title: A monkey Alu sequence is flanked by 13-base pair direct repeats by an interrupted alpha-satellite DNA sequence.
abstract: A member of the Alu family, the dominant family of short interspersed repeated DNA sequences in primates, interrupts a cloned repeat unit of African green monkey alpha-satellite DNA. The Alu is immediately flanked by 13-base-pair duplications of the known sequence of the satellite at the site of insertion. These observations support the idea that Ala family members may be moveable elements.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D010582:Bacteriophage lambda; D001483:Base Sequence; D002521:Cercopithecus / Q000235:genetics*; D002522:Chlorocebus aethiops / Q000235:genetics*; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004251:DNA Transposable Elements; D004276:DNA, Satellite / Q000235:genetics*; D008040:Genetic Linkage; D012091:Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid
chemical_list: D004251:DNA Transposable Elements; D004276:DNA, Satellite