✦ LIBER ✦
SIRE-1, A putative plant retrovirus is closely related to a legume TY1-copia retrotransposon family
✍ Scribed by Stephen R. Pearce
- Book ID
- 111490344
- Publisher
- SP Versita
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 893 KB
- Volume
- 12
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1425-8153
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
SIRE-1 is a potential soybean retrovirus which has a gene order similar to Ty1-copia retrotransposons but also contains an envelope-like open reading frame (ORF), which is characteristic of retroviruses. PCR and Southern analysis reveals that SIRE-1 is closely related to a legume-wide family of envelope-lacking Ty1-copia group retrotransposons which suggests that SIRE-1 was formed by the recent acquisition of an envelope gene by a Ty1-copia retrotransposon.