“We still don’t know exactly how transposons work,” Weichenrieder says. “But if we elucidate the structure of the proteins involved in transposon replication, we might be able to better understand the ...

Transposons, or "jumping genes"—DNA segments that can move from one part of the genome to another—are key to bacterial evolution and the development of antibiotic resistance. Cornell ...

Recently, a large and ancient transposon-associated protein family ... St. Jude Department of Structural Biology, studied the structure of Fanzor2 to chart how these systems have evolved, offering ...

The team now provides the first crystal structure of a protein-DNA machine ... The research team discovered that the workhorse of the transposon insertion machine, the transposase protein, has ...