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Originally published as Genetics Published Articles Ahead of Print on September 2, 2005.
Genetics, Vol. 171, 1719-1727, December 2005, Copyright © 2005
doi:10.1534/genetics.105.041699
A Novel Chimeric Gene, siren, With Retroposed Promoter Sequence in the Drosophila bipectinata Complex
Masafumi Nozawa, Tadashi Aotsuka and Koichiro Tamura1
Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-0397, Japan
1 Corresponding author: Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University, 1-1 Minami-ohsawa, Hachioji-shi, Tokyo 192-0397, Japan.
E-mail: ktamura{at}evolgen.biol.metro-u.ac.jp
Retrotransposons often produce a copy of host genes by their reverse transcriptase activity operating on host gene transcripts. Since transcripts normally do not contain promoter, a retroposed gene copy usually becomes a retropseudogene. However, in Drosophila bipectinata and a closely related species we found a new chimeric gene, whose promoter was likely produced by retroposition. This chimeric gene, named siren, consists of a tandem duplicate of Adh and a retroposed fragment of CG11779 containing the promoter and a partial intron in addition to the first exon. We found that this unusual structure of a retroposed fragment was obtained by retroposition of nanos, which overlaps with CG11779 on the complementary strand. The potential of retroposition to produce a copy of promoter and intron sequences in the context of gene overlapping was demonstrated.
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