title: The endpoints of an inversion in wheat chloroplast DNA are associated with short repeated sequences containing homology to att-lambda.
abstract: The endpoints of an inversion in wheat chloroplast DNA are shown to be associated with copies of a short repeated sequence. Recombination across the repeats in an inverted configuration may have been responsible for the inversion, although they are currently in a direct orientation owing to a second inversion. The repeated sequence contains an element homologous to the core of the bacteriophage lambda att-site, which can function as such in vivo.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, UK.
authors.forename: C J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Howe
mesh_terms: D010582:Bacteriophage lambda / Q000235:genetics*; D001483:Base Sequence; D002736:Chloroplasts; D007446:Chromosome Inversion; D004247:DNA / Q000235:genetics*; D004279:DNA, Viral / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009693:Nucleic Acid Hybridization; D012091:Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D014908:Triticum / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D004279:DNA, Viral; D004247:DNA