Molecular characterization of rDt, a maize transposon of the "Dotted" controlling element system - PubMed (original) (raw)

. 1989 Jan;215(2):239-44.

doi: 10.1007/BF00339723.

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Molecular characterization of rDt, a maize transposon of the "Dotted" controlling element system

J J Brown et al. Mol Gen Genet. 1989 Jan.

Abstract

We have molecularly cloned the rDt transposon, one component of the classic "Dotted" two-element system of controlling elements. The rDt transposon was identified as a DNA insertion in each of two independent mutation events of the maize A1 gene, a gene necessary for the biosynthesis of anthocyanin pigment. Both mutant alleles result in a stable, anthocyaninless phenotype in all plant tissues. When the transposon "Dotted", (Dt), is present in the genome each allele exhibits a characteristic mutable phenotype (spots of anthocyanin pigmentation). The DNA insertion has been designated rDt, for it responds to or is regulated by the Dt element to allow expression of the otherwise mutated gene, and it had not been named in earlier genetic studies. Sequence analysis revealed the rDt element to be an identical 704 bp insertion within the two mutable alleles, but in opposite orientation and in different exons of the gene. rDt contains an imperfect terminal inverted repeat with similarity to transposable elements of various species. A duplication of 8 bp of the target host site is formed upon integration of the element, and the element is excised from the locus in a germinal revertant. The difference in phenotype of the two unstable alleles, a1 and am-1:Cache, is discussed.

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