Integrating DNA: Transposases and retroviral integrases

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue , 1999, Pages 245-281

  Haren, L ^a   Ton Hoang, B ^a   Chandler, M ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Insertion sequences; Structure; Transposition mechanism; Transposons

Indexed keywords

INTEGRASE; TRANSPOSASE; VIRUS DNA;

CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE INSERTION; GENE STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; RETROVIRUS; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

CATALYTIC DOMAIN; DNA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; INTEGRASES; RETROVIRIDAE; TRANSPOSASES;

EID: 0032723359     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.53.1.245     Document Type: Review

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