Template jumping by a LINE reverse transcriptase has created a SINE-like 5S rRNA retropseudogene in Dictyostelium

Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Volumn 271, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 98-102

  Szafranski, K ^a   Dingermann, T ^b   Glockner G ^a   Winckler, T ^b  

^a IMB Jena ^*  (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dictyostelium; Long interspersed nuclear elements (LINEs); Retrotransposon; RNA polymerase III; Short interspersed nuclear elements (SINEs)

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE III; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; LONG INTERSPERSED REPEAT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; RETROPOSON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; SHORT INTERSPERSED REPEAT;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DICTYOSTELIUM; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENES, PROTOZOAN; LONG INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PSEUDOGENES; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 5S; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; SHORT INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS;

DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 1542284540     PISSN: 16174615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00438-003-0961-9     Document Type: Article

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