I-NjaI, a nuclear intron-encoded homing endonuclease from Naegleria, generates a pentanucleotide 3' cleavage-overhang within a 19 base-pair partially symmetric DNA recognition site

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 259, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 281-288

  Elde, Morten ^b   Haugen, Peik ^b   Willassen, Nils P ^b   Johansen, Steinar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Group I intron; Homing endonucleases; Intron mobility; Naeglerta; Ribosomal DNA

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; DNA DETERMINATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; INTRON; NAEGLERIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ENDONUCLEASES; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NAEGLERIA; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); NAEGLERIA; NAEGLERIA ANDERSONI; NAEGLERIA ITALICA; NAEGLERIA JAMIESONI;

EID: 0011690678     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1999.00035.x     Document Type: Article

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