INVITATION TO JUMPING GENES. “Thus, responses to stress—whether from pathogens, environmental extremes, or damage to the genetic apparatus—evoke not just a transcriptional response, but also a profound and to some extent heritable change in the epigenetic framework. Such changes can loosen the epigenetic constraints on transposons, allowing stress-inducible TEs to propagate stress-inducible promoters to other genes through transposition.”
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/338/6108/758
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022