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022 0 _a0027-8424
040 _aMX-TxCIM
082 0 4 _a92-063003
100 1 _aHershberger, R.J.
245 0 0 _aMutator activity in maize correlates with the presence and expression of the Mu transposable element Mu9
260 _c1991
340 _aPrinted
500 _aill. references US (DNAL 500 N21P)
520 _aMutator is a powerful system for generating new mutants in maize. Mutator activity is attributable to a family of transposable, multicopy Mu elements, but none of the known elements is an autonomous (regulatory) element. This paper reports the discovery of Mu9, a 4942-base-pair Mu element that was cloned after it transposed into the Bronze-2 locus. Like other Mu elements, Mu9 has approximately 215-base-pair terminal inverted repeats and creates a 9-base-pair host sequence duplication upon insertion. A small gene family of elements that cross-hybridize to Mu9 has been found in all maize lines, and one of the other known Mu elements, Mu5, probably arose as a deletion of Mu9. Mu9 has several of the properties expected for the proposed regulator of Mutator activity. (i) The presence of Mu9 parallels the presence of Mutator activity in individuals from a line that genetically segregates for the Mu regulator. (ii) Lines that transmit Mutator to >90% of their progeny have multiple copies of Mu9. (iii) Most maize lines that lack Mutator activity and that are not descended from Mutator lines lack the Mu9 element. (iv) Transcripts that hybridize to Mu9 are abundant in active Mutator lines, but they are absent from lines that have epigenetically lost Mutator activity. These correlations suggest that Mu9 is a candidate for the autonomous Mutator element
546 _aEnglish
595 _aAC
650 1 0 _aCarbohydrates
650 1 0 _aCell structure
650 1 0 _aChromosomes
650 1 0 _aGlycosides
650 1 0 _aGramineae
650 1 0 _aNucleic compounds
650 1 0 _aNucleus
650 1 7 _aPlant genetics and breeding
_gNOT IN AGROVOC
_2
_91208
650 1 0 _aPlant physiology and biochemistry
650 1 0 _aZea
650 1 0 _91130
_aGenetics
_gAGROVOC
700 1 _aWalbot, V.,
_ecoaut.
_9364
700 1 _aWarren, C.A.,
_ecoaut.
773 0 _tProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (USA). (15 Nov 1991). v. 88(22) p. 10198-10202
942 _cJA
999 _c22731
_d22731