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Vol 58(2024) N 1 p. 81-101; DOI 10.1134/S0026893324010096  P.A. Milyaeva1,2, I.V. Kukushkina1, A.R. Lavrenov1,3, I.V. Kuzmin1, A.I. Kim1,2, L.N. Nefedova1* Regulation of Retrotransposons in Drosophila melanogaster Somatic Tissues 1Faculty of Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow, 119234 Russia2Faculty of Biology, Longgang District, Shenzhen MSU-BIT University, Shenzhen, 518172 China 3Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 119071 Russia Received - 2023-08-03; Revised - 2023-09-13; Accepted - 2023-09-20 Regulation of retrotransposon activity in somatic tissues is a complex mechanism that has still not been studied in detail. It is strongly believed that siRNA interference is main mechanism of retrotransposon activity regulation outside the gonads, but recently was demonstrated that piRNA interference participates in retrotransposon repression during somatic tissue development. In this work, using RT-PCR, we demonstrated that during ontogenesis piRNA interference determinates retrotransposon expression level on imago stage and retrotransposons demonstrate tissue-specific expression. The major factor of retrotransposon tissue-specific expression is presence of transcription factor binding sites in their regulatory regions. retrotransposons, nanopore sequencing, Drosophila melanogaster, flamenco phenotype |
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