Inteins: Structure, function, and evolution

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue , 2002, Pages 263-287

  Gogarten, J Peter ^a   Senejani, Alireza G ^a   Zhaxybayeva, Olga ^a   Olendzenski, Lorraine ^a   Hilario, Elena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Homing endonuclease; Parasitic genes; Protein introns; Selfish genes; Splicing

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; ENDONUCLEASE; INTEIN;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; BACTERIAL GENE; GENE STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ARCHAEA; ENDONUCLEASES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; INTRONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PEPTIDE SYNTHASES; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN SPLICING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0036405356     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.56.012302.160741     Document Type: Review

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