Mobility of yeast mitochondrial group II introns: Engineering a new site specificity and retrohoming via full reverse splicing

Cell

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 865-874

  Eskes, Robert ^a,c   Yang, Jian ^b   Lambowitz, Alan M ^b   Perlman, Philip S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GlaxoSmithKline   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RNA; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; RNA SPLICING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0030894573     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)81932-7     Document Type: Article

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