OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Mobile DNA is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Subcellular location of L1 retrotransposon-encoded ORF1p, reverse transcription products, and DNA sensors in lupus granulocytes	131
Recurrent co-domestication of PIF/Harbinger transposable element proteins in insects	33
SCIFER: approach for analysis of LINE-1 mRNA expression in single cells at a single locus resolution	32
Generalized nuclear localization of retroelement transcripts	26
Long-read sequencing improves the genetic diagnosis of retinitis pigmentosa by identifying an Alu retrotransposon insertion in the EYS gene	20
Look4LTRs: a Long terminal repeat retrotransposon detection tool capable of cross species studies and discovering recently nested repeats	19
SINE-derived satellites in scaled reptiles	17
Multiple horizontal transfer events of a DNA transposon into turtles, fishes, and a frog	17
An intronic LINE-1 regulates IFNAR1 expression in human immune cells	17
Acute testicular hyperthermia leads to rapid loss of global piRNA and a concurrent increase in LINE1 activity within heat sensitive male germ cells	16
Plants acquired mitochondrial linear plasmids horizontally from fungi likely during the conquest of land	15
Association of a 7.9 kb Endogenous Retrovirus Insertion in Intron 1 of CD36 with Obesity and Fat Measurements in Sheep	15
Mobile group I introns at nuclear rDNA position L2066 harbor sense and antisense homing endonuclease genes intervened by spliceosomal introns	13
Analysis of pericentromere composition and structure elucidated the history of the Hieracium alpinum L. genome, revealing waves of transposable elements insertions	13
Correction: Characterization of transposable elements within the Bemisia tabaci species complex	13
THE1B may have no role in human pregnancy due to ZNF430-mediated silencing	13
Binding of NF-Y to transposable elements in mouse and human cells	11
Insertion of short L1 sequences generates inter-strain histone acetylation differences in the mouse	11
Pan cancer characterization of genes whose expression has been associated with LINE-1 antisense promoter activity	10
Association of hyperactivated transposon expression with exacerbated immune activation in systemic lupus erythematosus	10
Double-stranded DNA viruses may serve as vectors for horizontal transfer of intron-generating transposons	9
RepEnTools: an automated repeat enrichment analysis package for ChIP-seq data reveals hUHRF1 Tandem-Tudor domain enrichment in young repeats	9
Massive proliferation of retrotransposons contributes to genome size expansion in species of the Pseudocercospora genus	8
Internal initiation of reverse transcription in a Penelope-like retrotransposon	8
Impact of a horizontally transferred Helitron family on genome evolution in Xenopus laevis	8

A plan or pandemonium? The conundrum of retrotransposon activation in cancer	8
Exploration of the regulatory relationship between KRAB-Zfp clusters and their target transposable elements via a gene editing strategy at the cluster specific linker-associated sequences by CRISPR-Ca	7
FoTeRs: a novel family of telomere-associated retrotransposons in Fusarium oxysporum	7
HERV-K HML-2 transcriptional profiling and splicing pattern unveiled by direct single-molecule long-read RNA sequencing	6
Multiple horizontal transfers of a Helitron transposon associated with a parasitoid wasp	6
Heat-induced transcriptional activation of LTR retrotransposons in the regenerative flatworm Macrostomum lignano	6
FishPi: a bioinformatic prediction tool to link piRNA and transposable elements	6
Correction: A plan or pandemonium? The conundrum of retrotransposon activation in cancer	6
Co-option of an endogenous retrovirus (LTR7-HERVH) in early human embryogenesis: becoming useful and going unnoticed	6
Host range of strand-biased circularizing integrative elements: a new class of mobile DNA elements nesting in Gammaproteobacteria	5
Antagonistic regulation of LINE-1/Alu elements and their repressor APOBEC3B in cellular senescence	5
Retand LTR-retrotransposons in plants: a long way from pol to 3’LTR	5
A unique eukaryotic lineage of composite-like DNA transposons encoding a DDD/E transposase and a His-Me finger homing endonuclease	5
Structural and transduction patterns of human-specific polymorphic SVA insertions	5
Analysis of antibiotic resistance gene cassettes in a newly identified Salmonella enterica serovar Gallinarum strain in Korea	4
Identification of transposable element families from pangenome polymorphisms	4
The sixth Japanese meeting on biological function and evolution through interactions between hosts and transposable elements	4
Transposable element dynamics in Xenopus laevis embryogenesis: a tale of two coexisting subgenomes	4
The role of Smarcad1 in retroviral repression in mouse embryonic stem cells	4
Transposable elements in hematopoietic stem cells upon aging and myeloid malignancies	4
TE-Seq: a transposable element annotation and RNA-Seq pipeline	4
REPrise: de novo interspersed repeat detection using inexact seeding	4
Transposable elements: a key piece in the genomic evolution and adaptation of Myrtaceae species	4
Strict retroelement regulation is frequently lost following cancer transformation and generates a promising reservoir of cancer biomarkers	4
A proteomic screen of Ty1 integrase partners identifies the protein kinase CK2 as a regulator of Ty1 retrotransposition	4
A specialized bacterial group II intron is a highly efficient retrotransposon	3
Co-expression of distinct L1 retrotransposon coiled coils can lead to their entanglement	3
Teleost genomic repeat landscapes in light of diversification rates and ecology	3
Plant MITEs: miniature transposable elements with major impacts	3
Further varieties of ancient endogenous retrovirus in human DNA	3
The coevolution between APOBEC3 and retrotransposons in primates	3
Interaction with eukaryotic cells enhances the circularization and transcription of integrative and conjugative elements in Mycoplasma hominis	3
Transposable element dynamics in glioblastoma stem cells: insights from locus-specific quantification	3
IS26 carrying blaKPC−2 mediates carbapenem resistance heterogeneity in extensively drug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae isolated from clinical sites	3
Identification of novel regulators of LINE-1 expression via CRISPR/Cas9 screening	2
Themes and variations on piRNA-guided transposon control	2
The extraordinary satellitome diversity of freshwater crayfish: a driver of genome evolution	2
Expression of endogenous retroviral elements is associated with extracellular matrix remodeling in prostate cancer	2
Howler monkey Platy-1 and Alu SINEs: a resource for Alouatta genomics	2
Transposon expression and repression in skeletal muscle	2
Compilation of all known HERV-K HML-2 proviral integrations	2
Identification and functional analysis of recent IS transposition events in rhizobia	2
ColabCuraTE: an easy-to-use, web-based pipeline for the manual curation of transposable elements	2
SARS-CoV-2 infection induces epigenetic changes in the LTR69 subfamily of endogenous retroviruses	2
Subtelomeric repeat expansion in Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus chromosomes	2
Obituary: Haig Kazazian and Horizontal Transfer (1937 – 2022)	2
Alternative splicing of transposable elements in human breast cancer	2
CRISPR-TE: a web-based tool to generate single guide RNAs targeting transposable elements	2
Marine vs. terrestrial: links between the environment and the diversity of Copia retrotransposon in metazoans	2
Evolutionary dynamics of the LTR-retrotransposon crapaud in the Podospora anserina species complex and the interaction with repeat-induced point mutations	2

Genomic analysis reveals the role of integrative and conjugative elements in plant pathogenic bacteria	2
Evolution of Einkorn wheat centromeres is driven by the mutualistic interplay of two LTR retrotransposons	2
scTELL: a single-cell ATAC-seq tool for locus-specific transposable element identification in chromatin accessibility	2
The highly diverse repertoire of transposable elements within the genomes of parasitic wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)	2