Fractured genes: A novel genomic arrangement involving new split inteins and a new homing endonuclease family

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2560-2573

  Dassa, Bareket ^a   London, Nir ^b   Stoddard, Barry L ^c   Schueler Furman, Ora ^b   Pietrokovski, Shmuel ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE; INTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPAIR; DNA SYNTHESIS; GENE CONTROL; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; INTRON; METAGENOMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; TRANS SPLICING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ENDONUCLEASES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES; GENOMICS; INTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 65849441209     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp095     Document Type: Article

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