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Human LINE-1 retrotransposition requires a metastable coiled coil and a positively charged N-terminus in L1ORF1p.
eLife - 22 Mar 2018
Khazina Elena, Weichenrieder Oliver
Abstract excerpt
LINE-1 (L1) is an autonomous retrotransposon, which acted throughout mammalian evolution and keeps contributing to human genotypic diversity, genetic disease and cancer. L1 encodes two essential proteins: L1ORF1p, a unique RNA-binding protein, and L1ORF2p, an endonuclease and reverse transcriptase. L1ORF1p contains an essential, but rapidly evolving N-terminal portion, homo-trimerizes via a coiled coil and...
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