TREP, the TRansposable Elements Platform

Superfamily 5S                   RSS

Full classification: Retrotransposon, non-LTR (SINE), 5S

5S elements are Class 1 transposons.

They are small (<1kb) non-autonomous elements, probably replicated by RNase PolIII. Upon insertion, they create a variable bp Target site duplication (TSD).

Structure of 5S elements

Sequence domains

0 5S Download all 'RSS' elements in total_TREP database elements from the following taxa are in the total_TREP database:

Taxonomic group	Total elements

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