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We have isolated and sequenced a genomic clone from Saccharomyces cerevisiae that shows structural features of a novel retrotransposon, designated Ty4. The element is 6.2 kilobases in length, and its genetic organization of the deduced functional domains is similar to Ty1 and Ty2 and thus different from Ty3. In contrast to hitherto known Ty elements from yeast, Ty4 is flanked by long terminal tau-element repeats instead of delta or sigma sequences. Ty4 contains two overlapping open reading frames. The first open reading frame, TYA4, is 1230 base pairs long and encodes a protein with a motif found in the nucleic acid-binding gag-protein of retroviruses. The second 4395-base pair open reading frame, TYB4, encodes a polyprotein that has domains with significant homology to retroviral protease, integrase, reverse transcriptase, and RNase H, structurally arranged in that order. The deduced amino acid sequence shows the greatest similarity with Ty2 and Ty1. The overall identity of the deduced functional protein domains is 28% with Ty2, 25% with Ty1, 19% with copia from Drosophila, and 18% with Ty3. Examination of genomic DNA from several laboratory strains indicates that Ty4 is present in two to four copies. Ty4 mRNA is of low abundance as compared to other Ty retrotransposons. At the 3' end of Ty4, two "solo" delta-elements, a full length and an overlapping, truncated one, are associated.
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PMID:Ty4, a new retrotransposon from Saccharomyces cerevisiae, flanked by tau-elements. 132 82

In rat liver there are two types of serine:pyruvate aminotransferase (SPT) whose natures are indistinguishable but whose subcellular localization are different. One is a mitochondrial enzyme (SPTm) and the other a peroxisomal enzyme (SPTp). We compared, in this study, the structure of mRNAs encoding SPTm and SPTp by comparison of the sizes after removal of poly(A) tail by ribonuclease H and by means of RNA blot analysis and S1 nuclease protection assay. No differences were detected between these two mRNAs other than that about 100 nucleotides of the 5'-terminal sequence of SPTm mRNA are lacking in SPTp mRNA, and the length of the poly(A) tail is different. Southern blot analysis of rat genomic DNA showed that the SPT gene is single. Primer extension and S1 nuclease mapping analyses, using a DNA fragment of a genomic clone, revealed that the SPTm and SPTp mRNAs are transcribed from different initiation sites, about 70 nucleotides apart, in the same exon, exon 1. Ribonuclease protection assay performed with RNA hybridization probe corresponding to 5'-terminal portion of SPTm mRNA also showed that the 5'-terminal sequence of SPTp mRNA is about 70 nucleotides shorter than that of hormone-responsive SPTm mRNA. These results indicate that the different organelle distribution of SPTm and SPTp, the products of the same SPT gene, arises from transcription from different initiation sites, conferring N-terminal extension peptide, the mitochondrial targeting signal, only on the translation product of SPTm mRNA.
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PMID:Generation from a single gene of two mRNAs that encode the mitochondrial and peroxisomal serine:pyruvate aminotransferase of rat liver. 233 38

The differential regulation of somatic and testis-specific cytochromes c during spermatogenesis in the mouse is accompanied by changes in mRNA length (Hake, L. E., Alcivar, A. A., and Hecht, N. B. (1990) Development 110, 249-257). In spermatogenic stem cells through early meiotic cells, we detect four somatic cytochrome c (cyt cs) mRNAs of 1.3, 1.1, and 0.7-0.5 kilobases (kb), whereas in postmeiotic cells we detect a larger cyt cs mRNA of 1.7 kb. Oligonucleotide-directed RNase H cleavage of cyt cs mRNA revealed that the 1.7-kb mRNA contains over 1 kb of 5'-untranslated region which is not present in the four shorter cyt cs mRNAs. RNase protection assays indicate that this additional sequence arises from the utilization of an alternative transcription initiation site of the functional cyt cs gene which is 1085 base pairs upstream of the initiation site for the four shorter cyt cs mRNAs. To analyze the promoter for the 1.7-kb mRNA, a genomic clone containing the cyt cs gene and 5 kb of 5'-flanking DNA was isolated. Sequence comparison of the putative promoter region with promoters of other postmeiotically expressed genes reveals several conserved regions. Utilization of this alternative initiation site may be involved in the down-regulation of cytochrome cs during spermatogenesis.
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PMID:Utilization of an alternative transcription initiation site of somatic cytochrome c in the mouse produces a testis-specific cytochrome c mRNA. 838 25

The plasmid, pAF28, a genomic clone from Aspergillus flavus NRRL 6541, has been used as a hybridization probe to fingerprint A. flavus strains isolated in corn and peanut fields. The insert of pAF28 contains a 4.5 kb region which encodes a truncated retrotransposon (AfRTL-1). In search for a full-length and intact copy of retrotransposon, we exploited a novel PCR cloning strategy by amplifying a 3.4 kb region from the genomic DNA of A. flavus NRRL 6541. The fragment was cloned into pCR 4-TOPO. Sequence analysis confirmed that this region encoded putative domains of partial reverse transcriptase, RNase H, and integrase of the predicted retrotransposon. The two flanking long terminal repeats (LTRs) and the sequence between them comprise a putative full-length LTR retrotransposon of 7799 bp in length. This intact retrotransposon sequence is named AFLAV (A. flavus Retrotransposon). The order of the predicted catalytic domains in the polyprotein (Pol) placed AFLAV in the Tf1/sushi subgroup of the Ty3/gypsy retrotransposon family. Primers derived from AFLAV sequence were used to screen this retrotransposon in other strains of A. flavus. More than fifty strains of A. flavus isolated from different geological origins were surveyed and the results show that many strains have extensive deletions in the regions encoding the capsid (Gag) and Pol.
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PMID:Characterization of AFLAV, a Tf1/Sushi retrotransposon from Aspergillus flavus. 1728 66