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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 11.
Published in final edited form as: Cell. 2012 May 11;149(4):740–752. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2012.04.019

Figure 2.

Figure 2

L1 LINE propagation. L1 retrotranspositition requires RNA and two proteins encoded by L1; they assemble into ribonucleic acid particles during translation. Reverse transcription of the RNA is coupled to insertion as it initiates from the 3′-OH of the broken strand (target primed reverse transcription, TPRT). Resolution of the structure results in target site duplication (TSD).