Exon sequence requirements for excision in vivo of the bacterial group II intron RmInt1

BMC Molecular Biology

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Barrientos Durán, Antonio ^a,b   Chillón, Isabel ^a   Martínez Abarca, Francisco ^a   Toro, Nicolás ^a  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BASE PAIRING; EXON; GENE SEQUENCE; INTRON; NONHUMAN; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

BACTERIAL RNA; RIBOZYME;

BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; EXONS; INTRONS; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA SPLICING; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, CATALYTIC; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 79956192345     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2199-12-24     Document Type: Article

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