title: A new family of retroviral long terminal repeat elements in the human genome identified by their homologies to an element 5' to the spider monkey haptoglobin gene.
abstract: A new family of retroviral long terminal repeats that we name Spm-LTR has been identified as a result of DNA sequence comparisons between the entire GenBank databank and an element, SPHP, located 5' to the haptoglobin gene of spider monkeys. The 18 human Spm-LTR sequences so identified fall into three subtypes. There is no sequence similarity between Spm-LTR elements and any endogenous retroviral LTR sequences previously reported except for general features that define LTRs. However, a previously described repeated sequence (MER-4) forms a portion of the Spm-LTR sequence.
authors.affiliation: Curriculum of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA.
authors.forename: L M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Erickson
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Maeda
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002427:Cebidae / Q000235:genetics*; D018076:DNA, Complementary / Q000235:genetics; D015894:Genome, Human; D006242:Haptoglobins / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D012091:Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid; D012190:Retroviridae / Q000235:genetics*; D013045:Species Specificity
chemical_list: D018076:DNA, Complementary; D006242:Haptoglobins