Retrotransposon-like sequences integrated into the genome of pineapple, Ananas comosus

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 461-465

  Thomson, Karen G ^a   Thomas, John E ^b   Dietzgen, Ralf G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ananas; delI; Integrase; Pineapple; Retrotransposon; Ty3 gypsy

Indexed keywords

PLANT GENOME; RETROPOSON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; FRUIT; GENOME, PLANT; INTEGRASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RETROELEMENTS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ANANAS; ANANAS COMOSUS; EMBRYOPHYTA; LILIUM HENRYI;

EID: 0032189092     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006083200299     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Arumuganathan K, Earle ED: Nuclear DNA content of some important plant species. Plant Mol Biol Rep 9: 208-218 (1991).
2. Bennetzen JL: The contributions of retroelements to plant genome organization, function and evolution. Trends Microbiol 4: 347-353 (1996).
3. Boeke JD, Corces VG: Transcription and reverse transcription of retrotransposons. Annu Rev Microbiol 43: 403-434 (1989).
4. Flavell AJ, Pearce SR, Kumar A: Plant transposable elements and the genome. Curr Opin Genet Devel 4: 838-844 (1994).
5. Grandbastien M-A, Audeon C, Casacuberta JM, Grappin P, Lucas H, Moreau C, Pouteau S: Functional analysis of the tobacco Tnt1 retrotransposon. Genetica 93: 181-189 (1994).
6. Hansen LJ, Chalker DL, Sandmeyer SB: Ty3, a yeast retrotransposon associated with tRNA genes, has homology to animal retroviruses. Mol Cell Biol 8: 5245-5256 (1988).
7. Morzunov SP, Winton JR, Nichol ST: The complete genome structure and phylogenetic relationship of infectious hematopietic necrosis virus. Virus Res 38: 175-192 (1995).
8. Royo J, Nass N, Matton DP, Okamoto S, Clark AE, Newbigin E: A retrotransposon-like sequence linked to the S-locus of Nicotiana alata is expressed in styles in response to touch. Mol Gen Genet 250: 180-188 (1996).
9. Saigo K, Kugimiya W, Matsuo Y, Inouye S, Yoshioka K, Yuki S: Identification of the coding sequence for a reverse transcriptase-like enzyme in a transposable genetic element in D. melanogaster. Nature 312: 659-661 (1984).
10. SanMiguel P, Tikhonov A, Jin Y-K, Motchoulskaia N, Zakharov D, Melake-Berhan A, Springer PS, Edwards KJ, Lee M, Avramova Z, Bennetzen JL: Nested retrotransposons in the intergenic regions of the maize genome. Science 274: 765-768 (1996).
11. Sentry JW, Smyth DR: A family of repeated sequences dispersed through the genome of Lilium henryi. Chromosoma 92: 149-155 (1985).
12. Sentry JW, Smyth DR: An element with long terminal repeats and its variant arrangements in the genome of Lilium henryi. Mol Gen Genet 215: 349-354 (1989).
13. Smyth DR: Plant retrotransposons. In: Verma DPS (ed) Control of Plant Gene Expression, pp. 1-15. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL (1993).
14. Smyth DR, Kalistis P, Joseph JL, Sentry JW: Plant retrotransposon from Lilium henryi is related to Ty3 of yeast and the gypsy group of Drosophila. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 86: 5015-5019 (1989).
15. Thomson KG, Dietzgen RG, Thomas JE, Teakle DS: Detection of pineapple bacilliform virus using the polymerase chain reaction. Ann Appl Biol 129: 57-69 (1996).
16. Xiong Y, Eickbush TH: Origin and evolution of retroelements based upon their reverse transcriptase sequences. EMBO J 9: 3353-3362 (1990).