An in vivo assay for the reverse transcriptase of human retrotransposon L1 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 1994, Pages 4485-4492

  Dombroski, Beth A ^a   Feng, Qinghua ^b   Mathias, Stephen L ^a   Sassaman, Donna M ^a   Scott, Alan F ^a   Kazazian Jr , Haig H ^a   Boeke, Jef D ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYADENYLIC ACID; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE SEQUENCE; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; RETROPOSON; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

HARA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0028237075     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.14.7.4485     Document Type: Article

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