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SUBMITTER: Chang W
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3735527 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chang Wei W Jääskeläinen Marko M Li Song-ping SP Schulman Alan H AH
PloS one 20130806 8
The replication of Long Terminal Repeat (LTR) retrotransposons, which can constitute over 80% of higher plant genomes, resembles that of retroviruses. A major question for retrotransposons and retroviruses is how the two conflicting roles of their transcripts, in translation and reverse transcription, are balanced. Here, we show that the BARE retrotransposon, despite its organization into just one open reading frame, produces three distinct classes of transcripts. One is capped, polyadenylated, ...[more]