Term Name: | Viper_YR_retrotransposon |
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Synonyms: | RYV retrotransposon, Viper retrotransposon, Viper YR retrotransposon |
Definition: | VIPER retrotransposons are members of the YR_retrotransposon (SO:0002286 superfamily with protein domains: RT, RH, YR. RT is a reverse transcriptase. RH is RNAse H. YR is Tyrosine recombinase. Inverted terminal repeats (ITRs) in VIPER are arranged in A-pol-B-A-B order where A and B represent ITRs. VIPER is only found in kinetoplastida genomes. |
Ontology: | Sequence Ontology [SO:0002289] |