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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1984 Nov; 81(21): 6696–6700.
PMCID: PMC391997
PMID: 6093113

Evidence that a major class of mouse endogenous long terminal repeats (LTRs) resulted from recombination between exogenous retroviral LTRs and similar LTR-like elements (LTR-IS).

Abstract

Two endogenous retroviral long terminal repeats (LTRs) were sequenced and compared to LTR-IS (a family of insertion-element-like sequences with structural features of solitary retroviral LTRs) and to Moloney murine leukemia virus DNA. The sequence comparisons revealed that the major difference between these two endogenous LTRs is a 190-base-pair segment which is also present in LTR-IS elements. Hybridization analysis of DNAs from several mouse species using specific probes shows linkage of the 190-base-pair segment to a LTR-IS specific fragment. It is concluded that the major class of endogenous LTRs has been generated by recombination between exogenous retroviral LTRs and LTR-IS sequences.

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