Intein spread and extinction in evolution

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 465-472

  Pietrokovski, Shmuel ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; DNA POLYMERASE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN INTEIN; PROTEINASE; RIBONUCLEOTIDE REDUCTASE; RNA POLYMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CATALYSIS; DNA BINDING; DNA FLANKING REGION; EUKARYOTE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION;

ARCHAEA; DNA; DNA REPLICATION; EVOLUTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0035425040     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9525(01)02365-4     Document Type: Review

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