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CURRENT GENETICS
Volume 41, Issue 2, Pages 99-106Publisher
SPRINGER-VERLAG
DOI: 10.1007/s00294-002-0287-x
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Fusarium solani f. sp pisi; filamentous fungal transposon; repeat-induced point (RIP) mutation
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In the plant pathogenic ascomycete Nectria haematococca mating population (MP) VI, the conditionally dispensable chromosomes are unstable during sexual reproduction. During mapping of such a chromosome, three dispersed repeats were identified. Nht2, one of these repeated elements, is a long terminal repeat (LTR) retrotransposon that is 5.9 kb in length. Its deduced amino acid sequence is homologous to the four enzymatic domains characteristic of copia retrotransposons, but it contains multiple stop codons and probably is no longer able to transpose autonomously. Nht2's LTRs differ at ten positions and the characteristics of these differences resemble the changes induced by repeat-induced point mutation (RIP) in Neurospora crassa. The likelihood that Nectria haematococca MP VI has a RIP-like process, however, is reduced by the fact that a multi-copy transposon cloned from the same ascospore isolate as Nht2 encodes an intact open reading frame. Nht2 is broadly distributed among isolates collected from a variety of host plants. A limited survey of three field isolates suggests that Nht2 is on only one or a few chromosomes in every genome. Nht2's degeneracy and its widespread distribution within the species both suggest that it is an ancient element within N. haematococca MP VI.
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