The Frog Prince: A reconstructed transposon from Rana pipiens with high transpositional activity in vertebrate cells

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 23, 2003, Pages 6873-6881

  Miskey, Csaba ^a   Izsvák, Zsuzsanna ^a,b   Plasterk, Ronald H ^c   Ivics, Zoltán ^a  

^a MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Hungary)

^c HUBRECHT INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSPOSASE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; AMPHIBIA; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL CELL; CATALYSIS; CELL LINE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSPOSITION; FISH; FROG; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INVERTED REPEAT; MAMMAL CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSPOSON; VERTEBRATE; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ZEBRA FISH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CRICETINAE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; FISHES; GENE DOSAGE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; RANA PIPIENS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TRANSPOSASES; VERTEBRATES;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; DANIO RERIO; MAMMALIA; RANA PIPIENS; REPTILIA; TRANSPOSONS; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0344668818     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg910     Document Type: Review

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