Target specificity of the endonuclease from the Xenopus laevis non-long terminal repeat retrotransposon, Tx1L

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1219-1226

  Christensen, Shawn ^a,b   Pont Kingdom, Geneviève ^a,c   Carroll, Dana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DNA; DNA (APURINIC OR APYRIMIDINIC SITE) LYASE; ENDONUCLEASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPAIR; DNA TRANSPOSITION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENE INSERTION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSPOSON; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA; DNA DAMAGE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA REPAIR; ENDONUCLEASES; KINETICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; OPEN READING FRAMES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RETROELEMENTS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0033959850     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.20.4.1219-1226.2000     Document Type: Article

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