The naturally split Npu DnaE intein exhibits an extraordinarily high rate in the protein trans-splicing reaction

FEBS Letters

Volumn 583, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 909-914

  Zettler, Joachim ^a   Schütz, Vivien ^a   Mootz, Henning D ^a  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Intein; Protein ligation; Protein splicing

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE GAMMA; EXTEIN; INTEIN;

ALPHA CHAIN; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; NOSTOC; NOSTOC PUNCTIFORME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; RNA SPLICING; ROOM TEMPERATURE;

DNA POLYMERASE III; GENE EXPRESSION; INTEINS; NOSTOC; POINT MUTATION; TIME FACTORS; TRANS-SPLICING;

NOSTOC PUNCTIFORME;

EID: 60749092724     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2009.02.003     Document Type: Article

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