Term Name: | Jockey_LINE_retrotransposon |
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Synonyms: | Jockey LINE retrotransposon, LINE Jockey element, RIJ retrotransposon |
Definition: | Jockey retrotransposons are LINE elements (SO:0000194) found only in arthropods. The full-length element is ~ 5 kb and contains two open reading frames (SO:0000236), ORF1 (568 aa) and ORF2 (916 aa), the second of which encodes an apurinic endonuclease (APE) and a reverse transcriptase (RT). |
Ontology: | Sequence Ontology [SO:0002271] |