A reverse transcriptase/maturase promotes splicing by binding at its own coding segment in a group II intron RNA

Molecular Cell

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 239-250

  Wank, Herbert ^a,b   SanFilippo, Joseph ^a   Singh, Ravindra N ^a   Matsuura, Manabu ^a   Lambowitz, Alan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b Vienna Biocenter   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA; RECOMBINANT GAMMA INTERFERON; RNA; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CODING; DNA SYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; INTRON; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; RNA SPLICING; START CODON;

EID: 0033180584     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1097-2765(00)80371-8     Document Type: Article

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