Retrons and their applications in genome engineering

New insights into the genome of Rhodococcus ruber strain Chol-4

(2019) Govinda Guevara et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Multiple origins of reverse transcriptases linked to CRISPR-Cas systems

(2019) Nicolás Toro et al.   RNA Biology

Directed combinatorial mutagenesis of Escherichia coli for complex phenotype engineering

(2018) Rongming Liu et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

Template-assisted synthesis of adenine-mutagenized cDNA by a retroelement protein complex

(2018) Sumit Handa et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Functional Genetic Variants Revealed by Massively Parallel Precise Genome Editing

(2018) Eilon Sharon et al.   CELL

Retroelement-based genome editing and evolution

(2018) Anna J. Simon et al.   ACS Synthetic Biology

Multi-copy single-stranded DNA in Escherichia coli

(2017) Xianxing Xie et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

Diversity-generating retroelements: natural variation, classification and evolution inferred from a large-scale genomic survey

(2017) Li Wu et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

DGR mutagenic transposition occurs via hypermutagenic reverse transcription primed by nicked template RNA

(2017) Santa S. Naorem et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Draft genome sequences of strains Salinicola socius SMB35T, Salinicola sp. MH3R3–1 and Chromohalobacter sp. SMB17 from the Verkhnekamsk potash mining region of Russia

(2017) Björn E. Olsson et al.   Standards in Genomic Sciences

Retroelement-guided protein diversification abounds in vast lineages of Bacteria and Archaea

(2017) Blair G. Paul et al.   Nature Microbiology

Structure of a group II intron in complex with its reverse transcriptase

(2016) Guosheng Qu et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Structure of a group II intron in complex with its reverse transcriptase

(2016) Guosheng Qu et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Reverse transcriptase genes are highly abundant and transcriptionally active in marine plankton assemblages

(2015) Magali Lescot et al.   ISME Journal

Applying ecological models to communities of genetic elements: the case of neutral theory

(2015) Stefan Linquist et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Multicopy Single-Stranded DNA Directs Intestinal Colonization of Enteric Pathogens

(2015) Johanna R. Elfenbein et al.   PLoS Genetics

Single cell genomics indicates horizontal gene transfer and viral infections in a deep subsurface Firmicutes population

(2015) Jessica M. Labonté et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

The Transcription Factor Titration Effect Dictates Level of Gene Expression

(2014) Robert C. Brewster et al.   CELL

Competition between target sites of regulators shapes post-transcriptional gene regulation

(2014) Marvin Jens et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Comprehensive Phylogenetic Analysis of Bacterial Reverse Transcriptases

(2014) Nicolás Toro et al.   PLoS One

Genomically encoded analog memory with precise in vivo DNA writing in living cell populations

(2014) F. Farzadfard et al.   SCIENCE

Transcription factors: specific DNA binding and specific gene regulation

(2014) Anne-Laure Todeschini et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

A novel retron of Vibrio parahaemolyticus is closely related to retron-Vc95 of Vibrio cholerae

(2013) Toshi Shimamoto et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY

Genome engineering using the CRISPR-Cas9 system

(2013) F Ann Ran et al.   Nature Protocols

Yeast Oligo-Mediated Genome Engineering (YOGE)

(2013) James E. DiCarlo et al.   ACS Synthetic Biology

A Programmable Dual-RNA-Guided DNA Endonuclease in Adaptive Bacterial Immunity

(2012) M. Jinek et al.   SCIENCE

Retron Se72 utilizes a unique strategy of the self-priming initiation of reverse transcription

(2011) Lenka Pilousova et al.   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES

Two novel retron elements are replaced with retron-Vc95 in Vibrio cholerae

(2011) Kumiko Inouye et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY

Programming cells by multiplex genome engineering and accelerated evolution

(2009) Harris H. Wang et al.   NATURE

Recombineering: a homologous recombination-based method of genetic engineering

(2009) Shyam K Sharan et al.   Nature Protocols

A diversity of uncharacterized reverse transcriptases in bacteria

(2008) Dawn M. Simon et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH