Ulysses transposable element of Drosophila shows high structural similarities to functional domains of retroviruses

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 225, Issue 3, 1992, Pages 917-924

  Evgen'ev, Michael B ^a   Corces, Victor G ^b   Lankenau, Dirk Henner ^b  

^a ENGELHARDT INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila; evolution; protein structure; retrovirus; transposable element

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA VIRILIS; MIRIDAE; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

CAPSID PROTEIN; MATRIX PROTEIN; PROTEINASE; RIBONUCLEASE H; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

DNA STRUCTURE; DROSOPHILA VIRILIS; EVOLUTION; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NONHUMAN; NOTE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; RETROVIRUS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA; ENDOPEPTIDASES; GENES, GAG; INTEGRASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RETROVIRIDAE; RIBONUCLEASE H, CALF THYMUS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0026748299     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0022-2836(92)90412-D     Document Type: Article

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