A site-specific DNA endonuclease specified by one of two ORFs encoded by a group I intron in Dictyostelium discoideum mitochondrial DNA

Gene

Volumn 191, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 115-121

  Ogawa, Shinji ^a   Naito, Kayo ^a   Angata, Kiyohiko ^a   Morio, Takahiro ^a   Urushihara, Hideko ^a   Tanaka, Yoshimasa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cellular slime mold; Cox 1 2 fused gene; Intronic ORF; Mating type; Self splicing

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; DNA CLEAVAGE; DNA DEGRADATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GROWTH INHIBITION; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DICTYOSTELIUM; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA SPLICING;

ACRASIDA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; MYXOGASTRIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0030989862     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00050-4     Document Type: Article

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