression combining RNA silencing and heterochromatin formation
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Telomeric Trans-Silencing: An Epigenetic Repression Combining RNA Silencing and Heterochromatin Formation
The study of P-element repression in Drosophila melanogaster led to the discovery of the telomeric Trans-Silencing Effect (TSE), a repression mechanism by which a transposon or a transgene inserted in subtelomeric heterochromatin (Telomeric Associated Sequence or TAS) has the capacity to repress in trans in the female germline, a homologous transposon, or transgene located in euchromatin. TSE s...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS Genetics
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1553-7390,1553-7404
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0030158.eor