Nucleic Acids Research, Vol 24, Issue 8 1428-1434, Copyright © 1996 by Oxford University Press
C Neuveglise, J Sarfati, JP Latge and S Paris
A repeated DNA sequence used for epidemiological studies of the human
opportunistic pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus has been characterized. It is
a retroelement of 6914 bp in length, bounded by long terminal repeats of
282 bp, with sequence and features characteristic of retroviruses and
retrotransposons. A 5 bp duplication site was found at its borders. This
element, designated Afut1, encodes amino acid sequences homologous to the
reverse transcriptase, RNase H and endonuclease encoded by the pol genes of
retroelements. Comparison of the peptidic sequences with other putative
polypeptides of fungal LTR retrotransposons showed that Afut1 is a member
of the gypsy group. This is the first report of a transposable element in
A.fumigatus. Afut1 is a defective element: the putative coding domains
contain multiple stop codons due exclusively to transitions from C:G to
T:A.
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Afut1, a retrotransposon-like element from Aspergillus fumigatus
Laboratoire des Aspergillus, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.
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