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  • 标题:Single-step selection for Ty1 element retrotransposition
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  • 作者:M J Curcio ; D J Garfinkel
  • 期刊名称:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 印刷版ISSN:0027-8424
  • 电子版ISSN:1091-6490
  • 出版年度:1991
  • 卷号:88
  • 期号:3
  • 页码:936-940
  • DOI:10.1073/pnas.88.3.936
  • 语种:English
  • 出版社:The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
  • 摘要:The yeast retrotransposon Ty1 has been tagged with a reporter gene that allows selection of RNA-mediated transposition events and is applicable to the study of retroelements in other organisms. The reporter gene is a yeast HIS3 gene interrupted by an artificial intron (AI) in the antisense orientation. The HIS3AI sequences were inserted into a Ty1 element such that the intron is on the sense strand of the Ty1 element; therefore, splicing and retrotransposition of marked Ty1 transcripts can give rise to His+ cells. Fusion of the Ty1-H3mHIS3AI element to the inducible GAL1 promoter resulted in a high frequency of histidine prototrophs upon galactose induction. Moreover, spontaneous His+ revertants derived from strains containing genomic TymHIS3AI elements are a result of retrotransposition. By using this assay, we estimated the Ty1 transposition rate to be between 3 x 10(-7) and 1 x 10(-5) transpositions per Ty1 element per generation. Variations in the transposition rate of individual Ty1 elements are correlated with the relative abundance of their transcripts.
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