Acquisition of full-length viral helicase domains by insect retrotransposon-encoded polypeptides

Acquisition of full-length viral helicase domains by insect retrotransposon-encoded polypeptides

Recent metagenomic studies in insects identified many sequences unexpectedly closely related to plant virus genes. Here we describe a new example of this kind, insect R1 LINEs with an additional C-terminal domain in their open reading frame 2. This domain is similar to NTPase/helicase (SF1H) domains...

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Main Authors: Ekaterina eLazareva, Alexander eLezzhov, Nikita eVassetzky, Andrey G. Solovyev, Sergey eMorozov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
RNA silencing
Plant virus
retrotransposons
RNA silencing suppressor
Helicase
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2015.01447/full

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