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J Exp Bot
January 2025
School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
Plants host a range of DNA elements capable of self-replication. These molecules, usually associated to the activity of transposable elements or viruses, are found integrated in the genome or in the form of extrachromosomal DNA. The activity of these elements can impact genome plasticity by a variety of mechanisms, including the generation of structural variants, the shuffling of regulatory or coding DNA sequences across the genome, and DNA endoduplication.
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December 2024
All-Russia Research Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology, Timiryazevskaya Str. 42, 127550 Moscow, Russia.
Plant genomes possess numerous transposable element (TE) insertions that have occurred during evolution. Most TEs are silenced or diverged; therefore, they lose their ability to encode proteins and are transposed in the genome. Knowledge of active plant TEs and TE-encoded proteins essential for transposition and evasion of plant cell transposon silencing mechanisms remains limited.
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March 2025
Biotechnology Division, Defence Research & Development Establishment, Jhansi Road, Gwalior-474002, MP, India. Electronic address:
Global reporting of antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB) bearing antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) have increased in the past decade. Sewage systems act as breeding grounds for these pathogens. Dumping of untreated sewage effluent in river water systems have aided in their dissemination and spread.
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December 2024
Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India.
The 2-micron plasmid residing within the host budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae nucleus serves as a model system for understanding the mechanism of segregation and stable maintenance of circular endogenously present extrachromosomal DNA in eukaryotic cells. The plasmid is maintained at a high average copy number (40-60 copies per yeast cell) through generations despite there is no apparent benefit to the host. Notably, the segregation mechanism of 2-micron plasmid shares significant similarities with those of bacterial low-copy-number plasmids and episomal forms of viral genomes in mammalian cells.
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November 2024
Department of Cardiology, Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200001, China.
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