Article
The En/Spm transposable element of Zea mays contains splice sites at the termini generating a novel intron from a dSpm element in the A2 gene.
The EMBO journal - 1 Oct 1990
Menssen A, Höhmann S, Martin W, Schnable P S, Peterson P A, Saedler H, Gierl A
Abstract excerpt
The A2 locus of Zea mays, identified as one of the genes affecting anthocyanin biosynthesis, was cloned using the transposable elements rcy and dSpm as gene tags. The A2 gene encodes a putative protein of 395 amino acids and is devoid of introns. Two a2-m1 alleles, containing dSpm insertions of different sizes, were characterized. The dSpm element from the original state allele has perfect termini and undergoes...
Topics
- Alleles
- Anthocyanins
- Base Sequence
- Chromosome Deletion
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA
- DNA Transposable Elements
- Genes, Plant
- Introns
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phenotype