Molecular dissection of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis RecA intein: Design of a minimal intein and of a trans-splicing system involving two intein fragments

Gene

Volumn 207, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 187-195

  Shingledecker, Kaori ^a   Jiang, Shu Qin ^a   Paulus, Henry ^a,b  

^a BOSTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Homing endonuclease; Protein splicing

Indexed keywords

MALTOSE BINDING PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CODON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECA GENE; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BACILLUS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CODON, INITIATOR; CODON, TERMINATOR; ENDONUCLEASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PROTEIN SPLICING; REC A RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE DELETION;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PROKARYOTA; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0032579457     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00624-0     Document Type: Article

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