Characterization and splicing in vivo of a Sinorhizobium meliloti group II intron associated with particular insertion sequences of the IS630- Tc1/IS3 retroposon superfamily

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1295-1306

  Martínez Abarca, Francisco ^a   Zekri, Sanae ^a   Toro, Nicolás ^a  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; INTRON; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; RNA SPLICING; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXONS; INTRONS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROELEMENTS; RHIZOBIACEAE; RNA SPLICING; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; ZINC FINGERS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; RHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0031744472     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00894.x     Document Type: Article

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