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{{Element
|genbank=[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/viewer.fcgi?db=nucleotide&val=1255594 1255594]
|type= Pao
|genus= Undetermined
|subfamily= Branch 2
|family= Bel/Pao
|group= LTR retroelements
|description= ''Ninja'' is a LTR retrotransposon characterized in the insect ''Drosophila simulans'' ([[Literature:55812|Ogura ''et al''. 1996]]). ''Ninja'' belongs to ''Pao'' clade ([[Literature:14755|Copeland ''et al.'' 2005]]) within Branch 2 of the ''Bel/Pao'' family ([[Literature:100596|Llorens ''et al.'' 2009]]). The genome of ''Ninja'' is about of 6.6 Kb in size (6644 bp long), including LTRs of 316 nt. The internal region of this LTR retrotransposon displays a Primer Binding Site (PBS), complementary to a tRNA<sup>Ser</sup> found in ''D. melanogaster'' ([[Literature:33545|Inouye ''et al.'' 1986]]), two ORFs respectively of 1360 and 588 amino acids containing ''gag''- and ''pol''-like regions and a Polypurine Tract (PPT) adjacent to the 3´LTR ([[Literature:55812|Ogura ''et al''. 1996]]). The largest ORF1 contains both potential ''gag'' and ''pol'' domains: three putative Cys-motifs characteristic of the ''gag'' associated nucleocapsid domain of Bel/Pao LTR retrotransposons and the pol protease and reverse transcriptase domains. The smallest ORF2 contains the putative RNase H and partial integrase pol domains ([[Literature:55812|Ogura ''et al''. 1996]]; [[Literature:100596|Llorens ''et al.'' 2009]]).
|structure= ninja.png
|host=Drosophila spp.
|hostpic=Drosophila_melanogaster.gif
|literature=*[[Literature:15303|Mobile DNA II. (Craig et al. 2002)]]
|picowner=[http://www.molgen.mpg.de/ Image, courtesy of Andreas Trepte, Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics]

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imported>Gfuster at 14:13, 17 December 2009