EVIDENCE SUGGESTING AN EVOLUTIONARY RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS AND IMMUNE-SYSTEM RECOMBINATION SEQUENCES

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DREYFUS, DH
机构
[1] Department of Molecular Genetics, Division of Biological Sciences, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461
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10.1016/0161-5890(92)90191-Y
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Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
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071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
Sequence similarity between the termini of invertebrate Tcl-like transposable sequences and the signal sequences of the vertebrate immunoglobulin somatic recombination pathway is described. These similarities suggest that the Tcl transposition pathway may share common sequence-specific binding factors with the immunoglobulin somatic recombination pathway.
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