Identification of insertion hot spots for non-LTR retrotransposons: Computational and biochemical application to Entamoeba histolytica

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 34, Issue 20, 2006, Pages 5752-5763

  Mandal, Prabhat K ^a   Rawal, Kamal ^a   Ramaswamy, Ram ^a   Bhattacharya, Alok ^a   Bhattacharya, Sudha ^a  

^a JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CYTOSINE; DNA; ENDONUCLEASE; GUANINE; THYMINE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA STRUCTURE; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC SELECTION; IN VITRO STUDY; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; RETROPOSON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; LONG INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SHORT INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA;

EID: 33845656427     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkl710     Document Type: Article

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