Chicken repeat 1 (CR1) elements, which define an ancient family of vertebrate non-LTR retrotransposons, contain two closely spaced open reading frames

Gene

Volumn 197, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 305-309

  Haas, Naomi B ^a   Grabowski, Joann M ^a   Sivitz, Adam B ^a   Burch, John B E ^a  

^a FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

CR1 like elements; Endonuclease; Reverse transcriptase

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE; POL PROTEIN; POLYADENYLIC ACID; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA INTEGRATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSITION; GENE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOME; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RETROPOSON; VERTEBRATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHICKENS; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; ENDONUCLEASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RETROELEMENTS; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

GALLUS GALLUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030845714     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00276-X     Document Type: Article

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