AcademH, a lineage of Academ DNA transposons encoding helicase found in animals and fungi.

ABSTRACT:

Background

DNA transposons are ubiquitous components of eukaryotic genomes. Academ superfamily of DNA transposons is one of the least characterized DNA transposon superfamilies in eukaryotes. DNA transposons belonging to the Academ superfamily have been reported from various animals, one red algal species Chondrus crispus, and one fungal species Puccinia graminis. Six Academ families from P. graminis encode a helicase in addition to putative transposase, while some other families encode a single protein which contains a putative transposase and an XPG nuclease.

Results

Systematic searches on Repbase and BLAST searches against publicly available genome sequences revealed that several species of fungi and animals contain multiple Ac

SUBMITTER: Kojima KK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7165386 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature