 Alu Elements
"Alu Elements" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The Alu sequence family (named for the restriction endonuclease cleavage enzyme Alu I) is the most highly repeated interspersed repeat element in humans (over a million copies). It is derived from the 7SL RNA component of the SIGNAL RECOGNITION PARTICLE and contains an RNA polymerase III promoter. Transposition of this element into coding and regulatory regions of genes is responsible for many heritable diseases.
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D020087
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G02.111.570.080.708.330.800.800.050 G05.360.080.708.330.800.800.050 G05.360.340.024.425.800.800.050
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Alu Elements- Alu Elements
- Alu Element
- Element, Alu
- Elements, Alu
- Alu Family
- Alu Families
- Families, Alu
- Family, Alu
- Alu Repetitive Sequences
- Alu Repetitive Sequence
- Repetitive Sequence, Alu
- Repetitive Sequences, Alu
- Sequence, Alu Repetitive
- Sequences, Alu Repetitive
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| 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2000 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2008 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2010 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2011 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2012 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2016 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Alu Elements" by people in Profiles.
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Matharu N, Zhao J, Sohota A, Deng L, Hung Y, Li Z, An K, Sims J, Rattanasopha S, Meyer TJ, Carbone L, Kircher M, Ahituv N. Massively parallel jumping assay decodes Alu retrotransposition activity. Nat Commun. 2025 May 09; 16(1):4310.
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Nichols PJ, Bevers S, Henen M, Kieft JS, Vicens Q, Vögeli B. Recognition of non-CpG repeats in Alu and ribosomal RNAs by the Z-RNA binding domain of ADAR1 induces A-Z junctions. Nat Commun. 2021 02 04; 12(1):793.
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Meyer TJ, Held U, Nevonen KA, Klawitter S, Pirzer T, Carbone L, Schumann GG. The Flow of the Gibbon LAVA Element Is Facilitated by the LINE-1 Retrotransposition Machinery. Genome Biol Evol. 2016 10 30; 8(10):3209-3225.
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Lin L, Jiang P, Park JW, Wang J, Lu ZX, Lam MP, Ping P, Xing Y. The contribution of Alu exons to the human proteome. Genome Biol. 2016 Jan 28; 17:15.
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Cardiello JF, Kugel JF, Goodrich JA. A new twist on cell growth control. Cell Cycle. 2014; 13(22):3474-5.
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Perng W, Villamor E, Shroff MR, Nettleton JA, Pilsner JR, Liu Y, Diez-Roux AV. Dietary intake, plasma homocysteine, and repetitive element DNA methylation in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis. 2014 Jun; 24(6):614-22.
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McLain AT, Meyer TJ, Faulk C, Herke SW, Oldenburg JM, Bourgeois MG, Abshire CF, Roos C, Batzer MA. An alu-based phylogeny of lemurs (infraorder: Lemuriformes). PLoS One. 2012; 7(8):e44035.
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Meyer TJ, McLain AT, Oldenburg JM, Faulk C, Bourgeois MG, Conlin EM, Mootnick AR, de Jong PJ, Roos C, Carbone L, Batzer MA. An Alu-based phylogeny of gibbons (hylobatidae). Mol Biol Evol. 2012 Nov; 29(11):3441-50.
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Tarallo V, Hirano Y, Gelfand BD, Dridi S, Kerur N, Kim Y, Cho WG, Kaneko H, Fowler BJ, Bogdanovich S, Albuquerque RJ, Hauswirth WW, Chiodo VA, Kugel JF, Goodrich JA, Ponicsan SL, Chaudhuri G, Murphy MP, Dunaief JL, Ambati BK, Ogura Y, Yoo JW, Lee DK, Provost P, Hinton DR, Núñez G, Baffi JZ, Kleinman ME, Ambati J. DICER1 loss and Alu RNA induce age-related macular degeneration via the NLRP3 inflammasome and MyD88. Cell. 2012 May 11; 149(4):847-59.
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de Koning AP, Gu W, Castoe TA, Batzer MA, Pollock DD. Repetitive elements may comprise over two-thirds of the human genome. PLoS Genet. 2011 Dec; 7(12):e1002384.
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