U_box (CURRENT_RELEASE) |
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| SO Accession: | SO:0001788 (SOWiki) |
| Definition: | An U-box is a conserved T-rich region upstream of a retroviral polypurine tract that is involved in PPT primer creation during reverse transcription. |
| Synonyms: | U-box |
| DB Xrefs: | PMID: 10556309 |
| PMID: 11577982 | |
| PMID: 9649446 | |
| Parents: | LTR_retrotransposon (SO:0000186) |
| conserved_region (SO:0000330) | |
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