A Free-Standing Homing Endonuclease Targets an Intron Insertion Site in the psbA Gene of Cyanophages

Current Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 218-222

  Zeng, Qinglu ^a   Bonocora, Richard P ^a   Shub, David A ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA; EVO_ECOL; MICROBIO

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PHOTOSYSTEM II, PSBA SUBUNIT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHOTOSYSTEM II; PLASMID; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; VIROLOGY; VIRUS REPLICATION;

BACTERIOPHAGES; ENDONUCLEASES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; INTRONS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; PHOTOSYSTEM II PROTEIN COMPLEX; PLASMIDS; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 59349112725     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.11.069     Document Type: Article

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