Investigating the endonuclease activity of four Pyrococcus abyssi inteins

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 30, Issue 19, 2002, Pages 4158-4165

  Saves, Isabelle ^a   Morlot, Cécile ^a   Thion, Laurent ^a   Rolland, Jean Luc ^b   Diétrich, Jacques ^b   Masson, Jean Michel ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^b IFREMER   (France)

^c INSA   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; ENDONUCLEASE; INTEIN;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; CELL INVASION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CLEAVAGE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA STRAND; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE DELETION; GENE SEQUENCE; HOST; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PYROCOCCUS ABYSSI; REVIEW;

ARCHAEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA; PYROCOCCUS; PYROCOCCUS ABYSSI;

EID: 0036799283     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkf556     Document Type: Review

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