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ArticleJournal of molecular evolution1993

A model for the mechanism of initial generation of short interspersed elements (SINEs).

N Okada, K Ohshima

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Article in Journal of molecular evolution, 1993. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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N OkadaFaculty of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan.
K Ohshima
Tokyo Institute of Technology · JP

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Abstract

Most animal genomes contain a large number of short interspersed elements (SINEs) that have a composite structure and contain a region that is homologous to a tRNA. The majority of SINEs have been found to be derived from a tRNA(Lys), being categorized as members of a superfamily of tRNA(Lys)-related SINEs. The consensus sequences of five SINEs that belong to this superfamily were aligned. It was found that, in the tRNA-unrelated region, there are two sequence motifs that are almost identical among these five SINEs and are at a distance of 10-11 nucleotides from each other. This observation suggests a common evolutionary origin of these SINEs and/or some function(s) for these motifs. Similar sequences were unexpectedly found to be present in the sequences complementary to the U5 regions of several mammalian retroviruses whose primer is a tRNA(Lys). On the basis of these findings, we propose a possible model for the generation of SINEs whereby they are derived from a "strong stop DNA" with a primer tRNA that is an intermediate in the process of reverse transcription of certain retroviruses.

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Models, GeneticAnimalsBase SequenceBiological EvolutionConsensus SequenceDNA, ComplementaryDNA PrimersDNA, ViralGenes, ViralMolecular Sequence DataPseudogenesRetroviridaeRNA, Transfer, LysSequence Homology, Nucleic AcidDNA, ComplementaryDNA PrimersDNA, ViralRNA, Transfer, Lys

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PMID8411205
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