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The University of TokyoORCID 0000-0002-3729-399XUnclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints
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Taku Sasaki, Carles Borredá, Sota Fujii…·Leandro Quadrana
This study shows that transposases can act as transcriptional regulators and evolved into transcription factors through loss of catalytic activity.
Hiroki Miura, Kazuki Hirano, Takuya T. Nagae…·Sota Fujii
The paper identifies a toxin-antidote system in Arabidopsis thaliana where a pistil peptide inhibits pollen tube growth and a pollen protein counteracts this effect, contributing to reproductive barriers.
Taku Sasaki, Kae Kato, Aoi Hosaka…·Tetsuji Kakutani
The paper shows that RNAi targets noncoding regions of VANDAL TEs, while VANC proteins evolved to escape this silencing, suggesting a co-evolutionary arms race between TEs and host defense mechanisms.