Regulation of intron function: Efficient splicing in vivo of a bacterial group II intron requires a functional promoter within the intron

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 639-651

  Zhou, Liang ^a   Manias, Dawn A ^a   Dunny, Gary M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; DNA TOPOISOMERASE; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTRON; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA SPLICING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; INTRONS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0033865175     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.02033.x     Document Type: Article

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