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An unusual transposon with long terminal inverted repeats in the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus

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A 3-kilobase DNA segment characteristic of a transposable element was found within a histone H2B pseudogene in a higher eukaryote, the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus. The inserted segment (TU1) is flanked by 8-base pair (bp) direct repeats of the H2B sequence. TU1 has long terminal inverted repeats ∼840 bp long with an outer domain of 15-bp tandem repeats and a non-repeating inner domain, and is a member of a heterogeneous family of transposable elements. TU1 differs from most previously characterized eukaryotic transposable elements with terminal direct repats, but resembles the foldback transposon family in Drosophila.

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  1. Joel Weinthal

    Present address: Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York, 10027, USA

  2. Robert Maxson

    Present address: Department of Biochemistry, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, 90089, USA

  3. Alex Mauron

    Present address: Department of Biochemistry, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

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  1. The MEDIGEN Project, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA

    Dan Liebermann, Joel Weinthal, Robert Maxson, Alex Mauron & Larry Kedes

  2. Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA

    Barbara Hoffman-Liebermann & Stanley N. Cohen

  3. Veterans Administration Medical Center, Palo Alto, California, 94304, USA

    Dan Liebermann, Joel Weinthal, Robert Maxson, Alex Mauron & Larry Kedes

  4. Department of Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, 10461, USA

    Geoffrey Childs

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Liebermann, D., Hoffman-Liebermann, B., Weinthal, J. et al. An unusual transposon with long terminal inverted repeats in the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus. Nature 306, 342–347 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1038/306342a0

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