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Younggi Daniel Moon, Rimantė Žedaveinytė, Tanner Wiegand, Samuel H. Sternberg
The paper identifies Arc as a transcriptional repressor in IS605-family transposons, showing it binds promoters to regulate TnpA and TnpB expression.
Megan Wang, Kanta Yoneyama, Rimantė Žedaveinytė…·Samuel H. Sternberg
The paper shows how two reverse transcriptases with different templating strategies work together to produce complementary DNA for antiviral defense.
Stephen Tang, Rimantė Žedaveinytė, Nathaniel Burman…·Samuel H. Sternberg
The paper reveals a novel DNA homopolymer synthesis mechanism by DRT9, triggered by viral infection to induce abortive infection and population-level immunity.
Stephen Tang, Valentin Conte, Dennis J. Zhang…·Samuel H. Sternberg
The paper demonstrates that bacterial reverse transcriptases synthesize extrachromosomal genes via rolling-circle amplification to confer antiviral immunity.
Rimantė Žedaveinytė, Chance Meers, Hoang C. Le…·Samuel H. Sternberg
The paper investigates the molecular mechanisms of transposition and RNA-guided DNA cleavage in IS607-family elements, revealing how transposon-encoded RNAs balance splicing and guide RNA functions.