SINEs and LINEs share common 3' sequences: a review - PubMed (original) (raw)
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SINEs and LINEs share common 3' sequences: a review
N Okada et al. Gene. 1997.
Abstract
There are now five reported examples in which the 3' ends of tRNA-derived SINEs are derived from the 3' ends of LINEs. These examples include representative sequences from turtles, fish, mammals and plants (Ohshima et al., 1996, Mol. Cell. Biol., 16, 3756 3764; Okada and Hamada, 1997, J. Mol. Evol. 44, Suppl 1:S52-S56). In this review, we discuss the generality of this architecture of SINEs, adding new examples of pairs of SINEs and LINEs, which include one complete and two probable examples from this laboratory and one complete example from the laboratory of Arian Smit. This organization of SINEs and LINEs provides the basis for a simple general scheme by which SINEs might acquire retropositional activity.
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