Glossary

C

• Class I Elements: (see also)
• Class II Elements: (see also)
• Cre Recombinase: The Cre Recombinase is a DNA breaking and rejoining enzyme (from tyrosine recombinase family) derived from the P1 bacteriophage. It is widely used for conditional mutagenesis of transgenes and insert DNA cassettes into eukaryotic chromosomes. (see also).
• Co-integrate:
• Copy and paste transposition model:
• Cut and paste transposition model:

D

• Direct Repeats (DRs):
• DDE Domain:
• Donor Primed Replicative Transposition (DPRT):

G

• Group II introns:
• Genome decay:

H

• Horizontal gene transfer (or Lateral gene transfer):

I

• Inverted Repeats (IR):

M

• Mobilome:
• Methylase (Methylation):

P

• Plasmidome:
• Pseudogenisation:
• Peel and paste transposition model:

R

• Resolution site:
• Rolling-circle transposition model:

S

• Synaptic complex:
• Serine recombinase: The serine recombinases are a family of DNA breaking and rejoining enzymes. Unlike homologous recombination, the serine recombinases promote rearrangements of DNA by breaking and rejoining strands at precisely defined sequence positions (see also).
• Single-strand transposition:

T

• Target specificity:
• Transposase:
• Transposome:
• Target Primed Replicative Transposition (TPRT):
• Tyrosine recombinase: Tyrosine site-specific recombinases (YRs) are a family of DNA breaking and rejoining enzymes which use the active site tyrosine nucleophile for DNA strand breakage (see also).

See also

• The logic behind the IS nomenclature and naming attribution