Intron-encoded homing endonuclease I-TevI also functions as a transcriptional autorepressor

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 936-944

  Edgell, David R ^a,c   Derbyshire, Victoria ^a   Van Roey, Patrick ^a   LaBonne, Stephen ^b,d   Stanger, Matthew J ^a   Li, Zhong ^a   Boyd, Thomas M ^b,e   Shub, David A ^b   Belfort, Marlene ^a  

^a WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^d Lake County Crime Laboratory   (United States)

^e JACOBI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE; ENDONUCLEASE I TEVI; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; AUTOREPRESSION; BACTERIOPHAGE T4; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CATALYSIS; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HOMING SITE; HYDROGEN BOND; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPRESSOR GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA FOOTPRINTING; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 4744359807     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb823     Document Type: Article

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