Recent progress in intein research: From mechanism to directed evolution and applications

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 70, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1185-1206

  Volkmann, Gerrit ^a   Mootz, Henning D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Enzyme mechanism; Post translational modification; Protein chemistry; Protein engineering; Protein semisynthesis; Protein splicing

Indexed keywords

EXTEIN; INTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; COVALENT BOND; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CYCLIZATION; CYTOLOGY; ESTERIFICATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVIEW; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; BIOTECHNOLOGY; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; HUMANS; INTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN SPLICING;

EID: 84876461880     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: 14209071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-012-1120-4     Document Type: Review

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