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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Lucas Gray
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-37919 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Gray Lucas T LT Fong Kimberly K KK Pavelitz Thomas T Weiner Alan M AM
PLoS genetics 20120927 9
The CSB-PGBD3 fusion protein arose more than 43 million years ago when a 2.5-kb piggyBac 3 (PGBD3) transposon inserted into intron 5 of the Cockayne syndrome Group B (CSB) gene in the common ancestor of all higher primates. As a result, full-length CSB is now coexpressed with an abundant CSB-PGBD3 fusion protein by alternative splicing of CSB exons 1-5 to the PGBD3 transposase. An internal deletion of the piggyBac transposase ORF also gave rise to 889 dispersed, 140-bp MER85 elements that were m ...[more]