DNA target site requirements for homing in vivo of a bacterial group II intron encoding a protein lacking the DNA endonuclease domain

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 326, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 413-423

  Jiménez Zurdo, José I ^a   García Rodríguez, Fernando M ^a,b   Barrientos Durán, Antonio ^a   Toro, Nicolás ^a  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Endonuclease; Group II introns; Intron homing; Ribozyme; Target recognition

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; DNA; NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN; RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BASE PAIRING; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRON; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LACTOCOCCUS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; SINORHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 0037436328     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2836(02)01380-3     Document Type: Article

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