Microhomologies between T-DNA ends and target sites often occur in inverted orientation and may be responsible for the high frequency of T-DNA-associated inversions

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 617-630

  Müller, Andreas E ^a,b   Atkinson, Ross G ^a,c   Sandoval, Robert B ^a   Jorgensen, Richard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE FOR PLANT AND FOOD RESEARCH LIMITED   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium tumefaciens; Filler DNA; Inversion; Microhomology; Palindrome

Indexed keywords

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; FILLER DNA; INVERTED ORIENTATION; MICROHOMOLOGY; PALINDROME;

DNA SEQUENCES; FILLERS; GENES; PLANTS (BOTANY);

DNA;

BACTERIAL DNA; PLANT DNA; T DNA; T-DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; GENOME; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; INVERSION, CHROMOSOME; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

GENES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PLANTS;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 34247579758     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-006-0266-7     Document Type: Article

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