ERC Starting Grant · 2022
Illuminating the role of selfish genetic elements in somatic tissue homeostasis and aging
Life-long tissue homeostasis requires sustained function of differentiated cell types as well as progenitor cells, which ensure tissue self-renewal. Little is known about the role that non-genic repetitive DNA sequences play in the maintenance of cellular homeostasis in divers somatic tissues in vivo. Transposable elements (TEs) are omnipresent, highly repetitive DNA sequences that mobilize and propagate within host genomes. Though previously thought to be fully repressed in the soma, TEs can be actively transcribed and, at least to some extent, mobile in certain somatic tissues. Indeed, somatic TE activity was proposed to contribute to normal development, aging, and pathologic conditions,…
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