Plasmids 101: Using Transposons in the Lab
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...Transposons: The jumping genes. Nature Education 1(1):204. https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/transposons-the-jumping-genes...poly(A). ORF2 encodes endonuclease and reverse transcriptase activities.
Figure 1: Overview of...cholerae that encodes a Type I-F CRISPR-Cas system. This system has four major components: 1) a CRISPR RNA... They transpose by a ‘copy-paste’ mechanism (Fig. 1). They first copy themselves as RNA transcripts and...their host’s genome.
There are two types of Class 1 TEs: those with long terminal repeats (LTRs) and those... sequence that moves around. This DNA sequence encodes the proteins the transposon needs for transposition...contain two genes: gag and pol. The pol polyprotein encodes the reverse transcriptase and integrase enzymes...