Computer analyses reveal a hobo-like element in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, which presents a conserved transposase domain common with the Tc1-Mariner transposon family.
The present report describes the use of computer analyses to reveal a hobo-like element in the genome of Caenorhabditis elegans. This hobo-like sequence is 3039 bp long, contains two inverted terminal repeats of 25-27 bp and probably does not encoded a functional transposase. Sequence comparisons suggest that each transposase of hobo elements probably has a D(D/S)E motif. Thus the transposases of the hAT superfamily of transposons appear to be close to the other transposases and intregrases.
Bigot
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Institut de Recherche sur la Biologie de l'Insecte, Faculté des Sciences, Tours, France. Bigot@univ-tours.fr
Augé-Gouillou
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Periquet
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D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D017173:Caenorhabditis elegans / Q000235:genetics*; D007446:Chromosome Inversion; D004254:DNA Nucleotidyltransferases / Q000235:genetics*; D004251:DNA Transposable Elements / Q000235:genetics; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D004331:Drosophila melanogaster / Q000235:genetics; D001330:Electronic Data Processing; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009713:Nucleotidyltransferases / Q000235:genetics*; D010802:Phylogeny; D012091:Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D019895:Transposases
D004251:DNA Transposable Elements; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D004254:DNA Nucleotidyltransferases; D009713:Nucleotidyltransferases; C081454:Tc1 transposase; D019895:Transposases