Retrotransposition of the Li.LtrB group II intron proceeds predominantly via reverse splicing into DNA targets

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1259-1272

  Ichiyanagi, Kenji ^a,c   Beauregard, Arthur ^b   Lawrence, Stacey ^a   Smith, Dorie ^a   Cousineau, Benoit ^a,d   Belfort, Marlene ^a,b  

^a WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; RNA; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LTRB PROTEIN, LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SYNTHESIS; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; GENETICS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INSERTION SEQUENCES; PROKARYOTA; TRANSPOSONS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; INTRONS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RETROELEMENTS; RNA SPLICING;

EID: 0036886327     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2002.03226.x     Document Type: Article

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