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SUBMITTER: Jiang H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6519465 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jiang Hua H Taylor Martin S MS Molloy Kelly R KR Altukhov Ilya I LaCava John J
Bio-protocol 20190401 7
Long Interspersed Nuclear Element-1 (LINE-1, L1) constitutes a family of autonomous, self-replicating genetic elements known as retrotransposons. Although most are inactive, copious L1 sequences populate the human genome. L1s proliferate in a 'copy-and-paste' fashion through an RNA intermediate; a full-length L1 transcript is ~6,000 nucleotides long and functions as a bicistronic mRNA that encodes and assembles <i>in cis</i> with two main polypeptides, ORF1p and ORF2p, forming a ribonucleoprotei ...[more]