Structure of circular copies of the 412 transposable element present in Drosophila melanogaster tissue culture cells, and isolation of a free 412 long terminal repeat - PubMed (original) (raw)

Structure of circular copies of the 412 transposable element present in Drosophila melanogaster tissue culture cells, and isolation of a free 412 long terminal repeat

B M Shepherd et al. J Mol Biol. 1984.

Abstract

We have isolated, from Drosophila melanogaster tissue culture cells, extrachromosomal circular forms of the transposable element 412, and have cloned some of them in bacteriophage lambda. A total of 24 clones have been analysed in detail by restriction and heteroduplex mapping. Seventeen clones are virtually identical, and contain complete 412 elements with one copy of the long terminal direct repeat (LTR). The remaining seven clones are all different and contain various rearrangements. Four have deletions, two have some 412 sequence substituted by other DNA and one has both an inversion and a deletion. The clone containing the inversion has two LTRs in inverted orientation and separated by a few thousand bases of 412 DNA. The base sequences of the two LTRs in this clone, and of the LTR in one of the 17 clones containing complete elements are very similar to that of the 481 base-pair LTR of a genomic 412 element. We have found no evidence, in either cloned or uncloned material, for 412 elements with two LTRs as a tandem direct repeat. We have found that there are several "free" 412 LTRs in genomic DNA from D. melanogaster strains Canton S and Oregon R, and from D. melanogaster tissue culture cells. We have cloned and sequenced one of these free LTRs. It is 475 base-pairs long and is flanked by a direct repeat four base-pairs long. This sequence differs from that of the 481 base-pair repeat at 16 places including a ten base deletion.

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Structure of circular copies of the 412 transposable element present in Drosophila melanogaster tissue culture cells, and isolation of a free 412 long terminal repeat - PubMed (original) (raw)