Group I introns in biotechnology: prospects of application of ribozymes and rare-cutting homing endonucleases

Biotechnology Annual Review

Volumn 3, Issue C, 1997, Pages 111-150

  Johansen, Steinar ^a   Einvik, Christer ^a   Elde, Morten ^a   Haugen, Peik ^a   Vader, Anna ^a   Haugli, Finn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

antibioticsy; gene inactivation; gene repair; gene therapy; genome engineering; genome mapping; group I intron; group I ribozyme; homing endonucleases; homologous recombination; in vitro evolution; in vitro selection; intron; processing; rare cutting endonucleases; ribozyme; ribozyme directed chemotherapy; RNA; splicing; trans splicing

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956800890     PISSN: 13872656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1387-2656(08)70031-0     Document Type: Article

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