Group II introns: Structure and catalytic versatility of large natural ribozymes

Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 249-303

  Lehmann, Karola ^a   Schmidt, Udo ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Endonuclease; Group II intron; Homing; Maturase; Protein dependent splicing; Reverse transcriptase; Ribozyme; Self splicing; Transposition

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE; RIBOZYME; RNA; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

CATALYSIS; DNA FLANKING REGION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME STRUCTURE; INTRON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TRANSESTERIFICATION;

ALGAE; FUNGI; PROKARYOTA; PROTISTA;

EID: 0038049910     PISSN: 10409238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/713609236     Document Type: Review

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