Multiple, non-allelic, intein-coding sequences in eukaryotic RNA polymerase genes

BMC Biology

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Goodwin, Timothy J D ^a   Butler, Margaret I ^a   Poulter, Russell T M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; INTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE; RNA POLYMERASE II; PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHYTRIDIOMYCETES; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; ENZYME SUBUNIT; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARALOGY; PHYTOPHTHORA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; ZYGOMYCETES; ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DICTYOSTELIUM; FUNGUS; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; RNA SPLICING;

BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPHYTA; COELOMOMYCES STEGOMYIAE; DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; PHAEOSPHAERIA NODORUM; SPIROMYCES ASPIRALIS;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ASCOMYCOTA; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; DICTYOSTELIUM; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; FUNGI; INTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PHYTOPHTHORA; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 33750975901     PISSN: 17417007     EISSN: 17417007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-4-38     Document Type: Article

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