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From: The association of Alu repeats with the generation of potential AU-rich elements (ARE) at 3' untranslated regions.

Figure 1

The schematic diagram of poly-thymine (poly-T) generation by Alu.(A) Alu contains poly-adenine (poly-A) region at the end. It is shown as 'aaaaaaaa'. The poly-A of Alu at anti-sense becomes poly-T (complement of poly-A) at sense strand on DNA. It is shown as 'tttttttt'. (B) mRNA now contains a poly-uracile (poly-U) region after the transcription of poly-T region. (C) AU-rich elements are found in this poly-U region in (B).

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