Transcriptionally promiscuous “blurry” promoters in Tc1/mariner transposons allow transcription in distantly related genomes

Table 1 Key features of the promoters analyzed in this study. The length of the tested fragment, the accession number of the reference element and its source organism, and the AT/GC content are listed for each element. References to previous works reporting the promoter characterization are also provided

Element	Cloned fragment (bp)	Reference element	Source Organism	AT%	GC%	Promoter characterization
SB	388	L48685.1 [27]	T. albonubes	63,66	36.34	[24], This study
Bari1	377	X67681.1 [28]	D. melanogaster	66,05	33.95	[16] [29]
Bari3	356	CH933806 [30]	D. mojavensis	65,23	34.77	[16] [31]
Hsmar1	178	U52077.1 [32]	H. sapiens	70,79	29,21	[33], This study
hobo	315	M69216.1 [18]	D. melanogaster	51,43	48,57	This study
Tirant	416	X93507.1 [34]	D. melanogaster	54,81	45,19	This study
ZAM	472	AJ000387.1 [35]	D. melanogaster	55,08	44,92	This study
copia	276	X02599.1 [36]	D. melanogaster	72,46	27,54	[16, 37]

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