The structure of I-CreI, a group I intron-encoded homing endonuclease

Nature Structural Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 468-476

  Heath, Patrick J ^a   Stephens, Kathryn M ^a   Monnat Jr , Raymond J ^a   Stoddard, Barry L ^a,b  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE; DNA; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE CREI; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; TYPE II SITE SPECIFIC DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME CONFORMATION; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIMERIZATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE ECORI; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; DIMERIZATION; DNA; DNA RESTRICTION ENZYMES; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; INTRONS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0030610426     PISSN: 10728368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsb0697-468     Document Type: Article

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