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Mol Cell Biol
1985 Oct 01;510:2804-13. doi: 10.1128/mcb.5.10.2804-2813.1985.
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Structure and unusual characteristics of a new family of transposable elements in the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus.
Cohen JB
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Hoffman-Liebermann B
,
Kedes L
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The transposable element family TU of the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, a higher eucaryote, has recently been described (D. Liebermann, B. Hoffman-Liebermann, J. Weinthal, G. Childs, R. Maxson, A. Mauron, S.N. Cohen, and L. Kedes, Nature [London] 306:342-347, 1983). A member of this family, TU4, has an insertion, called ISTU4, of non-TU DNA. ISTU4 is a member of a family of repetitive sequences, which are present in some 1,000 copies per haploid S. purpuratus genome (B. Hoffman-Liebermann, D. Liebermann, L.H. Kedes, and S.N. Cohen, Mol. Cell. Biol. 5:991-1001, 1985). We analyzed this insertion to determine whether it is itself a transposable element. The nucleotide sequence of ISTU4 was determined and showed an unusual structure. There are four, approximately 150 nucleotides long, imperfect direct repeats followed by a single truncated version of these repeats. This region is bounded at either side by approximately 100-nucleotide-long sequences that are not related to each other or to the repeats. Nucleotide sequences at the boundaries of ISTU4-homologous and flanking regions in five genomic clones show that ISTU4 represents a family of sequences with discrete ends, which we call Tsp elements. We showed that the genomic locus that carries a Tsp element in one individual was empty in other individuals and conclude that Tsp elements are a new and different type of transposable element. Tsp elements lack two features common to most other transposable elements: Tsp integration does not result in the duplication of host DNA, and there are no inverted repeats at their termini, although short inverted repeats are present at a distance from the termini.
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