LTR retrotransposons and flowering plant genome size: emergence of the increase/decrease model

C Vitte, O Panaud - Cytogenetic and genome research, 2005 - karger.com
Abstract Long Terminal Repeat (LTR) retrotransposons are ubiquitous components of plant
genomes. Because of their copy-and-paste mode of transposition, these elements tend to …

Retroelements in higher plants

MA Grandbastien - Trends in Genetics, 1992 - cell.com
Major types of retroelements. Overall organization of (A) a retrovirus, the avian leukosis
virus,(B) a retrotransposon, the yeast Tyl element, and (C) a non-LTR retroposon, the …

Modular arrangement of proteins as inferred from analysis of homology

ELL Sonnhammer, D Kahn - Protein Science, 1994 - Wiley Online Library
The structure of many proteins consists of a combination of discrete modules that have been
shuffled during evolution. Such modules can frequently be recognized from the analysis of …

BARE-1, a copia-like retroelement in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.)

I Manninen, AH Schulman - Plant Molecular Biology, 1993 - Springer
Retroviruses and retrotransposons make up the broad class of retroelements replicating and
transposing via reverse transcriptase. Retroelements have recently been found to be …

Aspartic peptidase inhibitors: implications in drug development

C Dash, A Kulkarni, B Dunn, M Rao - Critical reviews in …, 2003 - Taylor & Francis
The last decade has witnessed an effervescence of research interest in the development of
potent inhibitors of various aspartic peptidases. As an enzyme family, aspartic peptidases …

Retrotransposon families in rice

H Hirochika, A Fukuchi, F Kikuchi - Molecular and General Genetics MGG, 1992 - Springer
Three families of retrotransposons of rice (Tos1, Tos2, and Tos3) were isolated by using a
method based on the sequence conservation of the primer binding site for reverse …

Integration and nonrandom mutation of a plasma membrane proton ATPase gene fragment within the Bs1 retroelement of maize.

YK Jin, JL Bennetzen - The Plant Cell, 1994 - academic.oup.com
Retrotransposons are a class of mobile DNA sequences in eukaryotes that transpose
through a reverse-transcribed RNA intermediate. Retrotransposons containing long terminal …

Retrotransposon BARE-1 is a major, dispersed component of the barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) genome

A Suoniemi, K Anamthawat-Jónsson, T Arna… - Plant Molecular …, 1996 - Springer
The barley BARE-1 is a transcribed, copia-like retroelement with well-conserved functional
domains, an active promoter, and a copy number of at least 3× 10 4. We examined its …

Athila, a new retroelement from Arabidopsis thaliana

T Pélissier, S Tutois, JM Deragon, S Tourmente… - Plant molecular …, 1995 - Springer
An analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana heterochromatic regions allowed the identification of a
new family of retroelements called Athila. These 10.5 kb elements, representing ca. 0.3% of …

Analysis and chromosomal localization of retrotransposons in sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.): LINEs andTy1-copia-like elements as major components of the genome

T Schmidt, S Kubis, JS Heslop-Harrison - Chromosome Research, 1995 - Springer
DNA sequences of the reverse transcriptase gene of long terminal repeat (LTR) and non-
LTR (non-viral) retrotransposons have been isolated and cloned from the genome of sugar …