A new member of a family of site-specific retrotransposons is present in the spliced leader RNA genes of Trypanosoma cruzi.

Abstract:

:A new member of a family of site-specific retrotransposons is described in the New World trypanosome Trypanosoma cruzi. This element, CZAR (cruzi-associated retrotransposon), resembles two previously described retrotransposons found in the African trypanosome T. brucei gambiense and the mosquito trypanosomatid Crithidia fasciculata in specifically inserting between nucleotides 11 and 12 of the highly conserved 39-mer of the spliced leader RNA (SL-RNA) gene. CZAR is similar in overall organization to the other two SL-RNA-associated elements. It possesses two potential long open reading frames which resemble the gag and pol genes of retroviruses. In the pol open reading frame, all three elements contain similarly arranged endonuclease domains and share extensive amino acid homology in the reverse transcriptase region. All are associated with the SL-RNA gene locus and are present in low copy numbers. They do not appear to have 5' truncated versions. All three retrotransposons are otherwise quite distinct from one another, with no significant overall amino acid homology. The presence of such retroelements inserted into the identical site within SL-RNA gene sequences in at least three evolutionarily distant trypanosomatid species argues for a functional role. Because these elements appear to have a precise target site requirement for integration, we refer to them as SL siteposons.

journal_name

Mol Cell Biol

authors

Villanueva MS,Williams SP,Beard CB,Richards FF,Aksoy S

doi

10.1128/mcb.11.12.6139

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1991-12-01 00:00:00

pages

6139-48

issue

12

eissn

0270-7306

issn

1098-5549

journal_volume

11

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