Open AccessIntegration of an aberrant retrotransposon in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Author(s) -
Cailin Moira Wilke,
Susan W. Liebman
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
molecular and cellular biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.14
H-Index - 327
eISSN - 1067-8824
pISSN - 0270-7306
DOI - 10.1128/mcb.9.9.4096
Subject(s) - retrotransposon , biology , long terminal repeat , saccharomyces cerevisiae , genetics , genome , inverted repeat , transposable element , direct repeat , computational biology , gene
We describe an atypical composite Ty1 element that apparently resulted from the concurrent integration of two complete elements. A portion of the central region of one of these elements was inverted between two long terminal repeats. Inversions of this type have been detected among unintegrated retroviral circles. It now appears that such intermediates can be incorporated into the genome.