The gag Coding Region of the Drosophila Telomeric Retrotransposon, HeT-A, Has an Internal Frame Shift and a Length Polymorphic Region

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 572-583

  Pardue, Mary Lou ^a   Danilevskaya, Olga N ^a   Lowenhaupt, Ky ^a   Wong, James ^a   Erby, Kimberly ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gag proteins; HeT A; Retrotransposon; Telomere; Translational frameshift; Zinc knuckle

Indexed keywords

GAG PROTEIN; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; RETROPOSON; RETROVIRUS; TELOMERE; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE PRODUCTS, GAG; INSECT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RETROELEMENTS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TELOMERE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; ZINC;

EID: 0030456374     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02202105     Document Type: Article

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