The yeast retrotransposon Ty5 uses the anticodon stem-loop of the initiator methionine tRNA as a primer for reverse transcription

RNA

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 929-938

  Ke, Ning ^a   Gao, Xiang ^a   Keeney, Jill B ^b   Boeke, Jef D ^c   Voytas, Daniel F ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JUNIATA COLLEGE   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

cDNA synthesis; Copia; Priming; Retrotransposition; Retrovirus

Indexed keywords

TRANSFER RNA;

ANTICODON; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; RETROVIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; VIRUS DNA CELL DNA INTERACTION; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS TRANSCRIPTION;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; DNA VIRUSES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

EID: 0033031015     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355838299990015     Document Type: Article

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