Replicative transposition

Replicative transposition is a mechanism of transposition in molecular biology, proposed by James A. Shapiro in 1979, in which the transposable element is duplicated during the reaction, so that the transposing entity is a copy of the original element. In this mechanism, the donor and receptor DNA sequences form a characteristic intermediate "theta" configuration, sometimes called a "Shapiro intermediate". Replicative transposition is characteristic to retrotransposons and occurs from time to time in class II transposons.

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1. Transposable element
2. DNA virus
3. Mobile genetic elements
4. Helitron (biology)
5. Myoviridae
6. Conservative transposition
7. Muvirus
8. Self-replication
9. Baltimore classification
10. DNA replication
11. Lambdavirus
12. Siphoviridae
13. Ravinvirus
14. Origin of replication
15. Nucleoid
16. Lomovskayavirus
17. James A. Shapiro
18. DNA transposon
19. Glossary of cellular and molecular biology (M–Z)
20. PiggyBac Transposable Element Derived 5