retrotransposon
Sign in to saveAlso known as transposons via RNA intermediates, retrotransposons, Class I TE, copy and paste transposable element, copy and paste TE, retroelements
thumb|right|440px|Simplified representation of the life cycle of a retrotransposon
Research
16,552 papers- Retrotransposon life cycle and its impacts on cellular responses.RNA biology · 2024
- Retrotransposon renaissance in early embryos.Trends in genetics : TIG · 2024
- Retrotransposon-derived transcripts and their functions in immunity and disease.Genes & genetic systems · 2024
- Retrotransposon-induced mosaicism in the neural genome.Open biology · 2018
- Retrotransposon: an insight into neurological disorders from perspectives of neurodevelopment and aging.Translational neurodegeneration · 2025
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- LTR retrotransposons
- Endogenous retrovirus
- Non-LTR retrotransposons
- LINE
- Human L1
- SINE
- Alu elements
- SVA elements
- Role in human disease
- Role in evolution
- See also
- References
thumb|right|440px|Simplified representation of the life cycle of a retrotransposon
Retrotransposons (also called Class I transposable elements) are mobile elements which move in the host genome by converting their transcribed RNA into DNA through reverse transcription. Thus, they differ from Class II transposable elements, or DNA transposons, in utilizing an RNA intermediate for the transposition and leaving the transposition donor site unchanged.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “retrotransposon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.