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Molecular analysis of the En/Spm transposable element system of Zea mays.

The EMBO journal ·Vol. 5 ·No. 5 ·1986-05-00 ·Pages 835-41

Pereira A, Cuypers H, Gierl A, Schwarz-Sommer Z, Saedler H

Abstract

The nucleotide sequence of the autonomous transposable element En-1 isolated from the wx-844::En-1 allele has been determined. En-1 is 8287 bp long. The structure of the mosaic gene 1, coding for the major En transcript, has been established. The promoter gene 1 is located in the highly structured left end of the element and the gene spans almost the entire length of En-1. The first intron of gene 1 is 4434 nucleotides long and contains two large open reading frames, 2714 bp and 761 bp in size, which hybridize to minor RNA species in Northern blot experiments.

MeSH Terms
Alleles Base Sequence Blotting, Northern DNA Transposable Elements/genetics Genes, Plant/genetics Introns/genetics Molecular Sequence Data Open Reading Frames/genetics RNA, Plant/genetics Zea mays/genetics
Chemicals
DNA Transposable Elements RNA, Plant
Authors & Affiliations
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Pereira A
Max-Planck-Institut für Züchtungsforschung, 5000 Köln 30, FRG.
Cuypers H
Gierl A
Schwarz-Sommer Z
Saedler H
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Article Info
Journal
The EMBO journal
Abbr.
EMBO J
ISSN
0261-4189
Published
1986-05-00
Pages
835-41
Language
English
Region
England
NLM ID
8208664
PMCID
PMC1166871
Subset
IM
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