An amphioxus RAG1-like DNA fragment encodes a functional central domain of vertebrate core RAG1

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 397-402

  Zhang, Yanni ^a   Xu, Ke ^a   Deng, Anqi ^a   Fu, Xing ^a   Xu, Anlong ^b   Liu, Xiaolong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY   (China)

^b Department of Biochemistry   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORE RAG1 PROTEIN; DNA; DNA FRAGMENT; RAG1 PROTEIN; RAG2 PROTEIN; RNA; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CLEAVAGE; DNA DEGRADATION; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOME; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RNA DEGRADATION; VDJ RECOMBINATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENES, RAG-1; HEK293 CELLS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; LANCELETS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; VDJ RECOMBINASES; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 84891948853     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1318843111     Document Type: Article

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