RRC ID 11555
著者 Nozawa M, Aotsuka T, Tamura K.
タイトル A novel chimeric gene, siren, with retroposed promoter sequence in the Drosophila bipectinata complex.
ジャーナル Genetics
Abstract Retrotransposons often produce a copy of host genes by their reverse transcriptase activity operating on host gene transcripts. Since transcripts normally do not contain promoter, a retroposed gene copy usually becomes a retropseudogene. However, in Drosophila bipectinata and a closely related species we found a new chimeric gene, whose promoter was likely produced by retroposition. This chimeric gene, named siren, consists of a tandem duplicate of Adh and a retroposed fragment of CG11779 containing the promoter and a partial intron in addition to the first exon. We found that this unusual structure of a retroposed fragment was obtained by retroposition of nanos, which overlaps with CG11779 on the complementary strand. The potential of retroposition to produce a copy of promoter and intron sequences in the context of gene overlapping was demonstrated.
巻・号 171(4)
ページ 1719-27
公開日 2005-12-1
DOI 10.1534/genetics.105.041699
PII genetics.105.041699
PMID 16143626
PMC PMC1456098
MeSH Alcohol Dehydrogenase Alcohol Oxidoreductases / genetics Amino Acid Sequence Animals Base Sequence Cloning, Molecular Drosophila / genetics* Drosophila Proteins / genetics Evolution, Molecular* Genetic Linkage Models, Genetic Molecular Sequence Data Mutant Chimeric Proteins / genetics* Phylogeny Promoter Regions, Genetic / genetics* RNA-Binding Proteins / genetics Retroelements / genetics* Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction Sequence Analysis, DNA
IF 4.015
引用数 16
WOS 分野 GENETICS & HEREDITY
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