title: Get in LINE: Competition for Newly Minted Retrotransposon Proteins at the Ribosome.
abstract: In this issue, Ahl et al. (2015) and Doucet et al. (2015) illuminate structural and functional features of substrates that promote integration of RNA molecules into the human genome by LINE retrotransposons, contributing to the ∼ 50% of the human genome that has been colonized by mobile genetic elements.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
authors.forename: Stephen N
authors.initials: SN
authors.lastname: Floor
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; Innovative Genomics Initiative, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. Electronic address: doudna@berkeley.edu.
authors.forename: Jennifer A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Doudna
mesh_terms: D020087:Alu Elements; D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D020084:Long Interspersed Nucleotide Elements; D011061:Poly A / Q000378:metabolism*; D012313:RNA / Q000737:chemistry*; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000737:chemistry*; D012270:Ribosomes / Q000378:metabolism*; D018271:Signal Recognition Particle / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D012333:RNA, Messenger; D018271:Signal Recognition Particle; D011061:Poly A; D012313:RNA