Microarray analysis reveals global modulation of endogenous retroelement transcription by microbes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A substantial proportion of both the mouse and human genomes comprise of endogenous retroelements (REs), which include endogenous retroviruses. Over evolutionary time, REs accumulate inactivating mutations or deletions and thus lose the ability to replicate. Additionally, REs can be transcriptionally repressed by dedicated mechanisms of the host. Nevertheless, many of them still possess and express intact open reading frames, and their transcriptional activity has been associated with many physiological and pathological processes of the host. However, this association remains tenuous due to incomplete understanding of the mechanism by which RE transcription is regulated. Here, we use a bioinformatics tool to examine RE transcriptional activity, measured by microarrays, i

SUBMITTER: Young GR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4222864 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature