An Entamoeba histolytica Line/Sine Pair Inserts at Common Target Sites Cleaved by the Restriction Enzyme-Like Line-Encoded Endonuclease

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 170-179

  Mandal, Prabhat K ^a   Bagchi, Anindya ^a,b   Bhattacharya, Alok ^a   Bhattacharya, Sudha ^a  

^a JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; GENOME; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LONG INTERSPERSED REPEAT; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SHORT INTERSPERSED REPEAT;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA RESTRICTION ENZYMES; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOME; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LONG INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; SHORT INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS;

ANIMALIA; ENTAMOEBA; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INSERTION SEQUENCES; PROTOZOA;

EID: 1242277777     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.3.1.170-179.2004     Document Type: Article

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