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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Arabidopsis thaliana
SUBMITTER: Paul Hooykaas
PROVIDER: E-MEXP-279 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Bundock Paul P Hooykaas Paul P
Nature 20050701 7048
A significant proportion of the genomes of higher plants and vertebrates consists of transposable elements and their derivatives. Autonomous DNA type transposons encode a transposase that enables them to mobilize to a new chromosomal position in the host genome by a cut-and-paste mechanism. As this is potentially mutagenic, the host limits transposition through epigenetic gene silencing and heterochromatin formation. Here we show that a transposase from Arabidopsis thaliana that we named DAYSLEE ...[more]