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A tale of two dead ends: origin of a potential new gene and a potential new transposable element
Author(s) -
Clutterbuck A. John
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
molecular microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.857
H-Index - 247
eISSN - 1365-2958
pISSN - 0950-382X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.05637.x
Subject(s) - transposable element , biology , dna transposable elements , gene , genetics , genome , insertion sequence , computational biology , sequence (biology) , element (criminal law) , promoter , gene expression , political science , law
Summary An article in this issue of Molecular Microbiology by Cultrone et al. describes how a non‐autonomous helitron element could arise from its autonomous parent transposon by deletion followed by readthrough into an adjacent gene and its promoter, thus providing a mechanism for distribution of a specifically regulated promoter sequence around the genome, where it would have the potential to evolve new functions.