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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Subcellular location of L1 retrotransposon-encoded ORF1p, reverse transcription products, and DNA sensors in lupus granulocytes	127
SCIFER: approach for analysis of LINE-1 mRNA expression in single cells at a single locus resolution	32
Recurrent co-domestication of PIF/Harbinger transposable element proteins in insects	32
Look4LTRs: a Long terminal repeat retrotransposon detection tool capable of cross species studies and discovering recently nested repeats	23
Long-read sequencing improves the genetic diagnosis of retinitis pigmentosa by identifying an Alu retrotransposon insertion in the EYS gene	19
Generalized nuclear localization of retroelement transcripts	19
An intronic LINE-1 regulates IFNAR1 expression in human immune cells	17
Multiple horizontal transfer events of a DNA transposon into turtles, fishes, and a frog	16
Acute testicular hyperthermia leads to rapid loss of global piRNA and a concurrent increase in LINE1 activity within heat sensitive male germ cells	16
SINE-derived satellites in scaled reptiles	15
Correction: A beginner’s guide to manual curation of transposable elements	15
Association of a 7.9 kb Endogenous Retrovirus Insertion in Intron 1 of CD36 with Obesity and Fat Measurements in Sheep	15
THE1B may have no role in human pregnancy due to ZNF430-mediated silencing	13
Plants acquired mitochondrial linear plasmids horizontally from fungi likely during the conquest of land	13
Analysis of pericentromere composition and structure elucidated the history of the Hieracium alpinum L. genome, revealing waves of transposable elements insertions	13
Mobile group I introns at nuclear rDNA position L2066 harbor sense and antisense homing endonuclease genes intervened by spliceosomal introns	12
Correction: Characterization of transposable elements within the Bemisia tabaci species complex	11
Pan cancer characterization of genes whose expression has been associated with LINE-1 antisense promoter activity	10
Binding of NF-Y to transposable elements in mouse and human cells	10
Insertion of short L1 sequences generates inter-strain histone acetylation differences in the mouse	10
A plan or pandemonium? The conundrum of retrotransposon activation in cancer	9
Double-stranded DNA viruses may serve as vectors for horizontal transfer of intron-generating transposons	9
Association of hyperactivated transposon expression with exacerbated immune activation in systemic lupus erythematosus	9
RepEnTools: an automated repeat enrichment analysis package for ChIP-seq data reveals hUHRF1 Tandem-Tudor domain enrichment in young repeats	8
Massive proliferation of retrotransposons contributes to genome size expansion in species of the Pseudocercospora genus	8

Impact of a horizontally transferred Helitron family on genome evolution in Xenopus laevis	7
FoTeRs: a novel family of telomere-associated retrotransposons in Fusarium oxysporum	7
Internal initiation of reverse transcription in a Penelope-like retrotransposon	7
Multiple horizontal transfers of a Helitron transposon associated with a parasitoid wasp	6
Co-option of an endogenous retrovirus (LTR7-HERVH) in early human embryogenesis: becoming useful and going unnoticed	6
Heat-induced transcriptional activation of LTR retrotransposons in the regenerative flatworm Macrostomum lignano	6
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	6
HERV-K HML-2 transcriptional profiling and splicing pattern unveiled by direct single-molecule long-read RNA sequencing	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
A unique eukaryotic lineage of composite-like DNA transposons encoding a DDD/E transposase and a His-Me finger homing endonuclease	5
Host range of strand-biased circularizing integrative elements: a new class of mobile DNA elements nesting in Gammaproteobacteria	5
Retand LTR-retrotransposons in plants: a long way from pol to 3’LTR	5
Structural and transduction patterns of human-specific polymorphic SVA insertions	5
The role of Smarcad1 in retroviral repression in mouse embryonic stem cells	4
REPrise: de novo interspersed repeat detection using inexact seeding	4
Transposable element dynamics in Xenopus laevis embryogenesis: a tale of two coexisting subgenomes	4
Strict retroelement regulation is frequently lost following cancer transformation and generates a promising reservoir of cancer biomarkers	4
Antagonistic regulation of LINE-1/Alu elements and their repressor APOBEC3B in cellular senescence	4
Transposable elements: a key piece in the genomic evolution and adaptation of Myrtaceae species	4
TE-Seq: a transposable element annotation and RNA-Seq pipeline	4
A proteomic screen of Ty1 integrase partners identifies the protein kinase CK2 as a regulator of Ty1 retrotransposition	4
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
A specialized bacterial group II intron is a highly efficient retrotransposon	4
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
Subtelomeric repeat expansion in Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus chromosomes	3
Plant MITEs: miniature transposable elements with major impacts	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
Further varieties of ancient endogenous retrovirus in human DNA	3
IS26 carrying blaKPC−2 mediates carbapenem resistance heterogeneity in extensively drug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae isolated from clinical sites	3
Evolution of Einkorn wheat centromeres is driven by the mutualistic interplay of two LTR retrotransposons	3
The highly diverse repertoire of transposable elements within the genomes of parasitic wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)	2
Compilation of all known HERV-K HML-2 proviral integrations	2
Marine vs. terrestrial: links between the environment and the diversity of Copia retrotransposon in metazoans	2
The coevolution between APOBEC3 and retrotransposons in primates	2
Expression of endogenous retroviral elements is associated with extracellular matrix remodeling in prostate cancer	2
Obituary: Haig Kazazian and Horizontal Transfer (1937 – 2022)	2
Transposon expression and repression in skeletal muscle	2
Identification of novel regulators of LINE-1 expression via CRISPR/Cas9 screening	2
Howler monkey Platy-1 and Alu SINEs: a resource for Alouatta genomics	2
Genomic analysis reveals the role of integrative and conjugative elements in plant pathogenic bacteria	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
Identification and functional analysis of recent IS transposition events in rhizobia	2
The extraordinary satellitome diversity of freshwater crayfish: a driver of genome evolution	2
scTELL: a single-cell ATAC-seq tool for locus-specific transposable element identification in chromatin accessibility	2

SARS-CoV-2 infection induces epigenetic changes in the LTR69 subfamily of endogenous retroviruses