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.
Institut de Recherche sur la Biologie de l'Insecte, Faculté des Sciences, Tours, France. Bigot@univ-tours.fr
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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