The VIPER elements of trypanosomes constitute a novel group of tyrosine recombinase-enconding retrotransposons

VIPER was initially characterized as a 2326 bp LTR-like retroelement associated to SIRE, a short interspersed repetitive element specific of Trypanosoma cruzi. It carried a single ORF that coded for a putative reverse transcriptase-RNAse H protein, suggesting that it could be a truncated copy of a l...

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Autores principales: Lorenzi, H.A., Robledo, G., Levin, M.J.
Formato: JOUR
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Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_01666851_v145_n2_p184_Lorenzi
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