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Fig. 2 | Mobile DNA

Fig. 2

From: Functional characterization of the active Mutator-like transposable element, Muta1 from the mosquito Aedes aegypti

Fig. 2

Structural features of the Muta1 element and its transposase. The eight virtually identical Muta1 elements contain noncoding regions (shaded) and the coding region (white boxes) for the predicted 504-residue transposase with the predicted zinc and catalytic (DDE) domains discussed in the text. Structural features of Muta1 include its distinctive long TIR (black arrowheads) whose substructure, expanded at the bottom, includes the 10 bp terminal palindromic motif (open arrow) and the 12 bp subterminal tandem repeats (black arrows) with linker DNA of 3-4bp represented by gaps between solid arrows

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