Generation of new transposons in vivo: An evolutionary role for the 'staggered' head-to-head dimer and one-ended transposition

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 261, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 953-957

  Morita, M ^a   Umemoto, A ^a   Watanabe, H ^a   Nakazono, N ^a   Sugino, Y ^a  

^a KANSAI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Inverted repeat; Tn3 transposase; tnpA

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIMERIZATION; EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON;

EID: 0032789145     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00008636     Document Type: Article

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