A chimeric ribozyme in Clostridium difficile combines features of group I introns and insertion elements

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1447-1459

  Braun, Veit ^a   Mehlig, Markus ^a   Moos, Michael ^a   Rupnik, Maja ^a   Kalt, Bettina ^a   Mahony, David E ^b   Von Eichel Streiber, Christoph ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOZYME;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DNA TRANSPOSITION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE INSERTION; INTRON; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ENTEROTOXINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, CATALYTIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0033933847     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01965.x     Document Type: Article

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