title: Structural and functional liaisons between transposable elements and satellite DNAs.
abstract: Transposable elements (TEs) and satellite DNAs (satDNAs) are typically identified as major repetitive DNA components in eukaryotic genomes. TEs are DNA segments able to move throughout a genome while satDNAs are tandemly repeated sequences organized in long arrays. Both classes of repetitive sequences are extremely diverse, and many TEs and satDNAs exist within a genome. Although they differ in structure, genomic organization, mechanisms of spread, and evolutionary dynamics, TEs and satDNAs can share sequence similarity and organizational patterns, thus indicating that complex mutual relationships can determine their evolution, and ultimately define roles they might have on genome architecture and function. Motivated by accumulating data about sequence elements that incorporate features of both TEs and satDNAs, here we present an overview of their structural and functional liaisons.
authors: Ruđer Bošković Institute, Bijenička 54, HR-10000, Zagreb, Croatia.
authors: Nevenka
authors: N
authors: Meštrović
authors: Ruđer Bošković Institute, Bijenička 54, HR-10000, Zagreb, Croatia.
authors: Brankica
authors: B
authors: Mravinac
authors: Ruđer Bošković Institute, Bijenička 54, HR-10000, Zagreb, Croatia.
authors: Martina
authors: M
authors: Pavlek
authors: Ruđer Bošković Institute, Bijenička 54, HR-10000, Zagreb, Croatia.
authors: Tanja
authors: T
authors: Vojvoda-Zeljko
authors: Ruđer Bošković Institute, Bijenička 54, HR-10000, Zagreb, Croatia.
authors: Eva
authors: E
authors: Šatović
authors: Ruđer Bošković Institute, Bijenička 54, HR-10000, Zagreb, Croatia. Miroslav.Plohl@irb.hr.
authors: Miroslav
authors: M
authors: Plohl
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004251:DNA Transposable Elements; D004276:DNA, Satellite; D056890:Eukaryota / Q000235:genetics; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D016678:Genome; D023281:Genomics; D006570:Heterochromatin / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation; D012091:Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid; D018626:Retroelements; D013329:Structure-Activity Relationship
chemical_list: D004251:DNA Transposable Elements; D004276:DNA, Satellite; D006570:Heterochromatin; D018626:Retroelements
keywords: DNA transposons; mobile elements; retrotransposons; satellite DNA; tandem repeats