An unusual transposon with long terminal inverted repeats in the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus | Zendy

Dan A. Liebermann | Zendy; Barbara HoffmanLiebermann | Zendy; Joel Weinthal | Zendy; Geoffrey Childs | Zendy; Robert E. Maxson | Zendy; Alex Mauron | Zendy; Stanley N. Cohen | Zendy; Larry Kedes | Zendy

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An unusual transposon with long terminal inverted repeats in the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus

Author(s) -

Dan A. Liebermann,

Barbara HoffmanLiebermann,

Joel Weinthal,

Geoffrey Childs,

Robert E. Maxson,

Alex Mauron,

Stanley N. Cohen,

Larry Kedes

Publication year - 1983

Publication title -

nature

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 15.993

H-Index - 1226

eISSN - 1476-4687

pISSN - 0028-0836

DOI - 10.1038/306342a0

Subject(s) - inverted repeat , strongylocentrotus purpuratus , transposable element , biology , direct repeat , sea urchin , genetics , tandem repeat , genome , microbiology and biotechnology , gene

A 3-kilobase DNA segment characteristic of a transposable element was found within a histone H2B pseudogene in a higher eukaryote, the sea urchin Stronglyocentrotus purpuratus. The inserted segment (TU1) is flanked by 8-base pair (bp) direct repeats of the H2B sequence. TU1 has long terminal inverted repeats approximately 840 bp long with an outer domain of 15-bp tandem repeats and a non-repeating inner domain, and is a member of a heterogeneous family of transposable elements. TU1 differs from most previously characterized eukaryotic transposable elements with terminal direct repats, but resembles the foldback transposon family in Drosophila.

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