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We isolated members of the retroposon family p-SINE1 in rice and found that one member contained an insertion. A 3-bp sequence at the insertion site within p-SINE1 appeared duplicated. The insertion sequence, 1536 bp in length, carried imperfect inverted repeats of about 13 bp at its termini which begin with 5′-CACTA--- -3′; these repeats are similar to those found in members of theEn/Spm transposable element family. These results indicate that the insertion sequence is a transposable element belonging to theEn/Spm family and is thus namedTnr3 (transposable element inrice no.3). In fact,Tnr3 carried long subterminal regions containing direct and inverted repeats of short DNA sequences of 15 bp, another characteristic of theEN/Spm family. The subterminal repeat sequences inTnr3 are, however, of two kinds, although they share homology with each other.Tnr3 and its relatives were present in multiple copies in rice. Considering the length ofTnr3, it cannot represent an autonomous type element, but is a non-autonomous element probably derived by deletion from an autonomous transposon.
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Motohashi, R., Ohtsubo, E. & Ohtsubo, H. Identification ofTnr3, aSuppressor-Mutator/Enhancer-like transposable element from rice. Molec. Gen. Genet. 250, 148–152 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02174173
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