Recruitment of host functions suggests a repair pathway for late steps in group II intron retrohoming

Genes and Development

Volumn 19, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 2477-2487

  Smith, Dorie ^a   Zhong, Jin ^b,c   Matsuura, Manabu ^b   Lambowitz, Alan M ^b   Belfort, Marlene ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Pol I; Pol III; Repair polymerases; Retroelement; Retrotransposon; RNase H

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA POLYMERASE; POLYDEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE SYNTHASE; RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; DNA REPAIR; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INTRON; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA DEGRADATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA LIGASES; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INTRONS; RETROELEMENTS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, BACTERIAL;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS;

EID: 26944475584     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1345105     Document Type: Article

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