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Subject: Caenorhabditis elegans repeat region, transposon insertion sites,
Date: 27 Aug 92 10:00:13 GMT
Distribution: bionet
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LOCUS       CELREPS01     292 bp ds-DNA             INV       27-AUG-1992
DEFINITION  Caenorhabditis elegans repeat region, transposon insertion sites,
            and transposon Tc1 DNA, 5' end.
ACCESSION   L00589
KEYWORDS    insertion site; repeat units; transposon Tc1; transposon Tc2.
SOURCE      Caenorhabditis elegans (strain Bergerac) DNA.
  ORGANISM  Caenorhabditis elegans
            Eukaryota; Animalia; Eumetazoa; Nematoda; Secernentea; Rhabditida;
            Rhabditina; Rhabditoidea; Rhabditidae.
REFERENCE   1  (sites)
  AUTHORS   La Volpe,A., Ciaramella,M. and Bazzicalupo,P.
  TITLE     Structure, evolution and properties of a novel repetitive DNA
            family in Caenorhabditis elegans
  JOURNAL   Nucleic Acids Res. 16, 8213-8231 (1988)
  STANDARD  full staff_review
REFERENCE   2  (bases 1 to 292)
  AUTHORS   Ruvolo,V.R., La Volpe,A., Naclerio,G., Coulson,A. and Levitt,A.M.
  TITLE     Tandem repeats and sine-like elements associated with insertion
            sites of the Tc2 transposon of C. elegans
  JOURNAL   Unpublished (1992)
  STANDARD  full staff_review
REFERENCE   3  (bases 1 to 292)
  AUTHORS   Naclerio,G., Cangiano,G., Coulson,A., Levitt,A.M., Ruvolo,V.R. and
            LaVolpe,A.
  TITLE     Molecular evolution of clusters of satellite-like DNA sequences in
            Caenorhabditis elegans
  JOURNAL   J. Mol. Biol. (1992) In press
  STANDARD  full staff_review
FEATURES             Location/Qualifiers
     repeat_unit     1..17
                     /rpt_family="RcC9"
                     /rpt_type=tandem
                     /note="RcC9, basic unit xGGAxxTTCx (heat shock consensus
                     sequence), is usually found in long tandem arrays"
                     /note="putative"
                     /citation=[2]
                     /citation=[3]
     repeat_unit     72..90
                     /rpt_family="RcD1"
                     /rpt_type=tandem
                     /note="RcD1 is usually found as a tandem repeat of 15 base
                     pairs; at this site there is one full and one partial copy
                     of RcD1"
                     /note="putative"
                     /citation=[2]
                     /citation=[3]
     repeat_region   104..272
                     /rpt_family="Rc14"
                     /rpt_type=dispersed
                     /rpt_unit=(119..132)
                     /note="this region contains 9 copies of Rc14"
                     /note="putative"
                     /citation=[2]
     misc_feature    267..268
                     /note="transposon Tc1 insertion site; believed to be
                     duplicated during transposition"
                     /note="putative"
                     /citation=[2]
     repeat_unit     269..292
                     /rpt_type=inverted
                     /rpt_type=terminal
                     /note="putative"
                     /citation=[2]
                     /partial
     transposon      269..292
                     /standard_name="Tc1 transposable element"
                     /partial
     misc_feature    291..292
                     /note="transposon Tc2 insertion site; located inside
                     transposon Tc1 inverted terminal repeat"
                     /note="putative"
                     /citation=[2]
BASE COUNT       89 a     76 c     36 g     91 t
ORIGIN
        1 tctagaaatt tctaaaaaaa attttgtaaa gatgttcagt attaaaaact taaaaccaca
       61 atgaaccttt ttcgtggcaa gacccatcct aataaggcaa ttactcccat gcttacattt
      121 cccatgccta caattcccat gcttacacat gttcccgtac atacaaatgt tcccatgctt
      181 acactcagta gtaacagtgt tcccatgcgt tcagctcatt ttttctcgtt cccatgctac
      241 atttcccatg cttacacgta ttcccgtaca tacagtgctg gccaaaaaga ta
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