Retrohoming of a bacterial group II intron: Mobility via complete reverse splicing, independent of homologous DNA recombination

Cell

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 451-462

  Cousineau, Benoit ^a   Smith, Dorie ^a   Lawrence Cavanagh, Stacey ^a   Mueller, John E ^a,e   Yang, Jian ^b,g   Mills, David ^c,f   Manias, Dawn ^c   Dunny, Gary ^c   Lambowitz, Alan M ^b,d   Belfort, Marlene ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^e CUBIST PHARMACEUTICALS INC   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA; RECA PROTEIN; RNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXON; GENE; INTRON; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0032555726     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)81586-X     Document Type: Article

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