[Progress of Tol2 transposable element in Medaka fish].
As insertional mutagens or molecular tagging, transposons have been widely used for gene isolation, cloning and function study. Most of transposons are from microorganisms and plants. Medaka Tol2 is the only natural active transposon in vertebrate until now, which was found recently and is likely a peculiar transposon system of vertebrate. The structure of Tol2 transposable element, its transposition mechanism and application, are reviewed in this paper.
Fu
Guang-Ming
GM
Environment and Life School, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116023, China. fugm5062@eyou.com
Su
Qiao
Q
An
Li-Jia
LJ
D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D004251:DNA Transposable Elements; D005818:Genetic Engineering; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009990:Oryzias / Q000235:genetics*; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D019895:Transposases / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism
D004251:DNA Transposable Elements; D019895:Transposases