Ellen J. Pritham

Escape of the BC200 gene to a human poxvirus reveals its persistent transposition in primates.

Transposable elements mobilize within and occasionally between genomes, including from host to virus. We identified two insertions of the human BC200 noncoding RNA gene in the poxvirus molluscum contagiosum virus (MCV), which were likely acquired through long interspersed nuclear element 1 (LINE-1 or L1)-mediated retro...