Element:TSI-9

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Description

TSI-9 is one of the several transposable elements described in the genome of the foxtail millet (Setaria italica ssp.) (Kawase et al. 2005). TSI-9 belongs to the SIRE clade of Ty1/Copia plant LTR retrotransposons and potential retroviruses (Fauquet et al. 2005). This clade is evolutionarily related to another clade of plant Ty1/Copia LTR retrotransposons called Oryco (Llorens et al. 2009). SIRE clade gives the name to a genus within the current ICTV classification of the Ty1/Copia into three genera – Pseudovirus, Hemivirus and Sirevirus (Boeke et al. 2005).

The full-lenght genome of TSI-9 is 9331 bp long and includes two 1238-bps LTRs flanking an internal coding region that contains three Open Reading Frames (ORFs). The internal region displays the characteristic gag and pol domains (Kawase et al. 2005) but does not show any env-like domain. In comparison to other Ty1/Copia elements, a taxonomically relevant feature specific of Sire-like elements is their extremely large gag C-terminus consistent with the NC domain, which may display two or three CCHC arrays (Llorens et al. 2009)

Structure

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Figure not to scale. If present, long terminal repeats (LTRs) have been highlighted in blue. Amino acid motifs noted with lines indicate the conserved residues in each protein domain, abbreviations below mean:

MA=matrix PR=protease DU or DUT=dUTPase TM=transmembrane TAV or IBMP=transactivator/viroplasmin or inclusion body matrix protein
CA=capsid RT=reverse transcriptase INT=Integrase CHR=chromodomain
NC=nucleocapsid RH=RNaseH SU=surface MOV=movement protein
PPT=polypurine tract PBS=primer binding site ATF=aphid transmission factor VAP=virion associated protein

Related literature

Genbank accession: 62318488
Clade: Sire
Cluster or genus: Sirevirus
Branch or class: Branch 2
Family: Ty1/Copia
System: LTR retroelements
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Setaria italica
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Llorens, C., Futami, R., Covelli, L., Dominguez-Escriba, L., Viu, J.M., Tamarit, D., Aguilar-Rodriguez, J. Vicente-Ripolles, M., Fuster, G., Bernet, G.P., Maumus, F., Munoz-Pomer, A., Sempere, J.M., LaTorre, A., Moya, A. (2011) The Gypsy Database (GyDB) of Mobile Genetic Elements: Release 2.0 Nucleic Acids Research (NARESE) 39 (suppl 1): D70-D74 doi: 10.1093/nar/gkq1061

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