Article
The spectrum and frequency of self-inflicted and host gene mutations produced by the transposon Ac in maize.
The Plant cell - 1 Oct 2012
Huang Jun T, Dooner Hugo K
Abstract excerpt
The autonomous transposon Activator (Ac) is a powerful mutagen. Ac-induced mutations range from small footprints of host sequences to large rearrangements of transposon or host sequences. These mutations arise by different repair mechanisms of the double-strand break produced by Ac excision: footprints by nonhomologous end joining and rearrangements by various mechanisms, including DNA replication repair....
Topics
- DNA Transposable Elements
- DNA, Plant
- Genes, Plant
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Sequence Deletion
- Zea mays