Miniature Inverted-repeat Transposable Elements

Miniature Inverted-repeat Transposable Elements (MITEs) exist within the genomes of animals, plants and bacteria.[1][2][3] MITEs are short (< 500 bp) and non-autonomous elements with terminal inverted repeats (TIRs; 10–15 bp). Like other transposons, MITEs are inserted predominantly in gene-rich regions.[4][5]

References

  1. ↑ "Characterization of active miniature invert... [Theor Appl Genet. 2012] - PubMed - NCBI". Ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. 2013-03-25. Retrieved 2013-07-05.
  2. ↑ Siguier P, Filee J, Chandler M, 2006. Insertion sequences in prokaryotic genomes. Current Opinion in Microbiology 9, 526-531
  3. ↑ Bardaji L, Añorga M, Jackson RW, Martínez-Bilbao A, Yanguas N, Murillo J, 2011. Miniature transposable sequences are frequently mobilized in the bacterial plant pathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola. PLoS ONE 6(10): e25773
  4. ↑ Zhang, Q., Arbuckle, J., and Wessler, S. R. (2000) Recent, extensive, and preferential insertion of members of the miniature inverted-repeat transposable element family Heartbreaker into genic regions of maize. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 97,1160–1165
  5. ↑ Feschotte, C., Jiang, N., and Wessler, S. R. (2002) Plant transposable elements: where genetics meets genomics. Nat.Rev. Genet. 3, 329–341.

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