Penelope_retrotransposon

Term ID

SO:0002290

Synonyms

• Penelope retrotransposon
• RPP retrotransposon

Definition

Penelope is a subclass of non_LTR_retrotransposons (SO:0000189). Penelope retrotransposons contains structural features of TR, RT, EN, TR, terminal repeats which can be in tandem or inverse orientation in different Penelope copies. RT is reverse transcriptase. EN is endonuclease. 23914310

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Ontology

Sequence Ontology